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1) Happy medium
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"Fake spirit medium Gretchen Acorn is happy to help when her best (read: wealthiest) client hires her to look into the unexplained phenomena preventing the sale of her bridge partner's struggling goat farm. Gretchen may be a complete fraud, but she'd like to think she's a beneficent one. So if "cleansing" the historic property will help a nice old man get on with his retirement and put some much-needed cash in her pockets at the same time, who's she...
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Inheriting a run-down, struggling horse barn, Molly, who dreams of being a wedding planner, thinks selling the land could be the answer but the snag in her plan is farrier Shani, who becomes an entirely different kind of problem, one she can't solve, no matter how much her heart wants to.
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"A bold, science-based corrective to the groundswell of misinformation about food and how it's produced, examining in detail local and organic food, food companies, nutrition labeling, ethical treatment of animals, environmental impacts, and every other aspect from farm to table. Consumers want to know more about their food, including the farm it came from, the chemicals used, the nutrition value, how the animals were treated, and costs to the environment....
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Fergus and Zeke love being the class pets in Miss Maxwell's class, and they do everything the students do. So when Miss Maxwell tells the class they're going on a field trip to a local farm to help with the farm animals, pick apples, and learn about where food comes from, Fergus and Zeke make a plan to sneak their way onto the trip. It's busy harvest time on the farm, and before they know it, Fergus and Zeke are separated from the class and running...
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Following the death of her former husband, Cam, fifty-four-year-old Eleanor has moved back to the New Hampshire farm where they raised three children to care for their brain-injured son, Toby, now an adult. Toby's older brother, Al, is married and living in Seattle with his wife; their sister, Ursula, lives in Vermont with her husband and two children. Although all appears stable, old resentments, anger, and bitterness simmer just beneath the surface....