The moving portrait of an orphan boy and immigrant girl who find hardship and love on the American prairie.

A charming memoir of one woman's unexpected journey from country chic to backwoods barnyard. McGaha never thought she would be pulling camouflage carpet off her ceiling or rescuing opossums from her barn and calling it "date night." Most importantly, she never thought she would only have $4.57 in her bank account. After she and her husband discovered that they owed a lot of back taxes, they foreclosed on their suburban home and moved to a one-hundred-year-old...

"A novel about the impact of railroads on American ranchers and the methods farmers took to strike back, based on a violent dispute between wheat farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1880."

Three farmers, each one meaner than the other, try all-out warfare to get rid of the fox and his family.

Chronicles the author's efforts to rescue his family's seventh-generation farm from insolvency by turning it into a sustainable, grass-fed, organic operation while also dealing with his father's declining health.

Discusses the people who grow the produce, raise the farm animals, and catch the fish that the rest of the world eats.

Explains the clothing, tools, schooling, and work of farmers.

When Farmer Brown and the animals are invited to Farm Day at school, he instructs them to be on their best behavior, forgetting that school can be like a barnyard.

"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Wish comes a poignant love story about risking everything for a dream--and whether it's possible to leave the past behind. Colby Mills once felt destined for a musical career, until tragedy grounded his aspirations. Now the head of a small family farm in North Carolina, he spontaneously takes a gig playing at a bar in St. Pete's Beach, Florida, seeking a rare break from his duties at home. But...

"Vividly revealing the challenges faced by a group of migrant workers who eventually farmed the multiracial town of Randolph, Arizona, Not All Okies Are White is a celebration of the resilience and adaptability of people too often ignored by history texts." "Not All Okies Are White recaptures the ways of life for black migrant workers, as well as Hispanics and Native Americans, in the first half of the century through richly detailed interviews of...