In The Fields

Author : Erin Young
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250799401

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A breakneck procedural that is beautifully written and masterfully crafted, Erin Young's The Fields is a dynamite debut—crime fiction at its very finest. Some things don't stay buried. It starts with a body—a young woman found dead in an Iowa cornfield, on one of the few family farms still managing to compete with the giants of Big Agriculture. When Sergeant Riley Fisher, newly promoted to head of investigations for the Black Hawk County Sheriff’s Office, arrives on the scene, an already horrific crime becomes personal when she discovers the victim was a childhood friend, connected to a dark past she thought she’d left behind. The investigation grows complicated as more victims are found. Drawn deeper in, Riley soon discovers implications far beyond her Midwest town.

Author : Willow Aster
Publisher : Willow Aster
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781492188032

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In the Fields by Willow Aster Pdf

Caroline has loved Isaiah for as long as she can remember…even though nothing about him is acceptable, according to her family, her town, and everyone in it. All she has ever wanted is a simple life with the right person, but when things fall apart in her tiny town, she struggles to remember that. When she loses everything, she rebuilds her life and gains a new, unconventional family. For someone who was neglected, she learns what it’s like to truly have people who care about her. When her past clashes with her present, she has to decide what to leave behind and what to grip with everything she has. And Isaiah has to decide whether he fits in this life or if he’s only part of the past. Spanning over a long stretch of time, In the Fields is a timeless story of love conquering all.

Author : Kevin Maher
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781405515627

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'A joy to read: fresh, funny, moving and always surprising' Kate Atkinson 'Fresh, beguiling and laugh-out-loud funny on every page, this must be the most enjoyable Irish novel since Skippy Dies' Guardian They'd sit around in a steamy kitchen circle like four mad witches, and dip ginger-snaps into Maxwell House until they went wobbly-warm, and take turns at saying, Jahear about so-and-so, Lord rest his soul, only thirty years old, poor creature?! They were brilliant at it. Scaring the shite out of each other, grinning inside. Jim Finnegan is thirteen years old and life in his world consists of dealing with the helter-skelter intensity of his rumbustious family, taking breakneck bike rides with his best friend, and coveting the local girls from afar - until one day when everything changes. The Fields is an unforgettable story of an extraordinary character: Jim's voice leaps off the page and straight into the reader's heart as he grapples with his unfairly interrupted adolescence. Praise for The Fields: 'Heartbreaking and hilarious in equal measures' Stylist Funny and heart-warming' Daily Mail 'The Fields is crazy mad, lyrical and unforgettable' Red 'Exquisite moments of comedy that anyone with a whiff of Irish heritage will immediately recognise' Sunday Express

Author : Conrad Richter
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780451493736

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The Fields by Conrad Richter Pdf

Of this second novel in Conrad Richter’s great trilogy, Louis Bromfield wrote: “The Fields continues the life of Sayward after her strange marriage to the ‘educated’ New Englander Portious, through the raising of their family of eight children. But it is much more than that; it is also the tale of the slow battle and eventual victory over the Trees and that relentless forest which even today marches in and takes over an Ohio field that has been left untilled for a year or two. Bit by bit, through hard work and in hardship, the forest is conquered and the villages emerge into the light surrounded by fields of great fertility. . . . “The story is told with a feeling of poetry and the picturesque turn of language which characterized the speech of the frontier and can still be heard in the Ohio country districts . . . Sayward, the heroine, is the portrait of a simple, eternal woman dominating in an instinctive way a husband who is far more educated and subtle than herself. The children are real children, each with his own personality. . . . “It [The Fields] has beauty, form, historical significance, and at the same time reality and the magic which accompanies illusion.”

Author : Randy Shaw
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520268043

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Beyond the Fields by Randy Shaw Pdf

Describes the social changes Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers of America helped accomplish that have endured in the twenty-first century, including the building of Latino political power and the fight for environmental justice.

Author : Peter Matthiessen
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307819642

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At Play in the Fields of the Lord by Peter Matthiessen Pdf

In a malarial outpost in the South American rain forest, two misplaced gringos converge and clash in this novel from the National Book Award-winning author. Martin Quarrier has come to convert the elusive Niaruna Indians to his brand of Christianity. Lewis Moon, a stateless mercenary who is himself part Indian, has come to kill them on the behalf of the local comandante. Out of this struggle Peter Matthiessen creates an electrifying moral thriller—adapted into a movie starring John Lithgow, Kathy Bates, and Tom Waits. A novel of Conradian richness, At Play in the Fields of the Lord explores both the varieties of spiritual experience and the politics of cultural genocide.

