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Berl Pickett is living in the small town of Livingston, Montana. The son of Pentecostal rug-shampooers, Pickett has never been the social toast of the town, but when he is accused of negligent homicide in the death of his former lover, he finds himself ostracized by his colleagues and realizes just how small his little village truly is. But fortunately for Berl, the very thing that sets him apart—his inability to follow the pack—proves to be his saving grace. With this inglorious hero, McGuane has created an unforgettable voyager.

Angelika er vokset op i skærgården og kender den som sin egen bukselomme, hvilket er en stor fordel, nu hvor hun ejer skærgårdens førende ejendomsmæglerfirma. Men succesen har sin pris. En dag siger hendes krop stop og hovedet føles tomt. Mange års stress har indhentet hende, og efter opmuntring fra sin bror går hun modvilligt med til at tage en måned fri. Det viser sig at være lettere sagt end gjort at lære at falde til ro, men da ferien nærmer sig sin afslutning, begynder hun alligevel at tvivle - vil hun virkelig tilbage til sit gamle liv?

Meet the Pomeroys: a church-going family living in a too-red house in a Texas college town. Roger, the patriarch, has impulsively gone back to school, only to find his future ambitions at odds with the temptations of the present. His wife, Georgia, tries to keep things afloat at home, but she's been feeding the bill drawer with unopened envelopes for months and never manages to confront its swelling contents. In an attempt to climb out of the holes they've dug, Roger and Georgia make a series of choices that have catastrophic consequences for their three children

Six-million acres of Adirondack forest separate Natalie and Doug Larson from civilization. For the newlyweds, the isolated backcountry honeymoon seemed ideal for starting their lives together, but as they begin to explore the dark interiors of their own hearts, it soon becomes clear that they are not alone in the woods. A man watches them, wielding the forest like a weapon. He wants something from them that's more terrifying than death. And once they are near him, he will do everything in his power to make sure they never walk out again.

Claire Pedersen and her husband are relocating from NYC to the Catskills—they have found a terrific deal on a property in foreclosure. The house has been in April Ives’s family for three generations, but the single mother of three children from two different fathers needs the money. Claire and April are instantly antagonistic, but the sale proceeds, and renovations begin. Soon after, Claire’s husband develops an erotic fascination with Anna, a young member of a nearby religious community called The Eternals. Two marriages—and one pregnancy—swiftly and dramatically end.

È il 1951. In un piccolo casolare nella campagna del Polesine, dove i temporali ingoiano all’improvviso i cieli luminosi e il granturco cresce alto e impenetrabile, vivono Norma e Nilde, due cugine cresciute come se fossero sorelle dopo che un bombardamento durante la guerra ha ucciso le loro madri. Nilde è una ragazza riservata e timorosa di tutto e la sua ansia aumenta quando Norma inizia a comportarsi in maniera strana.

A veces la gente inventa lugares habitables. Es el caso de la aldea que supieron fundar Mercedes, Luis Mariano y el Viejo Balía. Muchas mujeres y hombres aparecen en los 104 relatos breves que se engarzan en esta novela. El grupo de protagonistas, cada cual con su profundidad psicológica, se enfrenta a las amenazas de los cataclismos naturales y de la violencia política. Inspirada en los acontecimientos que vivieron personas reales, La aldea debajo de la montaña nos muestra lo que puede la literatura cuando juega con otros saberes.

Come Away From Her is a boldly written mystery-suspense novel set in the rural town of Black Walnut. The story revolves around the arrival of Tess, a deaf woman running from her past, who unwittingly sets into motion a chain of disturbing events as she is forced to share her secrets with the strangers around her. Her presence upsets the status quo for the townspeople, none more so than for Cap, the pastor of the local church whose life has been marred by substance abuse and tragedy. The morning that Cap discovers a dead body outside the church, life as the town knows it is forever changed.

