Farm Families

Reducere. Growing Up Country: A Demlow Family History is the result of fifteen years of research, travel to several states, and many hours of writing and rew...

Reducere. I am that "sharecropper boy" and Upstate South Carolina represents "home" to me. This memoir covers the Great Depression and its effect on the poor...

Reducere. It was 1862, the second year of the Civil War, though Kansans and Missourians had been fighting over slavery for almost a decade. For the 250 Union...

Reducere. American Agriculture tells the story of farming in American from contact between Native Americans and Europeans to the present. Agricultural histor...

Reducere. Barely more than a decade after The Great War, the seeds of discontent are rising amongst the German population. The reparations exacted by the All...

How new techniques of quantification shaped the New Deal and American democracy.When the Great Depression struck, the US government lacked tools to...

Reducere. DescriptionI went to the corner of the barn next to the manger, got down on my knees, and prayed, "I would like to see this cow get on her feet."Th...

Reducere. Saving the landscape, rebuilding entrepreneurial rural families, and protecting nutritious food are the themes of this timeless treatise-hence the ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe South Precinct of Dutchess County New York 1740-1790containing present-day Putnam County New YorkSouth Dutchess County expanded rapi...

Reducere. DescriptionNative North Carolinians tend to learn the state toast (adopted by the General Assembly in 1957) in childhood. As with the state motto, ...

Reducere. Barely more than a decade after The Great War, the seeds of discontent are rising amongst the German population. The reparations exacted by the All...

This book will encourage families to grow food, stimulate elders to reminisce about their farm life growing up, and see the beauty that lies in the...

Reducere. Filipino farmworkers sat down in the grape fields of Delano, California, in 1965 and began the strike that brought about a dramatic turn in the lon...

Reducere. Complete in one volume The Prairie Trilogy is a thematically linked series of three novels by Willa Cather. O Pioneers Alexandra Bergson inherits t...

The traditional dishes of the Italian region of Dolomites stem from traditional farm cooking and are still cooked and enjoyed today. Their history,...

In 1964, Northern Dancer won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes, the first two legs of the US Triple Crown, exploding the myth that Canadi...

Reducere. DescriptionFifty years ago, John Steinbeck's now classic novel, The Grapes of Wrath, captured the epic story of an Oklahoma farm family driven west...

Description"A compelling agricultural story skillfully told; environmentalists will eat it up." - Kirkus Reviews When Bob Quinn was a kid, a strang...

Reducere. Two generations face heartbreak and injustice in this poignant and emotional novel inspired by true events.Mary Roberts is a poor gutter child livi...

DescriptionAn intimate, sparkling collection of stories by a debut writer about girls behaving badly and families on the brink of collapse. In thes...

Reducere. With desirable beach communities and nearby commuter-friendly towns, Monmouth County continues to attract new residents, while nostalgic memories o...

Reducere. Who were The Originals? Experienced women pilots - the first to fly for the U.S. military 28 women who dared to challenge 1940s barriers of gender,...

Reducere. DescriptionSince the 19th century, Filipinos have immigrated to the Puget Sound region, which contains a deep inland sea once surrounded by forests...

Reducere. Central Kentucky is known for cornfields, blue-ribbon sows, industrial sites, and tractor parades. In the summer, families sip sweet tea on the por...

Silence on the Hill is a telling tale of relationships with family, friends, and faith. It speaks to the devotion and love that unites family membe...

Reducere. In the late 1800s, Clovis M. Cole purchased large tracts of land in California's San Joaquin Valley with the intent to farm wheat. Marcus Pollasky,...

Reducere. Big families cultivate chaos. Mary Havens knows this all too well. One of twelve children, she grew up on a picturesque Wisconsin dairy farm. Holid...

The five Iowa farm-raised women of The Gingham Apron use beautiful stories, photographs, and recipes to inspire readers to gather around the table ...

Reducere. Two generations face heartbreak and injustice in this poignant and emotional novel inspired by true events.Mary Roberts is a poor gutter child livi...

Reducere. He's been preparing for the season since he was a sapling. But will he be tall enough to start spreading joy?The thought of missing Christmas has l...

Walter Edward Reginald Pratley, known to his family as Reg, was a Berkshire farm boy with a dream. He wanted to escape the everyday and experience ...

Genealogy of thirteen generations of the descendants of Maine families Nathan Lord & Judith Conley's son Nathan Lord II, John Churchill & Hannah Po...

Reducere. The train taking nineteen-year-old teacher Christy Huddleston from her home in Asheville, North Carolina, might as well be transporting her to anot...

Reducere. Historical novel between 1875-2003 based on the author's great-grandmother, grandmother, and mother. Sarah lost her mother at age eight and was hir...

Reducere. Life has always been difficult and dangerous for those living on and around the Turtle Mountain Reservation. Everyone has a story. Everyone has a s...