Author : Richard Jefferies
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Fiction
ISBN : OXFORD:300073641

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The Life of the Fields by Richard Jefferies Pdf

Author : Mary Lavin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Ireland
ISBN : UOM:39015000631146

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In the Middle of the Fields, and Other Stories by Mary Lavin Pdf

Author : Julia Reynolds
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781613749722

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Blood in the Fields by Julia Reynolds Pdf

The city of Salinas, California, is the birthplace of John Steinbeck and the setting for his epic masterpiece, East of Eden, but it is also the home of Nuestra Familia, one of the most violent gangs in America. Born in the prisons of California in the late 1960s, Nuestra Familia expanded to control drug trafficking and extortion operations throughout the northern half of the state, and left a trail of bodies in its wake. Prize-winning journalist and Nieman Fellow Julia Reynolds tells the gang's story from the inside out, following young men and women as they search for a new kind of family, quests that usually lead to murder and betrayal. Blood in the Fields also documents the history of Operation Black Widow, the FBI's questionable decade-long effort to dismantle the Nuestra Familia, along with its compromised informants and the turf wars it created with local law enforcement agencies. Written as narrative nonfiction, journalist Reynolds used her unprecedented access to gang members, both in and out of prison, as well as undercover wire taps, depositions, and court documents to weave a gripping, comprehensive history of this brutal criminal organization and the lives it destroyed. Julia Reynolds coproduced and wrote the PBS documentary Nuestra Familia, Our Family, and reported on the northern California gang for more than a decade. She currently works as a staff writer at the Monterey County Herald, and has reported for National Public Radio, the Discovery Channel, The Nation, Mother Jones, the San Francisco Chronicle, and more.

Author : Freddy Silva
Publisher : Hampton Roads Publishing Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1571743227

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Secrets in the Fields by Freddy Silva Pdf

Secrets in the Fields is the most thoroughly researched, most comprehensive book on the market about crop circles phenomena. The author takes readers on an exhilarating firsthand field trip into the heart of this mystery. He introduces us to farmers, researchers, scientists, mystics, hoaxers, and debunkers. He tells: How to distinguish a hoax from an authentic crop circle. The role of UFOs/aliens in the creation of crop circles.>br>What crop circles might mean. How a theory of music may account for their creation. This is a book for anyone interested in the unexplained, earth mysteries, UFOs, and esoteric wisdom. It will be a hit with those who love books about the pyramids, 2012 prophecies, and the Gnostic mysteries.

Author : Aysha Baqir
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789814841634

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Beyond The Fields by Aysha Baqir Pdf

Born to a poor, landless farmer in the month of the monsoon rains, twins Zara and Tara grow up amongst the fields of wheat and cotton in a remote village in Pakistan. During an afternoon spree of games, Tara is kidnapped from the fields and raped. All seems to be resolved after her parents accept an unexpected marriage proposal for their “dishonoured” daughter. But the nightmare resurfaces when a newspaper clipping emerges, calling the union into question. Determined to rescue her twin, Zara embarks on a harrowing quest for justice, battling keepers of a culture that upholds propriety above all else and braving the unknown dangers of an urban centre. Set in the early 1980s against the backdrop of martial law and social turmoil, Beyond the Fields is a riveting, timely look at profound inequality, traditions that disempower women in our world, and survival as a dance to the beat of a different future.

Author : Anita Yasuda
Publisher : North Star Editions, Inc.
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781641851831

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Children Working the Fields by Anita Yasuda Pdf

Presents true accounts of migrant child field workers in the 20th century. Personal narratives, informative infographics, and historical photos make this title a compelling and thought-provoking read for young history lovers.

Author : Carey McWilliams
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520925182

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Factories in the Field by Carey McWilliams Pdf

This book was the first broad exposé of the social and environmental damage inflicted by the growth of corporate agriculture in California. Factories in the Field—together with the work of Dorothea Lange, Paul Taylor, and John Steinbeck—dramatizes the misery of the dust bowl migrants hoping to find work in California agriculture. McWilliams starts with the scandals of the Spanish land grant purchases, and continues on to examine the experience of the various ethnic groups that have provided labor for California's agricultural industry—Chinese, Japanese, Mexicans, Filipinos, Armenians—the strikes, and the efforts to organize labor unions

Author : Nicola Tyrer
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780752473420

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They Fought in The Fields by Nicola Tyrer Pdf

The Women's Land Army was the forgotten victory of the Second World War. While troops fought on the front line, a battalion of young women joined up to take their place as agricultural workers. Despite many of them coming from urban backgrounds, these fearless, cheerful girls learnt how to look after farm land, operate and repair machinery, rear and manage farm animals, harvest crops and provide the work force that was badly needed in the years of the war. Back-breaking work such as thinning crops, continuous hoeing and digging made way for disgusting tasks such as rat-killing. Yet despite it all, the land girls were exuberant, fun-loving and hard-working, and became known for their articulate, feisty, humorous and modest attitude. It therefore comes as no surprise that despite hostility and teasing at the beginning, these robust farm workers won the hearts of the nation, and at the disbandment of the Land Army in the 1950s, the farming community were forced to eat their words. With delightful photographs documenting the camaraderie of the Land Army and real-life memories from those who joined, this nostalgic look at one of the real success stories of the Second World War will make modern women stand proud of what their grandmothers achieved in an era before our own.

Author : Ralph Moody
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0803281943

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The Fields of Home by Ralph Moody Pdf

The fatherless Moody family moved from Colorado to Medford, Massachusetts, in 1912, when Ralph was entering his teens. "I tried as hard as I could to be a city boy, but I didn't have very good luck," he says at the beginning of The Fields of Home. "Just little things that would have been all right in Colorado were always getting me in trouble." So he is sent to his grandfather's farm in Maine, where he finds a new set of adventures.