Résultats pour "VIER" dans Petites villes et ruralité

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Twin sisters Jocelyn and Maddy Marx grew up in a tight-knit family on Cape Cod, but they couldn’t be more different. Jocelyn, laid-back and dreamy, still lives in their hometown as a Realtor. Maddy, intense and ambitious, left for New York after college and never looked back. Until the summer they turn thirty-one. After a dramatic fall from grace in her career, a pregnant Maddy returns to the Cape with her husband and announces she’s back for good.

Costretto all'esilio dal duca di Lu, Confucio disse: "Se la mia strada finisce, salirò su una zattera e mi lascerò portare verso il mare". E così Kongzi, settantaseiesimo discendente diretto del grande filosofo, fugge con la moglie incinta e la figlia quando la Squadra della pianificazione familiare entra nel villaggio per sterilizzare con la forza tutte le donne fertili e interrompere le gravidanze di quelle che hanno già un figlio.

Margaret Dane Clayton has spent her entire life at the Dane Crown Inn, the beautiful resort in the quiet beachside town of Emerald Bay. But the inn once hailed as the "gem of Florida's Treasure Coast" is showing its age, much like its fiercely independent owner. Margaret swears she'll keep the doors of the inn open forever—until an accident forces her to accept that she can no longer cater to guests on her own. After reaching the most difficult decision of her life, Margaret asks her daughter and nieces to grant her one final wish before she places the property on the market.

Em 1996, aos 16 anos, Maggie Dawes vai morar com uma tia que mal conhece em um vilarejo remoto na Carolina do Norte. Solitária e infeliz, ela só recupera o apetite pela vida quando conhece Bryce Trickett, um dos poucos adolescentes do lugar. Autêntico, bonito e inteligente, Bryce apresenta a Maggie as belezas do vilarejo e a fotografia, uma paixão que, assim como o jovem, vai definir o resto da vida dela. Em 2019, Maggie é uma renomada fotógrafa que mora em Nova York e se divide entre sua galeria de sucesso e as viagens a trabalho por todo o mundo.

New World Shipping supervisor Ben Harrison is a happily married man in his mid-thirties when he wakes up alone—and dead. Isolated in a strange new place where all the clocks read 6:55, the last thing Ben remembers is a series of both good and bad memories. When he finds a bakery that hasn’t existed since his childhood, he meets the owner, Harold Toll, who explains that they’re in purgatory. Ben’s fate now lies in an upper power’s hands, so he must make the most of it.

Growing up, Violet was so busy helping others realize their dreams, she found little time to pursue her own. But five years ago, she took the chance of a lifetime, leaving the family bookshop on Brinkley’s Island, Maine, to attend culinary school in Paris. Now she’s working her dream job as a pâtissiere in an upscale Parisian restaurant—yet all she can think about is home.

På Mostamägg lever Annikka et stille og nært liv med Jon og hans datter Selma. Hverdagen er fuld af arbejde, varme og små glæder – men under overfladen vokser en uro, som ingen af dem helt kan sætte ord på. I Amerika drømmer Karin om at vende hjem, men noget holder hende tilbage. På Val kola spirer en uventet kærlighed, og på Grønnåsen mærker Märta, at det, hun troede var urokkeligt, ikke længere er sikkert. Som træet falder er sjette bog i serien om folkene i Finnskogen – en stærk og sanselig fortælling om kærlighed, arv og det, vi bærer med os gennem livet.

Rachel returns to the family farmhouse to check on her aging father—once a strong, principled man now slipping into confusion and decline. But what begins as a simple visit unravels into something far darker. The family’s once-prized coin collection is mysteriously missing. Important documents have been altered. And at the center of it all stands Eli—her brother, her childhood tormentor, and the master of lies who’s been manipulating their father from the shadows.

The year 1916 was not shaping up to be a good one for Alafair Tucker, and finding Bernie Arruda dead in a ditch didn’t help matters. Alafair had not wanted to go to Arizona in the first place. But her 10-year-old daughter, Blanche, was suffering from a stubborn ailment of the lungs, and her best chance for a cure was dry desert air. So Alafair and her husband, Shaw, had bundled their sick child onto the train and made the difficult trip from Oklahoma to the home of Alafair’s sister in Tempe, Arizona.

