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21) Urban country
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
A troubled young girl must choose between a carefree and exciting life in the city and a hard-work, no frills country lifestyle in order to learn who she really is and what she wants out of life.
22) The Gray
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"It's been a tough year for Sasha--he's been bullied at his middle school and his anxiety, which he calls the Gray, is growing. Sasha's dad tells him to "toughen up"--and he does, but with unfortunate, hurtful results. His parents and therapist agree that a summer in the country with his aunt might be the best medicine, but it's the last place he wants to be. He'll be away from his best friend, video games, and stuck in the house that reminds him...
23) Promise, Texas
Author
Publisher
Mira Books
Pub. Date
2019
Description
Let Debbie Macomber take you into the HEART OF TEXAS In Promise, Texas, people know what really matters--family, friends, community. And they know that love gives meaning to every day of their lives.... Some of the people in Promise are from old ranching families--like the Westons and Pattersons--folks who arrived in the Hill Country more than a century ago. And then there are newcomers like Annie Applegate, who opens a bookstore in town. Some might...
24) Kiss me hello
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New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Grace Burrowes brings her gorgeous writing and incredible storytelling abilities to a brand new series of contemporary romance. He loves her, she loves him not...? In the third novel of The Sweetest Kisses series, single mom Sidonie Lindstrom has her hands full with a troubled foster son, an abrupt adjustment to country living, and an unforeseen lack of funds. When her taciturn neighbor, MacKenzie Knightley,...
25) State fair
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Description
A small-town family travels to the State Fair. The father is looking for a blue ribbon for his prize hog, Blue Boy, mom is looking for glory in her cooking, and the kids are looking for love.
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2002, c2000
Description
In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving Chicago to spend a year with her fearsome, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, gradually begins to better understand and admire her grandmother's unusual qualities.
28) City and country
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"Adult and child readers will learn all about urban and rural areas together in this new Co-reader from National Geographic Kids! Readers will take a tour through cities and rural areas around the world to learn what life is like downtown, in a farm community, in the mountains, and all around."--
29) The lost man
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Two brothers meet at the remote fence line separating their cattle ranches in the lonely outback. In an isolated belt of Western Australia, they are each other's nearest neighbor, their homes four hours' drive apart. The third brother lies dead at their feet. Something caused Cam, the middle child who had been in charge of the family homestead, to die alone in the middle of nowhere. So the eldest brother returns with his younger sibling to the family...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Description
[Disc 1]. Season 1 : episodes 1-6. Newly widowed Audrey is forced to auction Grantleigh when she finds out that her husband was bankrupt. She is mortified when the buyer is "a Czech grocer" intent on running his Empire from the Manor. [Disc 2]. Season 2 : episodes 7-13. Hilarity abounds as Richard imposes new efficiency standards upon farm management and stirs Audrey's protest with his moderninzing methods. [Disc 3]. Season 3 : episodes 14-20 in...
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Description
"It's March 2020 and a calamity is unfolding. A group of friends and friends-of-friends gathers in a country house to wait out the pandemic. Over the next few months new bonds of friendship and love will take hold, while old betrayals will emerge among this unlikely cast of characters, each richly drawn and achingly human: a Russian-born novelist; his Russian-born psychiatrist wife; their precocious child obsessed with K-pop; a struggling Indian American...
32) Iris and Walter
Author
Series
Iris and Walter serie volume 1
Publisher
Harcourt, Inc
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
When Iris moves to the country, she misses the city where she formerly lived; but with the help of a new friend named Walter, she learns to adjust to her new home.
Author
Series
Bruno volume 16
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"When an actor in a local play is attacked during the performance, Bruno must learn whether it was an accident, a crime of passion--or an assassination attempt with implications far beyond the small French village"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
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Description
The Schwartz family is happy to be spending Christmas on their new farm in Hart County. But when Susanna Schwartz hears gunshots that causes her buggy to overturn, and then her little sister falls through a wooden bridge into the icy creek, it becomes clear from these dangerous "accidents" that someone wants them gone. Neil Vance has been heartbroken ever since his parents lost their family farm. He knows it's not the Schwartz family's fault, but...
36) Unsettled ground
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"At fifty-one years old, twins Jeanie and Julius still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation in the English countryside. The cottage they have shared their entire lives is their only protection against the modernizing world around them. Inside its walls, they make music, and in its garden, they grow everything they need to survive. To an outsider, it looks like poverty; to them, it is home. But when Dot dies unexpectedly, the world they've...
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Seventeen-year-old Olivia hasn't seen her father since she was eight months old. But when he summons her out of the blue, Olivia travels cross country to New Hampshire to meet him. That summer, she learns to adapt to rural life and to try to understand her reclusive father. The next summer, following high school graduation, she returns to recreate her father's seventy-mile annual bike ride-reflecting on her own personal journey to understand the true...
40) The copper beech
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-- Praise for -- —San Francisco Chronicle “The Copper Beech—Cleveland Plain Dealer
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