American Towns

1959 - Greensboro, North Carolina - White family in a well-to-do part of town hire a young black woman to be their maid – cleaning, cooking and washing etc. Over a few months, the maid realizes the man of the house is a Pedophile. But it’s 1959, he is wealthy with friends in high places. She’s a poor black woman. No one believes her. She goes on a quest to expose him.

The Awakening Land trilogy traces the transformation of a middle-American landscape from wilderness to farmland to the site of modern industrial civilization, all in the lifetime of one character. The trilogy includes The Trees (1940), The Fields (1946), and The Town (1950) and follows the varied fortunes of Sayward Luckett and her family in southeastern Ohio. The Town tells how Sayward completes her mission and lives to see the transition of her family and her friends, American pioneers, from the ways of wilderness to the ways of civilization.

Bloomwood is seeing green, and not just from shamrocks and hydrangeas. As the town gears up for its annual St. Patrick’s Day Festival, sisters Iris and Poppy Thorne are up to their elbows in emerald-tinted blooms at Blossom & Thorne Flower Shop. Their biggest honor yet? Designing the festival’s showstopping floral horseshoe arch and parade float centerpiece. But when the festival’s beloved Grand Marshal, local pub owner Declan Callahan, is found dead on the patio behind his bar, the luck of the Irish runs out fast. Even worse? A bouquet of Blossom & Thorne’s signature green ...

Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity is a book of forward-thinking ideas that breaks with modern wisdom to present a new vision of urban development in the United States. Presenting the foundational ideas of the Strong Towns movement he cofounded, Charles Marohn explains why cities of all sizes continue to struggle to meet their basic needs, and reveals the new paradigm that can solve this longstanding problem.

Perfect for fans of the musical Come From Away! When 38 jetliners bound for the United States were forced to land at Gander International Airport in Canada by the closing of U.S. airspace on September 11, the population of this small town on Newfoundland Island swelled from 10,300 to nearly 17...

Nailed It meets You’ve Got Mail in Batch of Love A small-town baker with dreams of moving out of the mall’s food court and opening her own brick-and-mortar bakery enters a baking competition for a chance to win $25,000. But instead of winning the grand prize, she finds herself in the middle of her ex’s plan to acquire her business for a big box retailer. Two years ago, Ginger opened a bakery, Ginger’s Goodies, to honor a promise she made to her late mother. Ready to take her business to the next level, Ginger enters a baking competition hosted by big box retailer, Decadent Dough. ...

A cautionary tale for a new era of megafires, Paradise is the gripping true story of a town wiped off the map and the determination of its people to rise again. The inspiration for the Apple Original Film The Lost Bus, starring Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera “A tour de force story of...

A Love They Never Saw Coming. She knows better. He tries harder. But when fate turns up the heat, rules don’t stand a chance. Sienna swore she’d never fall for Asher, her best friend’s ex and a devoted single dad. He’s steady, protective, and everything she shouldn’t want. Yet one look shatters her resolve, and one touch sparks a fire she can’t put out. Asher promised himself he’d stay focused on his daughter, not his heart. But Sienna’s smile, her strength, everything about her feels like home. The more she resists, the deeper he falls. A slow-burn, emotionally charged ...

January 1868. Newly married and settling into life with the handsome, steadfast Dr. David Caldwell, 23-year-old Abigail Gerre believes that she is on the cusp of a year full of joy and happiness. As winter grips the small rural community of Pembroke, Virgina, a newcomer arrives bearing a story Abigail never imagined she’d hear - the account of her father’s final hours as a battlefield surgeon, and an act of heroism he never lived to share. “The Growing Year” deepens our acquaintance with old friends and introduces us to new ones, stirring poignant memories and long-simmering ...

Sundown Towns examines thousands of all-white American towns that were - and still are, in some instances - racially exclusive by design.

