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It is a June morning in Milan when Sandro abandons his flat, his job and the increasingly unfulfilled promises of a stiflingly hostile city to return to his hometown of Rimini, on the Adriatic coast. His mother, Caterina, has been dead for a few years, but his father - headstrong, taciturn Nando - soldiers on in the same house of Sandro's youth. The two men could not be more different - Nando a former railway worker, Sandro a young professional in advertising - but they have one thing in common: their passion for winning.

After thirty years, fourteen books, and countless thrills, award-winning author Gerry Boyle writes the exciting and bittersweet final chapter for his signature character Jack McMorrow in the gritty novel, Hard Line. In the dynamic, whipsaw finale, Boyle takes listeners on a wild ride with everyone’s favorite investigative reporter—a ride that leaves no one unscathed. Filled with action ripped from current events and nods to old characters and past stories, Hard Line builds with breathtaking pace to a dramatic stand-off between the forces of violent chaos and law and order.

Jim Provenzano's sixth novel, "Now I'm Here," is set in the small town of Serene, Ohio, in the 1970s and 80s. Two boys from different families Joshua, with his stable middle-class home in town, and David, raised by his alcoholic and abusive father on their isolated farm - discover, then lose, then find each other again. Thirty years later, as the town's history is slowly erased by fading memories and encroaching suburbia, their childhood friend, Eric Gottlund, tells the tale of their quiet heroism with poignancy and a sharp eye for detail.

Things are heating up in the Black Hamptons, an affluent vacation community of African Americans nestled in Long Island, New York. The families are facing trials and tribulations both individually and collectively, and everyone has a lot at stake. The Brittons are shocked by the return of Moses, the patriarch of the family. While he's eager to reunite with his wife and sons, it may be difficult, especially since his wife, Carolyn, has found comfort in the arms of another man.

தமிழ்நாட்டில் சென்னையிலிருந்து கடற்கரை நெடுகிலும் உப்பளங்கள் விரிந்திருக்கின்றன. ஆனால் தூத்துக்குடியைச் சார்ந்த கடற்கரையோரங்களில் உப்பு விளைச்சலுக்குத் தேவையான ஈரப்பதமில்லாத காற்றும், சூரிய வெப்பமும் ஆண்டில் பத்து மாதங்களுக்குத் தொடர்ச்சியாகக் கிடைப்பதால், மிகக்குறைந்த செலவில் தரமான உப்பு அதிக அளவில் உற்பத்தி செய்யப்படுகிறது. எனவே, ஏற்கெனவே பழக்கமான தூத்துக்குடிப் பகுதிகளுக்கே செல்வதென்று முடிவு செய்தேன். நான் நேரில் கண்ட உண்மைகளையும் கேட்டு அறிந்த செய்திகளையும் சிந்தித்து ஆராய்ந்து அதன் அடிப்படையில் இவர்தம் வாழ்வை மையமாக்கி இக் கரிப்பு மணிகளை உருவாக்கியுள்ளேன். - ராஜம் கிருஷ்ணன்

When Marcie Mosse receives news that her grandmother is sick, she rushes back to her childhood village in the remote Scottish Highlands. Despite the tragic circumstances, returning to her family’s ancestral home, a once grand and now crumbling farmhouse overlooking a crystal-clear loch, feels like a long-awaited homecoming. Reconnecting with childhood friends, Marcie is flooded with memories of her life before moving to the city. Then, during a windswept horseback ride along the edge of the loch, she bumps into Ruaridh Balfour.

Gregorio Bajocchi è un uomo di successo: esperto di finanza, avvocato, possiede la Conventina, un’azienda agricola di oltre mille ettari adagiata sulle colline tra Po e Appennino. La tenuta appartiene alla sua famiglia da sempre ma quando Gregorio l’ha ereditata, dopo la morte prematura di entrambi i genitori, aveva solo diciassette anni. A quel tempo, erano stati i contadini, lì da generazioni, a prendersi cura della proprietà consentendo all’azienda di prosperare e a Gregorio di studiare. Ormai adulto e in grado di occuparsi della Conventina, Gregorio sposa Cora, che conosce fin da ragazzo.

Daisy Lindberg and Lily Boyle traded a colorful past for a fresh start as seamstresses in Autrie, Texas, and their aim to spark a women’s rights movement is raising eyebrows among the town’s dumbfounded men. But among the ladies? Tired of being treated like possessions, they have two words: Amen, sister! Beulah, a sassy shop owner as formidable as a cannon shot, is on board. So is Alma, a timid preacher’s wife who hit her breaking point. Before long, a courageous female posse has a liberating petition of demands.

Der alte Max hat alle Zeit. Draußen vor dem Fenster legt sich der Schnee wie eine Decke über das Dorf. Da dringt das Läuten des Totenglöckchens durch die Stille. Es schlägt für den Schorsch, der viel mehr war als nur ein Freund, ein Leben lang. So macht sich Max am Abend auf zur Totenwacht, wo die Alten zusammenkommen, um des Verstorbenen zu gedenken und sich zu erinnern. Eine ganze Nacht erzählen sie von den Freuden bei der Ernte, von Abenden in der Wirtsstube, vom kleinen Glück. Und vom Schorsch. Aber auch von der Enge im Dorf und dem eisigen Schweigen.

