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Sarah Crowe left Atlanta—and the remnants of a tumultuous relationship—to live in an old house in rural Rhode Island. Within its walls she discovers an unfinished manuscript written by the house’s former tenant—an anthropologist obsessed with the ancient oak growing on a desolate corner of the property.
 
Tied to local legends of supernatural magic, as well as documented accidents and murders, the gnarled tree...

"In 1859, ex-East India Company smuggler Merrick Tremayne is trapped at home in Cornwall after sustaining an injury that almost cost him his leg. When the India Office recruits Merrick for an expedition to fetch quinine--essential for the treatment of malaria--from deep within Peru, he knows it's a terrible idea. Nearly every able-bodied expeditionary who's made the attempt has died, and he can barely walk. But Merrick is desperate to escape the strange...

When Wally and Carrie Koala break their Christmas tree bulbs andballs, Piper the lorikeet helps them make "magic" decorations.

Two children spend the year anticipating the fruit their apple tree will bear, only to have a wily thief upset their plans.

Family members admire the ornaments on their Christmas tree andshare their memories of previous holidays as evoked by the ornaments.

A family makes its annual pilgrimage to decorate an evergreen tree with food for the forest animals at Christmastime.

Bobby and Brenda learn a lesson about forgiveness and the Christmas spirit when they sneak into an abandoned house and decoratea tree they find growing through the floor.

In the 1800s, a man clearing land in a beautiful forest to build a home leaves one special tree, but many years later the tree is in trouble, and the man's great-great grandson enlists a host of animal friends to try to save it.

Little Acorn proves that great things come in small packages as it grows from a tiny nut to a big tree that shelters its forest friends.