Titres dans Petites villes et ruralité

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“A big, blowzy romp through the rainbow eccentricities of three generations of crazy bayou debutantes.” —Atlanta Journal-Constitution “A very entertaining and, ultimately, deeply moving novel about the complex bonds between mother and daughter.” —Washington Post “Mary McCarthy...

A FINALIST FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD Horace Hopper is a half-Paiute, half-Irish ranch hand who wants to be somebody. He's spent most of his life on the ranch of his kindly guardians, Mr. and Mrs. Reese, herding sheep alone in the mountains. But while the Reeses treat him like a son, Horace...

Anna Hemingway decides it's time for a fresh start. So Anna and her three-year-old daughter move to a cottage in the village of Little Somerby, where she takes over the running of the village tea shop, and they start to find happiness again. Throughout a whirlwind year, life blossoms. But when history seems to be repeating itself, Anna must find the strength to hold on to her new life.

As a member of the Field County Sheriff's Department, Chris Jennings is used to having it rough. The Colorado Rockies aren't for the weak-of-spirit, but he's devoted his life to upholding the law - and to protecting the one woman he knows he can never have. He'll do whatever it takes to keep her safe. Daisy Little has lived in agoraphobic terror for over eight years. Trapped within a prison of her own making, she watches time pass through her bedroom window.

William Henry Devereaux, Jr., spiritually suited to playing left field but forced by a bad hamstring to try first base, is the unlikely chairman of the English department at West Central Pennsylvania University. Over the course of a single convoluted week, he threatens to execute a duck, has his...

From the Collins Crime Club archive, the forgotten second novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’ and recognised as one of the ‘big four’ Golden Age crime authors. When the body of Sir William Ponson is found in the Cranshaw River near his home of...

You, Me and Other People is the life-affirming, heartbreaking and ultimately stunning debut novel from Fionnuala Kearney. They say every family has skeletons in their closet...but what happens when you open the door and they won't stop tumbling out? For Adam and Beth, the first secret wasn't the last; it was just the beginning. You think you can imagine the worst thing that could happen to your family, but there are some secrets that change everything.

Un giovane prete, diviso tra la vocazione e l'amore terreno per una ragazza, e sua madre, che cerca di ricondurlo nel tracciato dal quale ha deviato. Ecco i protagonisti del romanzo di Grazia Deledda La Madre, proposto in audiolibro da il Narratore per la lettura di Virginia Alba.

The Earl of St. Merryn needs a woman. His intentions are purely practical - he simply wants someone sensible and suitably lovely to pose as his betrothed for a few weeks among polite society. He has his own agenda to pursue, and a false fiancée will keep the husband-hunters at bay while he goes about his business. The simplest solution is to hire a paid companion. Finding the right candidate proves more of a challenge than he expected.

One of America’s most celebrated novelists, Cormac McCarthy announced his towering presence on the literary stage with his first novel, The Orchard Keeper. Within the pages of this classic work, John Wesley Rattner, his uncle Ather, and bootlegger Marion Sylder find their lives dangerously entwined in pre-World War II Tennessee. There, the men’s tragedies and struggles are mirrored by the looming specter of industrialization.

Michael Thomas Ford Mike Monaghan is the bartender at the Engine Room, a meeting place for the small but thriving community of gay men in Cold Falls, New York. As Mike pours beer, wipes glasses and hears everything, he's also witness to the men who come here looking for what they need--sex, direction, friendship, spiritual fulfillment, and love. People like: Stephen Darby--As an accountant, he knows many secrets. But Stephen has his own secret, one he's never been able to share with anyone close to him.

Welcome back to the village of Ballybucklebo. Come and say hello again to Dr. O'Reilly's odd-as-two-left-feet patients; his housekeeper, Mrs. "Kinky" Kinkaid; and O'Reilly's pets: Arthur Guinness, the beer-swilling black Lab, and Lady MacBeth, the demonically possessed white cat. And of course, to young Dr. Barry Laverty. After Barry's first month as an assistant to crusty Dr. O'Reilly, he has been offered a permanent spot. But Laverty's excitement is dashed when one of his patients unexpectedly dies.

