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A young woman living on a remote Missouri farm and struggling to care for her husband, baby, and ailing grandmother, Katie Benson seeks inspiration in dealing with the vicissitudes of life in the pages of her grandmother's journal

A rocky marriage survives with the help of bees. The heroine marries a sheep farmer in British Columbia, but is unhappy and has an affair. When she inherits a bee farm, the couple move and the marriage revives.

After her husband Charlie leaves for the Union Army, Alice Bullock finds herself sharing an Iowa farm with her formidable mother-in-law, and then she's accused of murder.

Reluctantly attending the funeral of her estranged father, a dedicated horse rancher receives an odd gift and apology from a stranger that leads her to discover the story of her father's difficult experiences as a Jewish sergeant in charge of a platoon of black soldiers in World War II Alabama.

Attracted to an artists' colony on a drought-stricken honey farm where residents are offered free room and board in exchange for hard labor, a wide-eyed poetry graduate falls for a fellow artist and begins to notice tensions linked to ominous events and her hostess's past.

The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with three weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist-high to my father, over my head, and he and my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard. It could be a "good crop." Thus begins the new novel from John Grisham, a story inspired...