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2) Bloom
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"Rosemary meets Ash at the farmers' market. Ash, precise, pretty, and practically perfect, sells bars of soap in delicate pastel colors, sprinkle-spackled cupcakes stacked on scalloped stands, beeswax candles, jelly jars of honey, and glossy green plants. Ro has never felt this way about another woman; with Ash, she wants to be her and have her in equal measure. But as her obsession with Ash consumes her, she may find she's not the one doing the...
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Prudence Burns has designs for the thirty-acre farm she inherits and leaves her New York life to come and care for the dilapidated buildings and her one, half-sheared sheep, but the threat of bank foreclosure could ruin all of her plans and Prudence finds help in her banjo-playing foreman, Earl, her recluse neighbor, Seth, and eleven-year-old Sara Spratt, who is looking for a home for her prize-winning chickens.
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"In this impressive anthology, Natalie Baszile brings together essays, poems, photographs, quotes, conversations, and first-person stories to examine black people's connection to the American land from Emancipation to today. In the 1920s, there were over one million black farmers; today there are just 45,000. Baszile explores this crisis, through the farmers' personal experiences. In their own words, middle aged and elderly black farmers explain why...
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"Since when is prodigal son Matt Sawyer a small-town farmer surrounded by kin? Since the terms of his late father's will demand he stay in Harland, North Carolina. Terms that attorney and hometown gal Caty McKenzie has to ensure are carried out. Matt left Harland years ago and never looked back. But running the farm and spending time with Caty brings out a caring, faithful side of Matt that he didn't know existed"--P. [4] of cover.
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"Talk of impending war is a steady drumbeat throughout North Carolina, though Joetta McBride pays it little heed. She and her husband, Ennis, have built a modest but happy life for themselves, raising two sons, fifteen-year-old Henry, and eleven-year-old Robert, on their small subsistence farm. They do not support the Confederacy's position on slavery, but Joetta considers her family to be neutral, believing this is simply not their fight. Her opinion...
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From the New York Times-bestselling artist. "Exact, masterful cut-paper illustrations bring the market's smells, produce, bustle and cheery people to life." -Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
WINNER: Washington State Book Award, Children's Picture Books
Known for art that celebrates the virtues of community, hard work, and living gently on the planet, Nikki McClure here explores a topic close to her heart: the farmers market. Alternating between...
12) The last stand
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[2024]
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First edition.
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A little boy is excited to work alongside his Papa as they collect eggs, plums, peppers and pumpkins to sell at their stand in the farmer's market, but when Papa cannot make it to the stand, his community gathers around him, with dishes made of his own produce.
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2023.
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Xbox Series X.
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"An unforgettable tale of friendship, family, and farming blooms back to life. Originally released for the Nintendo GameCube (and later the PlayStation 2), STORY OF SEASONS: A Wonderful Life brings a beloved classic back for a new generation. This remake not only revisits one of the most memorable entries in the farm/life-simulation franchise, it also introduces a plethora of new events, enhanced festivals, a cornucopia of never-before-seen crops,...
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