Títulos em Cidade Pequena e Rural

Raue Landschaft, dunkle Geheimnisse. Whalsay: ein kleines, beschauliches Eiland. Teil der Shetlandinseln. Nur 1030 Einwohner, die sich vom Fischfang ernähren. Jeder kennt jeden, jeder weiß über alles Bescheid. Die perfekte Idylle. Bis eines Tages die alte Mima tot aufgefunden wird. Angeblich war es ein Jagdunfall. Doch Detective Jimmy Perez ist sich da nicht so sicher. Kurze Zeit zuvor war bei Ausgrabungen auf Mimas Land ein Skelett gefunden worden. Mima war beim Anblick der Knochen erbleicht, hatte jedoch kein Wort gesagt.

In the rugged and beautiful mountains of Oregon, Ron Spears, a war veteran seeking peace and purpose, builds a life as a gold miner. For thirty years, he lives a solitary existence on his claim, wrestling with the ghosts of his past and the relentless pursuit of gold. His isolation is broken by the return of his sons, Ryan and Mitchell, who find him and bring him back to Winona, Missouri, where he reunites with his daughters, Mary and Colleen, and spends his final days surrounded by family.

Sixteen year old Shelley and her mother move to Honeysuckle cottage in the middle of the countryside, fleeing their fears and anxieties and hoping to put behind them years of suffering at the hands of others. Shelley has endured terrible bullying from the girls who used to be her best friends, and her mother has been left reeling following a divorce from her selfish, demanding husband. For Shelley and her mother are ‘mice’ – timid, nervous and obliging. And for a while, in their cottage-haven, the women flourish.

Seemingly satisfied with Yuri’s performance, the CIA takes him to Jamaica for a meeting with high-level politicians. But this party has far more in store than rubbing elbows with America’s elite. As his own and others’ secrets are revealed, Yuri must decide once and for all where his loyalty lies and whether it’s worth killing—or dying—for.

In 1998, an apparently ordinary Australian man is arrested and charged with a series of brutal murders. The news shocks the nation, bringing both horror and resolution to the victims' families, but its impact travels even further—into the past, as the murders rewrite personal histories, and into the future, as true crime podcasts and biopics tell the story of the crimes. Highway 13 takes murder as its starting point, but it unfolds to encompass much more. Fiona McFarlane presents an unforgettable, entrancing exploration of the way stories are told and spread, and at what cost.

Jana und Oke haben auf Langeoog ihr Glück gefunden. Mittlerweile beliefert Jana auch die umliegenden Inseln mit ihren köstlichen Pralinen und vor zwei Jahren haben sie eine kleine Tochter bekommen. Nur Enna Rolfs, die alte Dame, mit der Jana seit ihrem ersten Tag auf der Insel befreundet ist, macht ihr Sorgen. Der Alltag scheint ihr immer größere Schwierigkeiten zu bereiten und sie wirkt häufig verwirrt. Gemeinsam mit ihren Freunden organisiert Jana Hilfe für die alleinstehende Enna. Aber wird es auf Dauer ausreichen? Janas Freundin Frauke ist mit ihrem momentanen Leben und ihren unbeständigen Beziehungen eher unglücklich.

Logan Murphy should come with a warning. He’s as hot as a Carolina Reaper on black asphalt in the middle of July. With perfectly messy dark hair and smoldering blue eyes—and don’t even get me started on the way that black tee stretches across his toned chest… He’s my brother’s best friend. He’s also a football star on track to win the first wide-receiver MVP in league history. Good thing I only date golfers… or I did.

Cordelia would be happy to never set foot in Wilder Hoo House again. When Cordelia’s late ex-husband unexpectedly leaves the cottage in her name, she wonders if it is one last cruel joke from beyond the grave. Determined to quickly sell-up and burry the memories of her past forever, she begins to restore the crumbling beach house brick by brick. With the help of the locals Cordelia breathes new life into the home, but will she find a way to heal her heart too?

Rancher Staten Kirkland, the last descendant of Ransom Canyon's founding father, is rugged and practical to the last. No one knows that when his troubling memories threaten to overwhelm him, he runs to lovely, reclusive Quinn O'Grady…or that she has her own secret that no one living knows.

For over three hundred years, that's what the Hamilton family has called a shrinking swath of farmland in the Appalachian foothills of South Carolina. That's the failing tobacco farm where Walter and Maggie Hamilton choose to raise their three children. Walter has big plans to make the farm more profitable, but his plans are interrupted by World War II and family heartbreak. Walter returns from the war a changed man and finds Maggie, too, has changed, neither of them for the better. But at least their family is together again at...

