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Dan and Tamma are two Californian teenagers growing up dirt poor in the shadows of the Joshua Tree National Park, one of the world's great rock climbing meccas. Tamma's mother holds no such ambition for her mouthy, snaggle-toothed, truant-playing, queer younger daughter, who everyone but Dan believes to be a troublemaker and no-hoper. Climbing, each morning at sun-up, on cliff faces that test their bodies to the limit, is where their friendship is forged. It's also the one thing that gives them hope.

L'essenza dell'Abruzzo è declinata in questa novella nei suoi peculiari aspetti culturali. Lo sguardo attento e compiaciuto di Valerio Di Stefano ci accompagna attraverso le viuzze di un paesino dove la vita scorre ancora lenta, tra i profumi e i sapori di una terra "forte e gentile" come i suoi abitanti. Lo schiaffatone si differenzia completamente dalle precedenti narrazioni, mantenendo però il solito marchio di fabbrica: un'ironia inconfondibile e sottile che, in queste pagine, diventa bonaria.

I'm supposed to be dating. Doing my level best to find The One™. While I try to give all the guys on my dating app a fighting chance, I might accidentally be falling in love with my ride-share driver instead. Between disaster first dates and getting stood up and ghosted, I've become friends with one of the only car service drivers in my tiny hometown of Cozy Creek, Colorado. Maybe I'm looking forward to my dating fails because it means more time with Noah, the guy I can't stop thinking about. While guarded and cautious, he draws me in with his dry humor and reluctant smiles.

I was happy running my family bar and cruising through life as a single guy, enjoying an abundance of fast women, hard liquor, and good times. Life was one big party until it took a turn. Reality struck, and everything changed when I lost my beloved da. Losing a parent is never easy, but mine left me with an added legacy, one I didn't want... a huge debt owing to a Mafia boss and no way to pay it. Then I was offered a reprieve in the form of Maeve Monroe—archeologist, bookworm, nerd, and the last girl I'd ever commit to.

Isabel Grayson never expected the quiet village of Willowridge to stir such longing in her heart. Devoted to her work as a schoolteacher, she soon finds herself drawn to David Water—a man marked by his past life as a monk and the vows that still bind him. As her feelings deepen, so does the tension between them, each shared look a fragile thread stretched between love and restraint. In a place where everyone knows your name and secrets don’t stay hidden for long, Isabel and David must confront what lies beneath silence and sacrifice.

When Claire Anderson finally opens the doors to her dream bakery in the quiet town of Willow Creek, it feels like a long-overdue fresh start. But her peace is shattered when her best friend—beloved local photographer Liam O’Connor—is found dead near the town’s scenic overlook. The sheriff says it was an accident. Claire knows it wasn’t.

In the isolated farming community of Harlowe, where life has changed little over the past several decades, John Moore and his wife Mim work the land that has been in his family for generations. But from the moment the charismatic Perly Dinsmore arrives in town and starts soliciting donations for his auctions, things begin slowly and insidiously to change in Harlowe. As the auctioneer carries out his terrible, inscrutable plan, the Moores and their neighbors will find themselves gradually but inexorably stripped of their freedom, their possessions, and perhaps even their lives ...

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Whit Longacre has a monumental task and a looming deadline. After his wife, Helen, died of cancer, she left him with their grieving eight-year-old daughter and a surprise in her will: the small task of writing the final book in her mega-popular children’s fantasy series for her legions of waiting fans. Whit is the author of moderately successful (but well-received!) literary mysteries. He doesn’t have the first idea of how to complete Helen’s beloved series, and his enigmatic wife seems to have left no clues behind on how the story is supposed to end.

When prodigal daughter Cass Simon returns home after years away, the Simon family’s fragile peace is disrupted. Cass, a young mom previously living in a cult-like “Mommune” and working for a popular mom-fluencer, has come back under questionable circumstances, but is intent on starting fresh. As Cass gets work writing advice for a parenting website, her mother and sisters chip in their own wisdom from personal experience—of troubled pasts, heartache, and issues with infertility.

For the first time in her life, Lydia is taking a great big leap of faith. Then tragedy strikes, and Lydia is reminded why she doesn't take chances. Starting over feels impossible. Staying put feels harder still. But when the local community rallies around her, and Lydia is unexpectedly reminded of the power of new beginnings, she realizes she might just owe it to herself and them to take a second chance on Chance House.

