Impatient to meet her groom and help grow his general store, mail-order bride Eliza Cantrell sets out a week early. But train robbers steal her dowry and Axel, her groom-to-be, isn't in town when she finally arrives. Axel's business partner, William Stanton, has no head for business and would rather be a doctor. He feels responsible for Eliza and lets her help around the store, where she quickly proves more adept at business than he'll ever be. And...

Nora takes care of her ailing mother and works in a coffee shop. Timothy has no responsibilities except managing his family's millions. When they meet, it seems like the beginning of a fairy tale-- but fairy tales don't include a dead body.

Merinac, Kansas. Chicken Mimi's and Chicken Frannie's have spent a century vying to serve up the best friend chicken in the state. The legendary feud between the owners-- the Moores and the Pogociellos-- has caught widow Amanda Moore in the middle. She had worked for her mom at Mimi's before marrying Frank Pogociello and working for Frannie's. When she convinces Food Wars, a reality-TV competition, to cover the feud, Amanda and her sister Mae must...

Our greatest African American poet's award-winning first novel, about a black boy's coming-of-age in a largely-white Kansas town When first published in 1930, Not Without Laughter established Langston Hughes as not only a brilliant poet and leading light of the Harlem Renaissance but also a gifted novelist. In telling the story of Sandy Rogers, a young African American boy in small-town Kansas, and of his family--his mother, Annjee, a housekeeper...

When the farm community of Medicine Creek, Kansas, is terrorized by a series of disturbing murders, FBI agent Pendergast discovers a link between a moonshine operation and an unsolved killing from more than 150 years earlier.

1884 - When Rebecca Switzer hears that Jesse Montgomery is near Apple Grove, she must see the rugged but dissolute cowboy who had stolen her heart years earlier. Sheriff Colin Maddox is counting the days until he can quit and follow his dream of starting a church. When a lovely woman, looking travel-weary and lost, gets caught up and arrested with the leaders of a temperance riot, he can hardly believe she is a Plain and simple woman. Nor can he believe...

"Growing up on their hardscrabble farm in rural Kentucky, fifteen-year-old Albertina "Bertie" Winslow has learned a lot from her mama, Polly. She knows how to lance a boil, make a pie crust, butcher a pig, and tend to every chore that needs doing. What she doesn't know, but is forced to reckon with all too soon, is how to look after children as a mother should ...When Polly succumbs to a long illness, Bertie takes on responsibility for her four younger...

RJ Evans, a geologist for the U.S. Soil Conservation Service, begins a new job in a small farming town ravaged by the Dust Bowl, where drought and over-plowing have turned the once-lush plains into a brutal twin of the Sahara; and befriends Woody, an autistic savant born in an era long before any medical diagnosis would explain his peculiar ways and unique talents.