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Tess is used to the kinds of stolen treasures she returns to their owners, treasures she can see and touch, but a future of unexpected treasure awaits when she receives word of her grandfather's coma. After all, she never met the man/ Tess is stunned to learn that her grandfather has willed her a plot of land that includes an apple orchard. She's even more shocked when she meets the orchard's co-owner: a half-sister Tess never knew she had.
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"This portrait of Johnny Appleseed restores the flesh-and-blood man beneath the many myths. It captures the boldness of an iconic American life and the sadness of his last years, as the frontier marched past him, ever westward. And it shows how death liberated the legend and made of Johnny a barometer of the nation's feelings about its own heroic past and the supposed Eden it once had been. It is a book that does for America's inner frontier what...
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The story of a street-smart city girl who must adapt to a new life on an apple farm after she falls in love with Adrian Curtis, the pride of a prominent local family whose lives and orchards are said to be cursed. Married after only three months, young Theresa finds life with Adrian on the farm far more difficult and dangerous than she expected. Rejected by her husband's family as an outsider, she slowly learns about the isolated world of farming...
10) Johnny Appleseed
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John Chapman was his real name, but almost everyone remembers him by his legendary name - Johnny Appleseed - the man who sprinkled apple seeds and planted trees all across the Midwest. His legacy remains strong today - not only for his botanical achievements, but also for the stories that he shared with children, presented here at their very best in verse and art.
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