Las Animas - Bent County Library District

"Joseph Corrigan and Joseph Feehan, better known as Corrie and Fee, make the finest cheese in the entire civilized world. But Corrie still pines for his long-lost granddaughter, Abbey, whisked away from the family farm as a child by her gallivanting mother." "As it happens, Abbey, now twenty-nine and trying to cook a chicken in a primitive hut on a remote South Seas island, is soon to leave her irrigation-obsessed husband after discovering that he...

In Storm in the Village, Miss Read, the schoolteacher, is still at home in the work and the place that she has come to love so deeply and to describe with such an inimitable blend of affection and clearsighted candor. The ineffable Miss Crabbe, well briefed in the jargon of the sociologist; the incomparable Mrs. Pringle, fountainhead of gossip, walking compendium of mysterious complaints; the slight indomitable figure of Miss Clare; the Vicar and...

Traces the lives of the residents of a fictional New England town throughout the course of a year, revealing some of the dark undercurrents that run through the community.

Abandoned by her mother as a child, Brigid Foster struggles with conflicted feelings when her mother reenters her life, while her summer lodger, Louise, also gives way to a painful past, with unexpected repercussions.

A novel on three "land girls," members of Britain's Women's Land Army during World War II. Serving their country, plowing and shoveling manure are Prue, a boy-hungry hairdresser; Agatha, an undergraduate eager to share Homer's poems with the farmer's son; and dreamy Stella whose beau is in the Royal Navy. By the author of Invitation to the Married Life.

The highlight of Sarah Orne Jewett's career was The Country of the Pointed Firs, a tightly crafted narrative of a summer visit to a small town on the coast of Maine. The narrator is a writer who comes to the fictional town of Dunnet Landing in search of solitude but instead finds herself drawn into the town's rhythms. She's adopted into a loose-knit group of women who tell stories about the town and the people who inhabit it.