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My return home to my family's small town hasn't been easy, but the new contractor I hired—a struggling but strong-willed single mom—keeps stripping her clothes off on the job site, which certainly spices things up. (She swears a spider crawled under her shirt.) She also divulges she's scared of her ex and he's taking her to court for custody of their daughter. I hate to see a woman mistreated, so I step up and marry her so she has a stronger case in front of the judge. Temporarily, of course.

A kidnapping, a shooting, a baby on the way, and three lives in the balance. After suffering a personal tragedy Abby Sullivan buys seaside mansion, packs up her life in San Francisco, and moves to Holiday Bay, where she is adopted, quite against her will, by a huge Maine Coon Cat named Rufus, a drifter with her own tragic past named Georgia, and a giant dog with an inferiority complex named Ramos. What Abby thought she needed was alone time to heal.

When his former hockey coach passes away, Declan Cadell is shocked to learn the man left him a cattle ranch. Well, not exactly. He's got one little hurdle to jump first. He has to win a trivia contest against the man's estranged daughter. Oh, and there's a caveat: he's only in the running if he lives and works with the spoiled princess who blew off one of the greatest men he's ever known. As if it wasn't hurtful enough that Seraphina Crutchley's biological father replaced her with a bunch of sweaty hockey boys, now he's forcing her to vie for her inheritance with one of them.

Lessyn Bradshaw had been taught very young that a man was only good for one thing: his money. If he couldn't provide security, then he wasn't the man for her. However, Lessyn didn't want that for herself. She wanted someone who could provide love, safety, fidelity, and multiple orgasms. After being engaged for three years and never truly being fulfilled in the bedroom or otherwise, Lessyn was unsure if being married to the rich designer was worth the risk of being unhappy—unsatisfied. When she meets Gabriel, his energy and vibe immediately have her intrigued.

From Pulitzer finalist, MacArthur Fellowship recipient, and bestselling author of Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove Karen Russell comes a gripping dust bowl epic about five characters whose fates become entangled after a storm ravages their small Nebraskan town The Antidote opens on Black Sunday, as a historic dust storm ravages the fictional town of Uz, Nebraska. But Uz is already collapsing—not just under the weight of the Great Depression and the dust bowl drought, but beneath its own violent histories.

En el transcurso de dos semanas, todo cambiará en Beartown. Han pasado dos años desde aquellos sucesos que nadie quiere recordar. Todos han intentado seguir adelante, pero hay algo en este lugar que lo impide. La destrucción causada por una feroz tormenta de finales de verano reaviva la vieja rivalidad entre Beartown y el pueblo vecino de Hed, una rivalidad que siempre se ha librado a través de sus equipos de hockey sobre hielo.

1886, Central Asia. A female shaman sells a bundle full of rare tulip bulbs to a field botanist. After arriving back home in Holland, the valuable bundle goes missing. Convinced a poor, crippled dock worker is the thief, the botanist goes in hot pursuit. But when the botanist fails to return, his son asks the local constable to investigate.

בעיר חוף קטנה העירייה מפרסמת מכרז לבניית דירות לזוגות צעירים – יוזמה מבורכת שהכול תולים בה תקוות גדולות עד שהיא נעצרת בגלל התככים שקדמו לה. לחזית המאבק שבין הזוגות לעירייה עולות דמויות ססגוניות, רבות־יצרים וכמיהות, שובות לב כולן גם בחולשותיהן: ראש עירייה כריזמטי, מקסים ואכזר, שמתכונן לבחירות הקרובות בצילה של חקירת משטרה, מנהיג אופוזיציה נכלולי שמנסה בכל דרך לגבור עליו, עורך דין צעיר ששואף להשתלב בפוליטיקה המקומית, והיועצת המשפטית של העירייה, שחברותיה לעבודה אינן מסגירות את המתרחש בביתה.

Ein herausragendes literarisches Debüt voller unterschwelliger Spannung, sanfter Wucht und Eindringlichkeit. Schon immer hat Stubber, der wortkarge Einzelgänger, mit seinem Heimatdorf gehadert. Doch seit er sein Kind bei den Bergbewohnern zurückließ und für Jahre verschwand, hadert das Dorf auch mit ihm. Ein "kaltes Mensch" sei dieser Mann, heißt es. Ein Sprengmeister, wie sein Vater, undurchsichtig und seltsam. Als bei einer nächtlichen Explosion elf Männer durch Sprengstoff aus Stubbers Besitz zu Tode kommen, gibt man ihm die Schuld – eine Schuld, die ihn jetzt durch die Bergwelt treibt.

Un niño de cuatro años vive con su madre, su padre y una hermana un año menor que él. Viven en una zona rural cerca del mar. El niño explora el mundo que lo rodea, solo y con su hermana, pero su madre los lleva constantemente a casa, quien tiene una relación algo confusa con su papel de cuidadora. A primera vista, la historia es sencilla, pero también plantea cuestiones esenciales sobre la existencia. Con detalles vívidos y conmovedores, Jon Fosse captura los pensamientos y reflexiones del joven.

