Résultats pour "man" dans Petites villes et ruralité

Cid, a seasoned city guard for the past 20 years, has traded in his sword for a fishing rod and a peaceful life as a farmer in the charming and cozy village of Haven. Surrounded by former battlemages and their families, Cid finds himself drawn into the local community's struggles and triumphs, including the occasional misuse of magic and a wee bit of revelry. With Maggie, the local tavern owner and love interest, by his side, Cid learns to appreciate the slower pace of village life and the joys of baking, cooking competitions, and marshalling the occasional scoundrel.

August 1999. Sengende Hitze liegt über Bodenstein, dem Heimatort des 15-jährigen Pascal. Eigentlich könnte er den Sommer genießen. Doch seit er nicht mehr schwimmen geht, mag er den Sommer nicht mehr. Wieso, das kann er nicht erzählen. Auch nicht, weshalb er sich nicht verlieben darf. Sein Geheimnis und seine Geschichten hütet er wie einen Schatz. Doch dann kracht Jacky in seine Welt: ein furchtloses Zirkusmädchen mit roten Haaren und wasserblauen Augen. Zusammen verbringen sie den letzten Sommertag, der alles für immer verändert.

Backstage nerves are fraying, and revenge is on its way. As Causton Amateur Dramatic Society prepares for the opening night of Amadeus, in the wings Esslyn Carmichael suspects his wife is having an affair with the leading man. And where better to settle scores than the stage? Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby expects an evening of entertainment, attending only to show support for his wife. But when someone turns Esslyn’s final grand gesture into a gruesome coup de theatre, Barnaby’s investigation suddenly begins.

"Australian narrator Stephen Shanahan returns for another knockout performance...It's a slow and bleak affair, but no less enthralling than Harper's and Shanahan's previous efforts." — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner Two brothers meet in the remote Australian outback when the third...

It’s Halloween, and when an elderly billionaire is discovered dead in the locked study of his stately Highland home, DCI Jack Logan and his team must race the worsening weather to get to the scene of the crime. There, among the victim’s extended family and staff, Jack finds no shortage of suspects. Everyone, it seems, had reason to want the old man dead, and they all have something to hide.

In 1910, while hiking through the wild lavender in a wind-swept, desolate valley in Provence, a man comes across a shepherd called Elzéard Bouffier. Staying with him, he watches Elzéard sorting and then planting hundreds of acorns as he walks through the wilderness.

After two decades of keeping the peace as a city guard, Cid Dawnshield is ready for the quiet life. After trading his pension for a plot of land at Oak Tree Farm, he's ready for easy days, tending crops, and fishing out of the creek on the back of the property. But Haven isn't your typical farming village, and his rundown farm sits atop more than just fertile soil.

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE AND DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? Small town America tears itself apart in this realist novel from one of the greats of science fiction Leo Runcible - of Runcible Realty - is too excitable and too pushy. His wife drinks too much...

Oz Fake mates. Real feelings. And a town secret that changes everything. I moved to Pine Gulch for a fresh start after a toxic ex made me question everything. My life here is simple: work odd jobs, nurse my lavender latte, and stick to my table at BrewHaha Beans while I build my dream spa one...

Don't miss Neil Lancaster's brand-new espionage thriller series! No Mercy available to buy now. ‘Grabbed me from the first page’ Ian Rankin ‘The best police procedural I’ve read in years’ Jane Casey This grave can never be opened. The head of Scotland’s most powerful crime family is...

Good does not exist. There is only the ever-swirling chaos of evil lurking just beyond the veil of our perception waiting to strike arbitrarily without purpose or reason. When evil throws its wiry tentacles out into our world leaving an inky black sludge of death, sadness, and destruction in their wake it's done not out of maliciousness but at random with no forethought, no agenda.

A perfect wedding. A village full of lies. A best man who might not live to give his speech. JP swore he’d never return to the small Cornish village where he grew up. After Lucy’s body washed up on the beach, someone made sure JP knew he wasn’t welcome. A scrawled warning. A postcard...

Welcome back to VIRGIN RIVER with the books that started it all… and the basis for the longest running scripted series on Netflix! Sometimes love takes root in unexpected places—if you'll only let it grow Colin Riordan came to Virgin River to recuperate from a horrific helicopter crash, the...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Us Against You by Fredik Backman, read by John Sackville. A small, broken town sits on the edge of a frozen lake surrounded by a forest, its wounds still raw from a tragedy that tore its fragile community in two. Beartown has lost its way. Now the cold...

Samantha arrives in town with her small daughter, the clothes on their backs and a scrap of paper with a Barrington address. Jamie finds them by the side of the road that first night. When he discovers she’s looking for Nicole Stewart, he realises she’s fleeing a bad situation. They’ll be safe with Nicole, he knows that. But her pale, frightened face haunts him and feelings he thought long-dead, resurface.

Working in the lodge’s kitchen, my job is to keep the food coming and make the guests happy. Every morning, when the older, rugged ranger comes in for breakfast, I can’t stop my heart from racing. David is completely off-limits—he’s my boss’s brother, and one wrong move could ruin everything. The way his eyes linger on me, like he’s imagining all the things he wants to do…it makes me wonder if taking the risk might be worth it.

In a small town where secrets last five minutes, privacy is a myth, and gossip lasts forever, this might have been the worst possible place to settle. After my last job fell apart and burned my reputation, I followed Archer to this small town in Nowhere, Montana. I had no intention of staying...

Grady Stevens doesn't need love. He needs a partner. A practical, no-nonsense wife to keep his rugged life in order and care for his aging black sheepdog while he spends his days deep in the forest, working as a brooding, solitary lumberjack. Inspired by his best friend's successful mail-order bride story, Grady places an ad for his own bride. But what he gets is not what he expected.

The Cambridgeshire hamlet of Jude’s Ferry is a lonely, forgotten spot. Requisitioned decades earlier by the Ministry of Defence for military training, one of its few claims to fame is that in its entire thousand-year history, it never recorded a single crime. But when a Territorial Army...

A mysterious private investigator embodies the darkness hidden within a small town in this spellbinding thriller that will “make you a Scott Carson fan for life” (Joe Hill, #1 New York Times bestselling author). Marshall Miller would’ve remembered her face even if he hadn’t seen it on a...