rural families

Depicts the personal struggles of the McCaskill family in 1930s Montana as they face a forest fire, the coming of age of fourteen-year-old Jick, rodeos, and community dances.

A collection of short stories by Jim Heynen.

The tiny town of Three Chimneys, Virginia becomes the focus of media attention when dog trainer Manda Frank gives birth to eleven babies, and the resulting visit by presidential candidate Adams Brooke inspires struggling cheesemaker Margaret Prickett, an avid Brooke supporter, to re-create for him the 1,235-pound of Chelshire made by Thomas Jefferson's fans and transported to Washington in 1801.

In early nineteenth-century Yorkshire, the tumultuous relationship between a headstrong girl and a foundling boy raised in the same home wreaks havoc on them and those around them, even into the next generation.

Mae Lee Barnes saves her money earned while working in a munitions factory, buys farmland, and waits for her husband to return from WWII.

Frank the Farmer and his family have a busy day at Hillfield Farm.

Presents the text of the classic novel along with a collection of five critical essays examining the novel from various approaches.