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Words, Wisconsin, an anonymous town of only a few hundred people. But under its sleepy surface, life rages. Cora and Graham guard their dairy farm, and family, from the wicked schemes of their milk co-op. Lifelong paraplegic Olivia suddenly starts to walk, only to find herself crippled by her fury toward her sister and caretaker, Violet. Recently retired Rusty finds a cougar living in his haymow, dredging up haunting childhood memories. Winifred becomes...

Elfrida Phipps, once on the London stage and retired at sixty-two, never anticipates going off with a man. But after a devastating tragedy, church organist Oscar Blundell asks for her companionship. So, with her brown and white dog in tow, Elfrida begins her journey not knowing that joining her and Oscar at a rundown Victorian house in Scotland will be a young woman nursing a broken heart, a teenager escaping an unhappy home, and a stranger arriving...

Timid and small for her age, nine-year-old Elizabeth Ann discovers her own abilities and gains a new perception of the world around her when she goes to live with relatives on a farm in Vermont.

The ten Rosso children, spaced a year apart and named alphabetically, find their life rambunctious and exciting when their family leaves New York City for a big old farmhouse and new friends.

Five-year-old Daisy Gonzalezs father is always waiting for her at the bus stop. But today, he isnt, and Daisy disappears.When Daisy goes missing, nearly everyone in town suspects or knows something different about what happened. And they also know a lot about each other. The immigrants who work in the dairy farm know their employers secrets. The hairdresser knows everything except whats happening in her own backyard. And the roadkill collector knows...

This novel is in effect two, or even three, books in one, all masterfully crafted. The first part ushers us into a domestic crisis that becomes a crime story centered around an event that changes the lives of half a dozen people in an upper-middle-class country home on a hot English summer's day in 1935. Young Briony Tallis, a hyperimaginative 13-year-old who sees her older sister, Cecilia, mysteriously involved with their neighbor Robbie Turner,...

Driven by youthful idealism, Thomas Deracotte and his pregnant wife, Helen, leave upper-crust Connecticut for a utopian adventure in the Idaho wilderness, purchasing a dilapidated local farm and optimistically setting up housekeeping with the help of a local boy.

Emily Starr wants to be a writer, but it means going away to school and living with unsmiling Aunt Ruth.

A girl reflects on Christmas at her grandparents home in the country, with its fresh-cut tree, handmade ornaments, gifts from Santa, and special church services.

Little Ree leaves her home in the city to move to her grandparents' ranch, where she learns to ride horses, swim in the pond and help her grandmother in the kitchen. Includes special pancake recipe.