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The Land I Lost: Adventures of a Boy in Vietnam
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LAT (Mohammad Nor Khalid) · 141 pages
All Creatures Great and Small
James Herriot · 442 pages
Delve into the magical, unforgettable world of James Herriot, the world's most beloved veterinarian, and his menagerie of heartwarming, funny, and tragic animal patients. For over forty years, generations of readers have thrilled to Herriot's marvelous tales, deep love of life, and extraordinary storytelling abilities. For decades, Herriot roamed the remote, beautiful Yorkshire Dales, treating
A Girl from Yamhill
Beverly Cleary · 279 pages
Generations of children have grown up with Henry Huggins, Ramona Quimby, and all of their friends, families, and assorted pets. For everyone who has enjoyed the pranks and schemes, embarrassing moments, and all of the other poignant and colorful images of childhood brought to life in Beverly Cleary books, here is the fascinating true story of the remarkable woman who created them.
The Real James Herriot: A Memoir of My Father
Jim Wight · 384 pages
Call the Nurse: True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle
Mary J. Macleod · 320 pages
Tired of the pace and noise of life near London and longing for a better place to raise their young children, Mary J. MacLeod and her husband encountered their dream while vacationing on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides. Enthralled by its windswept beauty, they soon were the proud owners of a near-derelict croft house—a farmer’s stone cottage—on “a small acre” of land. Mary assumed duties
A Year in Provence
Peter Mayle · 207 pages
In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to realize a long-cherished dream and actually move into a 200-year-old stone farmhouse in the remote country of the Lubéron with his wife and two large dogs. He endures January's frosty mistral as it comes howling down the Rhône Valley, discovers the secrets of goat racing through the middle of town, and delights in the glo
Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota
Chuck Klosterman · 277 pages
On the Way Home: The Diary of a Trip from South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri, in 1894
Laura Ingalls Wilder · 112 pages
Describes the sights and events a frontier family encounters travelling from South Dakota to the Ozarks.
Life on a Family Fruit Farm: the Early Years
Philip S. Salisbury · 133 pages
This book was born out of an effort to recall significant characteristic, incidents, and occasions that were memorable in my young life. What has emerged is a compilation of vignettes on the diversity of the lives of one boy and his family as they work their way through the vicissitudes of life. It is seen through the new eyes of a growing boy. What emerges is a life with ups, downs, and even time
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
John Steinbeck · 256 pages
A quest across America, from the northernmost tip of Maine to California's Monterey Peninsula To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the tress, to see the colors and the light—these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had been writing about for so many years. With Charley, his French poodle, Steinbeck drives the
Out of Africa
Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen · 389 pages
The author relates her experience in Kenya, describing not only her own youth but also the country's traditions and people.
Heart Earth
Ivan Doig · 168 pages
Readers will come to appreciate the strength and dignity of Berneta Ringer, a true Western heroine as Doig celebrates his mother's life after finding a cache of her letters, photographs, and childhood writings. It begins with her first winter living in a tent in Montana's Crazy Mountains to the ravages of the Depression on a ranch on Falkner Creek.
The Longest Trip Home: A Memoir
John Grogan · 334 pages
Wolf Willow
Wallace Stegner · 306 pages
"Pulitzer Prize-winning author Wallace Stegner's boyhood was spent on the beautiful and remote frontier of the Cypress Hills in southern Saskatchewan, where his family homesteaded from 1914 to 1920. In a recollection of his years there, Stegner applied childhood remembrances and adult reflection to the history of the region to create this wise and enduring portrait of a pioneer community existing
An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood
Jimmy Carter · 288 pages
Growing Up Country: Memories of an Iowa Farm Girl
Carol Bodensteiner · 208 pages
Cross Creek
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings · 368 pages
Warm, leisurely account of author's neighbors, and her everyday affairs while living for thirteen years in a remote section of the Florida hammock at Cross Creek.
The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District
James Rebanks · 306 pages
Some people's lives are entirely their own creations. James Rebanks' isn't. The first son of a shepherd, who was the first son of a shepherd himself, his family have lived and worked in the Lake District of Northern England for generations, further back than recorded history. It's a part of the world known mainly for its romantic descriptions by Wordsworth and the much loved illustrated children's
My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner: A Family Memoir
Meir Shalev · 212 pages
The Office BFFs: Tales of The Office from Two Best Friends Who Were There
Jenna Fischer · 321 pages
The Midwife's Here! The Enchanting True Story of One of Britain's Longest Serving Midwives
Linda Fairley
WOW! Hannah's Memories
Hannah Westley · 142 pages
WOW! Hannah's memories of growing up on a farm in Pennsylvania