From the bestselling author of "Still life with bread crumbs." This story begins in the 1960s, and explores how Mimi Miller comes of age, over and over again. As the years go by, the unthinkable starts to seem inevitable. Anna Quindlen's novel takes us through the changing eras of Mimi and her family, as secrets are revealed, and the heartbreaks of growing up and falling in love with the wrong man are overcome.

After spending her summer running the family farm and training the quarterback for her school's rival football team, sixteen-year-old D.J. decides to go out for the sport herself, not anticipating the reactions of those around her.

"A hymn to wildness that celebrates the prodigal spirit of human nature, and of nature itself. [Prodigal Summer] weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives amid the mountains and farms of southern Appalachia. Over the course of one humid summer, this novel's intriguing protagonists face disparate predicaments but find connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with which they necessarily share a place."--adapted...

Sent to live with relatives on their farm because of his unhappy home life, an eleven-year-old city boy meets his distant cousin Harris and is given an introduction to a whole new world.

A farmer is surprised to discover that he has grown a crop of very unusual cats instead of cabbages.

"When Kate Bowman temporarily moves to her grandmother’s Missouri farm with her husband and baby son, she learns that the lessons that most enrich our lives often come unexpectedly. The family has given Kate the job of convincing Grandma Rose, who’s become increasingly stubborn and forgetful, to move off her beloved land and into a nursing home. But Kate knows such a change would break her grandmother’s heart. Just when Kate despairs of finding...

A boy surprises his father on Christmas morning by getting up early and milking the cows on their farm.

All week long the pigs help out around the farm in unexpected ways.

"After learning to thrive on a remote, wild island, robot Roz now finds herself trapped on a farm owned by the Shareef family. Roz's new life thrusts her into another set of risks, forcing her to survive tornadoes and attacks by wolves. Desperate to escape, Roz begins a journey for freedom through the wilderness and into a bustling city, where she must face the most dangerous creatures yet: human beings. Can she survive the challenges of the civilized...