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As he did in the award-winning One Part Woman, in his newest novel, The Story of a Goat, Perumal Murugan explores a side of India that is rarely considered in the West: the rural lives of the country’s farming community. He paints a bucolic yet sometimes menacing portrait, showing movingly how danger and deception can threaten the lives of the weakest through the story of a helpless young animal lost in a world it naively misunderstands.

Esta é uma narrativa de peregrinação, em que os personagens perambulam pela ribeira do Piranhas, pela serra do Teixeira, pelo Boqueirão de Curema e por muitas vilas e arruados. É uma história de desforra, de vingança, de um crime terrível. É um causo de caça, mas a caça é um facinoroso temido por todo tipo de gente, tendo por alcunha Rio Preto e por nome Luís. É uma arenga de irmãos em que o mais novo apanha e o mais velho chora. Não é uma história de fantasmas, embora um morto, a lembrança de um morto, seja fundamental para que ela se desenvolva.

While I was off pitching in the big leagues, my family was back in the small town of Sweetwater, Texas, running the family ranch. Then tragedy hit and I discovered there were secrets that my family kept, problems they hid. I went home, left behind the money, women, and fame. I took over the ranch, took care of my grandmother, and took over hiding the secrets. Then she came to town. A smart-mouthed, clumsy, too-smart-and-too-pretty good city girl hiding out to write a book, in the cottage my grandmother rented her without my permission, and she sees too much. She knows too much.

Sophie im Glück! Ihr Leben läuft gerade einfach großartig - in Peter hat sie ihren Traummann gefunden und mit Tante Dottis Bistro konnte sie einen Traum verwirklichen. Die bevorstehende Adventszeit verspricht stressig zu werden, aber Sophie ist zuversichtlich, dass sie alles im Griff haben wird. Doch weit gefehlt: Ausgerechnet kurz vor Weihnachten kommt es zu einem großen Streit mit Peter, und Sophies Leben steht plötzlich Kopf.

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First published in 1989, Guy Butler’s Tales from the Old Karoo is considered to be one of the classics of South African literature. In celebration of the author’s birth in 1918, this centenary issue is newly packaged and designed to appeal to a modern audience. The short stories in this collection are all set in the old Karoo - in a place and time before tarred roads, television and the internet replaced horse-drawn carriages, steam-engine trains and fireside storytelling.

Sarah Jane Pullman is a good cop with a complicated past. From her small-town chicken-farming roots through her runaway adolescence, court-ordered Army stint, and ill-advised marriage, Sarah Jane unfolds her life story, a parable about memory, atonement, and finding shape in chaos. Her life takes an unexpected turn when she is named the de facto sheriff of a rural town, investigating the mysterious disappearance of the sheriff whose shoes she’s filling - and the even more mysterious realities of the life he was hiding from his own colleagues and closest friends.

As the owner of Old Hat Vintage Fashions, Charley Carpenter supplies retro apparel to the residents of Oakwood, Ohio, but she’s been known to set business aside to play detective when a mystery rears its head. And there’s no bigger mystery in Oakwood than the murder of Regan Fletcher - a case that’s haunted the town for decades.

Pregnant with her second child, Martha King finds her marriage to lawyer Austin King more and more frustrating when her husband befriends his young foster cousin, Nora, and, in the process, unwittingly jeopardizes his marriage, career, and place in the community.

Lucy Bowman would never have guessed that her best friend, Duffy McCready (of McCready’s Bait Shop & Funeral Home) has been in love with her since they were kids. Fear of rejection and his own romantic complications prevented Duffy from confessing his true feelings in high school, so he stood by and watched her wed Wayne Garten right after high school. Wayne had always been a cheapskate, so it comes as no surprise when he suffers a fatal accident while fixing his own truck.

Single-mother bounty hunter Lori Anderson has finally got her family back together, but her newfound happiness is shattered when she’s snatched by the Miami Mob – and they want her dead. Rather than a bullet, they offer her a job: find the Mob’s ‘numbers man’ - Carlton North - who’s in protective custody after being forced to turn federal witness against them. If Lori succeeds, they’ll wipe the slate clean and the price on her head - and those of her family - will be removed. If she fails, they die.

When two teenagers - Johannes and Mari - are found murdered inside their school, in the small Norwegian village of Fredheim, the finger is soon is pointed at 18-year-old Even, whose relationship with Mari ended just before she died. Mari was writing a story for the school newspaper about Even and his dad, who died in a car accident 10 years earlier. But was it really an accident? And had Mari uncovered information that someone was willing to commit murder to protect?

