検索キーワード： 田舎町・農村

In diesem Buch reisen Sie zurück in eine Zeit, in der der Alltag noch von Handwerk, Ernte, Märkten und langen Wegen geprägt war – und in der kleine Entscheidungen plötzlich große Bedeutung bekommen konnten. Heimatgeschichten aus Masuren erzählt von Menschen, die arbeiten, hoffen, streiten und zusammenhalten: am See, im Dorf, in der Stadt, auf dem Gut und im Wald. Wärmend und bildhaft, mit feinem Humor – und mit Spannung, die aus dem Leben selbst entsteht.

Soy Daphne Wood, la librera de Castle Combe. Mi vida era apacible hasta que el autor superventas Jill Holland se mudó al pueblo. Compró la casa que está al lado de la mía, la de la difunta Bettie, y se convirtió en mi nuevo vecino. Las chicas del club de lectura envidiaron mi suerte. Yo también pensé que era afortunada, hasta que empecé a ver cosas de lo más inquietantes.

My dating life was a constant cycle, a series of fleeting connections that I found comfort in. I wasn't seeking a bond with any man, but it happened, and my heart ended up in a million tiny pieces. I was desperate for a change, a fresh start. So, I bid farewell to my high-paced fashion design job in the bustling city of New York and stayed with my sister, Adalyn, in the serene and picturesque town of Harbor Falls, a place that always brought me a sense of tranquility. The one thing I didn't expect was to meet a brutally handsome man named Alex Harbor.

While being a major contributor to the Black Lives Matter movement, Reese "Gypsy" Shackelford discovers that the movement is alive across the globe. Fighting for the cause in both hemispheres comes with casualties. However, when it hits home, the toll is great and affects the lives of Gypsy's family. If that isn't enough, she must return to her hometown, Fayetteville, North Carolina, for the pending trial of the police officer who is accused of contributing to the death of Gypsy's sister, Taylor Russell.

It begins in Enugu, at Uncle Kelechi’s glittering 50th birthday, a night of laughter, highlife music, and family pride. For young Unoma, it is a world of color and belonging. For her father and his brother, it is the night that exposes the deep differences between them. Weeks later, tragedy strikes. One life is lost, another forever changed, and the truth buried beneath years of silence. Decades on, that silence still governs Unoma’s world.

Anton, 60 Jahre alt, ist Stepptänzer. Ja, er ist nicht mehr so schnell wie früher, aber mit seiner Erfahrung und Ausdruckskraft tanzt er – noch – allen davon. Wer sollte ihm also die Stelle als Choreograf an einer Theaterbühne streitig machen? Doch die neue Intendantin sieht das anders – und engagiert ausgerechnet Emma, Antons Tochter. Anton ist verletzt, wütend, traurig und zugleich stolz auf seine Tochter. Zeigen kann er ihr das nicht. Die Absage spült etwas in ihm hoch, das er nicht länger verdrängen kann: das Gefühl des Älterwerdens.

In Liberty, Illinois — a small coal-mining town fallen on hard times - one obsession swallows everyday life: the Queen of Hearts contest. Built around a weekly drawing, the game can be over in a moment - or stretch on for months, sometimes even a full year. As the jackpot climbs past one million dollars, residents invest more than money. They invest hope, pride, desperation, and the belief that one turn of luck could finally mean relief.

Alaric is a driven astrophysicist who’s only in Willow Creek so he can finish his book and give his twin daughters the chance to reconnect with their aunt. He doesn’t have time for the inconvenient attraction aroused by the sassy, always glass half full niece of his eccentric innkeeper. Farrah is in Willow Creek because it’s her last resort. She inherited partial ownership of the town's bed and breakfast and she's putting her life back together in the wake of the pandemic. She thinks her aunt’s houseguest is arrogant and annoying.

David and his girlfriend, Stephanie, move to a small town in the Napa Valley with plans to start a winery with the windfall from David's skateboarding success. Shortly after upending their life to chase this dream, Stephanie dies. David, grief-stricken and rudderless, must navigate new, small town dynamics while uncovering the sordid truth of his relationship. He also must come to terms with the guilt of his own seemingly unearned financial success.

After fleeing her controlling ex-alpha with nothing but two suitcases and a desperate hope for freedom, Kit just wants to rebuild her life in peace. Her plan is simple: lay low in a cozy mountain duplex, avoid complications, and figure out who she really is when no one's trying to control her. But Hollow Haven has other ideas. There's Jonah—the steady single dad whose seven-year-old daughter immediately claims Kit as family. Micah, the gentle baker who creates custom comfort teas and sees straight through to her healing heart. And Reed, the protective handyman who upgrades her security.