Taylor is given all she's ever wanted when her family is complete, but will it be enough to put them as a priority and stop putting her career first? Meanwhile, a woman held in captivity grapples with a moral dilemma of her own. Trapped between the desire to reclaim her freedom and the urge to save another, she must summon the courage to make a choice that will shape not only her destiny but also the lives of those she holds dear.

Ambientada en una zona rural, se centra en las vivencias de una familia desolada por la muerte de Angélica, una de las hijas. La madre no ha podido superar la desaparición de la joven y ello afecta al día a día del resto de los hijos y del Abuelo. Un día aparece por la casa una Peregrina que lo cambiará todo.

Melinda expects to spend January lounging by her farmhouse's fireplace, paging through the seed catalogs' promises of spring. After all, the slower pace of rural life was one of the reasons she'd left the city behind. Instead, she must face her fears when the worst of winter's threats arrive at her door. Braving blizzards to care for her animals, thawing her acreage's water lines, and anxiously watching over the pregnant sheep in her barn fill her shorter days and longer nights. She trudges on because Horace's offer stands firm: He'll sell her the farm in the spring if she still wants to stay.

Jón Magnússon Ósmann setzt Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts mit seiner Fähre Menschen, Tiere und Waren über die Gewässer im Norden Islands. Er ist ein Robbenjäger, er sieht Geister und Elfen, er ist ein Menschenfreund, der Kindern und Armen hilft, und er ist ein gottesfürchtiger Trinker und Poet. Überlebensgroß, kräftig, gesellig und dabei versehrt vom eigenen Schicksal, das ihn am Ende den Fluten gefährlich nahe bringt.

One snowy night in 1998, Brooke Mulcahy's car slides off the road in rural Vermont. Her car is discovered. She is not. Twenty-one years later, Robert Kirby, Brooke's stepbrother, is paid a visit from a young woman (Lily), claiming to be Brooke's daughter. Since a tumultuous upbringing, Robert, formerly known as "Bobby," has enjoyed considerable success. Now an esteemed professor at a private Upstate New York university, Robert has just received a significant NEH grant. After Lily's visit, Robert's life is upended.

When genealogist Ellie McLellan's Aunt Norma confessed to a long-held secret family crime, the senior genealogist group declares a road trip to the scene of the crime—a remote lakeside resort named Virginia's Cabins. Time to right that long-ago wrong. Since Norma was last at Virginia's Cabins, things have changed. A lot. Hustled together into cramped quarters, the senior genealogists must first confront the new resort owners, locate the treasure they seek, squash rumors Aunty Norma was once a spy, pull off a surprise proposal, and prod Ellie into researching her most important case yet.

Die Geschichte zweier ungleicher Brüder. Zwei Bäume pflanzte ein Vater vor seinem Haus, einen für jedes Kind. Der erste, eine Lärche, ist wie Luigi, hart und zerbrechlich. In 37 Jahren hat Luigi nie das Tal verlassen, seine Frau Betta und er verliebten sich beim Baden in den Flusstümpeln zwischen den weißen Birken. Nun erwarten sie ein kleines Mädchen. Der zweite Baum, die robustere Fichte, die auf der Schattenseite gedeiht, ist wie der streitsüchtige Fredo. Vor Jahren kehrte er seiner Heimat den Rücken.

When Jerry Harrison receives an unwelcome visitor at his remote Cotswold cottage one winter's night, the last thing he expects is to end up dead. But, next morning, his cleaners find him fatally stabbed and the police have a murder inquiry on their hands. With no witnesses coming forward and very little evidence to go on, Jess and Ian must dig deep to find the answers to this baffling case. But not before another villager is attacked and left for dead . . .

Salento, Italy, June 1934: A coach stops in the main square of Lizzanello, a tight-knit village where everyone knows each other. A couple gets off: The man, Carlo, a child of the South, is happy to be back home after a long departure; the woman, Anna—his wife—is a stranger from the North. She is as beautiful as a Greek statue, but dubious. Salento is her husband’s hometown, and while it’s only logical to him that they move back after inheriting land and house in the wake of an uncle’s passing, Anna is unsure of the role she’ll have here. What kind of life awaits her?

In the sleepy seaside sleepy town of Waverly, Rosie and Seb Kent are happily married. Now that Seb has achieved his dream of becoming Headmaster of the local school, their lives couldn't be any better. Abi, a young, single mother, has come to Waverly for a fresh start. She plans to reinvent herself and give her children a new life. Then she sees Seb. As their complicated hidden past threatens to destroy them both, they try their hardest to keep it contained.

When sisters Lily and Della Pedley are persecuted for the shocking murder of their parents, they flee from their home in Cornwall to a remote and unnamed island in Scotland - an island known for its strange happenings, but far away from the whispers and prying eyes of strangers. Lily is terrified of what her sister might do next, and she soon realises that they have arrived at a place where nothing is as it seems.