Alamosa Public Library

"Being born the daughter of surgeons does not make you a surgeon, but what about being the daughter of farmers? What happens when childhood and on-the-job training are one and the same? In Jennifer Neves's inquisitive and humorous collection of essays about growing up and raising a family in rural Maine, there is little doubt that memories and the stories they inspire continue to guide and shape her throughout life. This collection is both an investigation...

A tale of farm life featuring Beth, 15, as she milks the cows, shovels manure and fights off advances by boys and her father. But she welcomes the advances of an Indian girl from a reservation and an affair develops, opening her eyes to a world rich in lore and spirits. The setting is Canada, the time the 1940s. A first novel.

Set in the late 1800s and early 1900s, a story about women who come to America to start new lives.

A bickering ranching family must deal with a panther killing its cattle during a harsh winter.

Gary and Susan Hazen are natives of the Adirondacks, high school sweethearts who have raised their two sons on the satisfaction of living off the land. Gary is a highly principled and respected woodsman and hunter, but his self-righteousness brings him into conflict with his sons. Both young men have secrets that will strain the family fabric, and together father and sons weave a tangle of intention and circumstance that will culminate in an act that...

In this suspenseful sequel to "Highland Hopes", Abigail Porter Waterbury faces the challenges of motherhood in the midst of the depression while reeling from the economic adversity that has brought her husband's law practice to collapse. Abby's brother, Daniel Porter must confront his own demons or risk drowning in drink and regret. And the fued between the Porters and Clacks heats up.

A murder leaves the town seething in gossip and suspicion. Someone has begun painting the bare clapboards of the Chandler farmhouse, painstakingly bathing the run-down structure in gleaming white. Based on the novel by John Grisham.

Contains writings completed by Steinbeck between 1936 and 1941, featuring "The Grapes of Wrath," and including a report on migrant workers, several short stories, and an account of a marine expedition.

It is set in the 1933 Depression Era and told through the eyes of John Boy, the seventeen-year-old eldest child of John and Olivia Walton. His mother expects John-Boy to help her raise his sisters and brothers, and his father expects him to follow in his footsteps to help support the family, but secretly, John Boy wants to be a writer. Times are hard enough in 1933, but to make matters worse, it looked to be the Waltons' first Christmas without John...