Living in a 1960s farming community in eastern Pennsylvania, Mimi struggles with the family secrets she unearths.

Photographer and filmmaker Raymond Depardon is renowned for his documentation of the French countryside. In Modern Life he casts an affectionate and irreverent eye on a small community of farmers as they are confronted by the problems and challenges the contemporary world brings. Treated with equal suspicion, strangers and women are gradually accepted into the fabric of the farming life so as to sustain a way of life that celebrates the traditions...

After a tornado leaves him with heaps of scrap metal and no animals on the farm, the determined farmer puts in motion a plan to create his own animals using the materials he has available and, despite his skeptical neighbors, completes his plan with greatsuccess.

The sequel to Susan Juby's critically acclaimed novel "The Woefield Poultry Collective."

Pine Cove Island calls to her soul . . . As the Queen of Impulsive Decisions, Kat Davenport has found herself without a job or a place to live. So settling on Pine Cove Island isn't the sanest choice-meaning it's perfect. Like the mysterious Holloway cousins, Kat has her own unique gift. In her case, it's a knack for communicating with animals. Which makes getting hired at the local animal shelter feel like kismet. Especially when she finds a room...

The sequel to thebestselling The Wild Robot, by award-winning author Peter Brown

Shipwrecked on a remote, wild island, Robot Roz learned from the unwelcoming animal inhabitants and adapted to her surroundings--but can she survive the challenges of the civilized world and find her way home to Brightbill and the island?

From bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator Peter Brown comes a heartwarming and...

A double volume of the influential author's first and last written works includes the bitter satire "Basic Training" and the unfinished final noel, "If God Were Alive Today."

"In the spirit of Where the Crawdads Sing, a riveting and deeply moving debut--a love story that is both a stunning exploration of the natural world and an unforgettable coming-of-age novel. Victoria Nash is just a teenager in the 1940s, but she runs the household on her family's peach farm in the ranch town of Iola, Colorado--the sole surviving female in a family of troubled men. Wilson Moon is a young drifter with a mysterious past, displaced from...

Albert's son is all grown up, an old man now. But he has a shameful secret he's kept to himself his whole life. As he comes to terms with the truth, he tells stories of the farm of his childhood, his war hero dad, skipping school to help with the harvest, and of course the wonderful horses, Joey and Zoey. During a stay at his grandfather's farm in Devon, a young boy discovers how different farming was when his grandfather was a boy.

Set in the famous town of Chelm, a mythical village populated, according to Jewish folklore, by fools, Tova's father asks Tova to help him find a way to get milk from their hens, and the results are hilarious.