Rural Hours (Revised) by Susan Fenimore CooperRural Hours (1850) is one of the earliest pieces of American nature writing and the first by a woman. This new edition, the only printing of the full original text since 1876, restores passages excised by the author for an 1887 edition. The daughter of the novelist James Fenimore Cooper, Susan Fenimore Cooper (1813 1894), uses narratives and descriptions of her walks and excursions to reveal her ideal society as a rural one, carefully poised between

and in the yard an apple falls -- pump

delinquency

This charming collection features the perfect houseplants to crochet and display

But when one of the siblings receives a dire diagnosis

Food -- Author's Note -- From That Distant Land -- From Hannah Coulter -- From Andy Catlett -- From Misery -- From The Memory of Old Jack -- From Jayber Crow -- From Hannah Coulter -- The Pleasures of Eating

who died two years ago at the age of 95

THE REAL HISTORY

author of Linchpin

A biography that goes the distance

April was bright one moment and dark the next

featuring sections on nymphs

and abundance over scarcity