Old Farm: A History, Paperback

Reducere. Walking Off the Land offers a series of glimpses into a disappearing way of life - a rural childhood on a small Ulster farm. Drawing a soft echo of...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen Union and Confederate soldiers march by eighteen-year-old Maureen's Sharpsburg farm, she must choose where her loyalties lie. Will ...

Reducere. Maren Bradigan is just sixteen years old when she is taken under false pretenses from her comfortable life on her family farm. Concerned at the lev...

Reducere. In The Harmony Tree, an old grandmother oak tree is spared when loggers come through and clear-cut a forest. Grandmother Oak finds herself alone un...

Reducere. In his 1907 book, lawyer Finis L. Bates reveals that his client John St. Helen disclosed to Bates his true identity - claiming to be Abraham Lincol...

Reducere. INSPYs the Bloggers Awards for Excellence in Faith-Driven Literature2014 Carol Award Winner for Historical Romance Michigan, 1880 Annalisa Werner's...

Reducere. Logan puts his skills to the test to help his town repair the schoolhouse in this second book of a wholesome series that's like Little House on the...

Reducere. On November 20, 1903, Tom Horn was hanged in Cheyenne, Wyoming, for the murder of a fourteen-year-old nester boy. Horn-army scout and interpreter f...

Reducere. The Columbia commemorates the disciplining and conversion of a wilderness river from a water passageway to a powerhouse and a source of irrigation....

Reducere. DescriptionHomesteading the Plains offers a bold new look at the history of homesteading, overturning what for decades has been the orthodox schola...

Reducere. DescriptionThis is a print on demand (POD) book with color photos. The paper and photo quality in this book, although good, often does not match th...

Reducere. *Soon to be a major motion picture starring Peter Dinklage* ALA Reading List Award for History, Short ListLove and vengeance at the dark dawn of th...

ALA Reading List Award for History, Short ListLove and vengeance at the dark dawn of the East Texas oil boom from Joe Lansdale, "a true American or...

Corey Michaels wanted nothing more than to publish her history book on an old, poor farm. It was something she had worked hard to complete, the sto...

Reducere. From an award-winning author and Choctaw storyteller comes a tale with the essence of a Native nation's complex history while offering important le...

Reducere. DescriptionTired of the same old tourist traps? Whether you're a visitor or a local looking for something different, Vermont Off the Beaten Path sh...

Reducere. A narrowly escaped tragedy has Suzette thinking about filling in the old pond at the rear of her property-or even selling off that section of land ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1973, the year the women's movement won an important symbolic victory with Roe v. Wade, reports surfaced that twelve-year-old Minnie ...

An enthralling first novel about a teenage girl who finds refuge--but perhaps not--in an 1840s Shaker community. After 15-year-old Polly Kimball se...

DescriptionThis is a rich history of the Roman Empire told in a style that makes the book not only a resource for teachers but also a reader for si...

Reducere. Edgar Allan Poe AwardsDetective Emmanuel Cooper returns to solve a darkly romantic mystery in this rich and complex novel by Malla Nunn, author of ...

Reducere. Although frequently overlooked between the American Revolution and the Civil War, the War of 1812 tested a rising generation of American leaders; u...

Reducere. "Saylor rivals Robert Graves in his knack for making the classical world come alive." --(ortland) Oregonian"Engrossing...Ironic and satisfying." --...

Reducere. On the summer evening of Wednesday, June 7, 1865, just two months after the end of the Civil War, seventy-one-year-old local farmer and weaver Poll...

Reducere. Description"These were the best hogs I've ever seen, " said seventy-five year old Cohen Archer. He grew up with the amiable black Guinea Hogs in Wa...

Reducere. DescriptionTired of the same old tourist traps? Whether you're a visitor or a local looking for something different, Connecticut Off the Beaten Pat...

Reducere. The Orchard is an exquisitely beautiful and poignant memoir of a young woman's single-handed struggle to save her New England farm in the depths of...

Reducere. In a Kingdom once filled with the magic of the Goddess Gaia, fourteen-year-old Jena has never left her family's tiny, failing farm. With an absent ...

Reducere. THE FORTY-ACRE SWINDLE, Introducing George Washington Carver -- To fourteen-year-old Jesse Turner, being "free" in Alabama in 1898 doesn't seem muc...

Reducere. Powerhouse Team Pairs Up for Second NovelLillian Porter has always wanted to fulfill her mother's dream of going west, so when she hears about a na...

Reducere. DescriptionRuben and Lillian (Martin) Corgill were my parents. Ruben was born in 1890. Lillian was born in 1898. Their lives spanned a time period ...

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. Southern Seed, Northern Soil captures the exceptional history of the Beech and Roberts settlements, two African-American and mixed-race farming com...

Reducere. Late one winter afternoon in the small town of Chosen, New York, professor George Clare knocks on his neighbor's door with terrible news: he return...

Reducere. Oklahoma's ghostly legends are as varied as its history and culture. The state boasts hauntings by ancient Native Americans, Spanish miners, soldie...

Reducere. Description"Bestselling adult author of The Bear and the Nightingale makes her middle grade debut with a creepy, spellbinding ghost story destined ...

Reducere. During his childhood, C. D. Griffith lived on his family's Indiana farm in the Eel River bottoms where he worked the land, hunted, and fished, neve...

Reducere. Born on a farm near Anahuac, Texas, in 1875 and possessed of only a fourth-grade education, Ross Sterling was one of the most successful Texans of ...

In 1800, Jacques Chevillet enlisted in Napoleon's French Army. He was 14 years old. Assigned to a light cavalry regiment, Chevillet learned to ride...

Reducere. Matilda (Glover) Koontz was thirty-seven years old, a pregnant wife, and the mother of four young sons when she joined her husband in May 1847 for ...

When feisty Wanda Wyatt is left widowed, penniless, and disturbed by recent fits of rage, she turns to the one person she hates--her grandmother, e...

Reducere. Everyone knows the name Calamity Jane. Scores of dime novels and movie and TV Westerns have portrayed this original Wild West woman as an adventure...

Reducere. The improbable true story of a nine-year-old Polish boy's Holocaust survivalThis biography traces the Holocaust through the eyes of young Nathan Po...

DescriptionA boy discovers his Native American heritage in this Depression-era tale of identity and friendship by the author of Code Talker It's 19...

How could I know that a call from my cousin, Henry, in the fall of 2015 would change the trajectory of my life? It was Henry's request that I work ...