country life

On t.p.: general stores, the Jud Nelson wagon, a praying rock, a Catawba Indian potter--and haint tales, quilting, home cures, (etc.).

"Craving a life that would connect her to the earth and her family roots, McMinn packed up her three kids, left her husband and her sterile suburban existence behind, and moved to rural West Virginia. Amid the rough landscape and beauty of this rural mountain country, she pursues a natural lifestyle filled with chickens, goats, sheep--and no pizza delivery"--Amazon.com.

Two cousins, one in Mexico and one in New York City, write to each other and learn that even though their daily lives differ, at heart the boys are very similar.

Contains two graphic novel short stories about a girl named Aster after she saved her family and home with the help of her talking dog Buzz. First, Aster thinks her magical adventures are over, but when she's kidnapped by Keras the sheep and his army of sheep, she learns of their plans of a sheep revolt. Then, she embarks on a perilous adventure to reforge the Crown of Seasons, and she must face her mother's wrath after she discovers the truth about Aster's world of magic.

As she travels from sister to sister in search of a home after the death of their mother, a twelve-year-old country girl discovers many things about herself and her family including why she was never given a name at birth.

After moving with her family to a remote country area, Wren begins seeing what may be a ghost horse and realizes that only she can help a reclusive neighbor who is obsessed with a secret memory of the long-gone past.

Darcy left her glamorous life in Hollywood but Hollywood had not left her, and now that Bailey's annual summer play is soon to begin Darcy is eager to take the stage.

Jim Qwilleran, a wealthy newspaper columnist in the small town of Pickax, and his crime-sensitive Siamese cat Koko, sense that something is wrong when movie star Thelma Thackeray, supposedly a native of Moose County, returns home after a six-decade-long Hollywood career to open a film club in the deserted opera house.

Two stories of Prince Edward Island in the early twentieth century. In the first, Ann, an eleven-year-old orphan, makes an indelible impression when she is mistakenly sent to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister, and in the second, while visiting relatives two young boys become entranced by Sara Stanley and the stories she tells about the island and its long-ago inhabitants.

When his parents decide to move to an old house in the country, Chase uses E-mail to his friends back in Columbus, Ohio, and to his sister in college to help him deal with cicadas, deer hunters, and other changes in his life.