Is it time to stop playing the field? The Farmer Needs a Wife is a feel-good romance set in the Australian outback, about finding love in the most unlikely places. Janet Gover is sure to enthral fans of Sue Roberts and Lindsey Kelk. Glamorous magazine editor Helen Woodley has been hired as the new head honcho of magazine Australian Life, and she needs a feature idea to send the magazine rocketing back up the popularity stakes - fast. Little does she know how successful her new campaign will be. As the country's lovelorn single farmers are profiled each week, readers start queuing up to date them. Soon rural romances are all the rage - but a lot of people (and Helen herself) are about to find out that the course of true love doesn't always run smooth... What readers are saying about The Farmer Needs A Wife: 'Such a wonderful book. Makes you feel as though you're in Australia - the descriptions are so vivid' 'A refreshingly good read. It had me hooked from the first chapter, I couldn't put the book down' 'Fabulous. Believable characters whose stories mix and mingle with each other in an imaginative and satisfying way. So lovely you won't want it to end'

Be Inspired by the Stories The 1922, The Farmer's Wife magazine posed this question to their readers: "If you had a daughter of marriageable age, would you, in light of your own experience, have her marry a farmer?" The magazine at the time had 750,000 subscribers, and received over 7,000 letters. The best answers to this question are included in this book, along with the traditional quilt blocks they inspired. Laurie Aaron Hird provides everything you need to be inspired and create your own sampler quilt: • 111 six-inch quilt blocks, with assembly diagrams for piecing the blocks and template cutting directions • Complete instruction for making a sampler quilt in any traditional size: lap, twin, queen or king • Download access to easy-to-print, full-sized templates for all 111 blocks, and printable quilt construction diagrams • 42 letters from the 1922 Farmer's Wife contest to give you a priceless glimpse into our country's past

So - you think you want to be a farmer's wife! Don 't even accept his proposal until you read this book. Put aside your romantic notions and arm yourself with information from a woman who made the transition from city slicker to farmer's wife. More importantly - fi nd out what questions you may still need to ask before you are ready to make a new life on the land.

When a woman loses an apple down a hole, she tries all sorts of things to get it back, without success -- until the story takes a sudden unexpected turn. These events help children learn important lessons about how to think creatively to resolve difficult problems.

If half of all cars bought in America each year broke down, there would be a national uproar. But when people suggest that maybe every single marriage doesn't look like the next and isn't meant to last until death, there's nothing but a rash of proposed laws trying to force it to do just that. In The New I Do, therapist Susan Pease Gadoua and journalist Vicki Larson take a groundbreaking look at the modern shape of marriage to help readers open their minds to marrying more consciously and creatively. Offering actual models of less-traditional marriages, including everything from a parenting marriage (intended for the sake of raising and nurturing children) to a comfort or safety marriage (where people marry for financial security or companionship), the book covers unique options for couples interested in forging their own paths. With advice to help listeners decide what works for them, The New I Doacts as a guide to thinking outside the marital box and the framework for a new debate on marriage in the 21st century.