"Young Edward Horne returns from London to Winterbourne--the country estate where he was raised--to put it up for sale. His neighbor, Sir Anthony Apreece, a man accustomed to having his own way, covets the land of his young neighbor, and Edward for his parts covets Daisy, Anthony's wife."--Jacket.

Spending the days searching for truths on an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp, eleven-year-old Dorothy Zook, the granddaughter of an herbalist and eccentric healer, finds her childhood upended by family secrets, passionate love, and violent men wherethe only bridge across the water is her wayward mother.

"Ron shares his stories of growing up in rural Maine, working as a wildlife biologist, and meeting Mainers like retired dairy farmers Ruth and Martin French of Dover-Foxcroft, who repurposed their barn's empty cow stalls into a wildlife rehabilitation center. The couple specialized in rescuing orphaned bear cubs, providing solitary cubs with teddy bears as temporary surrogate litter mates while biologists scrambled to find sow bears willing to adopt...

Long ago, in the small fishing village where Jim lived, times were hard. There were too few fish for everyone to make a living and the fishermen's boats lay peeling and rotting in the sun. But when Jim finds a dolphin on the beach, and all the villagers help him return it to the sea, Jim doesn't only make a new friend....

"A lyrical culinary journey that explores the hidden stories of Black Appalachians through powerful essays and forty comforting recipes from the Poet Laureate of Kentucky. Years ago, when O. Henry Prize-winning writer Crystal Wilkinson was baking a jam cake, she felt her late grandmother's presence. She soon realized that she was not the only cook in her kitchen; There were an abundance of ancestors stirring, measuring, and braising with her. These...

The life of penniless Mary Thorne, who grows up with her Uncle, Dr. Thorne, and her relationship with the family at nearby Greshamsbury Park estate.

The true story of Karen Blixen, a strong-willed woman who runs a coffee plantation in Kenya (British East Africa) in 1914, and her passionate love affair with a big-game hunter. An epic romance of love and loss.