Reducere. Merging real stories with research and on-the-ground reporting, an award-winning journalist and immigrant explores multicultural parenting and iden...

Les Jardins de la Grelinette is a micro-farm located in eastern Quebec, just north of the American border. Growing on just 1.5 acres, owners Jean-M...

Reducere. Saving Heroes is a riveting story of a veteran's quest to rescue military and first responder families from the captivity of post-traumatic stress....

Three dystopian novels by an award-winning author that imagine a world where humankind has suddenly and violently rejected modern technology. Somet...

Reducere. In December 2002, Meryl Harrison moved a large audience to tears at the BBC Animal Awards Ceremony, having been flown over from her native Zimbabwe...

Reducere. "The reminiscences of a Yaqui Indian born in 1896 in northwestern Mexico whose story begins during the Yaqui revolutionary period, continues throug...

Reducere. The Tall Corn State's agricultural history influences countless aspects of modern life. To truly understand Iowa, you have to understand the cultur...

DescriptionIn her sweeping debut, Diane C. McPhail offers a powerful, profoundly emotional novel that explores a little-known aspect of Civil War h...

Reducere. Hang on and Fly. A Post-War Story of Plane Crash Tragedies, Heroism, and Survival Passenger planes are crashing three and four times a month in 195...

This is the story of the Dyess Colony, created in 1934 as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal to aid in the nation's economic recove...

Reducere. Two generations from one family face heartbreak and injustice in this poignant and emotional novel inspired by true events.Married to her dream man...

Reducere. Why are Americans so angry with each other?The United States is caught in a partisan hyperconflict that divides politicians, communities--and even ...

Reducere. This anthology collects the ten winners of the 2020 Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest at UNT's Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conferen...

DescriptionDecorative 'bread-platters' were hugely popular in Victorian times, firstly among the elite who commissioned custom-made items featuring...

Reducere. Dairy Farming: The Beautiful Way is a detailed how-to guide for establishing and managing a small-scale organic dairy. Covering the topics of infra...

Reducere. Now in paperback, this critically acclaimed book features photographs, poems, and interviews with nine children who reveal the hardships and hopes ...

Reducere. At the turn of the 20th century, the Haight-Ashbury first gained prominence as the gateway to Golden Gate Park; six decades later, it would anchor ...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book will take you from the birth year of Louis Bromfield, until his dying day in March of 1956. "Louis Bromfield and his Malabar F...

Reducere. ***The Bella and Mia Adventure Series ***The first book in the series: Silly Willy Apple CakeWhat is "Silly Willy"? The phrase "silly willy" is a p...

When Jeanne Nolan, a teenager in search of a less materialistic, more authentic existence, left Chicago in 1987 to join a communal farm, she had no...

With the removal of the Indians in 1814 by Andrew Jackson and his men, settlers began to migrate to the fertile Cahawba land that later became Bibb...

Reducere. Two best friends divided by war. Can an Englishman and an Afrikaner carve out an existence for their families in the savage bush?South Africa, 1887...

Reducere. Winner of the Minnesota Book Award and the Red River Heritage Award The Haymakers is an epic--the history of man's struggle with nature as well as ...

Reducere. Letters to Oma A Young German Girl's Account of Her First Year in Texas, 1847 By Marj Gurasich When fifteen-year-old Christina Eudora Von Scholl le...

Reducere. Nine-year-old Maria Singh longs to play softball in the first-ever girls' team forming in Yuba City, California. It's the spring of 1945, and World...

Reducere. Inspired by true events, One Hen tells the story of Kojo, a boy from Ghana who turns a small loan into a thriving farm and a livelihood for many. A...

Reducere. Winner, 2020 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay An impassioned call for recognizing and preserving the ecological wonders of...

Reducere. Edna Lewis (1916-2006) wrote some of America's most resonant, lyrical, and significant cookbooks, including the now classic The Taste of Country Co...

Reducere. After the passage of the Dawes Severalty Act in 1887, the Southern Ute Agency was the scene of an intense federal effort to assimilate the Ute Indi...

Reducere. When a little girl finds out her family is planning a simple Christmas this year, she's not so sure about it. But soon she gets into the spirit of ...

Reducere. My First Animals in Cantonese is unique in its focus on colloquial Cantonese, not formal written Chinese. This book introduces Cantonese language a...

Reducere. Their husbands were gone, their families were grown, and the future stretched out before them like an unfulfilled promise... Tired of always dreami...

Reducere. Camping Trip Dampened by Murder in Cat Among the Fishes, a 9 Lives Cozy Mystery from Louise Clark --Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada-- The long-...

Reducere. The start of a brand NEW series from bestselling author Rosie ClarkeCambridgeshire - March 1939As the clouds of war begin to gather in Europe, the ...

The friendship between five-year-olds Sara Miller and Judy Levine begins in the summer of 1941, when their families move into adjoining row houses ...