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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
The grandson of Virginia Woolf's poet paramour Vita Sackville-West traces his passionate efforts to restore his family's celebrated garden, an effort that included a reinstatement of a working farm to grow food for more than 200,000 annual visitors.
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"A social history of Elizabethan England, focusing on life on the farms and in the villages of rural England during the reign (1558-1603) of the famous monarch"--Provided by publisher.
9) Celandine
Author
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In Somerset, England, during World War I, Celandine becomes involved in the lives of the little people living on a hill near her family's farm, while also coming to terms with her own healing abilities and psychic gifts.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
In 1836, Henry Lester moved his family from the Vermont hills to better land on the valley floor north of Rutland, beginning a saga six generations on a farm, which this book portrays and explores with an affectionate but critical eye. What gives the book its distinctive charm is its vivid evocation of a way of life: the beloved grandmother keeping house both as a shelter and as a temple of the spirit; the uncles sowing and harvesting, raising and...
