Meg loves horses and has the good luck to move to the country where they live. Her and her new friend Jill feed, groom, and play with the horses and make a plan so it doesn't end.

After the sudden death of her husband, Danny, Libby Moran went to stay with her hypercritical mother. Now her crazy Aunt Jean has offered Libby an escape: a job and a place to live on her farm in the Texas Hill Country. Libby packs the minivan, grabs the kids, and hits the road. Life on Aunt Jean's goat farm is more wonderful and more mysterious than Libby could have imagined. And despite everything she's lost, Libby soon realizes that she may actually...

Barbara Pym's first novel offers a self-assured slice of village life as it takes us into the lives of two sisters living in post–World War II England Belinda and Harriet Bede live together in a small English village. Shy, sensible Belinda has been secretly in love with Henry Hoccleve-the poetry-spouting, married archdeacon of their church-for thirty years. Belinda's much more confident, forthright younger sister Harriet, meanwhile, is ardently...

"I wonder what Mr. Heritage thought of his godson," she said quickly. "Rather clumsy, but quite good manners," Edith remarked. "And a well-shaped skull." These were her own views, but she took it for granted that sensible people would agree with her. Sisters Edith and Rose have rather come down in the world by keeping their hotel, Seaview House. So Mr Heritage believes, and he's not pleased when Rose's daughter Lucy-grown a bit too attractive...

At the end of the war, Mrs. Midge stayed on. While the war lasted Mrs. Custance had accepted her as part of the war-effort; it was only in the past year or two that Mrs. Midge had been transferred to the category which Mrs. Custance described as "people we could manage without." Elizabeth Fair's rollicking second novel takes place in Little Mallin, where village life is largely dominated by preparations for the August Festival. Out of such ordinary...

She wondered how Lady Masters got her old parlour maid to carry the coffee right across the lawn. But, of course, Lady Masters got things simply by always having had them and by taking it for granted that she always would have them. In Bramton Wick, the setting of Elizabeth Fair's cheerful debut novel, tensions and resentments-not to mention romance-roil beneath the polite interactions of its charming and eccentric residents. There's upper crust...

A girl and her dog go through a day highlighted by the vivid colors of sunrise, rain, mountains, forests, a rainbow, and sunset.

Marja finally gets to go to school on skis like her older sister, but she struggles when her father is killed in a logging accident.