Sam's daddy always said she shouldn't get a vintage car until she knew how to fix one. And when her 1965 Mustang breaks down in a town smaller than a matchbox, she realizes he might have been right. Now she's stranded in the middle of nowhere, on the run from heartache, until she can get the vehicle repaired. At least Jack the mechanic is one tall drink of water. And Sam's pleasantly surprised to learn there's more to him than meets the eye when he shows his soft side by sending her to the only B&B in town, run by his grandmother, to take refuge.

DAS KLEINE AUKTIONSHAUS IN SCHWEDEN: Widerwillig stimmt Kristina zu, im örtlichen Auktionshaus einen Antiquitätenkurs zu leiten – nicht ahnend, welch ein bunter Strauß an Menschen sich dort versammeln wird: Da ist Maria, die mehr Schwung in ihre Ehe bringen will, Klara, alleinerziehend und pleite, und der grummelige Per-Olof … Doch wo Einsamkeit herrschte, gedeiht plötzlich Freundschaft – auch als das Leben sich mal wieder von seiner harten Seite zeigt.

Winter, 1900. A little boy washes up on the beach of a small fishing village in Scotland, barely alive. He bears an uncanny resemblance to teacher Dorothy's son, lost to the sea many years before. When the village is snowed in, Dorothy agrees to look after the child until he can be returned home. But, as the past rises to meet the present, long-buried secrets in this tight-knit community start to come to light. And Dorothy finds herself thrown together again with the reclusive fisherman Joseph, after years of keeping their distance.

Can she trust a dragon with her heart? Tevryn’s been given a mission by his leader, to find out who is behind the attacks on the dragons and the laboratory they are using for their experiments. While attending an event where several of the suspects will be present, he runs into a complication he never saw coming. .. his eternal flame. Delaney is a brilliant architect with an eye for uncovering unusual secrets. She accepts a job offer from a wealthy tech mogul to build a monument based on an ancient prophecy.

Beth and her gentle, kind husband Frank are happily married, but their relationship relies on the past staying buried. But when Beth’s brother-in-law shoots a dog going after their sheep, Beth doesn’t realize that the gunshot will alter the course of their lives. For the dog belonged to none other than Gabriel Wolfe, the man Beth loved as a teenager—the man who broke her heart years ago. Gabriel has returned to the village with his young son Leo, a boy who reminds Beth very much of her own son, who died in a tragic accident.

Een nieuwe feelgoodhit uit Duitsland over de hartverwarmende Ierse Rainbow-Hearts-Library. Katherine Madigan is niet gelukkig met haar leven in München, dus wanneer ze hoort dat een verre tante overleden is en ze haar huis in Ierland erft, is de keuze gauw gemaakt. Maar dan blijkt ze ook de kleine bibliotheek naast het huis te erven: de Rainbow-Hearts-Library. In het Ierse Howth wordt Kate hartelijk ontvangen door de locals. Ze merkt al snel dat het bibliotheekje razend populair was en dat de inwoners van het dorp niets liever willen dan dat Kate het heropent.

I fell for that dimpled smirk, cowboy hat, and magnetic charm. Too bad he saw me as nothing more than a pawn in his scheme. That alone should have stopped me from asking him to be my fake boyfriend a few weeks later. In my defense, I was out of options after a major screw-up that almost cost me my job. My lack of self-preservation skills didn't do much to deter me from the idea either. I may be a walking disaster. But everyone in Westridge knows Warren as the town golden boy who can do no wrong, making him the perfect candidate to repair my reputation and help me avoid getting fired.

People like Dash didn't die. He was only what? Mid-thirties? Well off. Adored. By some anyway. World at his feet. Well, Myddle at his feet, which was his world. Ruth Dawson has taken a break from big city law to fill in for a few months for an old mate in Myddle. How hard can it be? she thinks. Turns out, very hard.

Starlight Grove needs a new lighthouse keeper, and Olive Autumn Harvest needs a fresh start. Preferably one with as much solitude as possible. So, her new job and isolated ocean cottage are perfect—except for the eccentric, meddling townspeople and the cat who's adopted her. When the town wins a grant for lighthouse restoration, Olive is forced to let the contractors into her space… a company comprised of three hot alphas: Easton, her golden retriever stalker, Lars, the steady, protective Viking, and Finn, who's hiding a pain that matches her own.

Staring up at the magnificent, rose-covered walls of her grandmother’s house, Violet Fleury isn’t sure she’ll be welcome inside. After running from her hometown in Ireland to follow her dreams of acting, she’s back to play Irish legend, Kathleen O’Sullivan, in a local film. She’s vowed to tell the story of the woman her village is so proud of—and to build bridges with the family she drifted away from. But will they give her a second chance?