Agriculture is the product of a complex mixture of behavioural, biophysical and market drivers. Understanding how these factors interact to produce crops and livestock for food has been the focus of economic investigation for many years. The advent of optimisation algorithms and the exponential growth in computing technology has allowed significant growth in mathematical modelling of the dynamics of agricultural systems. The complexity of approaches has grown in parallel with the availabil...

A misanthropic matriarch leaves her eccentric family in crisis when she mysteriously disappears in this beloved novel that inspired the film starring Cate Blanchett.**"Whip-smart and divinely funny." —**New York TimesBernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect; and ...

Don't miss this hilarious BL take on the isekai genre!After getting stabbed on the bus, the manga artist Tetsuo Tanaka finds that he has been reincarnated... into the BL manga he created?! Although he quickly runs into the sexually adventurous love interest Takumi, Tetsuo has unfortunately been reincarnated as Atsushi, the promiscuous rival to the canon seme.Although Tetsuo/Atsushi is initially able to successfully make a move on the alluring Takumi, fate/the plot seems to ...

Poetry is the language of love, laughter, friendship, guidance and romance. This book is filled with poetry of each category. No matter where you find yourself, no matter what the situation you are sure to find something to make your load lighter and easier to bare. Because sometimes it's easier just knowing that somebody understands...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a dragon.Fitzwilliam Darcy of Pemberley has the good fortune to be in possession of the first English firedrake egg laid in a century. Or, at least, he was until some miscreant stole it.Mr. Darcy tracks the thief to Hertfordshire. Catching the thief, however, proves to be an entirely different kettle of brimstone, especially when he encounters fellow

THE CEDAR HOLLOW HARVEST FAIRE Book Five of the Cedar Hollow SeriesLeo finishes his book on a Wednesday in August and comes downstairs and stands in the kitchen doorway and says nothing. Clara looks at him and knows.Fourteen months. Every morning at five, before anyone else was awake, photographing the thing he loved because he finally understood the difference between saving something out of fear and saving it out of love. The boo...

THE CEDAR HOLLOW COMMUNITY GARDEN Book Two of the Cedar Hollow SeriesThe library is saved. The relationship is new. And then the community center burns down.Two months into whatever she and Leo are calling this, Clara Bennett still finds his coffee cup in her kitchen and his daughter's rain boots in her entryway. It's a little weird. She thinks that's probably a good sign — the kind of weird that means something is real.The...

THE CEDAR HOLLOW HOLIDAY MARKET Book Three of the Cedar Hollow SeriesThe cookbook is done. The garden is permanent. Clara and Leo are married. Everything should feel settled.It almost does.The Cedar Hollow Community Cookbook has just arrived in six boxes on the library's circulation desk — Ruby's drawing on the cover, Emma's recipe on page forty-seven, exactly as they wrote it. The holiday market opens Saturday. The communi...

THE CEDAR HOLLOW SUMMER SOLSTICE Book Four of the Cedar Hollow SeriesTwo years into their marriage, Leo starts photographing the garden at six in the morning. Just a basil leaf, in the dew. Clara watches him from the kitchen doorway and doesn't interrupt.She knows what it means. Leo has spent three years learning that the present tense is temporary. He's not anxious — he's paying attention. He wants a record of exactly this: Ruby's...

THE CEDAR HOLLOW SEED LIBRARY Book One of the Cedar Hollow SeriesSome love stories don't announce themselves. They just quietly show up on a Tuesday.Clara Bennett is the kind of woman who sits on the floor when bad news arrives — not because she's falling apart, but because sometimes your legs just decide they're done. She's been running the Cedar Hollow Public Library for fifteen years, and now the town is threatening to cut its f...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"In this impassioned warning and inspirational call to arms, Ressa identifies and illuminates her core values of empathy, honesty, and faith in humanity to illustrate how a strong commitment to such foundational beliefs can provide the key to democracy’s survival. . . . Searing and electrifying." — Booklist (starred review)From the recipien...

One of NPR's Best Books of the Year: This darkly funny and provocative novel reimagines classic fairy tale characters as modern women in a support group for trauma.In present-day New York City, five women meet in a basement support group to process their traumas. Bernice grapples with the fallout of dating a psychopathic, blue-bearded billionaire. Ruby, once devoured by a wolf, now wears him as a coat. Gretel questions her memory of being held captive in a house ma...