Farm City

Novella Carpenter loves cities - the culture, the crowds, the energy. At the same time, she can't shake the fact that she is the daughter of two back-to-the-land hippies who taught her to love nature and eat vegetables. Ambivalent about repeating her parents' disastrous mistakes, yet drawn to the idea of backyard self-sufficiency, Carpenter decided that it might be possible to have it both ways.

Have you ever desired, deep within your soul, to make a comfortable full-time living from a farming enterprise? Too often people dare not even vocalize this desire because it seems absurd. It's like thinking the unthinkable. After all, the farm population is dwindling. It takes too much capital to start. The pay is too low. The working conditions are dusty, smelly and noisy: Not the place to raise a family. This is all true, and more, for most farmers.

In Farm the City, Michael Ableman, the “Spartacus of Sustainable Food Activism”, offers a guide to setting up and running a successful urban farm, derived from the success of Sole Food Street Farms, one of the largest urban agriculture enterprises in North America. Sole Food Street Farms spans four acres of land in Vancouver, produces 25 tons of food annually, provides meaningful work for dozens of disadvantaged people, and has improved the surrounding community in countless ways.

For fans of B. K. Borison and Sarah Adams comes a cheeky, small-town romantic comedy about finding yourself in the weeds . . . only to find love, too. It took exactly twenty-four hours for Atlanta publicist Emma Walters’s life to go from near-perfect to a monumental disaster. One day to break...

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Steve John Shepherd, whose theatre credits include Much Ado About Nothing at the Globe, The Good Canary directed by John Malkovich, Bomber's Moon and Piaf. His TV and film credits range from the iconic This Life to Silent Witness...

A small-town, opposites-attract romance from the bestselling author of Last Stop on the Winter Wonderland Express! Perfect for cozying up by the fire this fall! 🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁 Can love grow in the most unexpected of places … Lucy would have done anything for her mom …...

Lauren Harris traded Heartstring Hill for Manhattan success eighteen years ago—and left Matt Wilder standing at their fence line with a broken heart. Now she's back to help her dad through harvest season. Matt Wilder has spent nearly two decades perfecting his grumpy farmer routine and avoiding the boundary fence that reminds him of what he lost. But when a scheduling disaster forces them to work together, sparks fly faster than hay bales at harvest. Can a spreadsheet-loving city girl and a cattle-wrangling country boy find their way back to each other? Or will Lauren's promotion offer ...

Northern Michigan Cherry Orchard Tour Your Complete Guide to Cherry Blossom Season in Traverse City, Old Mission Peninsula & Beyond Planning a trip to Northern Michigan during cherry blossom season? This beautifully designed, family-friendly travel guide is your ultimate resource for discovering the best cherry blossom viewing spots, scenic drives, local cherry events, and award-winning cherry products. From the rolling orchards of Old Mission Peninsula to the quiet country roads of Antrim County and the food-rich wine trails of Leelanau County, Northern Michigan Cherry Orchard Tour brings ...

When Frank's car breaks down in the remote countryside, unlikely aide appears in the form of a beautiful, but slightly unhinged, country-girl named Jolene. As soon as Jolene ascertains that Frank's care is broken beyond repair and no one is expected to come looking for him, she announces her plan to abduct him and hold him as her sex slave for the rest of his life. Frank flees, but realizes that whatever fate rests for him in the hands of this madwoman couldn't possibly be worse than the insurmountable cycles of poverty, debt, and isolation which control his modern life. Frank quietly let's...

It’s a perfect fish-out-of-water story: LA influencer meets cozy small town. My life is a brand, and I’m one viral campaign away from saving my family’s struggling Vermont farm. The only thing I didn’t storyboard is Dr. Bryan Miller, the town’s gruff, single-dad vet. He’s got sad eyes, a protective streak a mile wide, and he hates everything my world stands for. He thinks my life is fake, but the more time I spend in this town of falling leaves and crackling bonfires, the more I realize he might be the realest thing I’ve ever known. But just as I start to fall for him and his ...

