After grasshoppers ruin the crops, eight-year-old Laura Ingalls and her family leave Plum Creek and move to Burr Oak, Iowa, where they experience life in a small town and help manage a hotel.

"Time often slows and frequently even stops in the small town of Cottage Park, Iowa. In fact, time is best measured not by the hands of a clock but by the innings in a baseball game. Praying and playing baseball are two of the town's primary activities. Actually, they are one in the same in a town where baseball is a religion. Still, time does eventually flow on. Much like the Des Moines River just outside Cottage Park, time also leads to Des Moines,...

A no-nonsense housing inspector claims Melinda's sweet deal with Horace could come at a high cost, and her latest idea to improve life in her rural community meets with skepticism from some of the locals. When Uncle Frank makes a shocking discovery in the town's archives, the fallout threatens to dim Prosper Hardware's bright future. --

Moving to the country's brought Melinda a new set of skills, but does she have what it takes to fix matters of the heart? And as the temperature climbs, the shadow of hard times falls over Melinda's rural community. Can she make the tough choices that will keep her dreams from turning to dust? --

Melinda's efforts are starting to pay off: She's learned to preserve produce, outsmart a few headstrong chickens and wrangle a flock of spoiled sheep. But even in the little town of Prosper, nothing stays the same. As the seasons change, she must choose between the security of her old life or taking a chance on an uncertain future. --

Early winter makes Prosper look like a quaint scene from a snow globe. Everything changes when a national magazine sets its sights on the town's newest business, creating controversy about the best way to put little Prosper on the map. And when federal officials threaten to close the post office, Prosper's future suddenly doesn't seem so bright. --

"This holiday season in Eagle River, the past is never far from the present. Kate is bracing herself for a blue Christmas this year. It's the first since her divorce, most of her decorations are missing after too-many moves, and her impromptu gesture of goodwill to one struggling family has caused trouble at the post office. But her troubles take a back seat after a mail stop at one of the area's oldest churches presents a puzzling dilemma. The rural...