| International Standard Book Number |
9780393531800 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
0393531805 (hardcover)
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
813.54 23
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| Personal Name |
Boyles, Claire, author.
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| Title Statement |
Appraisals : a novel / Claire Boyles.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
©2026.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2026]
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| Physical Description |
274 pages : map ; 24 cm.
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| Content Type |
cartographic image cri rdacontent
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| Content Type |
text txt rdacontent
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| Media Type |
unmediated n rdamedia
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| Carrier Type |
volume nc rdacarrier
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| Physical Medium |
map rdaill.
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| Summary, Etc. |
Maggie Brandt, a third-generation farmer, is cultivating a few acres of organic vegetables in rural Colorado--a place where industrial farming reigns supreme--when the Great Recession hits. After months of unemployment, her husband, Fish, takes a job with an oil and gas company, a decision that threatens their once happy marriage and alienates their teenage daughter, Ozzie, a budding environmental crusader. As the wider community organizes against a billionaire outsider who is buying farmland and, more worryingly, water rights in the moisture-starved county, Maggie's grandmother Flora grapples with the painful echoes of her own past. Flora and Ozzie's already close bond deepens as they join a local activist group, but Fish and Maggie's conflicting approaches to surviving circumstances that are out of their control drive them further apart. Faced with intolerable layers of loss, each member of the family is forced to consider what they are willing to compromise and what they are, or are not, able to forgive.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Grandmothers Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Teenage girls Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Family farms Colorado Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Farmers Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Environmentalists Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Political activists Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Recessions United States History 21st century Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Colorado Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Ecofiction. lcgft.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Fiction. lcgft.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Historical fiction. lcgft.
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| Location |
FIC BOY 31662001861996
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