Small Town & Rural

Knox lives alone, and he likes it that way. Unfortunately, runaway bride Naomi is about to have her life implode on his doorstep.

When three delinquents hole up in an abandoned general store after their most recent robbery, to their great surprise, a letter drops through the mail slot in the store’s shutter....

I've spent my entire life in Sutten Mountain, where everyone knows everyone, and you can spot trouble from a mile away. Camden is trouble. He's an arrogant billionaire from the city with too much money and not enough manners. And he just opened a fancy art gallery next door to my bakery....

Sloane Parker lives a small, contained life as a librarian in her small, contained town. She never thinks of herself as lonely...but still she looks forward to that time every day when old curmudgeon Arthur McLachlan comes to browse the shelves and cheerfully insult her....

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....

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

Laura on nuori opettaja, jonka elämässä tuntuu menevän kaikki uusiksi. Avioliitto päättyy eroon ja myös työpaikka lähtee alta. Laura...

Pienen Kuusniemen kunnan paikallispolitiikkaa ja arkea pyörittävät keskenään hyvin erilaiset hahmot, jotka tuppaavat olla lähes...

When life took an unexpected turn, I decided to get out of New York for a while. What better place to go than the idyllic small town my father spoke about so fondly when I was growing up? Laurel Lake held the title America’s Friendliest Town for seventeen years running....

A modern literary classic, now available in a 20th anniversary edition with a new afterword by the author....

It wasn’t hard for me to walk away from my family without looking back—the time had come for me to live for myself. New city. New job. My new boss? He’s gorgeous. It’s too bad that handsome face is wasted on such a condescending prick....

Discover this beloved masterpiece of nature writing that is a hymn to creation and the power of the individual to do their bit to change the world for the better....

In a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop. Hardborough becomes a battleground....

The New York Times best-selling author of The Winter People returns to the woods of Vermont to tell the story of a husband and wife who don't simply move into a haunted house - they build one....

He proposed . . . and I said yes. Normally a jovial occasion for a couple in love, but this proposal has a very different feel. Because the man that I'll be calling my husband blew into town with one thing on his mind . . . to make my life a living nightmare....

In this tale of fresh starts in the Escape to France collection from bestselling author Fiona Valpy, Gina has lost everything....

When confronted by raging fires or deadly accidents, volunteer fireman Taylor McAden feels compelled to take terrifying risks to save lives...

Failed academic Frank Nichols and his wife, Eudora, have arrived in the sleepy Georgia town of Whitbrow, where Frank hopes to write a history of his family's old estate-the Savoyard Plantation....

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

In life, nothing is certain. Just when you think you have it all figured out, something can happen to change the course of everything....

Three separate women, living in different locations and eras, are linked by their passion for Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway....

ಹಳ್ಳಿಯ ಸುಸಂಸ್ಕೃತ ಮನಸ್ಸೊಂದು ತನ್ನ ಮಣ್ಣಿನ ಮೌಲ್ಯಗಳ ಉಳಿವಿಗಾಗಿ,....

Struggling in his role as a newly single father, former army medic Kevin O’Brien moves home to Chesapeake Shores. He wants a haven for himself and his toddler son, surrounded by the family he knows he can count on and a future that’s nothing like his past....

Grace Evans, an overworked New Yorker looking for a total escape from her busy life, books an Airbnb on a ranch in the middle of Wyoming. When she arrives at the idyllic getaway, she’s pleased to find that the owner is a handsome man by the name of Calvin Wells....

The story of Flem Snopes' ruthless struggle to take over the town of Jefferson, Mississippi, this is the second volume of Faulkner's trilogy about the Snopes family....

Als Katherine Madigan ein bezauberndes Haus in der irischen Kleinstadt Howth erbt, ahnt sie noch nicht, dass damit auch eine kleine Bücherei verbunden ist: die Rainbow-Hearts-Library. Kate reist nach Irland, um sich ihr Erbe anzusehen und trifft auf überaus herzliche Dorfbewohner. Schnell wird ihr klar, dass der kleine Laden allseits beliebt war und dass sich das Dorf nichts sehnlicher wünscht, als dass Kate ihn wiedereröffnet. Den Grund dafür findet Kate schon bald zwischen den Seiten der Bücher: Briefe.

Tatort: Sylter Luxusimmobilie. Der Abend des traditionellen Sonnenwendfeuers endet mit einem Schock: die Leiche des Sylter Urgesteins Hinnerk Petersen wird in dessen Garten gefunden, alles deutet auf Mord hin. Auch Immobilienmakler Kristan Dennermann ist dabei, als der Tote entdeckt wird. Petersen hinterlässt ein prächtiges Anwesen, das Dennermann verkaufen soll. Schnell stößt der Makler auf gewisse Ungereimtheiten.

At the end of Hawthorn Close, there is a charming park which boasts two magnificent magnolia trees, and an assortment of houses and apartments. As part of the local council's commitment to a more diverse tenancy in the area, several new occupants are moving into the neighbourhood. From the cottages and farms to the local shop, pub and old manor house, residents' lives are set to intertwine, relationships bloom and both romance and heartache lie ahead.

