A Daughter of the Land is set in Gene Stratton Porter's Limberlost series. Kate Bates lives in a man's world. It is her dream to own and run her own farm. To fulfill her dreams she must give up everything and start anew. - Back cover.

In late nineteenth-century rural Wisconsin, farmhand Silas Cameron hopes to win the love of Amy Nolan, his boss's daughter, who is ten years his junior.

After the death of her husband, Hannah Brown sells her farm in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and moves her sheep to Holmes County, Ohio. Her deacon brother-in-law finds everything about Hannah vexing and is surprised when his own widowed brother, Seth, takes an interest in the young widow.

Carley Marek takes a hiatus from her job as a reporter and visits her friend Lillian in Amish country, Pennsylvania, where Carley meets Lillian's charming-but shunned-brother-in-law, Dr. Noah Stoltzfus, who is forbidden to help when Lillian's son falls ill, leaving Carley torn between supporting her friend and helping the man she is falling in love with save the young boy.

Thomas Hardy's classic tale of a woman brave enough to defy convention: Soon to be a major motion picture starring Carey MulliganSpirited, impulsive, and beautiful, Bathsheba Everdene arrives in Wessex to live with her aunt. She strikes up a friendship with a neighbor, Gabriel Oak, and even saves the young shepherd's life. But when he responds by asking for her hand in marriage, she refuses. She cannot sacrifice her independence for a man she does...

"Orphaned Jim Burden rides the trains from Virginia to Black Hawk, Nebraska, where he will live with his paternal grandparents. Jake, a farmhand from Virginia, rides with the 10-year-old boy. On the same train, headed to the same destination, is the Shimerda family from Bohemia. Jim lives with his grandparents in the home they have built, helping as he can with chores to ease the burden on the others. The home has the dining room and kitchen downstairs,...

Hannah has put everything into building up her family's homestead in North Dakota. Despite the Great Depression, unpredictable weather, and unforgiving landscape, she and her new husband Jerry stay on even after their Amish friends and family move back east. When a plague of grasshoppers destroys every last morsel of vegetation after yet another drought, Hannah and Jerry return to the fertile soil of Pennsylvania, where life will be safe and predictable....

Stuck on her aunt and uncle's dairy farm for the summer, Bria begins crafting elaborate milkshakes at the creamery, which catch the eye of her cousins' cute friend, Gabe. "Bria is not happy about being stuck on her aunt and uncle's dairy farm for the summer. Milking cows alongside her cousin Wren? No thanks. Instead, she sticks to mixing up milkshakes in the creamery, where she starts crafting over-the-top shakes like the ones she loved back home...

"Her husband's suicide left Nora MacKenzie alone, and his shady Wall Street dealings left the Manhattan socialite penniless. By a miracle she's held on to their mountainside farm--and she'll keep holding on, no matter what. The property is Nora's one chance to wring some dignity out of the sham she's been living. The Vermont locals think she's a city girl on a nature kick, but she's not afraid to get her hands dirty. Nora's serious about learning...

Jules broke off her wedding to Cruz practically at the altar. Twice. Now the man Jules loves best can't stand the sight of her. Only for Pop could Jules have made such a sacrifice. And now Pop is gone, leaving Jules with his struggling potato farm, with a sister excluded from his will, and with a heart wounded by what she gave up on his behalf. Then cancer takes the life of her best friend, and Jules finds herself caring for two small children. How...