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Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage International
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
" ... Are the small freeholders of the Icelandic countryside--operators of the one-man, one-family farm got by inheritance or purchase and held with grim tenacity against all connivances of nature and man by folk whose ruling passion is to be their own masters on their own acres." [Dust jacket].
Author
Publisher
Thomas Y Crowell Company
Pub. Date
[1953]
Language
English
Description
Every summer the men of the Chavez family go on a long and difficult sheep drive to the mountains. All the men, that is, except for Miguel. All year long, twelve-year-old Miguel tries to prove that he, too, is up to the challenge - that he, too, is ready to take the sheep into his beloved Sangre de Cristo Mountains. When his deeds go unnoticed, he prays to San Ysidro, the saint for farmers everywhere. And his prayer is answered - but with devastating...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
For the past eight years, the MacManus brothers have been living with their father on a remote sheep farm in Ireland, far removed from their past vigilante lifestyle. When their uncle informs them that their beloved priest has been killed by the mob, and they are being framed for the murder, the duo return back to Boston to, not only, bring justice to those who are responsible, but clear their names.
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A stunning debut novel set in the rugged, rural landscape of northwest England where two sheep farmers lose their flocks and decide to reverse their fortunes by stealing sheep from a rich farm in the south-for fans of Annie Proulx and Cormac McCarthy. In early 2001, a lethal disease breaks out on the hill farms of northern England, emptying the valleys of sheep and filling the skies with smoke as they burn the carcasses. Two neighboring shepherds...
8) Lass
Author
Publisher
Kregel Kidzone
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Mr. Keller adopts a sheepdog, Lass, and persuades her to trust and love him, just as he has come to trust and love God.
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