Sie will ein ganz normales Leben führen. Er will in die Elite Oslos aufsteigen. Früher war Ellinor Skogen ein Geist. Falscher Name, keine Social-Media-Accounts, abgeschottetes Eliteinternat. Einzig ihr bester Freund Lucas gab ihr ein Gefühl von Normalität - und dieses Kribbeln im Bauch. Bis er herausfindet, dass sie die Erbin des führenden Osloer Keksunternehmens KOSGEN ist und den Kontakt abbricht. Heute, fast sechs Jahre später, trifft sie an ihrem ersten Arbeitstag dort unter verdeckter Identität ausgerechnet auf Lucas. Doch statt sie zu verraten, schlägt er ihr einen Deal vor.

Lydia feels like she’s always been chasing something. But now she’s found her purpose, and having moved to Driftwood Bay to spend more time with her daughter Meredith, she’s happier than ever. But there’s still life in these old bones yet! With her newfound sense of identity, she’s keen to re-explore the things that made her happy as a younger person. Lydia’s passion was dancing – she used to compete in her younger years, and there’s no place she’s more at home than on the dancefloor. So when widower and antiques restorer Martin tells her about a big dance competition, she’s ready.

Quando un giovane uomo viene ritrovato privo di sensi a St Piran, in Cornovaglia, gli abitanti del piccolo paese sono perplessi. Chi è costui, e come è arrivato fin lì? E che dire della balena che il giorno dopo si arena proprio davanti alla stessa spiaggia? Presto capiamo che il giovane, Joe Haak, è un analista finanziario, i cui studi non hanno portato agli esiti auspicati, e ha deciso di buttarsi in mare, dove viene salvato dalla stessa balena che lui salverà il giorno dopo. Eppure, quando scoppia il primo caso di influenza in Asia, Joe saprà esattamente che cosa sta succedendo.

In her Food Lovers' Village Mysteries, Agatha Award-winning author Leslie Budewitz introduces us to Jewel Bay, a tight-knit Montana community that thrives on tourism and farm-to-table fare. Featuring Erin Murphy, beloved proprietor of the Merc—a century-old general store converted into a local foods market-each book brings us closer to the folks who call Jewel Bay home, and the cunning culprits in their midst.

I've spent the last twenty years reinventing myself. Shaking off the snotty rich girl facade for law school at Tulane University, only to pivot and obtain a Master's in Social Work, much to my parents' dismay. I settled in New Orleans and embedded myself in local politics, fighting for the people with the least representation. That is until my mother's illness called me home.

Der 1. Fall für Massimo Marconi. Commissario Marconi ermittelt im hohen Norden: Cosy Crime und Culture Clash in einem der beliebtesten Touristen-Hotspots an der Nordsee. Commissario Marconi, Münchner mit italienischen Wurzeln, verschlägt es an die Nordsee – nach St. Peter Ording. Nach dem Tod seines Bruders ist er der Vormund für dessen Kinder Klara und Stefano. Mit seinem Umzug zu den reservierten Nordfriesen, denen Marconi nicht viel abgewinnen kann, wird er zum Dienststellenleiter der örtlichen Polizeiwache degradiert – und gleich auf die Probe gestellt.

After a series of corporate mergers, Charlotte's job is hanging by a thread. When her boss orders her to drag an overdue manuscript out of their bestselling author, she's determined to succeed—even if it means leaving the city for the small Southern town of Fairhaven Falls. She just didn't expect the elusive author to be so big. And handsome. And winged.

Professor Carena Egersund is out walking in the woods when a dog comes bounding over. Carena looks for the owner—and spots a dead body floating face-down in the creek! A few days before her death, Lynnelle Hames was telling everyone she’d found her long-lost birth mother. Has someone killed her to keep her silent? Professor Carena may specialize in math, but something about her story doesn’t add up. Then a second body surfaces, in an equally watery grave, and Susan realizes the clock is ticking to catch a ruthless killer.

When Nova Doubeck is asked to foster two children, she can’t say no. With her own childhood wounds healed by adoptive parents, Nova understands the rewards of a caring guardian—even an impermanent one. But nine-year-old Henry and his seven-year-old sister, Bella, are more than Nova bargained for.

Was ist Heimat und wie lässt man die Provinz hinter sich, davon erzählt Sabine Rennefanz voller Ironie und Melancholie. Kathleen hat es geschafft. Sie ist erfolgreich, redegewandt, attraktiv. Seit Jahren lebt sie als Grafikerin in London. Woher sie kommt, hat sie hinter sich gelassen. Zumindest glaubt sie das. Doch die Besuche bei ihrer Mutter im brandenburgischen Kosakenberg konfrontieren sie mit einer Welt, der sie in den neunziger Jahren zu entkommen versuchte und die nun eine ungeahnte Kraft entfaltet.

Cuando la vida perfecta de Kate se desmorona de repente, huye de Londres para refugiarse en una pequeña casa en Nightingale Square, en Norwich. Allí tiene la esperanza de encontrar una existencia tranquila lejos de la traición y el dolor. Sin embargo, sus planes de vivir en paz se ven truncados cuando se involucra en la comunidad local, compuesta por una variedad de personalidades, dirigidas por la franca pero encantadora madre de tres hijos, Lisa.

It’s an hour away from darkness, a bitter winter storm is raging, and Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett is deep in the forest near Battle Mountain: shotgun in his left hand, his truck’s steering wheel handcuffed to his right – and Lamar Gardiner’s arrow-riddled corpse splayed against the tree in front of him. Joe knows that Lamar’s murder and the sudden onslaught of the snowstorm mean he should get off the mountain. But he also knows this episode is far from over.