He’s forty-two, filthy from the creek, and filthy rich. She’s twenty, broke, and about to learn the difference between a quick fling and a lifetime claim. Emily’s mother just traded her for a corner office and a new husband. With one duffel bag and zero plan, she limps her beat-up Civic into the Rusty Trout Motel—last stop before nowhere. Alex inherited the crumbling cabins, a trout farm, and a fortune he keeps buried under work boots and silence. He doesn’t do guests. He definitely doesn’t do twenty-year-olds with city mouths and runaway hearts. But when Emily’s curves meet ...

The Man Who Thought He Owned Water is author Tershia d’Elgin’s fresh take on the gravest challenge of our time—how to support urbanization without killing ourselves in the process. The gritty story of her family’s experience with water rights on its Colorado farm provides essential background about American farms, food, and water administration in the West in the context of growing cities and climate change.

He falls in love with her at first sight. But someone else is also pursuing her. Who will get the girl in this holiday romance in the coastal city of Savannah, Georgia? Rosie has settled into the single life… Rosie Hamilton is focused on managing the Christmastown Tree Farm and taking care of her mother, whose Stage 4 cancer is in remission. On top of that, she also teaches third grade Sunday school. Being busy all week long means that she doesn’t have time for relationships.Evan thinks it has to be her… Evan Cavanaugh quits his corporate position at his family business in Seattle and...

Buzzfeed’s Most Anticipated LGBTQ Romances of 2022 Miriam Blum has no choice but to face the past she thought she’d left behind when she inherits her great-aunt’s Christmas tree farm in this witty, glittering, heart-filled romcom with “all of the warm, queer, Jewish holiday vibes you...

‘Heartwarming and gloriously romantic’ HEIDI SWAIN ‘Perfect to curl up with on sunny days or cold winter nights’ CRESSIDA McLAUGHLIN ‘I devoured this gorgeous book as quickly as a tin of Scottish shortbread’ VERONICA HENRY Maura has everything she ever wanted from life – a quirky...

Readers of Mia Sosa and Alexandria Bellefleur will love this swoony, sexy opposites-attract romcom from USA Today bestselling author Helena Greer, where the relationship may be fake, but the feelings are very real! No-nonsense Tara Sloane Chadwick is practically perfect. An impeccably mannered...

Main Street is “a triumph.” Erik Brady, Buffalo News. On a Roller Coaster: 1902-1939 is the fifth book in the series Main Street: The History of Buffalo. The era is a roller-coaster ride of economic boom and bust—and mayors of titanic achievement. At the start of the book, as the Pan-American Exposition in North Buffalo is torn down, a city of steel rises along Lake Erie just south of town—the massive new steel plant. In the business center of town, churches of Joseph’s Ellicott’s Buffalo are selling off their lots and moving north from Downtown to be closer to with parishioners...

He’s her small-town ex. She’s his biggest what-if. Can a neglected orchard and a little cider magic give them a second chance at love? Desirae Lane never planned to return to Cedarwood Valley. But when her glittering city career crumbles, she’s forced to confront the overgrown orchard—and the heartbreak—she left behind. Selling her grandmother’s farm and escaping small-town gossip seems simple enough… until she runs into Cole Carter. Cole has always been the one that got away—or rather, the one who pushed her away. Now, the ruggedly handsome farmer-next-door is determined to...

One surprise inheritance, two best friends (now bitter exes), and three months to prove he loves her, forever and always, in this swoony second-chance romance for fans of Alexandria Bellefleur and Ashley Herring Blake. Hannah Rosenstein should be happy: after a lonely childhood of traipsing all...

One stubborn lumberjack, one snarky reporter, and a Wishing Tree with its own agenda... Cassie: Coming to Springfield was supposed to be an easy gig: get the “real story” behind the town’s legendary Wishing Tree and head back to the city with a quick holiday fluff piece. I didn’t expect to hit a wall in the form of Wyatt Lawson—rugged, infuriatingly stubborn, and dead set on keeping his tree farm’s precious traditions intact. From the moment we met, we butted heads like it was our job. But one unexpected kiss under the stars has scrambled everything. Suddenly, the man I ...