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Lisa and Elliot have been best friends ever since the day they met as children. Popular, bright and sporty, Lisa was Elliot's biggest supporter when the school bullies made his life a misery, and for that, he will always be grateful. Twenty years later, life has pulled the pair apart, and Lisa is struggling. Her marriage is floundering, her teenage kids are being secretive and she's so tired she can't think straight. So when Elliot knocks on the door, looking much better than she remembers, she can't help but be delighted to see her old friend again.

Before Rose Gordon came home to Barrington in Book One—Charlie’s Will—there was Debbie Webb and Jamie Tait. Despite being high school sweethearts, Debbie left Barrington for university in Sydney, then further study and work in London.

It’s autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer, Lucy Barton, who lives down the road in a house by the sea with her ex-husband, William. Together, Lucy and Bob go on walks and talk about their lives, their fears and regrets, and what might have been. Brimming with empathy and pathos, TELL ME EVERYTHING is Elizabeth Strout operating at the height of her powers.

After 30 years of marriage, and a wonderful family Christmas, Louisa is stunned when husband Kip asks for a divorce on Boxing Day. He’d never seemed unhappy – and they’ve raised three children together. For months, Kip has been secretly seeing a younger woman – and if that wasn’t bad enough – it’s the woman who broke their youngest son’s heart. Now Kip is moving out and embarking on a new life with Zoe, and Louisa is left to pick up the pieces. Their beloved family home, Charity Cottage, is up for sale, and tensions are running high.

The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything - everything except books, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt's Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome's got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carter. Cussy's not only a book woman, however, she's also the last of her kind, her skin a shade of blue unlike most anyone else. Not everyone is keen on Cussy's family or the Library Project, and a Blue is often blamed for any whiff of trouble.

Missing Links is the story of four middle-class buddies who live outside Boston and play golf together at Ponkaquogue Municipal Golf Links and Deli, not so fondly known as Ponky. An 18-hole garbage dump with hazards that include a concrete river surrounded by a chain-link fence and the pillars of the elevated train that runs through the course, it is reputed to be the worst golf course in America.

Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives in southern Appalachia. At the heart of these intertwined narratives is a den of coyotes that have recently migrated into the region. Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, watches them from an isolated mountain cabin where she is caught off-guard by Eddie Bondo, a young hunter who comes to invade her most private spaces and her solitary life.

While Barney loves his life at Bumblebee Barn - a farm that has been in his family for generations - he's struggling to find someone to share it with. The early mornings quad biking through muddy fields and the long hours looking after the crops and animals are proving to be a deterrent to finding love. So when his sister, Fizz - desperate for Barney to find his soulmate - sees an advert for Love on the Farm, a new reality TV show to help farmers find love, he has nothing to lose by applying.

Samantha has a secret. Returning home from her dream honeymoon to the normality of running her beloved Hedgehog Hollow rescue centre, she's ready for the next chapter of her life with Josh. Or is she? Lauren has given up on love. Twenty-six years ago the love of her life, Shaun, left her a note and was never seen again. Samantha and Lauren will need the love and support from the Hedgehog Hollow family more than ever. After all, some dreams are worth chasing.

It should be the most wonderful time of the year for Samantha and Josh as they prepare for the arrival of their first baby. But life at Hedgehog Hollow rarely goes to plan and the pair are faced with adversaries, old and new, and unexpected challenges to overcome. Fizz's job at the heart of the rescue centre is a dream come true but her personal life is more like a nightmare. With her love life a disaster and her past about to dramatically catch up with her, she needs the love and support of her Hedgehog Hollow family more than ever.

At the heart of a tiny community in a remote village just inland from the Aberdeenshire coast stands an unexpected lighthouse. Built two centuries ago by an eccentric landowner, it has become home to the only bookshop for miles around. Rachel is an incomer to the village. She arrived five years ago and found a place she could call home. So when the owner of the Lighthouse Bookshop dies suddenly, she steps in to take care of the place, trying to help it survive the next stage of its life.

It was always Samantha's dream to run her beautiful rescue centre, Hedgehog Hollow, full-time. But just as her wish comes true, she becomes a victim of her own kindness when she finds herself with a house full of guests - all with their own problems and secrets - looking to her for support. When her self-absorbed cousin, Chloe, unexpectedly turns up at the farm - swiftly handing over her baby to Samantha to care for - trouble is definitely brewing. Especially as Chloe won’t tell anyone why she’s left her husband, James.

