Twenty-two short stories that profile small town life in the Midwest in the 1920s

First published in 1903, "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" is the charming and classic children's novel beloved the world over. Written by the American author and educator Kate Douglas Wiggin, it is the story of young and poor Rebecca Rowena Randall, who goes to live with her spinster aunts in the town of Riverboro when she is ten years-old. Rebecca's father had died three years before and the family farm had become heavily indebted. In order to ease the...

"From the New York Times bestselling author of We Begin at the End comes an epic novel about a man fixated on finding a missing woman and the FBI agent on his tail, who might be even more obsessed than he is"-- Provided by publisher. "1975 is a time of change in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Muhammad Ali is fighting Joe Frazier. And in the small town of Monta Clare, Missouri, girls are disappearing. When the daughter of a wealthy family is...

Love and death, betrayal and reconciliation, in a provincial British midlands town in the nineteenth century

When a post-Reconstruction African-American community succumbs to a desperate need for funds and purpose, its mayor puts the small town up for sale and finds a buyer in Bernardine Brown, who believes the town's sale to be a sign from God.

An original story based on the life of people in a small American town, follows a Quaker pastor who is going through various faith and relationship crises

Tamar's cousin Eula arrives with news that she's dying and needs Tamar to plan her funeral, while Gemma tries to become the foster mother to orphaned siblings and Jack and Rocky plan their wedding.

It's beginning to feel a lot like tourist season in Sea Harbor, Massachusetts, and beachside shopkeepers are getting ready for the annual wave of visitors; but even before the season starts, the heat is on to find a killer.

A recent college graduate who is shy and secretive spends the summer working in a bookstore while struggling with issues of sexual identity, love and his place in the world

A comedy of manners of the residents of the mythic apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane in San Francisco