Luca Sabatini ritorna al paese natale in Abruzzo dopo quarant'anni di prigione: il vero colpevole del delitto ha confessato in punto di morte. L'intero borgo però non perdona a Luca quel presunto "peccato" che è stato foriero di rovina per tutti, né gli perdona di non aver tentato di difendersi. Uomo mite, Luca sopporta la solitudine sorretto dal segreto ricordo di un amore impossibile. Solo Andrea Cipriani, antifascista e capo partigiano appena tornato dall'esiilio, cerca di comprendere.

Jacob, a middle-aged architect living in Copenhagen, is in the alcohol-soaked throes of a bitter divorce when he receives an unexpected call from his great-uncle Anton, who is in his 90s and still lives with his brother, Anders, on their rural Jutland farm - a place Jacob hasn't visited since the summer of 1978. Anton asks Jacob to answer the question that has haunted them both for decades: What happened to Ellen? To find out, Jacob must revisit the farm and confront what took place that summer - one defined by his teenage obsession with Ellen.

Morning rush hour on the Golden Gate Bridge. Amid the river of metal and glass, a shocking event occurs, leaving those who witnessed it desperately looking for answers, most notably one man and his son, Jake, who captured the event and uploaded it to the Internet for all the world to experience. As the media swarms over the story, Jake will face the ramifications of his actions, as he learns the perils of our modern disconnect between the real world and the world we create online.

Set in a small coal-mining town, a debut novel full of secrets, love, betrayal, and suspicious accidents, where Catholicism casts a long shadow and two courageous women make choices that will challenge our own moral convictions.

Ein schicksalhafter Sommer, der fatale Lügen und lang gehütete Geheimnisse ans Licht bringt. Bis jetzt war Sycamore Glen die perfekte amerikanische Kleinstadt-Idylle: behütete Kinder, Familien, die sich ihr ganzes Leben lang kennen, freundliche Nachbarn, die sich gegenseitig helfen. Doch als der Sommer anbricht, bekommt die schöne Fassade plötzlich Risse. Erst verschwindet ein kleines Mädchen spurlos. Dann ertrinkt um ein Haar vor den Augen aller ein Junge im Pool, dem Mittelpunkt des sonst so heiteren Gemeinschaftslebens.

Edward Stanton, ein 39-jähriger Mann mit zwanghafter Persönlichkeitsstörung und Asperger-Syndrom, lebt allein und nach strengem Zeitplan in der Stadt seiner Kindheit in Montana. Zu seinen sorgsam ausgearbeiteten Routineabläufen gehört es, dass er täglich seine Aufwachzeit notiert, um die häufigste zu ermitteln (7:38 Uhr), seine Therapiesitzung niemals auch nur eine Sekunde vor dem vereinbarten Termin beginnt (10:00 Uhr).

Ren Ishida is nearly finished with graduate school when he receives news of his sister Keiko's sudden death. She was viciously stabbed one rainy night on her way home, and there are no leads. Ren heads to Akakawa to conclude his sister's affairs, still failing to understand why she chose to abandon the family and Tokyo for this desolate town years ago. Haunted in his dreams by a young girl who is desperately trying to tell him something, Ren struggles to find solace in the void his sister has left behind.

TV presenter Allis Hagtorn leaves her partner and her job to take voluntary exile in a remote house on an isolated fjord. But her new job as housekeeper and gardener is not all that it seems, and her silent, surly employer, 44-year-old Sigurd Bagge, is not the old man she expected. As they await the return of his wife from her travels, their silent, uneasy encounters develop into a chilling, obsessive relationship, and it becomes clear that atonement for past sins may not be enough.

Moralito es un hombre de campo, analfabeto, que sufre en un grave accidente con su caballo que lo deja paralítico. Pasará muchos meses acostado en la cama de un hospital. En ese tiempo conocerá a Néstor, un asistente social que le enseñará a leer usando el Quijote como herramienta. Moralito no tardará en sentirse identificado con el libro y a partir de esto, su mundo empezará a transformarse.

Moralito vive en el campo, lejos de la ciudad. Un día sufre un accidente trabajando con su caballo.