A posthumous double volume of the influential author's first and last written works, published to coincide with the 90th anniversary of his birth, includes the bitter satire "Basic training" and the unfinished final novel "If God were alive today." In the foreword, Nannette Vonnegut, shares her reminiscences about her father and the autobiographical events in his life related to these two works.

"Tracy Campbell never wanted to leave Hope Harbor, Oregon, or the idyllic three-generation cranberry farm where she grew up. But life--and love--altered her plans. When tragedy strikes and changes her plans yet again, she finds herself back in her hometown with a floundering farm to run and a heartbreaking secret. Romance is not on her agenda. Nor is it on Michael Hunter's. The visitor from Chicago has daunting secrets of his own. But when Tracy recruits...

While Peter carefully tends a special pumpkin on his grandparents' farm, quiet Meg watches from her new home next door.

A fable set in the Balabadur Hills of India pits six hungry crows against a farmer, as the combatants try to frighten one another away from a wheat field.

A boy in a family of sheep farmers raises a black lamb to be the leader of the flock.

Tony dislikes spending the summer on his aunt's farm until he discovers a black fox in the forest and tracks her to her den.

When twelve-year-old Mary spends a summer working on her sister's farm in an Amish community, she learns that there is more than one kind of housekeeping.

In 1948, a boy is sent by his widowed father to live on his grandparents' farm in Vermont. He records his memories, describing the rural lifestyle of a bygone era. Lots of pastoral images, rugged individualism and unforgettable characters. By the author of A Stranger in the Kingdom.

A city boy visiting his grandfather's farm accidentally lets the cows out of the barnyard and searches for a way to get them back.