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Detective Beth Gould returns in HARVEST, Book 2 in the AMISHLAND murder thriller series. After a family tragedy, Beth Gould, a tough Chicago cop, returns to her hometown in rural Pennsylvania. Now a detective on the local police force, she finds herself on the hunt for a serial killer known as The Reaper. With the murderer’s body count rising, the town board is demanding Beth catch the killer before the start of the summer tourist season, or else she’s off the case and maybe even off the force.

One of Edna Ferber’s most important early novels. Meet Fanny Brandeis—sturdy, alert, and endlessly determined. Edna Ferber’s Fanny Herself (1917) follows a Jewish-American woman in a small Wisconsin town who dares to dream beyond her circumstances. With wit, grit, and piercing brown eyes that see the world too clearly, Fanny struggles to balance duty, ambition, and her own individuality in a society that resists women’s independence.

Through the eyes of sociologist Van, listeners are invited into a land where motherhood is revered, cooperation triumphs over competition, and progress is built on logic, compassion, and education. As the men struggle to reconcile their expectations with reality, Herland challenges assumptions about gender, culture, and what it means to be civilized. With sharp wit and revolutionary insight, Charlotte Perkins-Gilman dismantles patriarchal norms and imagines a world transformed by equality and reason.

City girl falls in love with country boy in the family saga LOCUST HILL. Carl Parsons’ third novel details the struggles of an independent, small acreage farm family in the Mid-Ohio Valley of West Virginia. With wife Cassandra as the narrator, the novel recounts her discovery of a different world just outside her West Virginia hometown, a quaint rural village where people survive and maintain their community by helping one another. During their life together, Cassandra learns that her husband, Jim Russell, is the very embodiment of this spirit.

Restless Spirit—for me, a divorced fifty-something living in Canada, the lure of adventure unleashed my undying curiosity about the world and about people as I crisscrossed the world for over twenty years and visited 156 countries on all seven continents.