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A 30-something painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist. When he discovers a strange painting in the attic, he unintentionally opens a circle of mysterious circumstances. To close it, he must complete a journey that involves a ringing bell, a two-foot-high physical manifestation of an Idea, a dapper businessman who lives across the valley, a precocious 13-year-old girl, a Nazi assassination attempt during World War II in Vienna, a pit in the woods behind the artist’s home and an underworld haunted by Double Metaphors.

For years, rumors of the 'Marsh Girl' have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved.

סודות הנלחשים מפה לאוזן בחדרי חדרים אמורים להישאר שם, אבל זה לא מה שקורה במקרה של טרודי, מפני שמה שהיא שומעת בשירותי הנשים של הכנסייה במהלך ההלוויה של אחות אימהּ, גרטרוד, עומד לשנות את חייה מקצה אל קצה. לטרודי יש בעל בוגדני, בת שברחה להתחתן בווגאס ואימא חולת אלצהיימר. מה שאין לה זה מקום לברוח אליו, עד שהיא מגלה שגרטרוד השאירה לה בירושה את ביתה הישן והמתפרק, ואת בילי־לי טאקר, השכן מהבית הסמוך. טרודי עוזבת את בעלה ואת ביתה עם לא יותר מאשר הבגדים שלגופה וערמה של זיכרונות שערכם מוטל בספק. בילי־לי תמיד היה עוף מוזר, ובכל זאת גרטרוד בטחה בו מספיק כדי להשאיר אצלו סכום כסף גדול דיו כדי לממן את השיפוץ.

Welcome to Bluebell Hall. Pull up a wonky chair, grab a cream bun and settle into a story about a little village, a determined caretaker – and plenty of bunting.At twenty-nine, Connie’s life isn’t exactly going to plan. So when her beloved gran dies, she returns to her childhood village to take over gran’s old role of caretaker at Bluebell Hall, the heart of the Hazelhurst community. But when developers threaten to shut it down, Connie refuses to let it go without a fight. Armed with a needle, thread, and a wildly ambitious plan, she rallies the village to prove Bluebell Hall is worth saving.

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.

From the author of My Family and Other Animals, Gerald Durrell, one of Britain's best loved authors and pioneering naturalists.

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.

Quando suo padre torna a casa dalla guerra, nel 1918, Caterina non lo riconosce. È sporco, magro e ha gli occhi spenti: a cinque anni Nina per la prima volta sente di avere paura della morte. Sa già cosa comporta nascere sulle montagne venete, in una contrada di poche case dove vita vuole dire lavoro nei pascoli e fatica nei boschi. Il giorno in cui Mario, il compagno di giochi nei fienili e di corse tra i campi, parte per Milano dove lo aspettano la scuola, vestiti sempre bianchi e un futuro migliore, Caterina inizia a desiderare un'esistenza diversa.

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...

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.

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.

Cormac McCarthy, best-selling author of National Book Award winner All the Pretty Horses, delivers his first new novel in seven years. Written in muscular prose, No Country for Old Men is a powerful tale of the West that moves at a blistering pace.

John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the only life he has ever wanted, he sets out for Mexico with his friend, Lacey Rawlins. Befriending a third boy on the way, they find a country beyond their imagining: barren and beautiful, rugged yet cruelly civilised.... A place where dreams are paid for in blood.