Friends Snow Flower and Lily find solace in their bond as they face isolation, arranged marriages, loss, and motherhood in nineteenth-century China.

Presents a variation on the classic rhyme about an old lady who swallowed some books and a series of other strange items before encountering a large surprise.

Sylvia Bergstrom Compson gains insights into the untold life of her mother Eleanor, who died when Sylvia was just a child, when she sets out on a nationwide quest to locate Eleanor's hand-stitched quilts which have gone missing from the attic of Elm Creek Manor.

New Mexico college student Ellie Baxter decides to spend the summer in Idaho with her eccentric aunt Bertie and prove to her parents that Bertie does not need assisted living--but when she gets there, her aunt's efforts to match her up with handsome doctor John Flynn give the visit an entirely new focus.