At the Bounty Canyon Ranch in Southeastern New Mexico, the bodies of Luke and Deona Pruitt are buried in a manure pit and their 14-year-old son Leeland Pruitt is missing. Deputy Sheriff Greenwood is called out to investigate the missing Pruitt family and discovers the grim scene. Leeland’s brutal upbringing was an open secret overlooked by neighbors and teachers for years. The community turned a blind eye as Leeland was moved by his cruel father from one remote ranch to another. And so, Deputy Greenwood begins a twenty-four-hour hunt to find and save the boy suspected of murdering his parents.

Once upon a time, Natasha believed in love. At nineteen, her heart was captivated by a man who promised her the world, only to vanish, leaving her to carry the weight of shattered dreams—and the child she never expected. A decade later, Natasha is focused on providing love and stability for her daughter, determined to break the cycle of poverty and trauma that haunted her own childhood. As they settle into the peaceful rhythms of Settlers Bridge, Natasha is drawn to the local mechanic, Hamish, whose quiet strength stirs feelings she hadn't expected to ever experience again.

Marianne ist acht Jahre alt, als ihre Mutter verschwindet. Sie bleibt mit ihrem Bruder Joe und ihrem Vater in einem Haus am Rande eines kleinen Dorfes zurück, neben dem ein Fluss entspringt. Die bruchstückhaften Erinnerungen an die Liebe ihrer Mutter geben ihr Kraft: der Duft frischer Kräuter, die Spiele, die sie spielten, die Lieder und Märchen aus ihrer Kindheit, die in Mariannes Fantasie weiterleben. Doch da ist so vieles, das verborgen liegt im Dunkel ihrer eigenen Geschichte. Die drängendste Frage: Warum ist ihre Mutter gegangen, wie hat sie Marianne nur zurücklassen können?

When Vanessa Young finds herself aged out of her job as a Hollywood stylist and facing the loss of her father, she acts on a bold impulse and reconnects with the daughter she gave up for adoption thirty years ago. To her surprise, Emily is also at a crossroads in her life, equally eager for change and a fresh start. Together, they travel to Vanessa's hometown of Rosemary Beach, Florida, to embark on a journey of self-discovery and second chances.

Johanne Johansen muss kurz nach ihrem 65. Geburtstag erfahren, dass das traditionsreiche Familienunternehmen – die Elbreederei Kurt Johansen & Söhne – kurz vor der Pleite steht. Johanne, die nach dem frühen Tod der Eltern bei den Großeltern aufwuchs und sich bis zum Schluss um sie gekümmert hat, ist entsetzt und ratlos. Das Lebenswerk ihrer Eltern steht auf dem Spiel und sie weiß, dass sie es ohne Hilfe nicht schaffen kann.

Regina is a socially awkward loner who is content to live a life withdrawn from everyone except her cherished pet bunny. But after seven years of silence, Regina's brother, Ricky, shows up unannounced on her doorstep, along with his daughter, Jez—a peculiar six-year-old with an unnerving vicious streak—upending Regina's quiet life. It's clear to Regina that something terrible has happened, though the truth won't come to the surface easily. After all, Regina and Ricky lived a childhood fraught with secrets buried as deep as the fossils in the desolate landscape around them.

Als Anneloes Beekman ontdekt dat haar rijke en succesvolle echtgenoot vreemdgaat, verlaat ze hem en hun luxe ­leventje in Wassenaar. In een opwelling koopt ze een ­vervallen huis met blauwe luiken in midden-Frankrijk om er een chambres d'hôtes in te beginnen. Maar na de eerste euforie loopt ze tegen de harde werkelijkheid aan: het huis moet intensief verbouwd worden, en zelf kan ze amper een schroef van een spijker onderscheiden. Gelukkig maakt ze gemakkelijk vrienden. Met hulp van de Nederlandse klusjesman Sjoerd, de Franse kokkin Georgette en nog meer kleurrijke streekgenoten weet ze een nieuw bestaan op te bouwen.

Pregnant with her second child, Martha King finds her marriage to lawyer Austin King more and more frustrating when her husband befriends his young foster cousin, Nora, and, in the process, unwittingly jeopardizes his marriage, career, and place in the community.

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 has made some bad investments and fled, leaving them with a cottage in the English countryside and a modest bank account.

On a solo ski vacation in Canyon Mines, Colorado, Tucker has a love-hate relationship with his wealth, spending indiscriminately while skiing fearlessly and preparing to conquer the overgrown slope of Hidden Run, a dangerous run not attempted in decades. As genealogist Jillian tries to uncover enough of Tucker's family tree to understand his charming nature but reckless resolve, Jillian's equally charming father, Nolan, cajoles Tucker into giving him ski lessons to get him talking about the suspicious circumstances surrounding his grandfather's life in St. Louis in the 1930s.