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.

Secret witch Coco Higginbotham has the perfect cover: magical land preservation in Mystic Meadows, Georgia. Here magic threads through the land and unicorn critters roam free, though human magic is strictly forbidden. But when billionaire developer Stone Maddox threatens the town’s magical flow with his resort construction, what’s a closeted witch to do but cast a spell to make him see reason?

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...

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 ...

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.

Casual Farming 11 - Slow Living LitRPG As seasons pass in Summer Shandy, Jason, once a simple farmer, now stands as a wise father and a leader in his community. His days, rich with the joys of family life and the rhythms of managing his crops, face a new, shadowy challenge. Rumors of an orc wave, a threat from old legends, begin to stir, unsettling the village's peace. In this time of uncertainty, Jason must balance the demands of his farm and the safety of his loved ones. As he prepares to defend his home, the strength of his family bonds and the lessons learned from the changing seasons ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

She Walked Her Dog. She Had 100,000 TikTok Followers. She Was Funding Kim Jong Un's Nuclear Program. In a quiet suburb outside Phoenix, an FBI raid uncovered ninety corporate laptops on metal racks, sticky notes identifying which Fortune 500 company each had been issued by, and a hand-written ledger of stolen American identities. In a back bedroom, the cooling fans of dozens of running machines hummed in the Arizona afternoon — each one logged into a different American payroll system, each one paying a salary that ended up six thousand miles away. The woman running the operation was ...

'A warm, rich, generous book. A pleasure from first page to last.' KATHERINE RUNDELL 'A moving, vulnerable portrait of love, nature and a life well-lived' RORY STEWART 'Touching and extraordinary, this true story seems like a fairy tale' JOANNA LUMLEY The long-awaited memoir of life and love on...

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 ...

"Dion Graham is pure magic behind the microphone as he narrates this fun family-friendly story about Alice the rabbit and her furry companions...Graham imbues each character with such passion and personality that listeners will cherish every second of this beautifully woven tale." -- AudioFile...

The perfect book for fans of small town romance Beatrice Norton is a country girl. Working on a farm by day and pulling pints at the Big Apple pub by night, her simple life suits her just fine. Arthur Redgrave is city boy. Raised in luxury by acting royalty, he dreams of conquering the Big Apple...

"A post-apocalyptic tale that offers a compelling, intriguing, and timely setup" ~ Publishers Weekly BookLife Prize "Packed with suspense at every turn" ~ Ozan C. "My heart has never beaten this fast before! This is a future Netflix story" ~ Deise M. "An action-packed apocalyptic roller coaster from start to finish" ~ Corey F. "A page-turner story with suspenseful and captivating sequence of twists" ~ Ana S. "A must-read for not only post-apocalyptic fans, but for fans of fiction in general" ~ Mert B. "You sit on the edge of your seat for every horrific and unexpected event" ~ Kristina S. "...

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 …...

I came to this town to sell a ghost, not to fall in love. Elias Hart thought he had his life mapped out in a city that never stops. But when he inherits a crumbling pear orchard in the heart of a town that remembers his family name for all the wrong reasons, he’s determined to offload the property and leave. The only thing standing in his way? Silas Thorne. Silas is everything Elias is not: rugged, local, and painfully guarded. As the orchard’s unofficial caretaker, Silas has spent years protecting this land from outsiders, and he isn't about to let a city-bound "suit" tear it all down....

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.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘A lasting work of social history’ THE TIMES ‘A genuinely new history of our nation’ DAN JONES ‘This celebration of women is a triumph of popular history’ SPECTATOR FROM THE MULTI-MILLION BESTSELLING HISTORICAL NOVELIST COMES THE CULMINATION OF HER...