Somewhere beneath the quiet dirt of a small town, madness is waiting for Louie who has spent his life trapped inside a body the world refuses to look past. Nearly six hundred pounds of flesh, shame, and the crippling isolation is taking it's toll. Every day presses down on him with the same crushing weight as the family land he can’t leave… and the old dry well he can’t stop staring into. A decaying relic tied to a tragedy no one in town talks about anymore. A place Louie believes might be his only escape. Then the well starts whispering. From the darkness below, a voice calls his name.

He's the grumpy cowboy foreman. I'm the city girl who inherited this ranch from my father. How the hell did we end up almost kissing in the barn? I didn't come back to Painted Sky Ranch to fall for the Casanova cowboy who's been glaring at me since I rolled up. Cash Bennett is all growl, grit, and maddening control. The same boy who made my life hell in school is now a broad-shouldered man, very good with a rope—and very bad at keeping his hands to himself. I have one year to stay here or lose my father's inheritance. Which means working side-by-side with the one man who doesn't want me here.

An unexpected trip home to Maple Falls gets even more surprising when I inadvertently become acting mayor. Add a huge crisis and a smoking hot hockey player, and I'm in over my head before I know it. I'm only here for a short time, so I will not fall for Mr. Tall, dark, and adorable. I don't care how helpful and kind he is. Long-distance never works, so the answer is no.

Unspoiled by the trappings of wealth, Judy Lovin shunned the family fortune to take a job teaching preschool. But with her father’s empire on the verge of collapse thanks to a hostile corporate takeover, Judy reluctantly rides to the rescue. Her negotiations bring her face-to-face with the beast himself, a ruthless tycoon who takes what he wants—and what he wants is Judy. Shocked at her attraction to a man she was prepared to loathe, Judy agrees to his terms: alone time with him at his island getaway.

With my best friend at my side and a worn photograph in my pocket, we take a road trip to Sweet Whiskey, the bar where my parents met. As soon as we step inside, I know my life is irrevocably changed with a single look from a dark-eyed cowboy sitting on a stool. Colt is all alpha in a tight Henley and perfect pair of Wranglers, and my inner omega gushes for him in more ways than one. When I take a job dancing at the bar, he brings his alpha buddies on my first night. Brooks is bubbly and charming with a bright smile. Dallas is serious, but sweet and nurturing.

Six years ago, her brother left me at the altar. I bundled up my veil along with my stupid dreams of a picture-perfect small town life, and I headed back to the city. I vowed to never leave again, but when the promotion of a lifetime at my interior design firm hangs on returning to the charming tourist town of La Cloche, I decide to brave the ghosts of heartbreak past. I never thought I'd be designing for her.

I screwed up my first solo potion, and now the customer is covered in hives. If that disaster wasn't bad enough, knowing it might get my family's potions house gobbled up by a competitor is the icing on the cake. What I didn't expect was for my father to ship me off to the Wild West monster haven of Pine Gulch as punishment. He calls it an opportunity to learn. Pfft. Pine Gulch is a temporary setback—I'll get back to the city in a New York minute. Except things don't go as planned when a mysterious sickness befalls the haven's animals.

Kathleen Gallagher is sixteen when she shares her first kiss with Liam Flynn, the older brother of her best friend. The bells were ringing in the New Year and snow was falling: it was the perfect romantic moment. But Kathleen knows they can never be together. Three years later, it's 1939, and...

Caleb Kelly has been my secret weakness since the day I moved to Sugar Brush, Wyoming. I spend my days among the stacks as the town’s librarian and my nights serving drinks at Joy’s Elbow Room. It’s safe, predictable, and a little boring. The only thing that makes my pulse kick is when Caleb Kelly walks through the door and takes a seat at one of my tables. Four years of stolen glances, watching him laugh with his family, listening to him talk about his son, and pretending he doesn’t unravel me just by saying my name. Alice.

Mila has spent her life working on Stormy Weather Farm, alongside her fiercely loyal, slightly eccentric family. The Storms believe in hard work, the importance of tradition, and—most of all—love at first touch. It’s a family legend, passed down like a vintage bottle of truth: when you touch the one meant for you, you’ll just know. Mila always thought it was just a romantic notion… until Boone. A rugged, brooding single father with a past that still smolders, Boone has one priority: giving his twelve-year-old daughter a stable, quiet life. Love? He’s been there, done that, burned the T-shirt.