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After five years of virtual banishment because he sold out his small outfit to the Middle Arizona Cattle Company, giving it a foothold on the Mesa Grande range, violent-tempered Joe Bonnyman is summoned back to Lodgepole by his father when it appears that a cattle war between the syndicate and the various rangers is imminent. During his short stay in town, Joe has an unpleasant meeting with Ed Merrill, the brother of a girl Joe had once courted.

With local Maggie Stevens' baby on the way - not to mention her wedding to Jameso Clark in the works - spring in Eureka promises to be a time of rebirth in more ways than one. To add to the excitement, and refill the town's depleted coffers, Lucille, the mayor, has wooed a movie producer to Eureka, throwing folks into a tizzy - and inspiring some to reach for the stars. As if that weren't enough, the bogus Lucky Lady mine the town partially sold turns out to really have gold in it - and possibly a ghost to boot.

A veces para poder seguir viviendo, hay que morir y dejar atrás lo que uno fue.El tercer libro de la Trilogía del Malamor concluye las historias de Ángela, Rayen y del peculiar poblado de Almahue y sus desventurados pobladores, condenados a sufrir del hechizo del Malamor.

Barnes, the supervisor of a Hot Shot wildfire suppression crew, is haunted by the season past, when many members of his dedicated, young team were killed in a Colorado forest fire that went all wrong, scorching the Hot Shots as they fled, some as they struggled into their fire shelters. He wakes each morning in the presence of their ghosts as they proceed across his bedroom or assemble at his kitchen table, their eyes asking questions that he cannot answer.

Someone is shooting horses, and Sadie is determined to find out who it is. That is until she begins to suspect that Mark, her boyfriend, may be involved. Will Sadie discover the truth? Will it be too hard to bear?

hn Signal, fleeing from a murder charge in a fair fight, arrives in the mining town of Monument. Calling himself John Alias, he is made a deputy sheriff by Sheriff Peter Ogden, who puts Alias between two crooked factions and fails to give him any support.

An unlikely criminal, Andy Durant is robbing gas stations to buy back land once connected to his wife's farm in upstate New York. But when he's shot and killed during a robbery, he leaves his wife, Grady, and their three children to fend for themselves. Moving back to the debt-laden farm, Grady ignites a plan that involves getting in the middle of an adjoining neighbor's marriage. Meanwhile, one by one the whole family is charmed by Royal Provo, a young and charismatic orphan working on the property.

Sadie may be married now, but she's as spirited as ever, and her life is no less tame. In fact, soon after she and Mark are settled into the farmhouse Mark is renovating, she's visited by three FBI agents who question her about the two children who mysteriously appeared one day at the ranch. Before the agents leave, they warn Sadie that her beloved horse, Paris, is highly valuable, and that she and Mark may be in grave danger because of Paris.

Between juggling lunchboxes, piano lessons, and baby-sitters, public defender turned stay-at-home mom Juliet Applebaum promises to help her famous friend clear her brother's name of murder. But what will she do when she begins to suspect her friend may not be as innocent as she seems?

When Jon and Ray form a tight friendship, they find in each other everything they lack at home, but it’s not until Ray falls in love with beautiful, headstrong Karen Dorsey that the three friends begin to dream of breaking away from Brewster for good. Freedom, however, has its price. As forces beyond their control begin to bear down on them, Jon sets off on the race of his life - a race to redeem his past and save them all.

Winsor Glanvil pays court to Louise Carney, heiress to a fortune, and she agrees to marry him. The marriage is opposed by big Jack Rutledge, a jealous rival and formidable foe, so Glanvil and Louise plan to be married in a sequestered valley by a local clergyman. Rutledge and his supporters, learning of the plan, arrive in the valley ahead of the two and seize Glanvil. Glanvil is beaten mercilessly and Rutledge disfigures him, destroying one side of his face with the cutting edge of a spur. Rutledge then rejoins his gang in the clergyman’s house.

Part human comedy and part mystery, Lies the Mushroom Pickers Told is an enthralling, masterful story about what holds a village together and what keeps people apart. When journalist Patrick Bracken returns to Gohen, the Irish village where he was born, he knows the eyes of the townspeople are on him. He has come home to investigate two deaths that happened decades earlier when he was a child, deaths that were ruled accidental.

Joan Didion's electrifying first novel is a haunting portrait of a marriage whose wrong turns and betrayals are at once absolutely idiosyncratic and a razor-sharp commentary on the history of California. Everett McClellan and his wife, Lily, are the great-grandchildren of pioneers, and what happens to them is a tragic epilogue to the pioneer experience, a story of murder and betrayal that only Didion could tell with such nuance, sympathy, and suspense.

"C'était avant que la vie nous emporte, avant que je comprenne vraiment ce qui se passait là, dans le secret des arbres, le murmure de l'eau, le parfum des herbes et cette lumineuse enfance qui me faisait tellement battre le cœur." Une île sur la Dordogne. Un monde aquatique, poétique et mystérieux, propice aux rêves, un refuge. C'est là que vivent Bastien et sa famille. L'eau et la rivière sont leur univers, un paradis qui les fait vivre et les enchante, jour après jour.

"Pour la plupart des familles françaises, passées en trois générations de la paysannerie à l'université, le XXe siècle a été un formidable ascenseur social."

Partir, fuir sa triste banlieue, la grisaille... Sébastien a dix ans et la leucémie menace sa vie. Malgré l'amour de sa mère, il n'a qu'une obsession : rejoindre dans le Lot ses grands-parents qui sauront éloigner de lui la peur et la mort. Il est sûr qu'au cœur de cette campagne qu'il aime tant, il pourra puiser l'énergie pour lutter contre la terrible maladie qui l'affaiblit chaque jour davantage. Dans la petite ferme familiale, Sébastien oscille entre les périodes de découragement et le plaisir des joies simples.

"J'ai toujours pensé que la beauté du monde était destinée à nous faire oublier la brièveté tragique de nos vies. Peut-être un cadeau de Dieu, s'il existe, comme je l'espère. Mais nous n'en sommes pas conscients, hélas ! Non seulement nous infligeons à la terre qui nous porte les pires blessures, mais nous ne savons plus voir à quel point elle est belle. Et pourtant le monde vit. Auprès de nous. Sans nous ou avec nous. Regardez-le ! Écoutez-le !"

À quoi peuvent songer trois soldats dans le petit matin glacial du 11 novembre 1918, à l'aube d'un armistice dont ils ne savent rien encore ? Un fils de notaire du Périgord, un instituteur du pays cathare et un ouvrier parisien qui n'auraient jamais dû se rencontrer, trois hommes jetés dans l'enfer et qui se raccrochent désespérément au souvenir de leur vie d'avant pour ne pas sombrer. Les yeux fermés, ils se souviennent de ces heures de paix lumineuses qui donnaient un sens à l'amour et à l'insouciance.

"Julien Signol, mon grand-père paternel, ne sut jamais lire ni écrire, et moi, son petit-fils, je suis devenu écrivain."

C'est dans les solitudes du Vercors, son pays natal, que Blanche a décidé de se retirer. Quarante ans auparavant, elle s'était pourtant juré de n'y jamais revenir... Blanche était institutrice. Un beau métier, conquis de haute lutte, rêvé dès l'enfance par une petite fille devenue orpheline à quatorze ans. Peu avant la guerre, elle avait rencontré Julien, un charbonnier illettré. Jour après jour, elle lui avait appris l'écriture et donné le goût des livres. Il lui avait appris à aimer.