Small Town & Rural

Beartown is a small town in a large Swedish forest. For most of the year it is under a thick blanket of snow, experiencing the kind of cold and dark that brings people closer together - or pulls them apart....

Eileen is sick of being 79. Leena's tired of life in her 20s. Maybe it's time they swapped places.... 

Born into poverty, then trapped in the shackles of charity and gratitude, Mr. Biswas longs for a house he can call his own....

County Kerry, Ireland, 1825. Nóra, bereft after the sudden death of her beloved husband, finds herself alone and caring for her young grandson Micheál. Micheál cannot speak and cannot walk....

If you leave the door half open, you will hear the whispers spoken.... Still devastated after the loss of his wife, Tom Kennedy and his young son, Jake, move to the sleepy village of Featherbank, looking for a fresh start....

Funny and heartbreaking, Writers & Lovers is the bitingly clever story of Casey, a young writer who has lost her direction in life, until two men step into her world and offer her two very different futures....

For over 50 years, Mark Tully has been one of the most celebrated observers of Indian politics and society. In this collection, he returns to the territory of his acclaimed and best-selling work of fiction, The Heart of India....

Cormac McCarthy, best-selling author of National Book Award winner All the Pretty Horses, delivers his first new novel in seven years....

On Christmas Eve in 1988, seven-year-old Alfie Marsden vanished in the Wentshire Forest Pass when a burst tyre forced his father, Sorrel, to stop the car. Leaving the car to summon the emergency services, Sorrel returned to find his son gone....

Just outside a hotel in Bordeaux, Philippe, a famous writer, chances upon a young man who bears a striking resemblance to his first love....

The gruesome death of Mrs McGinty provokes Superintendent Spence to seek the help of his old ally Hercule Poirot....

The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything - everything except books, that is. Troublesome's got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carter. She's also the last of her kind, her skin a shade of blue unlike most anyone else....

Siamo in un piccolo borgo siciliano che, dall'alto di una collina, domina il mare: una comunità di cinquemila anime che si conoscono tutte per nome. Su un lato della piazza sorge la tabaccheria, un luogo magico dove si possono trovare, oltre alle sigarette, anche dolciumi e spezie, governato con amore da Costanzo e da sua moglie Agata. Sull'altro lato si affaccia il municipio, amministrato con altrettanto amore (ma per il denaro) dal sindaco "Occhi Janchi". Attorno a questi due poli brulica la vita del paese, un angolo di paradiso deturpato negli anni Cinquanta.

Sweet Home, Alaska, was once a thriving, idyllic town, where A Stone's Throw Hardware and Haberdashery and the Sisterhood of the Quilt were the cornerstones of the community. Then, in one fatal moment, two young lives were cut short, and everything changed. Now the Stone family businesses have closed, the diner is in the red, and the population has dwindled to 573. After the tragic accident that took her sister's life, Hope McKnight discovered she was pregnant, and gave up her dreams of college to raise her daughter.

Holt, eine Kleinstadt im Herzen Colorados. Zwei alte Viehzüchter müssen den Wegzug ihrer Ziehtochter verkraften. Ein Ehepaar kämpft in seinem Trailer um ein Stückchen Würde. Ein elfjähriger Junge kümmert sich rührend um seinen kranken Großvater. So hart das Schicksal auch zuschlägt - die Menschen in Holt sind entschlossen, dem Leben einen Sinn abzutrotzen. Und begegnen einander dabei neu.

Ein kleines Café und der große Traum vom Glück. Julia braucht eine Auszeit. Auf Anraten ihrer Oma reist sie auf die Insel Föhr. Bei einem Spaziergang stößt Julia auf ein leerstehendes Kapitänshaus: der perfekte Ort, um ihrer Leidenschaft, der Malerei, nachzugehen. Spontan beginnt sie, Porträts von Touristen und Insulanern anzufertigen. Bald schenkt sie dort Kaffee aus, backt Friesentorte und bewirtet die Gäste. Ein kleines Inselcafé entsteht. Julia ist ihrem Traum ganz nahe, da stellen sich ihr zwei Männer in den Weg.

La historia de Un amor ocurre en La Escapa, un pequeño núcleo rural donde Nat, una joven e ​inexperta traductora, acaba de mudarse. Su casero, que le regala un perro como gesto de bienvenida, no tardará en mostrar su verdadera cara, y los conflictos en torno a la casa alquilada - una construcción pobre, llena de grietas y goteras - se convertirán en una verdadera obsesión para ella. 

Год у Макса не задался. Он лишился работы и надежды расплатиться с долгами. И вдруг он получает в наследство усадьбу дяди Генри в Провансе с обширным виноградником. Макс едет туда, намереваясь побыстрее продать землю и дом.