María’s family are poor Honduran farmers, growing barely enough to eat. Then a new teacher comes to town and shows María sustainable farming practices that yield good crops. An inspiring story, based on actual events, that shows us how farms and hopes are transformed as good gardens begin to grow.

Inspired by true events, One Hen tells the story of Kojo, a boy from Ghana who turns a small loan into a thriving farm and a livelihood for many.

A charged, delightfully offbeat novel of four women forging their way across time, place, and language in search of desire, power, and connection.One day they were in love and the next, a manuscript appeared in his study, written in a language she didn’t speak.Leonie and Max are on separate but tangled paths. Now, she might be pregnant. And he’s not answering her texts, off translating poetry from a language he seems barely to know.Ana, the...

A Best Book of the Year at The New YorkerA Must Read at The Boston Globe, Literary Hub, The Millions, and Garden & Gun“[A] lyrical incisive novel . . . [about] a changing climate, the invisibility of women’s work, and the perseverance of unofficial histories.” —The New YorkerIn Katy Simpson Smith’s The Weeds

White, black, and Native American women in the early South often viewed motherhood as a composite of roles, ranging from teacher and nurse to farmer and politician. Within a multicultural landscape, mothers drew advice and consolation from female networks, broader intellec-tual currents, and an understanding of their own multifaceted identities to devise their own standards for child rearing. In this way, by con-structing, interpreting, and defending their roles as parents, women in the So...

A Mississippi woman pushes through the ruin of the Roman Colosseum, searching for plants. She has escaped her life, apprenticed herself to catalog all the species growing in this place. Crawling along the stones, she wonders how she has landed here, a reluctant botanist amid a snarl of tourists in comfortable sandals. She hunts for a scientific agenda and a direction of her own. In 1854, a woman pushes through the jungle of the Roman Colosseum, searching for plants. As punishment for her m...

From the author of the highly acclaimed The Story of Land and Sea comes a captivating novel, set in the late eighteenth-century American South, that follows a singular group of companions—an escaped slave, a white orphan, and a Creek Indian—who are being tracked down for murder.In 1788, three men converge in the southern woods of what is now Alabama. Cat, an emotionally scarred white man from South Carolina, is on the run after abandoning his home. Bob is a talkative black...

She's craving heat. He's sworn off heartbreak. But when sparks fly, neither of them stands a chance.Ivory might look like she's got it all together—single mom, successful hairstylist, queen of cool under pressure. But after surviving a dead-end marriage with zero passion, she's done settling. She wants fire. She wants fun. She wants a man who actually sees her.Enter Rome: grumpy lobsterman, heartbreak survivor, and absolutely not looking for love. His life ...

She's sworn off love. He buried his heart with his wife. But small towns—and undeniable chemistry—have a way of ruining good intentions.After a messy past, Emily is determined to start over quietly in Woodstock, Vermont. No drama. No relationships. And definitely no getting involved with the grumpy, bossy contractor who seems to be everywhere she turns.Too bad he's infuriatingly attractive… and even worse? He's the first man who's made her feel something in...

She's twice his age and twice as guarded—but he's not backing down.Abby's divorced, overwhelmed, and too busy raising her daughter to care about mistletoe or miracles. Love? Please. She's forty-five, exhausted, and the only thing cuffing her this Christmas is work, errands, and the broken washer she can't afford to replace.Enter Dylan. Twenty-seven, tattooed, and smoking hot with a wrench in his hand—and not the kind of guy Abby expects to show up at her do...

He was her fiancé's best friend. Now he's offering her everything—except his heart.A year after losing Duncan, Twila is barely holding it together. Her dream of becoming a romance author? On life support. Her waitressing job? Soul-sucking. The house she shared with Duncan? Slipping through her fingers. She's broke, burned out, and heartbroken.Enter Luke—Duncan's best friend. The rich, reclusive one who vanished after the funeral. Now he's back, guilt-ridden...

He's a grumpy single dad with no time for drama. She's a holiday-perfect hurricane he never saw coming.After a messy divorce and years of solo parenting, all Jett wants is to survive the holidays without losing his mind. Between driving his UPS route, wrangling his energetic son, and microwaving whatever's not frozen solid, he's barely holding it together.Enter Nina Tome: polished, poised, and a little too perfect. She's got the kind of smile that could fro...