Résultats pour "David" dans Petites villes et ruralité

In March 1867, Ezekiel Washington, a Black veteran of the 5th U.S. Colored Troops, files a homestead claim on 160 acres of Nebraska prairie. He builds a soddie with his own hands, breaks the sod, plants corn, and waits for the land to become his. Five years later, a rigged hearing strips him of everything. In 1885, a Bohemian immigrant family purchases the land, never knowing who built the house they now call home. In 1993, Marcus Cole arrives at the prison built on that same ground. Over fifteen years, he learns the story of the man who first claimed it.

Après quelques années passées à Atlanta, Toya Gardner, une jeune artiste afro-américaine, revient dans la petite ville des montagnes de Caroline du Nord d'où sa famille est originaire. Déterminée à dénoncer l'histoire esclavagiste de la région, elle ne tarde pas à s'y livrer à quelques actions d'éclat, provoquant de violentes tensions dans la communauté. Au même moment, Ernie, un policier du comté, arrête un mystérieux voyageur qui se révèle être un suprémaciste blanc. Celui-ci a en sa possession un carnet dans lequel figurent les noms de notables de la région. 

Introducing a remarkable new character from #1 New York Times bestselling writer David Baldacci: Atlee Pine, an FBI agent with special skills assigned to the remote wilds of the southwestern United States who must confront a new threat . . . and an old nightmare. Eeny, meeny, miny, moe. Catch a...

Business lately has been deadly for Ike Kelly. Recent unexpected gunplay has left his agency to a single operative. John Henry Cole is that operative. Kelly has received a letter from former lover Lydia Winslow, who operates an escort service in the new mining camp of Deadwood in Dakota Territory. "Three young women have been murdered since they arrived in camp." It is obviously a dangerous assignment, and Cole is advised that he must take every precaution - as if he needed such advice.

Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award An AudioFile Editors’ Pick for Summer Listening A Cullman Times Pick of Beach Reads A Shreveport Times Pick of Beach Reads with a Thrill One of Goodreads Biggest Books of Summer 2023 An International Pulpwood Queens Choice of Bonus Book-Club Reads A...

Ma’s Diner picks up where the author’s previous book, Two Seasons, leaves off and takes you on another humorous ride through the tiny little Maine village. As you pass under Ma's 'unwelcoming' sign, you'll go past Old Marmaduke’s place, beyond the aging town office, right by Ruby Red's Hair Salon across from Smirnoff’s General store, straight past MkIntyre's Used Car Emporium and ultimately arrive at Ma’s Diner. Stop in and take a seat next to the rest of the townsfolks as they tell tales of their adventures while Ma cooks up a good meal, eavesdrops, and chimes in from the kitchen.

Introducing a remarkable new character from #1 New York Times bestselling writer David Baldacci: Atlee Pine, an FBI agent with special skills assigned to the remote wilds of the southwestern United States who must confront a new threat . . . and an old nightmare. Eeny, meeny, miny, moe. Catch a...

When a murder occurs in a small town in Upstate New York, retired police detective Graham Sanderson, is drawn back into a vortex of violence, deception, and a series of murders which get dangerously personal. Graham Sanderson thought he’d left it all behind. His years as a Washington, DC...

Menace awaits. Sleath. Quiet, peaceful. A small village hidden away in the Chiltern Hills, almost forgotten by the modern world. Nothing much seems to happen here; little disturbs the centuries-old tranquillity. Until the ghosts begin to appear and frighteningly bizarre events start to occur. Psychic investigator David Ash, a man burdened by the dark secret of his own past, is sent to Sleath to investigate the phenomena and his discoveries there drive him to the very edge of his own sanity.

After losing his only son and his beloved wife, Joseph Finley found himself alone in a world that he did not fully understand. As a writer, he spent most of his time lost in fictional worlds. His love for antiques and rare historical items kept him busy while he found himself staying at the hotel that he owned but rarely visited. While he prided himself on not being seen at the Brick and Rose, relationships grew like the roses in the garden.

Brought to you by Penguin. If it had happened to you, you would have run away too. Twenty-five years ago, Paul's friend Charlie Crabtree brutally killed their classmate - and then vanished without a trace. Paul's never forgiven himself for his part in what happened. He's never gone back home...

Fulfilling his father's last wishes, Dani embarks on a road trip back to his childhood village, a three-hour hearse journey from Madrid. Leaving behind the busy streets of the city for the deserted, archaic heart of Spain, Dani revisits the key junctions of his life: his conflicted relationship with a pragmatic and authoritarian father; the mystery of his birth; his school years in the repressed atmosphere of Catholic Spain; the origin of his band and its early successes; the emptiness left by a tragically lost friendship; his great loves. 

From bestselling author and master storyteller David Baldacci, Wish You Well is a dramatic and enthralling tale of family unity in the face of adversity. Tragedy strikes the New York-based Cardinal family when their car is involved in a terrible accident. Twelve-year-old Lou and seven-year-old...

Welcome to Cherry Run, Pennsylvania, the epitome of a “blink and you’ll miss it” American town, where the jobs are dead-end, the ultimate dream is hitting the lottery, and the only apparent escape is drinking at the Ruffled Grouse. In story-like chapters, Strip Cuts spans a seven-year period, beginning with and centering around Seth Hardy, a young man struggling to come into his own despite a dreaded nickname and the low expectations of those around him.

From the award-winning, bestselling author of Snow Falling on Cedars—a moving father-son story that is also a taut courtroom drama and a bold examination of privilege, power, and how to live a meaningful life. "Ultimately, the mystery at the center of The Final Case is not about innocence or...

Con prosa quirúrgica y una capacidad prodigiosa para el análisis de las emociones humanas, David Monteagudo nos regala una novela coral compuesta de instantáneas en la vida de un pueblo pequeño que es a la vez infierno grande. Miserias, secretos, obsesiones, mentiras y crímenes sin resolver forman un mosaico del alma de hombres y mujeres que sorprenderá a los lectores más avezados.

Gayle is a teacher and each year she brings her class to the island to see the local flora and fauna, from sea birds to playful seals. Martin, the island's caretaker and only human resident, lives in and maintains the lighthouse, which opens to the public for just this one day a year. Gayle is effervescent but feels trapped, while Martin is lonely and isolated. As their love slowly builds over time, they both yearn for the annual field trip where they can finally see each other. Until one year Gayle doesn't come back, and Martin has to leave his island hideaway to find her.

Set in the bucolic town of Angie, Louisiana, The Lord’s Acre tells the story of Eli Woodbine, a young boy who watches helplessly as his fundamentalist parents give in to their increasing sense of desperation and paranoia, living in a world where they can no longer see any hope or reason for existing. When the family is at their absolute lowest, they come across a local, charismatic church leader, in whom they quickly place all of their faith. Yet this man—known to them only as “Father”—is unlike anyone they have ever encountered before.

From the streets of Danang, Vietnam, where a boy falls in with a young American missionary, to fishermen lost off the islands of Honduras, to the Canadian prairies, where a teenage boys infatuation reveals his naiveté and an aging rancher finds himself smitten, the short stories in Here the Dark explore the spaces between doubt and belief, evil and good, obscurity and light. 

Sitcom set in a Local Authority Register Office, where the staff deal with the three greatest events in anybody's life. David Schneider (The Day Today, I'm Alan Partridge), stars as chief registrar Malcolm Fox, who is a stickler for rules and would be willing to interrupt any wedding service if...