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Ming and her family harvest rice at the base of a tall mountain. They could sell the extra rice at market on the other side of the mountain but the dragon on the mountain steals the rice. Ming decides to try on her own to get past the dragon so she packs up her ox and heads to the market. When the bully dragon tries to stop her, Ming outwits the bully and makes it safely to market and back home with the money. Includes glossary, as well as questions...

When Houston reporter Lucy Resnick cashes in her retirement to buy her grandmother's farm in Buttercup, Texas, she's looking forward to a simple life as a homesteader. But Lucy has barely finished putting up her first batch of Killer Dewberry Jam when an oil exploration truck rolls up to the farm and announces plans to replace her broccoli patch with an oil derrick. Two days later, Nettie Kocurek, the woman who ordered the drilling, turns up dead...

Elijah and the Widow: "Martha King has been a widow for only a few months, but already her community wants her to remarry. Martha's not in a rush to give her heart to another man--until Elijah Lapp hires on at her farm. Can Eli convince the Amish beauty to overcome their age difference and accept a future with him?" -- Page [4] cover. Amish Homecoming: "After ten years away, Leah Beiler returns to her Amish community. Leah has much to explain to...

"Pretend suitor... or her most suitable match? Eliza Keim has no interest in getting married. But with her stepfather pressuring her to court, Eliza begrudgingly agrees to walk out with blueberry farmer Jonas Kanagy. She has no idea his true intention is only to protect his brother from getting his heart broken. Yet making their in-name-only courtship look real is surprisingly easy. Might this practical arrangement end up backfiring in the best possible...

"A sweet and heartwarming Amish romance where no disaster can conquer true love. Dairy farmer Abe Stoltzfus wants to propose to Lavinia Fisher, the beautiful young woman he's been dating, but being a traditional Amish man, he worries about how he can provide for her. Farming can be uncertain enough with weather conditions, crops not doing well, all manner of uncertainties. And after a bad summer storm and a serious injury from a rooftop tumble, Abe...

"A delightful new cozy mystery from USA Today bestselling author Amanda Flower! There's fowl play afoot on the farm Shiloh Bellamy has saved her family's farm from financial ruin--but now what? She's barely scraping by on the farm's new organic business model and the fall festival she organized to drum up business comes to a screeching halt when the body of a prominent townswoman is discovered underneath a scarecrow in a nearby field. Worst of all,...