Die Erfolgsromane zu der herzerwärmenden Netflix-Serie "Virgin River". Als Jillian beruflich wie privat übel mitgespielt wird, beschließt sie, einfach ins Blaue draufloszufahren. Doch dann erinnert sie sich an das ruhige und abgeschiedene Städtchen Virgin River, in dem sie einen traumhaften Urlaub mit ihrer Schwester verbracht hat. Spontan entscheidet Jillian, dass der kleine Ort der perfekte Platz ist, um Abstand von ihren Sorgen im Silicon Valley zu gewinnen. Womit sie nicht gerechnet hat, ist, dass sie auf Colin Riordan trifft und plötzlich Romantik in der Luft liegt.

Richly textured, compassionate, and at times hilarious, Cowboys and East Indians traces a journey from India to Wyoming and back again, introducing us along the way to characters who seem not quite to fit the circumstances in which they find themselves, but who nevertheless search for belonging—through unexpected common ground with their human neighbors or the abiding, if isolating, openness of the vast landscape of the West.

Moving from Pakistan’s sophisticated cities to its most rural farmlands, This Is Where the Serpent Lives captures the extraordinary proximity of extreme wealth to extreme poverty in a land where fate is determined by class and social station. Daniyal Mueenuddin’s This Is Where the Serpent Lives paints a powerful portrait of contemporary feudal Pakistan, and a farm on which the destinies of a dozen unforgettable characters are linked through violence and love, resilience, and tragedy.

In the spring of 1898, A. E. (Alexandria) Bartram—a spirited young woman with a love for botany—is invited to join a field study in Yellowstone National Park. The study’s leader, a mild-mannered professor from Montana, assumes she is a man, and is less than pleased to discover the truth. Once the scientists overcome the shock of having a woman on their team, they forge ahead on a summer of adventure, forming an enlightening web of relationships as they move from Mammoth Hot Springs to a camp high in the backcountry.

On a cold, snowy winter's night in 1999, Sander and Killian leave a house party together, in a small town in rural Sweden. The very best of friends, they imagine they will remain so forever. The next morning, each is a key suspect in a murder. Each has something they want to conceal from the police. And from the other. The hunt for Mikael Söderström's killer will take over twenty years. It will see a detective leave the force forever. And it won't end until a second body is found, and the tight-knit community's secrets are finally brought to light...

At the age of thirty, Adrian Rookwhistle's life hasn't quite turned out the way he'd have hoped. Working an unfulfilling job as a clerk in the city and living under the tyranny of his fearsome landlady, he can't help but think that there is more to life. However, all of this suddenly changes when he receives a curious letter from his dying uncle who has bequeathed him £500 and an elephant by the name of Rosy who has a seemingly unquenchable thirst for liquor.

Die Geheimnisse von Engeløya – die erfolgreiche Skandinavien-Saga geht weiter! Norwegen | Insel Engeløya: Im Doktorhaus Breidablikk herrscht große Aufregung! Bera stürzt von ihrem geliebten Pferd Melle und erleidet eine Gehirnerschütterung. Elen und Gabriel wachen besorgt über sie, während Agnete neue Intrigen spinnt. Doch dann geschieht das Unfassbare: Amtsmann Hjalmar Falch taucht auf – und will Melle mitnehmen! Trine Angelsen entführt ihre Hörer*innen in das malerische Dorf Engeløya im norwegischen Vestfjord.

Kyra Nash, a driven journalist, arrives in Ponchatoula with one goal: to write a career-defining article on the region's iconic strawberry farms. But her plans take an unexpected turn when she meets Marlon Dupree, a guarded widower fighting to keep his family’s farm—and his past—from crumbling.

In the farm fields surrounding Sault Ste. Marie, a border town in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, time seems to stand still. Summer, the sun scalds the local boys’ necks as they bale hay for cash. Winter, the girls bundle up against the cold and jostle through the high school halls like trailered sheep. Most kids dream of leaving, but Everett Lindt plans to stay on his family's sheep farm, develop his own herd, and eventually rebuild the crumbling homestead that looks over the land he loves.

