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In rural Gaotai County, two lonely, middle-aged outcasts are pushed into an arranged marriage by their families. Ma is a humble farmer with little to offer his timid and sickly wife, Cao, except for a small, abandoned house on a barren patch of land. From just a few seeds, their newly planted crops take root and flourish; similarly, an unexpected bond between them starts to blossom. As seasons pass, their dedication to each other grows stronger, but...

In recent years, the town of El Remolino in Chiapas, Mexico has suffered from some of the country's worst flooding. This lyrical documentary surveys the social and ecological impact, from schools that can't open to farms that can no longer operate.

Teacher 2 Face is a book about overcoming obstacles and how change is necessary for anyone who has dealt with any past wrongdoings to have a better life. One must have a strong mind to turn away from former friends and put up a fight through being resilience to succumbing to past behaviors. Once former gang member, turned into a successful educator as he uses life lessons to navigate through life and become a well-known educator and leader over schools....

Serena Chasey has nowhere left to go; she's run out of places to hide. She takes her father's advice and heads for Montana to stay at her family's lake house on Flathead Lake, the last place anyone would look for her. She's desperate to start over, desperate to feel normal after the nightmare she's lived for the last three years. Evan "Van" Brooks spent the last three years drowning in guilt, swallowed up by a past he can't get away from, living...

Olivia Foster always believed in striving for perfection, but life had a different plan. "The Imperfect Advocate," follows Olivia's unexpected journey as she discovers the profound intricacies of dyslexia and giftedness through her daughter, Natalie, and her son, Jonathan.Natalie, a bright and gifted child, grapples with the complexities of dyslexia, while her younger brother Jonathan tags along to school meetings. As Olivia and her supportive husband,...

A stunning new rural romance from the bestselling author of The McCalister Legacy and Summer at Kangaroo Ridge. Felix Carrington helps run the family's wedding venue business as the in-house wedding photographer for Carrington Farm. His personal passion though is taking glorious shots of the region around him. And it's through an unlikely friendship with 84-year-old Winnifred Knightly that Felix is able to take frequent photos in his favourite...

From an author praised for her "genuinely perceptive portrayals of human relationships," a historical family saga and sequel to Shoddy Prince (Irish Independent). After twenty-two years' estrangement, Bright Maguire and Nat Prince are joyously reunited and plan to start a new life in Australia. Their daughter Oriel isn't thrilled by the return of her long-absent father, but can she put aside her feelings and accompany them? After the horrors...

This is a story of evil that plays an integral role in a small town's transformation from a peaceful place to a terrifyingly selfish and corrupt town, only to be saved by the courage and honesty of a boy, Michael Brown, who draws his strength from the motto "Liberty and Justice for All." The town is saved from the Green Palm Way of Life by the young hero, but the shadow of evil lingers on in the reader's mind long after the story is over. The town's...

"John, an impoverished Scottish minister, has accepted a job evicting the lone remaining occupant of an island north of Scotland--Ivar, who has been living alone for decades, with only the animals and the sea for company. Though his wife, Mary, has serious misgivings about the errand, he decides to go anyway, setting in motion a chain of events that neither he nor Mary could have predicted. Shortly after John reaches the island, he falls down a cliff...

It's a truth often acknowledged that when a journalist and Jane Austen fan girl ends up living next door to a cynical but handsome crime writer, romantic sparks will fly! When Maddy Shaw is told her Dear Jane column has been cancelled she has no choice but to look outside of London's rental market. That is until she's left an idyllic country home by the black sheep of the family, long-not-so-lost Cousin Nigel. But of course there's a stipulation…...