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81) The Harvester
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In rural 1890s Indiana, farmer David Langston, a bachelor who has focused his time on his work, is pressured to wed the daughter of the wealthy Mrs. Biddle, Thelma. While David's orphaned friend, Ruth Jameson, is in love with him, David ends up accepting Mrs. Biddle's demands and agrees to wed Thelma. After technological advancements make their way to the town, Mrs. Biddle attempts to pressure David to leave his job as a farmer and join her husband,...
83) Bent Road
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355 pages ; 24 cm
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Celia Scott and her family move back to her husband's hometown in Kansas, where his sister died under mysterious circumstances twenty years before, and where Celia and two of her children struggle to adjust--especially when a local girl disappears.
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First published anonymously in 1872, "Under the Greenwood Tree" is Thomas Hardy's story of the romantic entanglement between church musician, Dick Dewey, and the attractive new school mistress, Fancy Day. A pleasant romantic tale set in the Victorian era, "Under the Greenwood Tree" is the first of Hardy's "Wessex" novels and is one of his most gentle and pastoral stories. Dick falls in love with the beautiful and talented Fancy the moment he meets...
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This was the line between here and there. No landwash, no vague intertidal zone, no undecided. She stood at the edge, a mass of instincts and yearnings and despair, while the dawn painted itself in around her, shade by delicate shade.The kids call her Lighthouse: no lights on up there. In a small town, everyone knows when you can't read. But Cathy is just distracted by the light and lines and artistry of everyday life. She is a talented artist growing...
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408 pages ; 21 cm
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A New York Times bestseller, the groundbreaking authoritative history of the migration of African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North. A definitive book on American history, The Promised Land is also essential reading for educators and policymakers at both national and local levels.
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258 pages ; 22 cm
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"In a secessionist rural state that has cut itself off completely from urban centers, where living is hardscrabble and poor but "free," Brooke Holland runs a farm with her husband, Milo, and two daughters. Their life at the fringes of modern society is tenuous - they make barely enough from each harvest to keep going - yet Brooke cherishes the loving, peaceful life they have carved out for themselves. She has even begun to believe she is free from...
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xxi, 246 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
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"Galloway, an ancient town in an obscure corner of Scotland, has a proud and unique heritage based on hardy cattle and wide moors. But as the twentieth century progressed, the people of Galloway deserted the land and the moors have been transformed into commercial forest. Desperate to connect with his native land, Patrick Laurie plunges into work on his family farm. Investing in the oldest and most traditional breeds of Galloway cattle, he begins...
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Life in Icicle Falls volume 10
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314 pages ; 25 cm.
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When Grant Masters offers his handyman services at a fund-raiser auction, Stefanie Stahl, frustrated by her husband's inability to finish his home improvement projects, teams up with friends Griffin and Cass to outbid the competition.
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183 pages ; 21 cm.
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"In his brilliant new novel, Perumal Murugan paints a bucolic yet menacing portrait of the rural lives of India's farming community through the story of a helpless young animal lost in a world it naively misunderstands. A farmer in Tamil Nadu is watching the sun set over his village one evening when a mysterious stranger, a giant man, appears on the horizon. He offers the farmer a black goat kid who is the runt of the litter, surely too frail to survive....
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1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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中文(繁體)
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"Every spring, China's cities are plunged into chaos as an astonishing 130 million migrant workers journey to their home villages for the New Year's holiday. This mass exodus is the largest human migration on the planet, an epic spectacle that reveals a country tragically caught between its rural past and industrial future. Working over several years in classic verite, Chinese-Canadian filmmaker Lixin Fan ... travels with one couple who have embarked...
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Criterion collection volume 811
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1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert.
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日本語
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The international breakthrough for one of Japan's most innovative filmmakers, who went on to make such other marvelous movies as Onibaba and Kuroneko. It follows a family whose home is on a tiny, remote island off the coast of Japan. They must row a great distance to another shore, collect water from a well in buckets, and row back to their island, a nearly backbreaking task essential for the survival of these people and their land.
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Las fincas son un espacio determinante para la reproducción material de la vida campesina y este libro busca rendirles tributo al rol de las mujeres, a la identidad campesina y a la vida de niñas y niños que, como cualquiera de nosotros, aprenden en su cotidianidad.
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"La juventud rural es un tema que cuenta con poca visibilidad en las agendas académicas y de política pública. Los trabajos e informes realizados se orientan, sobre todo, a fenómenos como la migración hacia las ciudades y la participación en el conflicto armado. Este libro hace un acercamiento distinto, en el que revisa cómo aparecen varias representaciones sobre lo que significa ser joven en zonas rurales.
Resultado de un trabajo de campo...
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From yesterday's gingham girls to today's Google-era Farmer Janes, The Midwest Farmer's Daughter explores the resurgent role played by female agriculturalists at a time when fully 30 percent of new farms in the US are woman-owned, but when, paradoxically, America's farm-reared daughters are conspicuously absent from popular film, television, and literature. In this first-of-its-kind treatment, Zachary Michael Jack follows the fascinating story of...
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Más allá de la pareja es la guía más reciente sobre poliamor ético. En sus 25 capítulos, los autores van y vienen de la teoría a la práctica. Eve Rickert y Franklin Veaux han recogido a lo largo de 20 años sus experiencias y las de cientos de miembros de la comunidad poliamorosa norteamericana.
Este manual es una herramienta útil tanto para las personas que están empezando a pensar sus relaciones de forma poliamorosa como para quienes viven...
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Bien es sabido que los modelos de desarrollo rural implementados en Colombia por las instituciones políticas, los gobiernos y los gremios económicos no han hecho sostenibles los territorios rurales, ya que persisten la pobreza, el analfabetismo, el difícil acceso a la propiedad por parte de los campesinos sin tierra y, en general, los pretextos que han dado origen a todas las políticas rurales desde la reforma agraria" hasta la fecha. Lo que poco...
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