Little Britches

Author: Ralph Moody
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803281783
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Book Description
Ralph Moody was eight years old in 1906 when his family moved from New Hampshire to a Colorado ranch. Through his eyes we experience the pleasures and perils of ranching there early in the twentieth century. Auctions and roundups, family picnics, irrigation wars, tornadoes and wind storms give authentic color to Little Britches. So do adventures, wonderfully told, that equip Ralph to take his father's place when it becomes necessary. Little Britches was the literary debut of Ralph Moody, who wrote about the adventures of his family in eight glorious books, all available as Bison Books.

Fields of Home

Author: Marita Conlon-McKenna
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402219083
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178

Book Description
"This edition published in agreement with The O'Brien Press, Ltd." --T.p. verso.

Where Love Grows

Author: Jerry S. Eicher
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
ISBN: 0736942882
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 315

Book Description
In Jerry Eicher’s conclusion to his popular Fields of Home trilogy, readers will be delighted to attend the wedding of Teresa, the young Englisha girl who has come home with Susan Hostetler to learn the ways of the Amish---and in fact to become Amish herself. But Teresa is not the only young woman to find romance in these pages. Susan, long estranged from Thomas Stoll, the young man she had intended to marry from her childhood, reunites with him....just as another man appears on the scene with designs on her heart. Which man is the one Da Hah has chosen for her? Amidst the happiness, there is also turmoil as Menno Hostetler, Susan’s father, must face church discipline for a past sinful transgression he’s hidden for many years. At his age, can he endure the humiliation and the path to restitution? With more than 350,000 books sold, Jerry Eicher’s many fans eagerly anticipate each new novel that offers readers a peek into the simple and interesting world of the Amish—a world Jerry knows firsthand. Book Three in the Fields of Home series

Missing Your Smile

Author: Jerry S. Eicher
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
ISBN: 0736942440
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 275

Book Description
Readers will delight in this heartfelt novel by bestselling author Jerry Eicher, a former Amishman, who writes with authenticity and compassion about the people he grew up with. When Susan Hostetler has a falling out with her boyfriend, Thomas Stoll, she leaves her Amish community and moves to Asbury Park to experiment in English life. There she learns to drive a car, takes her GED test, and falls in love with young and handsome Duane Bower. Back home, her parents are devastated and miss their daughter terribly. But what can they do? Susan has a mind of her own. Just as Susan is enjoying her new life, her plans are interrupted. She meets Teresa Long, a young, unwed, expectant mother who asks Susan to help her have her baby adopted by an Amish family. As Susan is drawn into the young woman's life, she also finds herself drawn back to her Amish roots. But can she truly leave her life behind...and Duane?

The Home Ranch

Author: Ralph Moody
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803282100
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284

Book Description
Little Britches becomes the "man" in his family after his father's early death, taking on the concomitant responsibilities as well as opportunities. During the summer of his twelfth year he works on a cattle ranch in the shadow of Pike's Peak, earning a dollar a day. Little Britches is tested against seasoned cowboys on the range and in the corral. He drives cattle through a dust storm, eats his weight in flapjacks, and falls in love with a blue outlaw horse. Following Little Britches and developing an episode noted near the end of Man of the Family, The Home Ranch continues the adventures of young Ralph Moody. Soon after returning from the ranch, he and his mother and siblings will go east for a new start, described in Mary Emma & Company and The Fields of Home. All these titles have been reprinted as Bison Books.

The Fields We Called Home

Author: Carrie Burrows
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781736882603
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296

Book Description
In this unforgettable World War II novel, inspired by true events, the lives of Central Texans on homeland soil are forever altered as many sacrifice it all for America's gain. ------------ Fall 1941. Grace Kathleen Willis has it all - a loving family and community, a handsome fiancé, and a job as a schoolteacher. But when Grace discovers the government is possibly bringing a new Army camp to her beloved farming community and acting on its right to eminent domain, she finds herself torn between the man she deeply cares for and her childhood home. In the midst of some of the darkest moments in America's history, love must find a way to overcome. Spring 2016. Thirty-year-old Katie Johnson is seeking a fresh start in a new community as she moves in with her ninety-five-year-old grandma. Her first stop is a special reunion on the Fort Hood military base just outside Gatesville, Texas. The temperature isn't the only thing heating up over the summer as Katie discovers more of her family's past than she expected.

At Play in the Fields of the Lord

Author: Peter Matthiessen
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307819647
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 387

Book Description
In a malarial outpost in the South American rain forest, two misplaced gringos converge and clash in this novel from the National Book Award-winning author. Martin Quarrier has come to convert the elusive Niaruna Indians to his brand of Christianity. Lewis Moon, a stateless mercenary who is himself part Indian, has come to kill them on the behalf of the local comandante. Out of this struggle Peter Matthiessen creates an electrifying moral thriller—adapted into a movie starring John Lithgow, Kathy Bates, and Tom Waits. A novel of Conradian richness, At Play in the Fields of the Lord explores both the varieties of spiritual experience and the politics of cultural genocide.

Your New House

Author: Alan Fields
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781889392059
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 360

Book Description
Offers advice on selecting contractors and home builders, as well as discussing mortgages, site selection, environmental concerns, consumer rights, and contracts, and identifies unethical practices.

The Fields

Author: Erin Young
Publisher: Flatiron Books
ISBN: 1250799406
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 375

Book Description
A breakneck procedural that is beautifully written and masterfully crafted, Erin Young's The Fields is a dynamite debut—crime fiction at its very finest. Some things don't stay buried. It starts with a body—a young woman found dead in an Iowa cornfield, on one of the few family farms still managing to compete with the giants of Big Agriculture. When Sergeant Riley Fisher, newly promoted to head of investigations for the Black Hawk County Sheriff’s Office, arrives on the scene, an already horrific crime becomes personal when she discovers the victim was a childhood friend, connected to a dark past she thought she’d left behind. The investigation grows complicated as more victims are found. Drawn deeper in, Riley soon discovers implications far beyond her Midwest town.

The Vast Fields of Ordinary

Author: Nick Burd
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780803733404
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
The summer after graduating from an Iowa high school, eighteen-year-old Dade Hamilton watches his parents' marriage disintegrate, ends his long-term, secret relationship, comes out of the closet, and savors first love.