Catalog Search Results
1) O pioneers!
Author
Description
Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend.
Author
Formats
Description
Hush has worked hard to restore her family's farming fortunes. She has also tried to hide the truth about her late husband and their tormented marriage from her son. Now, the eyes of the entire world turn to her private life when he returns home from college to tell his mother he has eloped with a fellow student-the rebellious daughter of the president!
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
viii, 292 p. ; 18 cm.
Description
"Becca Robins leads a simple life, making jams and preserves on her very own farm. But when there's a murder in her quaint little town, she puts herself in the line of fire to defend her friend's innocence-and goes from making jam to being in one" -- from publisher's web site.
Author
Series
Formats
Description
When Megan Sawyer gives up her big-city law career to care for her grandmother and run the family's organic farm and cafe, she expects to find tranquility in her scenic hometown of Winsome, PA. Instead, her goat goes missing, rain muddies her fields, the town denies her business permits, and her family's Colonial-era farm sucks up the remains of her savings. Just when she thinks she's reached the bottom of the rain barrel, Megan and the town's...
Author
Series
Cat Who mysteries volume 20
Formats
Description
Newspaperman Jim Qwilleran and his two cats, Koko and Yum Yum, investigate a suspicious fire which killed a woman in her nineties. The 20th volume in the series, the novel introduces a new character, a swearing parrot.
Author
Series
Farmers' market mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
387 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Bailey's Farmers' Market is abuzz over the visit of the Central South Carolina Restaurant Association, and Becca Robins is even more excited about her parents' unexpected visit. Her family watches as Becca happily hands out samples of her jams and preserves - until association president Joan Ashworth vetoes her strawberry preserves. Then Becca heads home to find Joan's body in her kitchen and her mother with blood on her hands.
11) Bitter Harvest
Author
Series
Formats
Description
Megan Sawyer should be shouting from the barn roof. Washington Acres survived its first year, the cafe has become a hot spot for locals, and Winsome's sexy Scottish veterinarian is making house calls-and not just for the animals! But as summer slips into fall and Winsome prepares for its grand Oktoberfest celebration, beer isn't the only thing brewing. When the town pub's owner is killed in a freak accident, Megan suspects something sinister...
12) Killer jam
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
352 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
"Houston reporter Lucy Resnick cashes in her retirement to buy her grandmother's farm in Buttercup, Texas, looking forward to a simple life as a homesteader. Then an oil exploration truck rolls up with plans to drill. Two days later the woman who ordered the drilling, turns up dead and the sheriff fingers Lucy as the prime suspect"--
13) Seeds of Revenge
Author
Series
Formats
Description
Megan Sawyer is determined to farm year-round. She's braving a December snowstorm after pitching her greenhouse greens to Philadelphia chefs when she sees a stranger stranded on the side of the road. It's Merry Chance's niece Becca, and she's headed to Winsome to sell her love potions at holiday events - or so she thinks. Merry has an ulterior motive in inviting her niece to Winsome, but her plan to reunite Becca with her estranged father goes awry...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Formats
Description
Halloween is fast approaching and preparations for the Pumpkin Bash, Cape Willington, Maine's, annual autumn festival, are well underway. Candy Holliday is running this year's haunted hayride, in the hopes of making some extra cash. But when she discovers a real dead body near some fake tombstones, Candy's side job becomes a full-blown investigation to find out who turned a holiday attraction into a real horror show.
15) Sour apples
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
viii, 291 p. ; 18 cm.
Description
Apple orchard owner Meg Corey is finally feeling settled into her new life in Granford--she's made friends, and her relationship with Seth Chapin is heating up--when her old Boston coworker Lauren Converse comes barreling into town, running the Congressional campaign for a former hometown football hero. But Meg doesn't have time to worry about why Seth seems reluctant to back Lauren's campaign when her neighbor, local dairy farmer Joyce Truesdell,...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
viii, 260 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Vermonter Ruth Wilmarth faces her worst nightmare. Not only does the dread disease of the title threaten her small herd of cows and calves but first a few and then a small horde of Irish visitors, relatives of her lover, Colm, descend on her farm. The hate and prejudice that follow the Irish is fueled by one of their number, the abusive Ritchie, who arrives with his sick wife, Nola, to persuade his brother, Darren, to return to his uncle's farm in...
17) The four winds
Author
Description
"Texas, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. But for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman's only option, the future seems bleak. Until the night she meets Rafe Martinelli and decides to change the direction of her life. With her reputation in ruin, there is only one respectable choice: marriage to a man she...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Request an item not in the catalog. Submit Request