For over twenty five years, The House of Three Murders has squatted, abandoned and decaying, deep inside a dense mesquite and tamarisk thicket in the middle of the vast Mojave Desert. The infamous house was the site of gruesome and bloody multiple murders. The murders have gradually passed into barely-remembered Mojave Desert legend, but the house remains, foreboding, forlorn and nearly forgotten. Then, on a moonlight November night in 1960, five people are there at the same time. Well, four technically, because one of them has just died from a gunshot wound! Three of the five are teenagers...

Yuma Prison was as close to a death sentence as a man could come without being hung. Mark Robichaud survived and now he’s back. A lot of people are going to pay for the injustice of sending an innocent man to that hellhole and it won’t be pretty before all the culprits pay the price. There is nothing sweeter than revenge served cold and that's exactly the way Robichaud intends to dish it out. “Dead Man Out of Yuma” is a series of 16 not-so-short episodes with each having its own fast-paced story of vengeance and old west justice. “Dead Man Out of Yuma” tells of a man who had ...

After finding out that my boyfriend cheated on me, I packed my bags and moved to Sunshine Falls. My uncle's ready to retire, and he has always dreamed of me taking over his partnership at the animal clinic in town. My surprise came when he introduced me to my new partner—and it's the cute guy I was talking to at the coffee shop. It's okay, though. I'm not looking for a relationship. My priorities are my career and starting over. Ivan and I clash at every turn, and our transition is anything but smooth. Throw in the exotic animals that keep showing up, and I think we're doomed.

❤️ A grumpy farmer. A city-slicker chef. One small-town kitchen that might just serve up love. Alex Chen never planned to come back. But when his grandmother leaves him Po Po’s Kitchen—a small-town Chinese restaurant on the brink of collapse—the Michelin-trained chef has a choice. Sell, or save the legacy that raised him. Noah Miller has spent his life keeping the family farm alive, one harvest at a time. He doesn’t trust “city boys” who breeze in and out, but when Alex shows up asking for bok choy, Noah finds himself in the middle of a recipe for disaster—or maybe ...

Romaine Wilder, big-city medical examiner with a small-town past, has been downsized and evicted. With few other options, she’s forced to return to her hometown of Roble in East Texas, leaving behind the man she’s dating and the life she’s worked hard to build. Suzanne Babet Derbinay, Romaine’s Auntie Zanne and proprietor of the Ball Funeral Home, has long since traded her French Creole upbringing for Big Texas attitude. She’s a member in a number of ladies’ auxiliaries and clubs, including being in charge of the Tri-County Annual Crawfish Boil and Music Festival. Hanging on to ...

Based on the real-life adventures of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little Town on the Prairie is the seventh book in the award-winning Little House series, which has captivated generations of readers. In Little Town on the Prairie, the young town of De Smet has survived the long, harsh winter of...

A Belletrist Book Club Pick A Good Housekeeping Book Club Pick A Most Anticipated Book from the Boston Globe, Barnes & Noble, Literary Hub, BookRiot, Goodreads, and Town & Country “Casey Scieszka’s debut novel is absolutely delicious, like Tuck Everlasting for grown-ups. The premise...

Ever since his mother passed away two years ago, Caleb Pine has been stuck while the rest of his family seem to have moved on. Alone at Christmas, he finds himself drawn back to Martha’s Vineyard and the Gingerbread Inn, where his family spent a wonderful Christmas holiday when he was a teen. To his surprise, the local girl he almost kissed under the mistletoe all those years ago is now grown up and running the Inn.

A collection of stories capturing what it means to be a cowboy.

The story of the American mining frontier can be traced in the ghost towns - from the camps of California's forty-niners to the 20th-century ruins in the Nevada desert. They mark an epoch of high adventure, of quick wealth and quicker poverty, of gambling and gun-slinging and hell-raising. We who have seen too many Western movies sometimes think that the legends of the Wild West were invented by scriptwriters - but the ghost towns remain.