Pickax loves a big occasion. The Great Food "Explo" is about to begin, introducing new restaurants, country inns, and food specialty shops. Lurking in the background, though, is a killer determined to make this an event Pickax City will never forget. The Expo begins with a literal bang: a bomb wrecks the hotel, killing a housekeeper and causing extensive damage. Luckily for Pickax, Jim Qwilleran is on the scene, with suspicions that the bomb was intended as something stronger than a warning to someone.

George Eliot's first full-length novel is the moving, realistic portrait of three people troubled by unwise love. Adam Bede is a hardy young carpenter who cares for his aging mother. His one weakness is the woman he loves blindly: the trifling town beauty, Hetty Sorrel, who delights only in her baubles - and the delusion that the careless Captain Donnithorne may ask for her hand.

La cittadina di Holt respira, dietro le finestre affaccendate, sotto la neve che ricopre i campi e per le strade che due ragazzi percorrono al mattino prima della scuola, per consegnare i giornali. Sono i figli di Tom Guthrie, insegnante di storia al liceo. Victoria Roubideaux è fuori dalla porta di casa; è rimasta incinta e la madre l'ha sbattuta fuori. Ha solo sedici anni e la sua vita si intreccerà con quella degli anziani fratelli McPheron, allevatori di mucche.

Nel luglio del 1969, a nonna Rebecca, ex astrofisica, viene un'idea dirompente: coinvolgere tutto il paesino di Sant'Elia del Fuoco nell'avventura del secolo, lo sbarco dell'uomo sulla luna con la missione Apollo 11. Tutto il mondo vedrà quelle immagini in televisione, perché non guardarle tutti insieme? Luigi Garlando ci fa rivivere un evento memorabile, restituendoci intatto, nello sguardo dei ragazzi di allora, il senso di scoperta e di speranza che segnò un'epoca intera.

Eisige Winde fegen über den Loch Lomond, und die Hügel der Highlands glühen in den Farben des Herbstes. Erst seit Kurzem weiß Maighread, dass in dieser zauberhaften Landschaft ihre Wurzeln liegen, denn hier lebt ihre Großmutter. Vielleicht ist ein Ausflug in die Vergangenheit ihrer Familie genau die Ablenkung, die sie nach der Trennung von ihrem Freund braucht. Allerdings ist Maighreads Großmutter vorerst alles andere als begeistert vom Auftauchen ihrer Enkelin.

Fenja ist gerade kurz davor, sich in Hamburg einen Namen als Designerin zu machen, als ihre geliebte Tante Trude stirbt. Sie vermacht ihr ein Haus auf Amrum. An ihre Zeit auf der Insel hat Fenja wunderbare Erinnerungen, und trotzdem ist Trudes Testament für sie ein Albtraum: Ihre Tante verdonnert sie zu einem Zwangsjahr auf der Insel, wenn sie nicht leer ausgehen möchte. Das passt so gar nicht in ihre Zukunftspläne. Doch die Erinnerungen, die mit dem Erbe verbunden sind, sind zu wertvoll, um sie loszulassen.

Tutti ammirano i Mulvaney, tutti li invidiano. Sono un clan chiassoso e allegro, una famiglia perfetta; la loro fattoria nel nord dello stato di New York è una casa da fiaba abitata da uno stuolo di cani, gatti, cavalli, mucche e pecore, sempre piena di amici e parenti. Michael, il padre, ha un'impresa edile ben avviata, è conosciuto, rispettato, membro orgoglioso del country club. Sua moglie Corinne è una donna "nervosamente allegra", visceralmente anticonformista, con una solida fede religiosa, la mente sempre in fermento, la passione per l'antiquariato e la politica.