NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize–winner and bestselling author, "a grand memoir.... Bragg tells about the South with such power and bone-naked love ... he will make you cry" (Atlanta Journal-Constitution).

This haunting, harrowing, gloriously moving recollection of a life on the American margin is the story of Rick Bragg, who grew up dirt-poor in northeastern Alabama, seemingly destined for either the cotton...

A collection of short stories from Amish Country.

Jack's simple-minded efforts to follow his mother's instructions have disastrous results until he makes a rich girl laugh.

In this classic tale from the Brothers Grimm, a girl who has no talent with a spinning wheel finds herself living in a castle, where the queen expects her to quickly and easily spin three rooms full of flax into fine thread. Fortunately, three strange-looking little women show up and offer to help the girl in exchange for a simple favor. One good deed leads to another, and the unintended consequences turns out to be the best surprise of all.

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text portray friends enjoying sledding one snowy day.

In this traditional Chinese tale, a poor man receives a treasure of gold and discovers the true value of simple pleasures.

A simple retelling of the tale about the clever cat who helps his poor master win fame, fortune, and the hand of a beautiful princess.

What happens when the pastor of a mega church loses his faith? Pastor Chase Falson has lost his faith in God, the Bible, evangelical Christianity, and his super-sized megachurch. When he falls apart, the church elders tell him to go away: as far away as possible. Join Chase on his life-changing journey to Italy where, with a curious group of Franciscan friars, he struggles to resolve his crisis of faith by retracing the footsteps of Francis of Assisi,...

In the words of Alexander McCall Smith: 'You feel the rocking of the train, you hear the sound of its wheels on the rails; you are in the world rather than suspended somewhere above it. And sometimes there are conversations to be had, which is what the overarching story in this collection is all about. It is a simple device: people brought together entertain one another with tales of what happened to them on trains. It takes place on a journey I frequently...