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.

Orphaned cousins Jane and Lucilla, both 19, receive the exciting news that their guardian is at last allowing them to leave boarding school. But their rosy future is thwarted when they find he's made some bad investments and fled, leaving them with a cottage in the English countryside....

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....

Dolly Maunder is born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society's long-locked doors are just starting to creak ajar for determined women. Growing up in a poor farming family in rural New South Wales, Dolly spends her life doggedly pushing at those doors.

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....

Vera Gallagher is chasing constant. For four years, her life was anything but normal. And the years before that she refuses to even remember. Dwelling on the past only hurts. Life is fragile, a lesson her mother taught her well....

So, it turns out the town sheriff is a total cinnamon roll. A big, burly, grumpy, hot as sin, cinnamon roll. He found me hiding out on private property. Trespassing. I lied and told him I was only there because I was out of cash and had to sleep in my car....

A sexy firefighter. A much younger Nanny. The heat between them could burn down a small country. He doesn't believe in forever. And she won't settle for anything less....

Ruskin Bond’s simple characters, living amidst the lush forests of the Himalayan foothills, are remarkable for their quiet heroism, courage and grace, and age-old values of honesty and fidelity.  These stories are a magnificent evocation of an India that may be fast disappearing....

In November 2014 Arla Macleod bludgeoned her mother, father and sister to death with a hammer....

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....

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....

One incredible weekend in Maine, and Beckett Porter is officially a distracted man. He’s not unfamiliar with hot and heavy flings. He knows how it goes. But Evie wove some sort of magic over him during their tumble in the sheets. He can’t stop thinking about her laugh....

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....

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....

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...

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

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....

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

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

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....

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

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

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....

Tschüß, St. Peter-Ording - Tante Lilo, nicht mehr ganz frische 70, muss aus Gesundheitsgründen in wärmere Gefilde ziehen. Aber was wird nun aus ihrer geliebten Strandperle? Entschlossen vermacht sie das Unternehmen ihren zwei Nichten Insa und Stephanie. Zwei gestandene Frauen, die sich nur vom Hörensagen kennen... Für Insa ist der Nordseeort eine willkommene Abwechslung zum Schnellimbiss in Gelsenkirchen, für Stephanie die perfekte Fluchtmöglichkeit von ihrem betrügerischen Ehemann in Düsseldorf. Doch kaum erreichen sie ihr Erbe, knirscht der Sand im Getriebe ihrer Hoffnung.

Ein irisches Dorf auf dem Land. Geschichten aus einer unbeschwerten Zeit. Das perfekte Hörbuch für alle, die dem Alltag entfliehen wollen... Endlich ist Barry Laverty fertig mit seinem Medizinstudium. Voller Elan tritt der frischgebackene Arzt seine erste Stelle an. Doch Ballybucklebo ist nicht Belfast, die Uhren ticken etwas anders in dem abgeschiedenen Dorf in Nordirland. Und auch an seinen neuen Chef muss Barry sich erst gewöhnen. Dr. O'Reillys oberste Regel: sich niemals von einem Patienten etwas sagen lassen! Statt Schmerztabletten verordnet er lieber Vitaminpillen.

Über die Verbundenheit zu einer Insel, die alles überdauert. Zwischen Austernfischern und Regenpfeifern ist Nanning zu Hause: Amrum, die wilde Nordseeinsel mit ihren Sandbänken und den leuchtenden Heidekrautfeldern ist alles, was er kennt. Doch der Krieg geht auch an der kleinen Inselgemeinde nicht spurlos vorbei. Lebensmittel sind knapp, und solange der Vater nicht bei ihnen ist, muss Nanning sich um die hochschwangere Mutter und seine kleinen Geschwister kümmern.

It's summer, 1984, in blue-collar Swaffham, Massachusetts. Mel is thirteen, drinking a Slush Puppie at the drugstore, when she hears a voice, ‘deep and movie-star dramatic, like Lauren Bacall': Sylvia. What follows is a story of transgender awakening. Sylvia's shameless swagger and tough-girl trans femininity is an affront to the Swaffham locals, and her presence triggers hatred and, ultimately, violence. But it is also a catalyst for Mel. Through her friendship with Sylvia, Mel comes to realize that not only is there a world beyond Swaffham, there are other ways of being.

Maggie and Liz may be sisters (and yes, named after a pair of much more famous siblings) but that's about all they have in common. Maggie is a free spirit - travelling the world, flitting through life and relationships without ever really having to connect. Liz, meanwhile, is the lynchpin of Little Martin village society and determined to be the perfect wife, mother and homemaker - even if she does live in a new build. When Liz and Maggie's beloved grandmother, Queen Vic, dies in a characteristically flamboyant fashion, they are left to deal with the aftermath - inheriting the family home.

