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Atonement

Ian McEwan

FIC
MCE

Cold Sassy Tree

Olive Ann Burns

When the preacher of Cold Sassy, Georgia, elopes with a woman half his age (not to mention, a Yankee) the sleepy little town comes alive.

FIC
BUR

Good Night, Mr. Tom

Michelle Magorian

A battered child learns to embrace life when he is adopted by an old man in the English countryside during the Second World War.

FIC
MAG

Out of Africa

Isak Dinesen

967.6
DIN

Shadows On the Grass

Isak Dinesen

SC
DIN

Good Old Days

Ralph Jocelyn McGinnis

Collection of stories, reminiscences, and illustrations re-creates the days of the family farm and its nearby village.

630.1
MCG

The Foxfire Book

917.58
WIG

Foxfire 3

Interviews and essays describe the way of life and crafts of pioneer America still surviving in the Appalachian region.

917.58
WIG

Rural America

307.7
FRE

Enoch's Place

Joyce Rockwood

Fifteen-year-old Enoch, oldest of the Children in their Blue Ridge Mountain community of hippies, leaves his family's farm to live with his cousins in the city.

FIC
ROC
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