During the War of 1812, Caroline finds evidence that someone is smuggling precious supplies to the British and fears that the traitor may be her own uncle. Includes an "Inside Caroline's World" essay about smuggling during the War of 1812.

In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiance, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. Based on a true story.

As he grows up on his family's farm in New York, Almanzo Wilder dreams of having a colt of his own.

When the Harmony Farms Corporation, a factory farm, begins to buy up the family farms in her neighborhood, Elizabeth Angier encounters "Gaia, the living entity of the earth," who imparts strange powers to Elizabeth to use in saving her family's and friends' farms from takeover. But is this a blessing or a curse for Elizabeth?

Living on the edge of the Adirondack wilderness with his wife and two sons, Gary Hazen, a respected hunter and forester has raised survival to an artform, until a hunting trip transforms life forever for the three Hazen men.