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Kensington Books
Language
English
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"Ireland, 1845. To Briana Walsh, no place on earth is more beautiful than Carrowteige, County Mayo, with its sloping fields and rocky cliffs perched above the wild Atlantic. The small farms that surround the centuries-old Lear House are managed by her father, agent to the wealthy, reckless Sir Thomas Blakely. Tenant farmers sell the oats and rye they grow to pay rent to Sir Thomas, surviving on the potatoes that flourish in the remaining scraps of...
Author
Series
Exmoor saga volume 1
Language
English
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In fifteenth-century England, Richard Lanyon, who had sacrificed the happiness of his own family to become a landowner, finds he can no longer live with the guilt of his past, while his son, agreeing to an arranged marriage, harbors his own lost dreams.
Author
Series
Galway chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson Publishers
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
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Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
xviii, 403 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
When, during the Great Depression, tenant farmers and sharecroppers were pushed off the land they had worked but never owned, many sought power in numbers by organizing unions. In 1934, seven black men and eleven white men organized the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. Socialist Harry Leland Mitchell was one of those men. Mean Things Happening in This Land is his autobiographical account of SFTU struggles -- against poverty, New Deal agencies, communists,...
5) Barn burning
Publisher
Monterey Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (40 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Abe Snopes is a Southern tenant farmer whose unrelenting and violent nature proves to be his undoing. Snopes sets his employer's barn on fire when he thinks he's been treated unfairly. His son, Sarty, is horrified. Snopes escapes justice for lack of proof, but he and his family are told to move on. No sooner do they move than Snopes is offended by his new rich employer. Torn between trying to win his father's acceptance and his aversion to what his...
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English
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Until that September of 1952, Luke Chandler had never kept a secret or told a single lie. But in the long, hot summer of his seventh year, two groups of migrant workers — and two very dangerous men — came through the Arkansas Delta to work the Chandler cotton farm. And suddenly mysteries are flooding Luke’s world.
A brutal murder leaves the town seething in gossip...
A brutal murder leaves the town seething in gossip...
7) The field
Publisher
Artisan Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The field is a plot of land in rural Ireland, rented and tended by an old man. When the owner sells the land to an American developer, the old man decides to fight the change, regardless of the cost.
Publisher
Kino Lorber, Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (92 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story follows the struggles of an idealistic farmer trying to raise a family and a crop of cotton in the face of extraordinary challenges, both natural and societal.
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Publisher
Melville House
Language
English
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On assignment for "Fortune" magazine in 1936, Agee and Evans set out to explore the plight of sharecroppers during the Great Depression. Published for the first time, Agee's original dispatch (accompanied by 25 of Evans' historic photographs) is an unsparing record of three families at a desperate time.
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