Títulos em Cidade Pequena e Rural

My new fake boyfriend? I can't stand him. Pascal Gagnon is a broody lumberjack with a pine tree stuck up his self-righteous ass. He needs my help investigating his father's accident, and I need the work to help my PI business get off the ground. We're total opposites—he's an uptight control freak, and I've been described as a hurricane. Forced to live together to keep up appearances while I gather evidence, we bicker nonstop, but the fake relationship ruse is the perfect cover. Even if it means having to tolerate his shirtless piano playing.

Downsized from her stellar career at a big-city ad agency, Melinda is already at a crossroads when a phone call brings her back to her rural roots. It’s not long before she moves to the country, takes on a rundown farm and its headstrong animals, and lands behind the counter of her family’s hardware store in the community of Prosper, whose motto is "The Great Little Town That Didn’t."

A marriage of convenience is one thing… but falling for your fake wife is all kinds of complicated. Being married for a year is the only way to claim my inheritance. I couldn't care less about the money. It's not like I even knew my grandparents. I wasn't even considering it until Monroe volunteered. Sweet, sweet, Monroe. I've never let myself consider her as an option for me. She's been tucked safely away in a box labeled forbidden. That is until she takes my last name.

Eine zu Herzen gehende Geschichte um Freundschaft, Liebe und die Kraft der Vergebung von #1-Kindle-Bestsellerautorin Jessica Winter Schon seit der High School ist Seven Swan vor allem für drei Dinge bekannt: sein sexy Lächeln, seinen Charme und sein selbstbewusstes Auftreten. Nur wenige wissen, was wirklich in ihm vorgeht, vor allem, seit seine Schwester vor Jahren spurlos verschwunden ist. Niemand ahnt, dass er seitdem unermüdlich nach ihr sucht. Sich zu verlieben stand für den Coast-Guard-Piloten daher nie auf dem Plan.

I've been pining for Abel Miller since we were teenagers. He's sexy as hell and has always played a starring role in all my fantasies. Too bad he only sees me as his best friend's little sister. He's also a broody playboy who takes home a new girl every night, while I'm looking to find forever with someone. Abel and I couldn't be more different. When my dad gets sick and says he just wants to see me safe, settled, and happily in love, Abel shocks me by offering to pretend to be my husband.

Ci sono paesi in cui i libri sono nell’aria, le parole dei romanzi e delle poesie appartengono a tutti e i nomi dei nuovi nati suggeriscono sogni e promesse. Timpamara è un paese così, almeno da quando, tanti anni fa, vi si è installata la più antica cartiera calabrese, a cui si è aggiunto poco dopo il maceratoio. E di Timpamara Astolfo Malinverno è il bibliotecario: oltre ai normali impegni del suo ruolo, di tanto in tanto passa dal macero, al ritmo della sua zoppia, per recuperare i libri che possono tornare in circolazione.

Maries Nebenjob in einer angesagten Heidelberger Vinothek ist alles andere als langweilig, vor allem, wenn der Amerikaner Mr. Anderson anwesend ist. Gleich von der ersten Begegnung an entsteht eine Freundschaft zwischen ihr und dem älteren Herren. Als Mr. Anderson plötzlich stirbt, ist Marie untröstlich. Erstaunt nimmt sie das Vermächtnis des Weinkenners entgegen: eine alte Holzkiste mit einem an sie gerichteten Brief. Mr. Andersons Wunsch in seinem Nachlass ist eindeutig: Marie soll ein Geheimnis aus dessen Vergangenheit aufdecken und für Gerechtigkeit sorgen.

Meg's life is woven into the fabric of St. Stephens. It's a tapestry made of two precious children, a hidden truth, and a husband whose ideas of a perfect wife do not match her own. When Meg puts her foot down on a third kid, gets a job, and is empowered by the same book group that was meant to keep her in her place, her marriage begins to disintegrate. Set in a tiny Mormon community, this is a novel about resilience and courage – the fierceness of mother-love and the power that comes with never forgetting who you really are.

In un Meridione ben distante dai segni della modernità urbana, la protagonista cresce oppressa da un ambiente familiare in cui le condotte pubbliche e private sono spietatamente misurate sul terrore del giudizio sociale e sul rigore vincolante del dovere quotidiano. Il nido protettivo diventa allora nodo difficile da sciogliere e da portare. “Famiglia era questo: una messa in comune del privato, un difetto di autonomia, una continua chiamata in causa dell’altro, un sostenersi che diveniva peso.”

