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A young boy describes the favorite places that he shares with his family on his grandparents' farm and in the nearby countryside.

Cheerful, a city church mouse who dreams of living in the country, sets off on an adventure.

On a short winter day, Samuel and his father enter into a series of trades with neighbors and strangers until they come home with a brown-eyed milk cow for Mama.

This is the story of Graham Merrill and Mary MacKenzie who meet in the Scottish Highlands where their mutual love of animals forges a romantic bond between them, and that bond is strengthened by their common interest in Mij, Graham's pet otter.

A boy's diary chronicling the life of a rural North Carolina family in the 1910s. He writes about everyday things interspersed with news of the period: the invention of cars and planes, revolution in Nicaragua and the building of the Panama Canal. By the author of Listening for the Crack of Dawn.

After living her whole life in the city, 27-year-old Taeko decides to visit her relatives in the countryside. As she travels, memories of her youth resurface. And after meeting young farmer Toshio, she wonders if she's been true to the dreams of her childhood self.

With his national bestsellers A Year in Provence and Toujours Provence, Peter Mayle gave new meaning to the phrase "great escape." Now he has written a delightful novel of romance, adventure, and tongue-in-cheek suspense, set in the beguiling French region he has staked out as his own.

Follows the author's family's efforts to live on locally- and home-grown foods, an endeavor through which they learned lighthearted truths about food production and the connection between health and diet.

After doing his chores around the farm, Willow sets off for a day of fun rowing, picnicking, and playing on the river.

During the recession of 1937, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice is sent to live with her feisty, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois and comes to a better understanding of this fearsome woman.