When life comes knocking, can they go from nothing to something? After a lifetime of having each other's backs, meddling in their brother's lives, and keeping their families going, Nate and Xavi don't know what to do with all this… freedom. For the first time ever, they have no one to watch out for. Love and dreams come next on their big agenda, and they soon learn the connection they share goes far deeper than any normal friendship. But with a lifelong bestie bond on the line, flipping their dynamic comes with big risks… and big rewards.

Get ready to fall in love with the brand new romance in the Scottish Escapes series from bestselling author, Julie Shackman. When romance author Rosie Winters’s own fairytale romance ends with a bang, she’s determined to get away from everything. Packing up her belongings she sets off for the furthest place she can think of: Scotland. Rosie spent her summers at her late grandmother’s coastal cottage in the Highlands and knows it’ll be the perfect place to wallow for a while. Even better that there’s a gorgeous lighthouse and dolphins in the bay.

The local library is a place for community members to enjoy a cup of coffee, to read a book, to swap a book, to exchange ideas, and maybe even share a piece of themselves. It’s also a refuge for people like Hattie, looking to reconnect with her past, and Avril, trying to hide from the future, and Stuart, searching for a new purpose, and librarian Will, whose life has been spun in an unexpected direction.

Dette er fjerde og sidste del i Holly Hepburns hyggelige fortælling ”Tilbage til Half Moon Farm”.Da Daisys mor bliver syg, flytter Daisy med sine tvillingesønner hjem til Half Moon Farm, deres gamle slægtsgård.Men et nyt liv på landet i Kent er ikke nødvendigvis så idyllisk, som det måske ser ud. Daisys forhold til sin mor er kompliceret, og den faldefærdige gård er ikke det eneste, der skal genopbygges. Heldigvis finder Daisy lidt adspredelse i iværksætteren Drew og den adelige arving til det nærliggende slot, Kit.

Dette er anden del af fire i Holly Hepburns hyggelige fortælling ”Tilbage til Half Moon Farm”.Da Daisys mor bliver syg, flytter Daisy med sine tvillingesønner hjem til Half Moon Farm, deres gamle slægtsgård.Men et nyt liv på landet i Kent er ikke nødvendigvis så idyllisk, som det måske ser ud. Daisys forhold til sin mor er kompliceret, og den faldefærdige gård er ikke det eneste, der skal genopbygges. Heldigvis finder Daisy lidt adspredelse i iværksætteren Drew og den adelige arving til det nærliggende slot, Kit.

Dette er første del af fire i Holly Hepburns hyggelige fortælling ”Tilbage til Half Moon Farm”.Da Daisys mor bliver syg, flytter Daisy med sine tvillingesønner hjem til Half Moon Farm, deres gamle slægtsgård.Men et nyt liv på landet i Kent er ikke nødvendigvis så idyllisk, som det måske ser ud. Daisys forhold til sin mor er kompliceret, og den faldefærdige gård er ikke det eneste, der skal genopbygges. Heldigvis finder Daisy lidt adspredelse i iværksætteren Drew og den adelige arving til det nærliggende slot, Kit.

Dette er tredje del af fire i Holly Hepburns hyggelige fortælling ”Tilbage til Half Moon Farm”.Da Daisys mor bliver syg, flytter Daisy med sine tvillingesønner hjem til Half Moon Farm, deres gamle slægtsgård.Men et nyt liv på landet i Kent er ikke nødvendigvis så idyllisk, som det måske ser ud. Daisys forhold til sin mor er kompliceret, og den faldefærdige gård er ikke det eneste, der skal genopbygges. Heldigvis finder Daisy lidt adspredelse i iværksætteren Drew og den adelige arving til det nærliggende slot, Kit.

Jessica Fischer wants nothing more than to build her law practice in small-town Ashton, Georgia. She's well on her way when the local town hero, football coach Frank "Tripp" Wishingham III, hires her to represent him in a paternity suit. Coach is everything Jessica despises—arrogant, sexist, entitled—but it's her job to make him look good in public. This is made doubly difficult when her burgeoning relationship with a local reporter gets in the way of telling the truth.

Farrah Macon is blindsided after being served divorce papers from a man she never intended to live without. Completely baffled, she leaves her art gallery manager position behind to take refuge with her parents. At the ripe age of twenty-nine, she’s living back home again, working as a nursing assistant, and helping her family at the local farmer’s market. When everything seems to be falling down around her, Farrah runs into James Abbott—all six feet of the charming, curly-haired rancher—and can’t help but remember what they used to have.