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      By Mankell, Henning, 1948-  Murray, Steven T
       2008., New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton Call No: Fic Man    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Arriving in newly independent Zambia in the hopes of fulfilling a friend's missionary dream, Hans Olofson endeavors to make Africa his home while struggling with such past demons as his father's alcoholism and a friend's accident.
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      By Hannah, Kristin
       2021., Adult, St. Martin's Press Call No: Fic Han   Edition: First U.S. edition.    Availability:0 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Texas, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. But for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman's only option, the future seems bleak. Until the night she meets Rafe Martinelli and decides to change the direction of her life. With her reputation in ruin, there is only one respectable choice: marriage to a man she barely knows. By 1934, the world has changed; millions are out of work and drought has devastated the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as crops fail and water dries up and the earth cracks open. Dust storms roll relentlessly across the plains. Everything on the Martinelli farm is dying, including Elsa's tenuous marriage; each day is a desperate battle against nature and a fight to keep her children alive. In this uncertain and perilous time, Elsa - like so many of her neighbors - must make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves or leave it behind and go west, to California, in search of a better life for her family.
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      By Hannah, Kristin
       2021., St. Martin's Publishing Group Connect to this eBook title Summary Note: From the number-one bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone comes a powerful American epic about love and heroism and hope, set during the Great Depression, a time when the country was in crisis and at war with itself, when millions were out of work and even the land seemed to have turned against them. "My land tells its story if you listen. The story of our family." Texas, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. But for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman's only option, the future seems bleak. Until the night she meets Rafe Martinelli and decides to change the direction of her life. With her reputation in ruin, there is only one respectable choice: marriage to a man she barely knows. By 1934, the world has changed; millions are out of work and drought has devastated the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as crops fail and water dries up and the earth cracks open. Dust storms roll relentlessly across the plains. Everything on the Martinelli farm is dying, including Elsa's tenuous marriage; each day is a desperate battle against nature and a fight to keep her children alive. In this uncertain and perilous time, Elsa—like so many of her neighbors—must make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves or leave it behind and go west, to California, in search of a better life for her family. The Four Winds a rich, sweeping novel that stunningly brings to life the Great Depression and the people who lived through it—the harsh realities that divided us as a nation and the enduring battle between the haves and the have-nots. A testament to hope, resilience, and the strength of the human spirit to survive adversity, The Four Winds is an indelible portrait of America and the American dream, as seen through the eyes of one indomitable woman whose courage and sacrifice will come to define a generation.
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      By Mo, Yan, 1955-  Goldblatt, Howard, 1939-
       1988, [2011]., Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. Edition: eBook ed.    Summary Note: This epic novel of beauty and brutality, set in a landscape at once strange and alluring, paints a portrait of a people whose fierce passions break the rigid confines of their ancient traditions. The farmers of Paradise County have been leading a hardscrabble life unchanged for generations. The Communist government has encouraged them to plant garlic, but selling the crop is not as simple as they believed. Warehouses fill up, taxes skyrocket, and government officials maltreat even those who have traveled for days to sell their harvest. A surplus on the garlic market ensues, and the farmers must watch in horror as their crops wither and rot in the fields. Families are destroyed by the random imprisonment of young and old for supposed crimes against the state. The prisoners languish in horrifying conditions in their cells, with only their strength of character and thoughts of their loved ones to save them from madness.
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      By Gokhale, Veena
       2018., Guernica Editions Call No: QWF Fic Gok   Edition: First edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Essential prose series   Volume: 152.Summary Note: Four strong women: Anjali, an Indo-Canadian single mother who eagerly accepts an African posting with her non-profit organization; Grace, her dedicated but dominating colleague, who opposes her; Fatimah, a farmer ousted from her home and fertile farmland, whom Anjali befriends; and Mary, Anjali's kindly maid, who must secure the future of her son, Gabriel. In Land for Fatimah, Anjali involved herself in Fatimah's quest to find new land for her scattered community, and is thrown into a web of intrigue that upturns her safe, orderly world. Capturing the warmth and vitality of Africa, illuminating everyday heroism, the novel explores expat life, the forced displacement of the poor and the complexities of development--back cover.
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      By Raisin, Ross, 1979-
       c2008., HarperCollins Canada Call No: Fic Rai   Edition: 1st Canadian ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "Sam is a lonely young man with a troubled psyche. Dogged by an incident in his past, Sam works on the family farm instead of attending school in his Yorkshire village. He likes to keep to himself, but from the moment he lays eyes on Josephine, his new neighbour from London, this careful seclusion starts to crumble. What begins as friendship soon takes an unsettling turn, and as the pair sets out on the run, Sam's imagination is revealed to be capable of much more than innocent games. Harrowing, funny and poignant - an explosive debut novel from a new international talent."--Publisher.
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      By Smith, B. J. (Brad J.)
       c2012., Adult, Scribner Call No: MYS Fic Smith   Edition: 1st Scribner trade pbk. ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "From the moment he sees cops at the foot of his farm driveway, Virgil Cain knows there will be trouble. Mickey Dupree - one of the most successful criminal attorneys in upstate New York, a man with a lot of enemies-has been found dead at his exclusive country club, the shaft of a golf club driven through his heart. Two weeks earlier Virgil told a crowded bar that "somebody ought to blow Mickey's head off." Now Virgil is suspect number one. Tossed in jail with no questions asked, Virgil knows the fix is in. To set things right, Virgil must escape and find Mickey's killer himself. Red Means Run is a fast, funny country-noir caper in the tradition of Elmore Leonard - with half-wit cops, crazed crooks, and a clever, laconic charmer named Virgil Cain."--Publisher.
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      By Harris, Nathan
       2021., Little, Brown and company Call No: BLK Fic Har   Edition: First edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry, freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to the war, hire the brothers to work their farm, hoping through an unexpected friendship to stanch their grief. Prentiss and Landry, meanwhile, plan to save money for the journey north and a chance to reunite with their mother, who was sold away when they were boys. Parallel to their story runs a forbidden romance between two Confederate soldiers. The young men, recently returned from the war to the town of Old Ox, hold their trysts in the woods. But when their secret is discovered, the resulting chaos, including a murder, unleashes convulsive repercussions on the entire community. In the aftermath of so much turmoil, it is Isabelle who emerges as an unlikely leader, proffering a healing vision for the land and for the newly free citizens of Old Ox"--
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      By Stenson, Fred, 1951-
       c2014., Adult, Doubleday Canada Call No: Fic Ste    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: The heart of this moving story belongs to Tom Ryder - a man whose expectations for the future and assumptions about his own strength and power are persistently and devastatingly undermined by the arrival of a sour gas plant on the border of his southern Alberta farm in the early 1960s. The emissions from the plant poison not only his livestock but the relationships he has with his family, most especially with his wife, Ella.