Rural Life

The Promise of Tomorrow will challenge your perceptions of love, loyalty, and sacrifice. Renowned author Arnold Dale Haywood skillfully navigates the complexities of the heart, setting the stage for a story that unfolds the layers of human emotion and the consequences of the choices we make.

In this delightful memoir, Jared Gulian describes the first four years of their new life in the country, its disasters, small triumphs, surprises, and pleasures. But most of all, he describes the warmth of the local community that welcomed them, saved them from certain peril, taught them how to cook, how to care for animals, and how to understand and love the land.

In un Meridione ben distante dai segni della modernità urbana, la protagonista cresce oppressa da un ambiente familiare in cui le condotte pubbliche e private sono spietatamente misurate sul terrore del giudizio sociale e sul rigore vincolante del dovere quotidiano. Il nido protettivo diventa allora nodo difficile da sciogliere e da portare. “Famiglia era questo: una messa in comune del privato, un difetto di autonomia, una continua chiamata in causa dell’altro, un sostenersi che diveniva peso.”

Better Than Mom's is a neighborhood diner in a small city in Wisconsin where good food and interesting people come together. Meet Brady, the warm-hearted owner who takes pride in making homemade food for his customers, Fay, the sassy morning waitress who cares for people more than she lets on, Naomi, the welfare mom who cooks like an angel and needs a job, Steve, who sits in the back booth and won't let anyone see what he's writing, and Officer Bates, who comes to investigate a crime but ends up sweeping Fay off her feet.

A FARMING LIFE shares the uplifting stories of women from six rural families as their resilience is tested by personal loss, illness, fractured relationships, natural disasters and the challenges that come with working in a traditionally male-dominated world. These women are all hands-on farmers - in fact, most are responsible for managing their own farms - and their defiance, tenacity and genuine humility shines through, as does their hope for the next generation of young women already lining up to follow in their footsteps.

In this sassy and sweet coming-of-age story full of laughs, tears, and everyday strangeness, an unusual child finds a home—and love—with her feisty Great-great-aunt Magnolia Rose McClellan.

Tess is feeling burnt out from her uninspiring job and her busy city lifestyle. Even her personal relationships make her feel as if she's simply drifting through life rather than living it to the full. Her godmother Luna, who leads a very simple existence in a rustic cottage in the North Queensland rainforest, is also at something of a crossroads. Keen to expand her jewellery-making business, she needs the new connections that a bustling city offers. When she suggests to Tess that the two of them might swap homes for an extended period, it seems the perfect solution.

Ender Bey ve Meltem Hanım’ın bahçeli, doğayla iç içe olan evlerinde torunları, komşuları, misafirleri hiç eksik olmaz. Bu bahçede çocuklar eğlence ve oyunla birlikte doğayı, hayvanları, arkadaşlığı, sevgiyi, geleneklerimizi, insan ilişkilerini öğrenirler.

A hilarious tale of dogs, fogs, bogs and moving to Ireland. For many years, Nick and Lesley Albert had shared a dream of living far away from the stress of modern life, and when the opportunity arose, they jumped in with both feet. Almost overnight, they decided to move to beautiful County Clare, in the west of Ireland - a country they had never before visited. With little experience or money they set about renovating a derelict farmhouse and building a new life together.

Layla Byrnes is balancing a demanding job, a failing marriage, and the challenges of motherhood, all while dealing with her unstable mother's threats of self-harm. When her mother calls just before Christmas, she doesn't follow the usual script. Instead, she tells Layla that there's something she needs to tell her about her much-loved father, a physician who tragically died in a rescue attempt at sea when Layla was young. Layla drops everything to rush to her childhood home on the wild west coast of Tasmania, determined to confront her mother.

Meg's life is woven into the fabric of St. Stephens. It's a tapestry made of two precious children, a hidden truth, and a husband whose ideas of a perfect wife do not match her own. When Meg puts her foot down on a third kid, gets a job, and is empowered by the same book group that was meant to keep her in her place, her marriage begins to disintegrate. Set in a tiny Mormon community, this is a novel about resilience and courage – the fierceness of mother-love and the power that comes with never forgetting who you really are.

Today most LGBTQ rights supporters take for granted the virtue of being "out, loud, and proud." Most also assume that it would be terrible to be LGBTQ in a rural place. By considering moments in which queerness and rurality come into contact, Visibility Interrupted argues that both positions are wrong. In the first monograph on LGBTQ women in the rural Midwest, Carly Thomsen deconstructs the image of the rural as a flat, homogenous, and anachronistic place where LGBTQ people necessarily suffer. And she suggests that visibility is not liberation and will not lead to liberation.

My name is Christine, and I'm on the run from a cult that wants me dead. Annabelle Lane is the cult's cunning and venomous leader, who forced me to commit crimes that are unforgivable. Annabelle's threats aren't to be taken lightly, and everybody knows that once you're in the cult, you're in it for life.

Lola Getz and Webster Bond felt an instant spark when they met as high school students in Victory Shores. But their budding romance was cut short when Lola’s parents died in a plane crash and she had to return to Mexico. There, she became a famous artist and married a man who turned out to be a fraud. Webster, meanwhile, joined the army, earned medals of honor, and came back to his hometown as a cop. Years later, Lola’s life is in danger when armed men break into her house.

Like the small towns J. California Cooper has so vividly portrayed in her previous novels and story collections, Wideland, Oklahoma, is home to ordinary Americans struggling to raise families, eke out a living, and fulfill their dreams. In the early 20th century, Irene and Val fall in love in Wideland. While carving out a home for themselves, they also allow neighbors Bertha and Joseph to build a house and live on their land.

Ender Bey ve Meltem Hanım’ın bahçeli, doğayla iç içe olan evlerinde torunları, komşuları, misafirleri hiç eksik olmaz. Bu bahçede çocuklar eğlence ve oyunla birlikte doğayı, hayvanları, arkadaşlığı, sevgiyi, geleneklerimizi, insan ilişkilerini öğrenirler.

Ender Bey ve Meltem Hanım’ın bahçeli, doğayla iç içe olan evlerinde torunları, komşuları, misafirleri hiç eksik olmaz. Bu bahçede çocuklar eğlence ve oyunla birlikte doğayı, hayvanları, arkadaşlığı, sevgiyi, geleneklerimizi, insan ilişkilerini öğrenirler.

Ender Bey ve Meltem Hanım’ın bahçeli, doğayla iç içe olan evlerinde torunları, komşuları, misafirleri hiç eksik olmaz. Bu bahçede çocuklar eğlence ve oyunla birlikte doğayı, hayvanları, arkadaşlığı, sevgiyi, geleneklerimizi, insan ilişkilerini öğrenirler.

Ender Bey ve Meltem Hanım’ın bahçeli, doğayla iç içe olan evlerinde torunları, komşuları, misafirleri hiç eksik olmaz. Bu bahçede çocuklar eğlence ve oyunla birlikte doğayı, hayvanları, arkadaşlığı, sevgiyi, geleneklerimizi, insan ilişkilerini öğrenirler.

Ender Bey ve Meltem Hanım’ın bahçeli, doğayla iç içe olan evlerinde torunları, komşuları, misafirleri hiç eksik olmaz. Bu bahçede çocuklar eğlence ve oyunla birlikte doğayı, hayvanları, arkadaşlığı, sevgiyi, geleneklerimizi, insan ilişkilerini öğrenirler.