Eben McAllister searches his small town to see if he can find anything comparable to the real Seven Wonders of the World.

Ten-year-old Allie's family moves from urban New Haven to rural Stamford, Connecticut, in the midst of the Great Depression.

A collection of tales told by a grandmother about her childhood on a Michigan farm in the 1890's.

Breakfast Island, known for its purity of nature and spirit, has fallen victim to a ruthless band of developers. After a local proprietor suffers a series of "accidents" at the Domino Inn, he enlists Qwill's help in determining if it's bad luck or sabotage. As Qwill and Koko begin the search for evidence, an unexpected event threatens the investigation-- and Qwill's life.

It was a summer of warmth.... Kate Ryan and her husband, John, have a rollicking pub in the Irish village of Mountfern... lovely twelve-year-old twins... and such wonderful dreams.... It was a summer of innocence... but all that is about to change this fateful summer of 1962 when American millionaire Patrick O'Neill comes to town with his irresistible charm and a pocketful of money... when love and hate vie for a town's quiet heart and old...

"The novel takes place entirely in the environs of Egdon Heath, and, with the exception of the epilogue, covers exactly a year and a day. The narrative begins on the evening of Guy Fawkes Night as Diggory Venn drives slowly across the heath, carrying a hidden passenger in the back of his van. When darkness falls, the country folk light bonfires on the surrounding hills, emphasizing--not for the last time--the pagan spirit of the heath and its denizens."...

The central character is not a person but a place: Port William, Kentucky, and the farmlands and forests that surround it. This is a region whose faults and virtues Mr. Berry has spent a lifetime studying.

Who killed Laura Vernon? The helicopters are halted. The dogs are called off. The search for beautiful, teenaged Laura Vernon is over. Her body is found, mutilated, in the forest. When he takes on the case, Ben Cooper is paired with a new partner: Diane Fry, a woman as tenacious as she is alluring. The two detectives are like fire and gasoline. But they must learn to work together to apprehend a killer who is hiding in plain sight. This relentless,...

Farmer Fred, various members of his family, his animals, and his neighbors each have a favorite time of day.

Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a girl instead of the boy they had sent for. Thus begins a story of transformation for all three; indeed the whole rural community of Avonlea comes under Anne's influence in some way. We see her grow from a...