Empire Falls, eine Kleinstadt in Maine: Seit über zwanzig Jahren arbeitet Miles Roby im örtlichen Diner. Hier versammelt sich die ganze Stadt, vom Fitnessstudiobesitzer bis zum Schuldirektor. Miles selbst hat das College abgebrochen, ist geschieden und lebt in einer winzigen Wohnung über dem Restaurant. Und während er sein Bestes gibt, seiner Tochter dabei zu helfen, die Highschool zu überstehen, seinen trinkfreudigen Vater zu bändigen und dem Job im Diner gerecht zu werden, bleibt nicht viel Raum für das, was er sich vom Leben erhofft hat.

Palamède Bernardin è l'ingombrante vicino di casa di Emile e Juliette, una coppia di anziani coniugi che decidono di ritirarsi in campagna per trascorrere gli ultimi anni della loro vita in una felice cornice bucolica. Ma i due vengono quotidianamente perseguitati da un vicino obeso e silenzioso, Palamède appunto, che tuttti i pomeriggi, rende loro visita invadendo, con la sua enorme mole, il salotto. E le cose si complicano ulteriormente quando a queste riunioni silenziose si unirà anche la moglie di Palamède, Bernadette, un essere informe.

Allison: When I left for California, I gave myself a new name and never looked back. Now my carefully crafted good-girl image is getting torn to shreds in the press thanks to my Oscar-winning A-hole of an ex-boyfriend. So I escape to the only safe haven I know and trust - my hometown - to take a breather while I plot my triumphant Hollywood comeback. However, when I arrive at my parents’ house, Jackson Burke answers the door instead. And suddenly the past comes rushing back.... Jackson: First kiss. First time. First love. Allison Murphy and I shared a lot of firsts.

Ogni sera, alla stessa ora, l'intero paese si ferma in ascolto davanti alla radio. Mentre nelle case si diffondono le prime note della sigla musicale, nel piccolo studio di calle Caspe, a Barcellona, cala il silenzio, una luce inizia a lampeggiare e due labbra dipinte di rosso si avvicinano al microfono per augurare la buona notte agli ascoltatori. Sono le labbra di Aurora, la presentatrice di uno dei programmi radiofonici più popolari nella Spagna postfranchista degli anni settanta: "La posta del cuore della señorita Leo".

Un roman feel-good sur l'art de vivre à la danoise. "Ça n'est plus possible Chloé, plus personne ne te supporte ici. Tes collègues ont peur de toi et moi, j'ai peur pour toi. Depuis deux ans, tu n'es plus la même... - Je-ne-veux-pas-en-parler. - Je le sais que tu ne veux pas en parler, mais je suis ton chef. Et je ne peux plus te laisser comme ça, Chloé... Sache que j'ai pris une grande décision..." Quand Alexandre, le rédacteur en chef de Chloé, journaliste intrépide et habituée des territoires en guerre, lui annonce qu'elle part séance tenante à Gilleleje, petit village côtier du Danemark, la jeune femme s'étrangle d'indignation.

Christian Signol a choisi de nous faire le portrait de sa grand-mère périgourdine et de nous en restituer la mémoire vive. Adeline est à présent devant nous, simple paysanne, tout illuminée de modestie et de bonté, gravissant la pente de son destin. Adeline est une femme comme il n'y en eut pas deux, et c'est pour cela qu'elle est le symbole de tant d'autres : "Ecoutez Adeline comme je l'ai écoutée. C'était une femme droite, digne, courageuse, l'une de ces femmes paysannes qui ont assuré la permanence des familles et embelli une époque qui aura sans doute été la dernière à avoir conservé les valeurs essentielles sur lesquelles ont vécu nos campagnes pendant des milliers d'années."

Elle est là, la France profonde, la magie de la terre, la mémoire d'un peuple ! Dans ce pays des Causses et du Quercy, terre de légendes et de superstitions. Dans ce village de Bories au parler rugueux, aux senteurs profondes. Et dans le regard émerveillé de cet homme, Antonin, paysan du Causse, cet homme qui se souvient... L'enfance, le travail des champs, les fêtes, les solidarités villageoises, les veillées, les foires... Une vie, un bonheur simples et vrais. Un monde que la Grande Guerre va briser à jamais.

1919, la paix est revenue. Cécile, l'héroïne de "L'orange de Noël" a appris que son mari était mort dans les tranchées. La femme qui le lui annonce s'appelle Sylvaine. Elle aussi a aimé Pierre. Puisqu'il n'y a plus d'hommes au village, Cécile et Sylvaine, devenues amies, prennent ensemble l'initiative extraordinaire d'organiser un grand bal où seront invités tous les célibataires de la région.