Martha ist eine beeindruckende Frau, die es aus ärmsten Verhältnissen zu bescheidenem Wohlstand gebracht hat. Aber die Erinnerung an die Entbehrungen ihrer Kindheit als »Verdingkind« bei einer Bauernfamilie im Berner Umland lässt sie nie los: Keine Schwäche zeigen. Arbeiten ohne Unterlass. Hart sein zu sich und anderen. Das prägt auch ihre Söhne, die es in der Nachkriegszeit unbedingt zu etwas bringen wollen. Und ihre Enkel, die dagegen rebellieren und es erstmals wagen, sich ein anderes, ein freieres Leben zu erträumen.

Rings um die Hacienda Rosa Blanca von Hacinto Yañez in Mexiko wird nach Öl gebohrt, was aber die Farm, die ganz im Einklang mit der Natur bewirtschaftet wird, bisher wenig beeinträchtigt hat. Ihre Bewohner führen ein gutes und bescheidenes Leben, die Farm ist ihnen Heimat und Leben. Doch alles ändert sich, als ihr Besitzer ermordet wird und sich Chaney C. Collins, Präsident der Condor Oil Company, die Farm widerrechtlich aneignet, denn die Ölgesellschaft ist eine Firma mit gewaltigem Appetit.

When Lettie’s parents call her and her brother back to Hollyhock Farm on the island of Jersey, the last thing they expect to be told is that their childhood home is up for sale. Back on the island, with its rolling hills and golden sands, Lettie immediately remembers what it feels like to breathe in the fresh air in the green fields, and be part of this tight-knit community – a far cry from the life of events and high fashion she leads in London. But she surprises even herself when she suggests that she instead could take over Hollyhock Farm.

"Дворянское гнездо" Ивана Тургенева — социально-бытовой роман, в котором автор дает широкую картину жизни русского дворянства. Множественные семейные интриги, любовь и разбитые надежды главных героев составляют идейную основу произведения. Перу автора принадлежат и другие известные произведения, такие как "Ася", "Отцы и дети", "Дворянское гнездо", "Бирюк", "Накануне", "Муму", "Пожар на море", "Постоялый двор", "Часы", "Три портрета", "Странная история", "Свидание" и т. д.

Spontaniczność to słowo, które nie istnieje w słowniku Ingi. Dziewczyna zmaga się z perfekcjonizmem oraz nadmierną potrzebą kontroli, a w jej poukładanym życiu nie ma miejsca na nieprzewidziane sytuacje. Mimo że od dziecka pracuje w Jodłowym Zagajniku – pensjonacie położonym w Beskidzie Żywieckim, którym zarządza jej mama, swoją przyszłość wiąże z prawem. Planuje przeprowadzić się do Krakowa, lecz obawia się reakcji apodyktycznej Anety. Kobieta oczekuje, że córka poświęci się pracy w rodzinnej posiadłości, rezygnując z własnych marzeń.

She's my best friend's daughter, and I have no business wanting her the way I do. Especially since it's my fault that her dad died. Call it survivor's guilt if you must. I just know I'm to blame. Still, when she comes to me for help, I can't refuse her. Which means sleeping on my sofa so she can take my bed. Emerson is temptation personified. Giving into my desires and touching her would make me the worst sort of man. But everyone has their limits.

Ten years later, I'm back on the island for my best friend's wedding as her maid of honor. Who's the first person I literally stumbled into? Riley Dixon. Even worse? He's the groom's best man and a self-made billionaire to boot. Being forced to spend an entire week together for wedding festivities quickly leads to more—hot hate sex, late nights of sneaking out, and unexpected revelations. The boy I knew a decade ago is gone, and the hate becomes… something else entirely. And I begin to wonder if Riley is hiding some secrets of his own.

After raising twin girls as a single father and spending his days on construction sites, Ford was ready to live out his early retirement on his terms, which included solitude and fishing. So he ditched the big city, moved to a town the size of a postage stamp, and bought a house in the middle of nowhere without a neighbor in sight. His recluse plans hit a snag when the abandoned house down the road is suddenly inhabited by a woman who bears a striking resemblance to his childhood crush and her four kids.

At birth, Violet and Rose Flowers were identical, save for a tiny bluish-purple mark gracing Violet’s slender neck. By nineteen, their temperaments distinguish them, as different as the flowers their mother named them for—Violet, wild and outgoing, and Rose, solitary and reserved. Still, they are each other’s world. Then, on a sweltering, terrible August night in 1928, an explosion rocks Lamb’s Dance Hall in Possum Flats, Missouri, engulfing it in flames, leaving one twin among the dozens dead, and her sister’s life forever changed.

As kids, Amelia and Kylee were found unharmed in their upstairs bedroom the night their teenage cousin Grace, who was babysitting them, vanished from the farmhouse in Beaumont, Missouri, leaving blood all over the kitchen. Scrappy and driven, Grace, the first in their family to go to college instead of getting married and working at the meatpacking plant, had been on the verge of escaping their dead-end town. Her disappearance is a warning to any local girl who dared hope for better.