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by Stephanie Bishop
Published Jun 2017
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by Elizabeth Strout
Published Sep 2008
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Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living
by Carrie Tiffany
Published Jul 2007
Read ReviewsThe government "Better Farming Train" brings advice to the small towns of Australia. The train is staffed by irresistibly eccentric agricultural and domestic experts; and when two of the train's experts fall in love, in an atmosphere of heady scientific idealism they settle in the impoverished Mallee farmland with the ambition of ...
by W.G. Sebald
Published Sep 2002
Read ReviewsEmbodies the universal human search for identity, the struggle to impose coherence on memory, a struggle complicated by the minds defenses against trauma.
by Barbara Kingsolver
Published Oct 2001
Read ReviewsWeaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia.
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