THE LAND ENDURES tells the story of the Wayman family and Holland Farm in the twenties - cruel years for the land and for those who depend on it. At first, tragedy plays its part at Holland Farm, but, while much around him crumbles and decays, Stephen Wayman steels himself to stem the tide of bitterness and loss that threatens to engulf him. SEEDTIME AND HARVEST - Linn Mercybright has survived the Depression years and the slur of an illegitimate son. When gentle, easygoing Charlie Truscott proposes marriage it seems that she might at last know the taste of happiness. But trouble lies ahead when a surprise inheritance enables her to buy a farm. The serenity of their marriage becomes ruffled by her stubborn determination to run things her own way. Charlie seems to spend all his time helping pretty, fragile Mrs Shaw on the neighbouring farm and the advent of World War II is to cause further anguish with the departure of Linn's cherished son...

The sequel to Pearce's "Apple Tree Lean Down" begins as the Wayman family moves into Holland Farm during the cruel, desperate years of the 1920s and, united in hope and effort, triumphs over adversity

For most of human history, we have lived our daily lives in a close relationship with the land. Yet now, for the first time, more people are living in urban rather than rural areas, bringing about an estrangement. This book, by acclaimed author Jules Pretty, is fundamentally about our relationship with nature, animals and places. A series of interlinked essays leads readers on a voyage that weaves through the themes of connection and estrangement between humans and nature. The journey shows how our modern lifestyles and economies would need six or eight Earths if the entire worlds population adopted our profligate ways. Pretty shows that we are rendering our own world inhospitable and so risk losing what it means to be human: unless we make substantial changes, Gaia threatens to become Grendel. Ultimately, however, the book offers glimpses of an optimistic future for humanity, in the very face of climate change and pending global environmental catastrophe.

An unplanned pregnancy. An absent father. Can love really endure all things? Danielle Kent is anything but Amish. But as destiny would have it, she has fallen in love with an Amish man. Now she’s 18, pregnant, and hopeful that the child’s Amish father—Matthew Lapp—will do the right thing and marry her. She knows Matthew plans to leave his Colorado settlement for a life in the Englisch world. But that plan never included a baby. When Matthew walks away from her and their unborn child, she has nowhere to turn. Her unlikely friendship with Levi offers some comfort—yet they have so little in common. This wasn’t the plan she had for her life, and she has never felt so alone. She doesn’t want to be pregnant. Doesn’t want to be Amish. Doesn’t want to trust God. And yet. God has plans beyond what her mind can imagine . . . loving plans to show a lost young woman that His love never fails but endures forever. “Wiseman is among the best at writing moving Amish fiction.” —Booklist review of The Wonder of His Love

'A blend of clear-eyed science and poetic eloquence The Earth Only Endures follows in the tradition of Jared Diamond and E.O. Wilson. Jules Pretty too is hopeful but on the condition that we understand the nature of the self-imposed threats to our future and the rational basis for human survival. To say that this is essential reading is rather like saying that a compass is essential to navigation.' David W Orr author of Design on the Edge 'Jules Pretty?s remarkable new book is both universal and parochial by turn and beautifully written. It is a philosophical inventory of what we have recentl.

David J. Costa presents a collection of almost all of the known Native texts in Miami-Illinois, from speakers of Myaamia, Peoria, and Wea.