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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.

Former childhood friends Jasmine Morgan, a PR expert, and Derek Carter, a meticulous corporate executive, have a renowned rivalry. Yet they’ve never revealed to anyone what turned their relationship sour. So when they’re thrown together on a revitalization project in the quaint town of Miller’s Cove, Florida, they plan to keep their distance and keep communication at a minimum.

Howard Norman’s The Bird Artist, the first book of his Canadian trilogy, begins in 1911. Its narrator, Fabian Vas is a bird artist: He draws and paints the birds of Witless Bay, his remote Newfoundland coastal village home. In the first paragraph of his tale Fabian reveals that he has murdered the village lighthouse keeper, Botho August. Later, he confesses who and what drove him to his crime—a measured, profoundly engrossing story of passion, betrayal, guilt, and redemption between men and women. The Bird Artist is a 1994 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.

Début XXe siècle, une saga au coeur du quotidien et des traditions des paysans cévenols. Un hommage au courage et au labeur de gens humbles mais dignes, un grand "classique" de Christian Laborie. Il est l'arbre à pain, l'arbre généreux dont le fruit est la ressource nourricière des plus démunis. Il est le châtaignier, celui qui donne son nom au mas isolé du Castanet, propriété d'une famille de paysans huguenots, dans cette région reculée des Cévennes. Les Monteil vivent là, enracinés sur le versant aride de la montagne schisteuse, la Vieille Morte.

Sarah Bennett and Jason Harper are coming home. The soldier running from his past and the actress coming home to bring her late dad's restaurant back to life. 18 years away, Sarah in California and Jason at war. Will coming home help them find more peace, love, or tragedy? A war interracial small-town romance.

At one time, Dominic Evans was my everything. That was before everything fell apart. My parents had warned me he wasn't the right kind of man for me and Dom proved them right. Now seventeen years later, I'm returning home. Running from my own mistakes in the form of an abusive, cheating fiancé. With my trail of bad luck, my car breaks down and Dom is the one who comes to my rescue. I hate having to rely on him, but I don't have much of a choice. Next thing I know Dominic sets up a work space for me in his garage; and finds me a job.

Four new festive rural stories from favourite Australian authors about the country practices at the heart of these small towns.

Everyone knows who Caleb Kelley is. I'm at the top of my game, known all around Colorado and beyond for not only my elite skills in professional hockey but also my family's ranching heritage. For this reason, I trust very few people as I'm used to strangers and so-called friends trying to get close to us for a piece of fame. But when I receive a letter from a woman I slept with years ago, letting me know I'm a father, I implicitly trust her. Emily Russo is forever ingrained in my memory and is the exception to every rule.

Manchmal ist das größte Glück nur eine Fellnase entfernt. Isalie Charlotte Hansen hat sich ihren größten Traum erfüllt und ist als Influencerin von Hamburg aus durchgestartet. Ihre Kanäle, auf denen sie Marketingtipps gibt, haben Hunderttausende Follower und sie ist bei Unternehmen als Beraterin gefragt. Doch als sie einen Auftrag von einem Bauernhof an der Küste erhält, betritt Isalie Neuland. Nicht nur, dass sie sich mit der neuen Materie auseinandersetzen muss, auch Max, der schlecht gelaunte Sohn ihrer Auftraggeberin, legt ihr so manchen Stein in den Weg.

Woody Barker steps out of prison planning to live out his years on his houseboat docked on the Alabama Gulf Coast. As a defrocked priest with a heart condition and an ex-wife who still runs his life, he needs peace and a path to redemption.

Kaya Ross, a talented and ambitious journalist, needs a break. Following a tough breakup, Kaya embarks on a road trip along the picturesque coastal route from Maryland to Florida. However, her journey takes an unexpected turn when her car breaks down in the charming town of Coral Cove. Stranded and in need of help, Kaya meets Reid Turner, a local firefighter with a heart of gold.

James and Millie, with their small family, are delighted to join Millie's parents on their recently purchased sorghum farm. The property looks like paradise but the harmony of the multi-generational family shatters when tempers flare. As disputes escalate, a tragedy leaves them with a legacy of guilt and unanswered questions.

I promised my best friend I'd take care of his hellion of a sister. A sham marriage probably wasn't what he had in mind. Growing up, the three of us were inseparable. Now, the only time she speaks to me is to tell me to get lost. Fair enough. Maybe I do go out of my way to make her mad, but I'd take her hate over her indifference any day. But when it comes to a rodeo competition, we're on the same side for once. With a prize of $100,000, it would make her career—and she could finally give her mom the help she needs. Her skill and my horse are a winning combination. The only problem?

In the spring of 1990, we return to Champton, where the characters we've come to love are all aflutter as a glamorous Hollywood movie takes over Champton House as its set location. As the actors and extras hired from the village don their farthingales, gowns and crowns for a masque set in the 1600s, a murder interrupts filming on set - and it's an ingenious one. Can Daniel solve the mystery with help from his sidekick Detective Sergeant Neil Vanloo - even when things are so sticky between them?

An autumn chill has settled over Busman's Harbor, Maine, but Julia Snowden is warming up the town by offering lobster stew at the local diner. When her landlord discovers a dead body in the walk-in refrigerator, Julia must figure out who ordered up a side of murder. Nothing's colder than a corpse—especially one stashed inside a sub-zero fridge. The victim spent his last night on earth dining at the restaurant bar, so naturally Julia finds herself at the center of the ensuing investigation.

Single dad, Wade Jenkins, Magnolia Grove's landscaping hottie who likes to mow lawns without a shirt on is thrown for a loop when his spirited seven-year-old daughter Goldie comes to live with him. While Wade's thrilled to have his daughter full-time, there's one little issue . . .The elementary school principal.

The Barrington girl-posse continue their monthly book club meetings, and somehow it becomes an incubator for new business ideas. And relationships. Rachael struggles daily with her grief, and attends to share memories of her daughter. But book club gives her so much more. Judith arrives, believing she’s ready for retirement. Or is she? Harry Stewart is home from up north, and on the first night, he bumps into little Freddie Campbell at the local pub. But she’s not little any more.

As someone raised in an orphanage, Carmel knows she should be grateful for a roof over her head and a respectable family, but she would love nothing more than to escape Birr, Co Offaly and get away from her husband, the monosyllabic Bill and his horrible sister forever. Life as Mrs. Sheehan should be bearable, all she had to do was look after the house and cook Bill’s meals. She didn’t even need to speak to him, in fact, he preferred that she didn't. But, as her fortieth birthday approaches, Carmel knows the change must be now or never.

November, 1967, Iceland. Fourteen-year-old Marsi has a secret penpal – a boy who lives on the other side of the country – but she has been writing to him in her older sister's name. Now she is excited to meet him for the first time. But when the date arrives, Marsi is prevented from going, and during the night her sister Stína goes missing – her bloodstained anorak later found at the place where Marsibil and her penpal had agreed to meet. November, 1977. Stína's disappearance remains unsolved.

When Eleanor Evans lands a spot at London’s most prestigious culinary school, her dreams finally feel within reach. Desperate to scrape together the cash for her tuition, she accepts a last-minute agency position as a chalet girl that whisks her away to Maplewood Creek, a quaint, snow-kissed town nestled in the Rocky mountains of Colorado.