Recently divorced postal worker Ilmari Nieminen has promised his daughter a piano for Christmas, but with six days to go – and no money – he's desperate. A last-minute job offers a solution: transport a valuable antique sofa to Kilpisjärvi, the northernmost town in Finland. With the sofa secured in the back of his van, Ilmari stops at a gas station, and an old friend turns up, offering to fix his faulty steering wheel, on the condition that he tags along. Soon after, a persistent Saab 96 appears in the rearview mirror. And then a bright-yellow Lada.

Læsø 1780. Mellem hede og klitter, på den yderste del af øen, lever en gruppe kvinder. De ejer husene, kører hestevogne, passer dyr og børn og dyrker den sandede jord. Deres mænd og sønner er på havet og kommer sjældent hjem. Signe, Frida, Nielsine, Kirsten, Abelone, Margrete, Dortea og Johanne knyttes sammen af et arbejdsfællesskab, hvor pligt tæller mere end sympatier.

Sean Davidson’s party night in the rural town of Moravian Village, Ohio, takes a shocking turn, spiraling into a living nightmare with an unimaginable outcome. Over a year later, Sean is struggling to put the pieces of his life back together when a stranger named Heather calls, and he learns that his dreadful ordeal was no isolated incident. A sinister presence threatens the village. Sean and Heather team up to hunt down the mysterious force. But when they dredge up Moravian Village’s horrific past, they discover they’re confronting a supernatural power they alone cannot defeat.

Every night at precisely 7:19 p.m., Tina L. Jones turns on her porch light. To her quiet Georgia neighborhood, it’s just a lonely woman’s strange habit—maybe she’s waiting for a lost love, a child, or simply clinging to routine. But Tina knows the truth is much deeper… and much darker. When a mysterious letter appears at her door, scrawled with the words “You were right. It’s still here.” Tina is thrust back into a haunting mystery she tried to forget—the disappearance of a gifted student named Miles Carter and the secrets surrounding a beloved teacher who may not be who he seems.

Als ihre Tante ihr einen Job im »Catpurrcino« anbietet, ist das für Emmie der dringend nötige Neuanfang. In der Vorweihnachtszeit kann sie sich nichts Perfekteres vorstellen, als heiße Schokolade zu servieren und sich um die vielen Katzen des Cafés zu kümmern. Als zusätzliche Aushilfe während der Feiertage stellt ihre Tante zudem Jared als Fahrer zur Auslieferung der Kuchen ein. Emmie ist sofort von ihm fasziniert, doch er wirkt verschlossen–und Zeit für eine Romanze hat sie sowieso nicht.

Æblemostreglementet er historien om dr. Wilbur Larch, grundlægger og leder af et kombineret fødselshospital og børnehjem, der i begyndelsen af 1900-tallet hjælper unge kvinder, der er "kommet i vanskeligheder". Men det er især historien om Homer Wells, det barn dr. Larch aldrig fik bortadopteret, og som han har udset til sin efterfølger. Homer tvivler på, om det er det, han vil og flygter til en æblefarm i Maine, hvor han oplever den store kærlighed. I Maine konfronteres han også med "æblemostreglerne", de fattige æbleplukkeres uskrevne love, som trækker ham ind i et drama på liv og død.

Clara Lawson thought her chance at true love ended the day her husband passed away. Now a widow navigating life in her small hometown, she is content focusing on her family and her music, keeping her heart safe behind walls she is built brick by brick. But when her brother’s engagement party brings Ethan Miller—her brother’s best friend and her first love—back into her life, the walls she is so carefully constructed start to crumble.

The police fabricated a story about the night four members of MS-13 died in a tiny home on a quiet city street almost two years previous. George Tokay and his friends were not supposed to share the secret about what really happened that night. No one was to know the truth. But someone talked, and now MS-13, ruthless and wanting revenge, is back in town, and people are dying.

What if a town could remember what you forgot? Fairchance, Pennsylvania was always quiet—a sleepy town where the days blurred and the past stayed buried. But when Wayne Clark receives a mysterious letter with no return address and a hauntingly familiar message, the stillness begins to tremble. As memories long-lost begin to surface, Wayne and childhood friend Lucille are pulled into a journey through forgotten summers, hidden tunnels, and a town that seems to breathe with memory itself.