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Everybody in Chicago knew you did not embarrass Vivien Duca. She was the mother of Luciano Duca, the cold, untouchable businessman newspapers called a shipping…

she built a strange curved house from forty discarded iron sheets, but when the deadliest winter came, the neighbors who mocked her begged to get…

they denied her the tractor and told her to wait—so she plowed the hard field by hand until her grandfather’s blade struck what the whole…

Von Mercer slammed the ledger shut so hard the lamp flame jumped inside its glass chimney. “She is a kitchen girl,” he said, each word…

Part 1 At twenty-one, Clara Montes inherited a house everyone else seemed to have already buried. Valdemora stood outside the village of Valdebruma in northern…

Part 1 When Evelyn Carter pulled the loose panel away from the back wall of her little green Quonset shelter, something heavy shifted behind it….

Part 1 At forty-eight, Ethan Cole knew exactly what it meant to improve somebody else’s land. He had spent most of his adult life repairing…

Part 1 In 1989, Australia set itself a deadline that sounded less like an environmental program than a wager against the land. One billion trees….

Part 1 By late December of 1884, nearly every homestead in Marorrow Creek Basin advertised its readiness for winter. Firewood rose in rough walls beside…