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Jerry Apps

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A Year Down Yonder
Richard Peck

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Verlyn Klinkenborg

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Outwitting Squirrels: 101 Cunning Stratagems to Reduce Dramatically the Egregious Misappropriation of Seed from Your Birdfeeder by Squirrels
Outwitting Squirrels: 101 Cunning Stratagems to Reduce Dramatically the Egregious Misappropriation of Seed from Your Birdfeeder by Squirrels
Bill Adler Jr.

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Country Ways And Country Days Symbols
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Jojo Moyes

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Laura Ingalls Wilder

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Lee Child

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Wish You Well
David Baldacci

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All Creatures Great and Small
James Herriot

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Sarah, Plain and Tall
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
John Steinbeck

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A Painted House
John Grisham

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The Cold Dish
Craig Johnson

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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

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Rural Life

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A Long Way From Chicago
Richard Peck

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A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor
A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor
John Berger

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Colter: The True Story of the Best Dog I Ever Had
Colter: The True Story of the Best Dog I Ever Had
Rick Bass

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The Quilters: Women and Domestic Art : An Oral History
The Quilters: Women and Domestic Art : An Oral History
Patricia J. Cooper

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Riding on the Wild Side (HH): Tales of Adventure in the Canadian West
Riding on the Wild Side (HH): Tales of Adventure in the Canadian West
Dale Portman

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The Village Horse Doctor
Ben K. Green

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In a Narrow Grave : Essays on Texas
Larry McMurtry

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The Orchard: A Memoir
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The Gift of the Deer (Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book Series)
The Gift of the Deer (Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book Series)
Helen Hoover

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Heart Earth
Ivan Doig

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I'll Take My Stand: The South And the Agrarian Tradition (Library of Southern Civilization)
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Twelve Southerners

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James Herriot's Yorkshire Revisited
James Herriot

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Homestead: Modern Pioneers Pursuing the Edge of Possibility (Kirkpatrick, Jane)
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Where the Lilies Bloom
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Ruth White

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La gloire de mon père
Marcel Pagnol

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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Barbara Kingsolver

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Letters of a Woman Homesteader
Letters of a Woman Homesteader
Elinore Pruitt Stewart

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The Best of James Herriot
The Best of James Herriot
James Herriot

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The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood
The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood
Sy Montgomery

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Eliot Wigginton

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The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love
The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love
Kristin Kimball

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Beatrice's Goat
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Page McBrier

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Running with Sherman
Running with Sherman
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
James Agee

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E.B. White

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Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food
Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food
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She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana
She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana
Haven Kimmel

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Once Upon a Time: The Way America Was
Once Upon a Time: The Way America Was
Eric Sloane

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Grass Beyond the Mountains: Discovering the Last Great Cattle Frontier on the North American Continent
Richmond P. Hobson Jr.

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Foxfire 10
George P. Reynolds

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Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West
Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West
Dorothy Wickenden

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The Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt: Letters from 1920s Farm Wives and the 111 Blocks They Inspired
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Truck: A Love Story
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When I Was Young in the Mountains
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H is for Hawk
Helen Macdonald

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A Piece of the World
Christina Baker Kline

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Little Town in the Ozarks (Little House)
Roger Lea MacBride

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Pearl S. Buck

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The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw
The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw
Patrick F. McManus

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When Breaks the Dawn
Janette Oke

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Little Pear - The Story of a Chinese Boy
Little Pear - The Story of a Chinese Boy
Eleanor Frances Lattimore

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Dance at Grandpa's (My First Little House)
Dance at Grandpa's (My First Little House)
Laura Ingalls Wilder

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Stormy, Misty's Foal
Marguerite Henry

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Ivan Doig

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An Irish Country Courtship
An Irish Country Courtship
Patrick Taylor

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More Adventures of the Great Brain (Great Brain #2)
John D. Fitzgerald

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Flora Thompson

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Lad: A Dog
Albert Payson Terhune

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Foster
Claire Keegan

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Harris and Me
Gary Paulsen

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A Creed In Stone Creek
A Creed In Stone Creek
Linda Lael Miller

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Lauraine Snelling

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Family Dynamics

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Irene Hunt

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Lois Lenski

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Small Things Like These
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Olga Tokarczuk

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Taking Chances (Heartland, #4)
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Eventide
Kent Haruf

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The Song of the Lark
Willa Cather

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The Master Quilter
Jennifer Chiaverini

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Tex
Tex
S.E. Hinton

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Over the Big Hill
Over the Big Hill
Maud Hart Lovelace

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Wideacre
Wideacre
Philippa Gregory

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Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
Mildred Armstrong Kalish

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Wonder's First Race
Wonder's First Race
Joanna Campbell

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James Herriot's Dog Stories
James Herriot's Dog Stories
James Herriot

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An Hour Before Daylight : Memories of a Rural Boyhood
An Hour Before Daylight : Memories of a Rural Boyhood
Jimmy Carter

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A Creed Country Christmas
A Creed Country Christmas
Linda Lael Miller

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This Calder Sky
This Calder Sky
Janet Dailey

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Friendship

All Things Wise an Wonderful
All Things Wise an Wonderful
James Herriot

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The Lord God Made Them All
The Lord God Made Them All
James Herriot

