Showing results for "Nature" in Women's Fiction

April 18, 1906: A massive earthquake rocks San Francisco just before daybreak, igniting a devouring inferno. Lives are lost, lives are shattered, but some rise from the ashes forever changed. Sophie Whalen is a young Irish immigrant so desperate to get out of a New York tenement that she answers...

New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard’s novels, with their riveting stories and unforgettable characters, have won the hearts of millions of readers. Now, from the author of The Deep End of the Ocean and No Time to Wave Goodbye, comes the fierce and moving tale of one woman’s...

Ogni punto di partenza ha bisogno di un ritorno. Per riconciliarsi con il mondo, dopo una storia d'amore finita, Adelaide torna nel paese in cui è nata, un pugno di case in pietra tra le montagne aspre della Val Germanasca: una terra resistente dove si parla una lingua antica e poetica. È lì per rifugiarsi nel respiro lungo della sua infanzia, negli odori familiari di bosco e legna che arde, dipanare le matasse dei giorni e ricucirsi alla sua terra: ‘fare la muta al cuore', come scrive nelle lettere al figlio.

Spend a white Christmas on Summer Island, where the fires are warm and the romance is hotter Lila Sloan wonders why she ever thought house-sitting for her sister Meg on the remote Summer Island was a good idea. And to make matters worse, local real estate developer Beck Grainger is trying to cut...

It Had to be You reaffirms Nobbs as the best writer of comedy and observer of the nuances of human nature that there is today. One man, five very different women. James Hollingshurst is a man shaped by those who surround him. And in James's case, it's some very different women. Be it his trusty...

We Are Unprepared is a novel about the next big storm, the one that changes our relationship to nature and each other...the superstorm that threatens to destroy a marriage, a rural Vermont town and the Eastern Seaboard when it hits. But the destruction begins months earlier, when fear infects...

Another spring, another dead girl pulled from a lake in the Appalachian foothills: the latest victim in a series of murders with few leads. But Detective Geena Brassard and her partner, Parker Reed, finally land a break when they receive a tip about a previously unknown survivor of the so-called Spring Strangler. The survivor’s reluctant to help with the case for reasons that aren’t all clear. Even so, Geena uncovers a connective thread between the victims, and recently discovered DNA brings her closer to the killer’s identity.

From the national bestselling author of Breaking Wild, here is a riveting and powerful thriller about a woman whose greatest threat could be the man she loves.… Marian Engström has found her true calling: working with rescue dogs to help protect endangered wildlife. Her first assignment takes...

A girl emerges from the woods, starved, ill, and alone...and collapses. Suzanne Blakemore hurtles along the Blue Ridge Parkway, away from her overscheduled and completely normal life, and encounters the girl. As Suzanne rushes her to the hospital, she never imagines how the encounter will change her - a change she both fears and desperately needs. Suzanne has the perfect house, a successful husband, and a thriving family.

"Der Begriff 'Meisterwerk' wird zu häufig benutzt, doch 'Mein Ein und Alles' ist ohne jeden Zweifel eines." - Stephen King. Dieser Roman über ein junges Mädchen hat Amerika überwältigt und gespalten. Denn Turtle Alveston, so verletzlich wie stark, ist eine der unvergesslichsten Heldinnen der zeitgenössischen Literatur. Sie wächst weltabgeschieden in den nordkalifornischen Wäldern auf, wo sie jede Pflanze und jede Kreatur kennt. Sucht auf tagelangen Streifzügen in der Natur Zuflucht vor der obsessiven Liebe ihres charismatischen und schwer gestörten Vaters.