There are rules in the West no matter what era you were born in, and it's up to lawman Ty Dawson to make sure they're followed in the valley he calls home. The people living on this unforgiving land keep to themselves and are wary of the modern world's encroachment into their quiet lives. So it's not without some suspicion that Dawson confronts a newcomer to the region: a record producer who has built a music studio in an isolated compound.

Summoned from his medical practice in China by a bevy of anxious aunts, Alain Roig returns to his Catalan hometown to discover he has been nominated by family members with vested interests in the ancestral property to prevent an impending marriage between his cold, ascetic cousin Xavier and Madeleine, a quiet, introspective village girl of unusual beauty. As Alain seeks to understand his cousin's complex motivations for wooing the unhappy girl, he is slowly drawn into Xavier's dark crisis of faith, the well-worn pattern of the sleepy Catalan days and the tight circle of village gossip.

Der herzergreifende Abschluss der beliebten Ostsee-Romane um die Larsen-Schwestern: Kann es nach all den Jahren überhaupt noch ein Happy End geben? "Die Liebe ist schwer zu finden, sie ist einfach zu verlieren und unmöglich zu vergessen". In Brodershöved stehen die Zeichen mal wieder auf Sturm. Während Liv sich um die heimischen Wale sorgt, Anneke im fernen Vancouver von Heimweh geplagt wird und Smilla überlegt, wie ihre Beziehung zu Sten weitergehen soll, erhält ihre Mutter Antje eine schlechte Nachricht und die Geister der Vergangenheit erwachen zu neuem Leben.

It’s 1900 and Skerry, a small Scottish fishing village, is destined for an unyielding winter. During a storm, a young boy washes up on the shore. He bears an uncanny resemblance to teacher Dorothy’s son, lost to the sea at the same age many years before, his body never found. The village is soon snowed in, and Dorothy agrees to look after the child until they can uncover the mystery of his origins. But over time, the lines between reality and desperate hope start to blur as the boy reminds Dorothy more and more of her own lost child.

Bill Collins raised his son Kenny to work hard in the logging trade and keep his whining to himself. But when Kenny becomes a meth addict, Bill must face the bitter truth that he may have failed at his most important job. Jonah Price moved to Humboldt County to save the redwoods. Yet, guilt over his father's death leads him to get high so often that he walks through life like a zombie, half-dead to his surviving family and floundering as an environmental activist.

The last thing city girl Blair Williams wants to do is travel to a remote island on a lake near the Minnesotan/Canadian border for her law firm’s company-wide retreat. Having long struggled with high-functioning depression and low self-esteem, she attempts to fake her way through the weekend while battling the ever-present melancholy and negative internal thoughts that plague her. While there, she takes comfort in the quiet and serene setting, befriending Graham, the owner of the barely surviving Ruby Lodge.

What happens when you accidentally throw a blueberry pie in your brother's best friend's face? You marry him a week later for health insurance, of course.

Luisa hat sich einen Traum erfüllt: Sie hat ihre eigene Tierarztpraxis eröffnet! Voller Hingabe setzt sie sich für ihre flauschigen Patienten ein. Da steht eines Tages Lars vor der Tür – ihre erste große Liebe. Im Arm hält er einen schwer verletzten winselnden Golden-Retriever-Welpen. Luisa sieht sofort, wie dringend das Tier ihre Hilfe braucht. Wie gut, dass der Notfall sie von ihren Gefühlen für Lars ablenkt, die sofort wieder in ihr brodeln.

In Spellbound bleibt es mörderisch und magisch! Emma und ihre Freundinnen aus dem Hexen-Nachhilfeunterricht machen einen aufsehenerregenden Fund! Durch Zufall entdecken sie in einem alten Grimoire eine geheime Buchseite. Darauf könnte sich ein Hinweis befinden, mit dem sich der Fluch von Spellbound endlich brechen lässt. Emma stürzt sich in diese Aufgabe. Doch sie ahnt nicht, welche Gefahren dabei auf sie warten ... Und als wäre das nicht genug, stolpert sie während eines Besuchs bei Agnes im Spellbound-Pflegeheim über die Leiche eines alten Satyrs. Emma hofft, dass wenigstens dieses eine Mal jemand eines natürlichen Todes gestorben ist.

Der herzerwärmende neue Roman aus der Liebe am Meer-Reihe von Bestsellerautorin Elli C. Carlson. "Manchmal brauchen wir die Nacht, um die Sterne zu entdecken." Smilla Larsen führt das perfekte Leben: beste Karrierechancen, ein Traummann an ihrer Seite und eine Familie im Rücken, die immer für sie da ist. Eigentlich kann nichts mehr schiefgehen. Doch plötzlich ist für das Nesthäkchen der Larsen-Schwestern alles anders.