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My Ántonia
My Ántonia
Willa Cather

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Summer of the Monkeys
Summer of the Monkeys
Wilson Rawls

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Understood Betsy
Understood Betsy
Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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Every Living Thing
Every Living Thing
James Herriot

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Coming Home (Heartland, #1)
Coming Home (Heartland, #1)
Lauren Brooke

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Justin Morgan Had A Horse
Justin Morgan Had A Horse
Marguerite Henry

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Poetry for Young People: Robert Frost (Poetry For Young People)
Poetry for Young People: Robert Frost (Poetry For Young People)
Robert Frost

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An Irish Country Doctor
An Irish Country Doctor
Patrick Taylor

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Little Farm in the Ozarks
Little Farm in the Ozarks
Roger Lea MacBride

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Danny The Champion of the World
Danny The Champion of the World
Roald Dahl

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Plainsong
Plainsong
Kent Haruf

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Freckles
Freckles
Gene Stratton-Porter

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Thimble Summer
Thimble Summer
Elizabeth Enright

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The Good Master
The Good Master
Kate Seredy

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Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe
George Eliot

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Emily's Runaway Imagination
Emily's Runaway Imagination
Beverly Cleary

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Island Boy (Picture Puffins)
Island Boy (Picture Puffins)
Barbara Cooney

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Lessons from a Sheep Dog
Lessons from a Sheep Dog
W. Phillip Keller

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Owls in the Family
Owls in the Family
Farley Mowat

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The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight
The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight
R.L. Stine

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If Only They Could Talk
If Only They Could Talk
James Herriot

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The Great Turkey Walk
The Great Turkey Walk
Kathleen Karr

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Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds
Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds
Bernd Heinrich

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Lawn Boy
Lawn Boy
Gary Paulsen

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Me and My Little Brain
Me and My Little Brain
John D. Fitzgerald

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How I Got This Way
How I Got This Way
Patrick F. McManus

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Let Sleeping Vets Lie
Let Sleeping Vets Lie
James Herriot

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The Wily O'Reilly
The Wily O'Reilly
Patrick Taylor

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Bonny's Big Day
Bonny's Big Day
James Herriot

from $5.49

The Return of the Great Brain
The Return of the Great Brain
John D. Fitzgerald

from $17.89

Whatchagot Stew: A Memoir of an Idaho Childhood, With Recipes and Commentaries
Whatchagot Stew: A Memoir of an Idaho Childhood, With Recipes and Commentaries
Patrick F. McManus

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Hotel Pastis: A Novel of Provence
Hotel Pastis: A Novel of Provence
Peter Mayle

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The Chickens Are Restless
The Chickens Are Restless
Gary Larson

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The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts
The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts
Richard Peck

from $4.39

The Great Brain is Back
The Great Brain is Back
John D. Fitzgerald

from $7.09

Soup
Soup
Robert Newton Peck

from $4.19

I Fish; Therefore, I Am: And Other Observations
I Fish; Therefore, I Am: And Other Observations
Patrick F. McManus

from $7.59

Avalanche
Avalanche
Patrick F. McManus

from $5.89

United States

Blue Heaven
Blue Heaven
C.J. Box

from $4.99

The Whistling Season
The Whistling Season
Ivan Doig

from $4.09

All the Places to Love
All the Places to Love
Patricia MacLachlan

from $4.69

Johnny Appleseed
Johnny Appleseed
Reeve Lindbergh

from $4.69

The Wettest County in the World: A Novel Based on a True Story
The Wettest County in the World: A Novel Based on a True Story
Matt Bondurant

from $4.69

Born in Fire
Born in Fire
Nora Roberts

from $3.59

Diary of an Early American Boy
Diary of an Early American Boy
Eric Sloane

from $4.89

Cross Creek
Cross Creek
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

from $6.39

A Promise for Ellie (Daughters of Blessing #1)
A Promise for Ellie (Daughters of Blessing #1)
Lauraine Snelling

from $4.89

Prayers for Sale
Prayers for Sale
Sandra Dallas

from $4.89

The Taste of Country Cooking
The Taste of Country Cooking
Edna Lewis

from $22.31

A Little House Birthday (My First Little House)
A Little House Birthday (My First Little House)
Laura Ingalls Wilder

from $6.19

Man of the Family
Man of the Family
Ralph Moody

from $11.89

The Tie That Binds
The Tie That Binds
Kent Haruf

from $4.19

Silver packages: An Appalachian Christmas story
Silver packages: An Appalachian Christmas story
Cynthia Rylant

from $15.74

Shiloh
Shiloh
Shelby Foote

from $4.19

The Magic of Ordinary Days
The Magic of Ordinary Days
Ann Howard Creel

from $12.39

The Devil All the Time
The Devil All the Time
Donald Ray Pollock

from $8.19

Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds
Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds
Cynthia Rylant

from $4.19

Once upon a Summer
Once upon a Summer
Janette Oke

from $4.79

Commonalities among these books related to rural life include heartwarming and humorous stories, often about the struggles and relationships of people living in small towns or on farms. Many of the books also focus on the natural world and animals, with several featuring veterinarians or animals as main characters. Additionally, there are several memoirs and historical fiction novels that explore life in rural areas during different time periods, including the Great Depression and early America.

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