Community Farm

This is the story of Miss White, a woman who lived in the author’s village 80 years ago, a pioneer who realised her ambition to become a farmer during the Second World War, and how she worked to become accepted within this community. Nicola Chester, too, dreamed of becoming a farmer but working with horses was the only path open to her. Was it easier for women to become farmers in the 1940s than it is now?

Farm business literature is full of memoirs offering entertaining stories with some basic cattle or produce advice but no real substance for the reader. Big Ideas, Small Farm is not another feel good farm memoir devoid of authentic advice, hope, or insights. This book is different; it is about results. Big Ideas, Small Farm is about growing small farm profitability. This book is part self-help and part marketing strategies because marketing tips and theories are effective when the people implementing them believe in them. Small farm marketing is a mindset as much as it is a practice. This ...

She has one season to save her farm. He has nowhere else to go. Susannah Zook has held her late husband’s farm together through sheer will and sleepless nights. But with harvest season bearing down and fences falling faster than she can mend them, the young widow is running out of time—and too proud to admit it. When Bishop Harlan sends a quiet stranger from another district to help bring in the crops, Susannah wants nothing to do with charity. Titus Hershberger is the youngest of five brothers with no land, no inheritance, and no place to call his own. He shows up with one bag and a ...

Before Shetland and Vera, Ann Cleeves wrote the Inspector Ramsay series featuring a talented, brilliant detective—now available for the first time in the US. The youth theater cast are in their places but Gus Lynch’s female lead, Gabriella, is missing—that is, until she’s found in the...

When duty brings them together, will love convince them to stay? For years, Martha Lapp has blessed her Amish community by bringing lonely hearts together. Though she never claimed the title of matchmaker, many happy marriages owed their beginnings to Martha’s gentle guidance. As a terminal illness takes over, the community works together to care for her until her final breath. Even on her deathbed, Martha’s eyes can’t help but notice a potential match beginning to form. During the reading of Martha’s will, one of the beloved community members who cared for her in her last days ...

From a “graceful, luminous writer with an eye for detail” (Minneapolis Star Tribune), this riveting memoir explores a year on a sustainable farm. When Kristin Kimball left New York City to interview a dynamic young farmer named Mark, her world changed. On an impulse, she shed her city self...

Their fathers haven’t spoken in years. Now the bishop says they have to fix it themselves. When a storm brings down the old oak tree straddling the property line between the Lengacher and Hostettler farms, both families claim the timber. The fathers—stubborn, proud, and nursing a grudge that started with a survey stake a generation ago—refuse to settle it. Bishop Harlan has had enough. He tells them to work it out on their own. And somehow, it falls to their eldest children to negotiate. Patience Lengacher has run her father’s household since her mother passed. She is practical, ...

From the bestselling author of Eventide, The Tie That Binds is a powerfully eloquent tribute to the arduous demands of rural America, and of the tenacity of the human spirit. Colorado, January 1977. Eighty-year-old Edith Goodnough lies in a hospital bed, IV taped to the back of her hand...

She baked bread, loved funerals—and poisoned her family. A meticulously researched, propulsive true-crime biography of Martha Wise, the Ohio widow who slipped arsenic into food and water in 1925—leaving three dead and dozens ill. Step into the packed courthouse. Hear the confession. See whether the Devil really “told her to do it.” If you love Ann Rule or In Cold Blood, you’ll tear through this. Includes trial details, period newspaper research, and newly clarified timelines. Reads like a thriller—documented like history. In the winter of 1924-1925, quiet Medina County, Ohio, ...

Can love forgive the unforgivable? A Kindhearted Farmer Gives Shelter to a Mysterious Widow, Only to Discover She is the Wife of His Family's Greatest Enemy Gideon Fisher, a steady and reliable farmer, takes pity on a desperate young widow, Elspeth, and her infant son. As a gentle romance begins, Gideon is prepared to defy the community's suspicions to make her his wife. But when her child falls gravely ill, Elspeth is forced to reveal a devastating secret: she is the widow of the disgraced his enemy, and her son is the unspoken heir to a name synonymous with deceit. He offered her shelter....

