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• All My Patients Have Tales

  Favorite Stories From a Vet's Practice

  Wells, Jeff, D.V.M.

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  Stories by a dedicated veterinarian featuring wild horses, porcupine-quill-covered dogs, male cats in labor, an extremely ornery pygmy donkey, an enormous hog, as well as many other domestic, and not so “domestic” animals.

• Cheaper by the Dozen

  Gilbreth, Frank B. (Frank Bunker), 1911-2001

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  No growing pains have ever been more hilarious than those suffered loudly by the riotous Gilbreth clan. There are a dozen red-haired, freckle-faced kids to contend with. You can be sure they're not only cheaper, they're funnier by the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Heartwarming Stories for People 60 and Over

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  Offers readers loving insights and wisdom--all centering on the prime of life. Divided into chapters on letting go, giving, learning, the lighter side, across the generations, overcoming obstacles, perspective, believing, living your…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Home Town Tales

  Gulley, Philip

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  Takes you back to a simpler time, when life was uncomplicated and everyone knew what was right.

• James Herriot's Animal Stories

  Herriot, James

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  Ten more delightful stories from the pen of the world's most beloved veterinarian.

• Jim the Boy

  a Novel

  Earley, Tony, 1961-

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  Coming-of-age story in a remote North Carolina hamlet. The year is 1934, and like the rest of the country, Aliceville is feeling the pinch of the Great Depression.

• Lake Wobegon Days

  Keillor, Garrison

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  The novel tells of an American town where you can still count on people and they are content with themselves.

• Mama Makes Up Her Mind

  and Other Dangers of Southern Living

  White, Bailey

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  Offers a humorous, touching, story-filled memoir of the author's home in south Georgia.

• Nothing With Strings

  NPR's Beloved Holiday Stories

  White, Bailey

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  Thanksgiving stories...about an almost-gone little town. You may not have ever been there, but you will feel right at home in these pages.

• but Not Over the Hill

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  Hattie tells the stories of her fellow residents at a retirement home and of the immeasurable gifts and burdens of aging...and the impact that we can have, no matter our age, on the people--and the world--around us.

• Over What Hill?

  Notes From the Pasture

  Wilder, Effie Leland

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  Effie Leland Wilder approaches her second novel with the same good humor and strong faith found in her first. This time, romance is in bloom at FairAcres.

• Porch Talk

  Stories of Decency, Common Sense, and Other Endangered Species

  Gulley, Philip

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  Musings on such topics as leisure, marriage, faith, enjoyment, and more hold an earthy wisdom that reminds us of what we hold dear, and what's truly important in life.