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From bestselling author Amanda Owen come more tales of life at Ravenseat, the remote Yorkshire hill...

Trade-Related Agricultural Policy Analysis: Pt. 1: World Scientific Studies in International Economics
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Trade-Related Agricultural Policy Analysis brings together several aspects of agricultural policy...

Summer at Mount Hope
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Phoeba Crupp lives with her squabbling parents and younger sister Lilith on a small farm in rural...

Two Steps Forward (The Deacon's Family #3)
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Back and broke in Stoney Ridge, Jimmy Fisher has coasted as long as he could through life on charm,...
Amish Amish Fiction

Martha Quest
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The opening book in the Nobel Prize for Literature winner’s ‘Children of Violence’ series...

Come On In, We're Dead (2017)
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The true story of the The Young Brothers Massacre, 1932. The record for the most lawmen shot dead in...

The Blackest Time: A Novel of Florence during the Black Plague
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It's Europe in the 1300s, and Gino, a young man living in rural Italy, leaves behind the familiarity...
Historical Fiction Medieval Italian Historical Fiction Plague Black Death

ClareR (5991 KP) rated Restless Dolly Maunder in Books
Jul 20, 2024
Dolly Maunder is most definitely restless. She wants more than the hand that life has dealt her - and as a female whose parents work on a farm, she is expected to get married and have children who will work on a farm.
Dolly is determined, and that’s what shows throughout this book. When her parents take away the chance for her to become a teacher, she finds other ways to change her life. She’s a force of nature! I loved Dolly’s spirit. She did come across as obstinate and single minded, neither of which is a terrible thing for someone with ambition. But it’s not easy for those who have to live with her!
This is a pretty wide-sweeping novel, from Dolly’s childhood until her old age, and it still seemed to be over too soon. It was so interesting to learn about the Australian way of life from just before WWI to after WWII, and Dolly moves around enough for the reader to see different areas of Australia.
There’s a lot of emotion in this book, and when you read the authors note at the end, you’ll see why. Recommended.

Unspoken (The Dust Series #1)
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A Farm Devastated. A Dream Destroyed. A Family Scattered. And One Texas Girl Determined to Salvage...
Historical Fiction