To marry her is to marry her family's lies. A Man Seeking a Peaceful Future Finds Himself Courting a Woman Whose Family is Hiding a Shameful Past Jacob Stoltzfus, now a respected community man, is finally ready to remarry. He begins courting Leah Zook, a quiet and pious young woman from a neighboring district. But as he gets to know her family, he senses their extreme piety is a mask for a deep-seated fear. His investigation reveals they are not who they seem, but are hiding a secret and shameful past from a more progressive Amish sect, forcing Jacob to confront his own prejudices. Her ...

It’s Christmas in Willow Heights! Robert and Rita have finally moved to Willow Heights. Mary Elle is ecstatic to have her best friend nearby and begins to plan their annual Christmas party. Bob and Rita have a secret that they’ve been keeping from everyone, including Mary Elle. Will this secret tear their lifelong friendship apart during the holiday season? Will the secret be a blessing in disguise? What new adventures and trials await the gang in Willow Heights? Find out in this third book of the series!

"Beautifully written, impeccably researched, and told with the air of suspense that few writers can handle, Wastelands is a story I wish I had written." —From the Foreword by John Grisham The once idyllic coastal plain of North Carolina is home to a close-knit, rural community that for more...

Don’t miss this cozy murder mystery, perfect for fans of Clare Chase, Liz Fielding and Merryn Allingham. Pre-order now! 'A gripping cozy crime with lots of heart.' Alice Castle 'Murder and intrigue collide in a lovely rural setting – what more could you ask for?' Faith Martin Former rockstar...

From the author of the beloved bestseller The Dirty Life, this “superb memoir chronicles the evolution of a farm, marriage, family, and her own personal identity with humor, insight, and candor” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) detailing life on Essex Farm—a 500-acre farm that produces...

'A surprising page-turner, full of humour and startling details' THE TIMES 'If I read a better history this year, I will be lucky' TOM HOLLAND 'An astonishing tour de force’ SPECTATOR Shortlisted for the HWA Nonfiction Crown Award Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize From Peter Marshall...

God is good, all the time. Jim Wilson was born in 1927 and raised in a Depression-era farming family. At the age of 16, at the height of World War II, he became the primary breadwinner for his parents and four younger siblings. At age 17, eager to fight for his country, he enlisted in the Navy. Germany surrendered while he was in the recruiting office, and the war was over by the time he entered boot camp. But God had a plan for Jim Wilson in the US Navy.

Kansas is blowing away. In the spring of 1934, Birdie Marsh drives back to her grandmother's farm outside Willow Creek with everything she owns in the truck bed, two daughters beside her on the seat, and a bank note coming due in six months she has no clear way to pay. The Townsend Farm has been sitting empty, the chicken coop home to fourteen hens and not much else. Birdie has the deed, the ground, and the conviction that her grandmother's farm is not going to be lost on her watch. What she builds from that beginning surprises even her. Starting with a dinner order she cannot fill alone, ...

A single-dad cowboy, a woman with a secret who left him, and a second chance at love neither of them expects… A sweet, clean, wholesome romance with a happily-ever-after! Frightened by a possible stalker, a big-city marketing manager flees to her uncle's B & B in the small town where she once felt safe. A place where neighbors know each other and where she fell in love with a hometown hero over two decades ago. Only now, that handsome cowboy is a large ranch owner with a little daughter and soul-deep scars left by his alcoholic ex-wife. Kimberly Byrd made mistakes that will haunt her for ...

South Dakota, 1933. The Depression and a relentless drought weigh heavily on Peter Hawkins and his family. Peter has worked tirelessly to provide for his growing household, but thin, dry wheat fields leave their future uncertain. With five children to care for—including twin toddlers—he’s counting on one good field to carry them through the year. When the custom harvest crews refuse to come, even that hope begins to fade. Delia does her part—stretching the cream, butter, and eggs from her hens—while Peter shoulders the burden of keeping the farm alive. Then Peter strikes on a bold...