Attilio Campi è un cinquantenne che si è ritirato a vivere in campagna, e nell’incipit fulminante del romanzo si descrive così: “Dicono che mi sono rovinato con le mie mani”. Alle spalle ha una brillante carriera politica distrutta sul più bello dalla sua stravagante proposta di legge per la reintroduzione dell’uniforme obbligatoria nelle scuole. Bocciata la proposta dal suo stesso partito, Campi, furibondo, sparisce dalla scena pubblica.

September is at her wits' end. There's never enough money to support her boyfriend and herself. September has nothing to look forward to. Then the letter comes. September has inherited a house from a great-aunt she never knew she had. It would make sense to sell it. But when sees the place - the orange gate, the garden, the tree, the bumble-bee door knocker - she doesn't want to let it go. Not yet. Then the members of the book club arrive, and she begins to discover the story of the family she didn't know. And to make new friends.

Julia has checked in to a rehab facility deep in rural Georgia that promises to help her find herself. Other women have done the same, all of them recognizing that they can no longer continue down the path they’re on. As Gwen, Cate, and Julia come to understand more about themselves and their destructive behaviors, they forge firm friendships in the toughest of circumstances. But in order to continue to heal, they must learn to confide in one another and unburden themselves. In the company of friends, they rebuild and recover, beginning to confront their pasts.

Megan Turner never intended to return to her small hometown. But when her mom got sick, everything changed. So, she’ll make the best of the situation and oversee the restoration of the building that will become her bakery. She will not, however, make the mistake of falling for her annoyingly attractive contractor. Not again, anyway… Jake Sullivan lost the love of his life when he screwed up and broke Megan’s heart. But that’s in the past now. These days, being the best single dad he can be requires all his focus.

Ginny Spain usually loves Christmas. Not this year, though. After witnessing a traumatic accident and breaking up with her ex, she plans to spend it alone. But her formidable art historian mother, Evie, has other ideas. Determined to drag her daughter out of isolation, Evie persuades Ginny to spend Christmas with her at an artist and writer’s retreat at Triskelion, a remote old house in the tiny coastal village of Little Star. But Evie’s plans aren’t without an ulterior motive...

Maggie McCoury, a generational healer woman, relies on family traditions, folklore, and beliefs gleaned from a local Cherokee tribe. Her daughter, Carrie Ann, believes her university training holds the answers. As they clash over the use of roots, herbs, and a dash of mountain magic versus the medicine available in the town’s apothecary, Josie Mae doesn’t know whom to follow. But what happens when neither family traditions nor science can save the ones you love most?

Emily Cotton has always dreamed of owning a bookshop, but when her dreams finally become a reality, she realises she’s going to need some help. So after a couple of glasses of Merlot, she emails her childhood best friend, Kate Vincent. Kate jumps at the chance to return to scenic Wigtown and to see Emily and the Cotton clan again. But after a six-year absence, the happy family she once thought of as her own has changed.

The Kellaway sisters - Winter, Jen and Alyssa - share an unbreakable bond which hides a lifetime of secrets. A-list celebrity, Winter, is hosting the party of the decade to celebrate Jen’s wedding but the day which dawns full of love and promise ends in devastation and recrimination. Detective Saul Anguish is called in to investigate and uncovers a long buried and shocking family truth. And as the trail takes a sudden, dramatic turn, they must now all face the truth that you can never leave the past behind.

Wie schwer kann es schon sein, den perfekten Mann zu finden? Die Floristin Annie Walker will unbedingt eine Familie gründen. Dafür fehlt nur eine Kleinigkeit: ein Partner. Nachdem sie mitbekommt, wie ihr Date sie als »unfassbar langweilig« bezeichnet, will Annie lernen, wie man flirtet. Sie weiß auch schon genau, wer ihr das beibringen kann. Der attraktive Will, der Bodyguard ihrer berühmten Schwägerin in spe, ist zurück in Rome. Annie schafft es ihn zu überreden, ihr Nachhilfe in Sachen Dating zu geben.

Jim Beam aveva un fratello, una sorella e una madre. Del padre non seppe mai niente. La mamma era seria, preoccupata, sempre nervosa. Aveva paura e non si riposava mai: aveva paura di non riuscire a mantenere i propri figli, aveva paura che uno di loro si ammalasse. Aveva paura di un sacco di cose. Invece Jim non aveva paura di niente, tranne della noia. Abitavano appena fuori Lovelock, in un posto che si chiamava Cottonfarm.

With narration and original taonga puoro music by Ruby Solly, this powerful and mesmerising book tracks the complicated relationships between three outcasts: Kerewin, an artist estranged from her family and art; a mute boy called Simon, who tries to steal from her; and his tender but brutal foster father Joe.