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Eloquent and detailed...precise and well-thought-out...Read her book -- and listen." -- Jane Smiley, The Washington Post. In her late 40s, Beth Hoffman decided to upend her comfortable life as a professor and journalist to move to her husband's family ranch in Iowa--all for the dream of becoming a farmer. There was just one problem: money. Half of America's two million farms made less than $300 in 2019, and many struggle just to stay afloat. B...

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A Southern novel of family and antiques from the bestselling author of the beloved "Saving CeeCee Honeycutt." Hoffman rekindles her flair for evocative Southern settings and the inimitable eccentrics in a compelling new novel.

Steel Magnolias" meets "The Help" in this "New York Times" bestseller sparkling with humor, heart, and feminine wisdom. Laugh-out-loud funny, Hoffman's charming work offers the story of a young girl who loses one mother and finds many others.

Ein Roman über die wunderbare Freundschaft zwischen Frauen Ein sommerfrischer Südstaaten-Roman: Nach dem Tod ihrer Mutter im Jahr 1967 wird die zwölfjährige CeeCee Honeycutt von ihrer Großtante Tootie aufgenommen, die in Savannah, Georgia, ein wunderschönes Südstaatenhaus mit riesigem Garten bewohnt. Es duftet herrlich dort bei Tante Tootie: nach Zimtschnecken, Zuckerpfirsichen und Holundersaft, was nicht zuletzt den Künsten der wunderbaren s...

Winner of the 2014 Ohioana Book Award for fiction. The latest New York Times bestseller by the beloved author of Saving CeeCee HoneycuttBeth Hoffman's bestselling debut, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt, won admirers and acclaim with its heartwarming story and cast of unforgettably quirky characters. Now her flair for evocative settings and richly drawn Southern personalities shines again in her compelling second novel, Looking for Me.Teddi Overman fou...

Nurturing our true selves, acknowledging when our ego is in control, and accepting God's love enables us to be lovingly caring of others. This is a challenge for adults to master in a material world-but even harder for children. In My Loving Self and Me, author C. Beth Hoffman offers a collection of stories and poems that helps children understand this concept, and it gives them a jump start on their own spiritual path. The stories feature a b...

Die wundervolle Geschichte einer Frau, die ihren Traum vom Antiquitätenladen verwirklicht. Teddi wächst auf einer Farm mitten in der überwältigenden Natur Kentuckys auf. Sie liebt es, mit ihren Händen zu arbeiten und aus Dingen, die andere wegwerfen, Schmuckstücke zu zaubern. Als ein alteingesessener Antiquitätenhändler aus Charleston ihr anbietet, bei ihm zu arbeiten, ergreift die junge Frau ihre Chance und verwirklicht ihren Lebenstraum. Mi...

Steel Magnolias meets The Help in Beth Hoffman's New York Times bestselling Southern debut novel, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt Twelve-year-old CeeCee Honeycutt is in trouble. For years, she has been the caretaker of her mother, Camille, the town's tiara-wearing, lipstick-smeared laughingstock, a woman who is trapped in her long-ago moment of glory as the 1951 Vidalia Onion Queen of Georgia. When tragedy strikes, Tootie Caldwell, CeeCee's long-lost ...

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De twaalfjarige CeeCee zorgt al jarenlang voor haar kleurrijke moeder, de psychotische Camille, terwijl haar vader weg is op zijn zakenreizen. Maar als Camille wordt overreden door een ijswagen, wordt CeeCee opgehaald door een haar onbekende verre tante en meegenomen naar het zuiden van de VS, naar Savannah een stadje vol eigenwijze en excentrieke vrouwen. De redding van CeeCee Honeycutt is een vaak geestige en soms hartverscheurende roman ov...

The latest Little Golden Book Classic--with a funny, timeless school theme! "This rollicking story explores just what would happen at school if elephants walked the balance beam, monkeys climbed all over the monkey bars, and tigers went up the rope! Some of the funniest scenes show the animals hitting the showers afterward--and hogging all the towels!

When Camille Sugarbaker Honeycutt, the pretty but crazy 1951 Vidalia Onion Queen, dies suddenly, her twelve-year-old daughter CeeCee has barely a hope left in the world. To her rescue arrives Great Aunt Tootie in the most magnificent car CeeCee has ever seen, and she is whisked away to the storybook city of Savannah. For some flowers, Aunt Tootie holds, are born to bloom only south of the Mason-Dixon line and soon, among the sweet scent of mag...