Books tagged: rural life

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Boomers in Blue Jeans    by Karen Farley
Price: $2.99 USD. 9250 words. Published on August 26, 2011. .

Calling all baby boomers and all others that want to read about the "old days". I have shared a recollection of my memories as a golden baby boomer growing up in the 50's and 60's in a small town in the rural midwest.
Tales of Old Baldoyle    by michael.j hurley
Price: $4.99 USD. 46050 words. Published on September 14, 2011. .

This book is a series of anecdotal tales from a rural village now absorbed into the greater Dublin area in Ireland. The village was changed for ever by the large scale housing development which too place from the mid sixties onward.
Sweet Land of Mine    by Candace Hennekens
Price: $2.99 USD. 49150 words. Published on September 29, 2011. .

Ruth's story from "Sweet Farm of Mine" continues. As her father Arlan's distraction with the lively widow and neighbor Gretta continues, Ruth finds plenty of challenge in managing their farm on her own and teaching. But Gretta is like a breath of fresh air, making Ruth aware of changes she needs to make. Moua and Sting, Hmong wanting to become farmers, become a big help to Ruth and Arlan.
Flowering Off the Chrome    by John Hughes
Price: $3.44 USD. 6060 words. Published on October 10, 2011. .

Flowering Off the Chrome is a collection of symbolic poetic projections into the rural landscape. Removed from the urban sprawl, set during midsummer and narrated through a series of dramatic monologues, Hughes has created a rich sequence of see-sawing yarns about the comings and goings on a farm he knew as a child. Looking back through the eyes of an old man who chose to remain and work the land.
Rufus Steele 1940    by Susan C. Turner
Price: $2.00 USD. 31770 words. Published on October 10, 2011. .

Second book in the Rufus Steele Adventure Series. In 1940 in the small mountain farming community of Friendsville, Maryland, Rufus Steele--the town doctor--encounters a part of his past he hoped never to revisit. Amidst the trials and joys of everyday life, he and the people he has come to love meet a sinister character intent on Steele's destruction.
A Fresh of Breath Air    by Andrea Frazer
Price: $2.49 USD. 61270 words. Published on November 8, 2011. .

This is the tale of a couple who have always dreamed of moving from the town to the country. By the time they have accumulated four children, they finally make this move, and find that their lives are more interesting and unexpected than they had ancitipated, with chickens and giddy goats added to the mix; not to mention the local ghost and the eccentrics who live in their new village.
Agrarian Love Story    by Michael Zinetti
Price: $0.99 USD. 5100 words. Published on November 20, 2011. .

A cute little story about youthful love and innocence, against the backdrop of farm-life.
Jedder's Land    by Maureen O'Donoghue
Price: $4.99 USD. 135610 words. Published on December 15, 2011. .

A rural life saga in the Hardy tradition. Rachel Jedder's fight for her land and dynasty.
Buying The Land To Launch Your Dreams    by Michael Antoniak
Price: $4.99 USD. 20030 words. Published on January 17, 2012. .

An essential guide to purchasing rural property for those who dream of or intend to escape to a simpler life in the country. Whether you seek a few acres, a hobby farm or a future home site give, your dreams their best start with this overview of the process, special considerations, and insights on what and where/how to look for your corner of paradise. Includes live links to many Web resources.
Speen for Donnington - Stations of the Great Western Railway GWR    by Charles Darvelle
Price: $0.99 USD. 3550 words. Published by Bretwalda Books  on March 21, 2012. .

A dedicated history of one of the vanished Great Western Railway stations that closed in the 1960s. Speen for Donnington Station once had its own full time staff and a thriving traffic of passengers and agricultural produce. Now the station is gone. This is the story of the station and the communities it served.