Títulos em Cidade Pequena e Rural

Sierra Blake has returned home to Mill Hollows, Virginia. She's lost her job as a hotel marketing executive. She knew getting romantically involved with the son of the franchise owner was a bad idea. Turning down his marriage proposal left Sierra updating her resume and needing a change of scenery. Returning to the small football-loving town located in view of the Blue Ridge Parkway is definitely a change of scenery from the sultry heat and water sport enthusiast city of Tampa.

Dieses Buch nimmt dich mit nach Böhmen – in eine Zeit, als der Alltag noch von Handwerk, Märkten und Jahreszeiten bestimmt war. Ohne große Worte und ohne Pathos, aber mit vielen leisen Momenten erzählt es von Menschen, die tief mit ihrer Heimat verwurzelt sind: von Arbeit und kleinen Wagnissen, von Verantwortung und heimlichen Träumen – und von den besonderen Augenblicken, in denen sich plötzlich eine Chance auftut.

In diesem Buch reisen Sie zurück in eine Zeit, in der der Alltag noch von Handwerk, Ernte, Märkten und langen Wegen geprägt war – und in der kleine Entscheidungen plötzlich große Bedeutung bekommen konnten. Heimatgeschichten aus Masuren erzählt von Menschen, die arbeiten, hoffen, streiten und zusammenhalten: am See, im Dorf, in der Stadt, auf dem Gut und im Wald. Wärmend und bildhaft, mit feinem Humor – und mit Spannung, die aus dem Leben selbst entsteht.

It begins in Enugu, at Uncle Kelechi’s glittering 50th birthday, a night of laughter, highlife music, and family pride. For young Unoma, it is a world of color and belonging. For her father and his brother, it is the night that exposes the deep differences between them. Weeks later, tragedy strikes. One life is lost, another forever changed, and the truth buried beneath years of silence. Decades on, that silence still governs Unoma’s world.

Anton, 60 Jahre alt, ist Stepptänzer. Ja, er ist nicht mehr so schnell wie früher, aber mit seiner Erfahrung und Ausdruckskraft tanzt er – noch – allen davon. Wer sollte ihm also die Stelle als Choreograf an einer Theaterbühne streitig machen? Doch die neue Intendantin sieht das anders – und engagiert ausgerechnet Emma, Antons Tochter. Anton ist verletzt, wütend, traurig und zugleich stolz auf seine Tochter. Zeigen kann er ihr das nicht. Die Absage spült etwas in ihm hoch, das er nicht länger verdrängen kann: das Gefühl des Älterwerdens.

In Liberty, Illinois — a small coal-mining town fallen on hard times - one obsession swallows everyday life: the Queen of Hearts contest. Built around a weekly drawing, the game can be over in a moment - or stretch on for months, sometimes even a full year. As the jackpot climbs past one million dollars, residents invest more than money. They invest hope, pride, desperation, and the belief that one turn of luck could finally mean relief.

In Ashland, New Hampshire, Carolyn, born of a teenage pregnancy, grows up alongside her mother Ellie, her aunt Jennie, and her cousins. Ashland is the type of place that most people plan to leave, but few do. Beauty can be found in small things—the trees in the wind, the sky’s particular shade of blue, a swim in the river, love, and family. But life can often be unforgiving and solace hard to come by. Carolyn reconciles the losses in her own life with an education at Plymouth State, the local university, and then by capturing in words her world and the people who inhabit it.

Alaric is a driven astrophysicist who’s only in Willow Creek so he can finish his book and give his twin daughters the chance to reconnect with their aunt. He doesn’t have time for the inconvenient attraction aroused by the sassy, always glass half full niece of his eccentric innkeeper. Farrah is in Willow Creek because it’s her last resort. She inherited partial ownership of the town's bed and breakfast and she's putting her life back together in the wake of the pandemic. She thinks her aunt’s houseguest is arrogant and annoying.

Somewhere beneath the quiet dirt of a small town, madness is waiting for Louie who has spent his life trapped inside a body the world refuses to look past. Nearly six hundred pounds of flesh, shame, and the crippling isolation is taking it's toll. Every day presses down on him with the same crushing weight as the family land he can’t leave… and the old dry well he can’t stop staring into. A decaying relic tied to a tragedy no one in town talks about anymore. A place Louie believes might be his only escape. Then the well starts whispering. From the darkness below, a voice calls his name.

Unspoiled by the trappings of wealth, Judy Lovin shunned the family fortune to take a job teaching preschool. But with her father’s empire on the verge of collapse thanks to a hostile corporate takeover, Judy reluctantly rides to the rescue. Her negotiations bring her face-to-face with the beast himself, a ruthless tycoon who takes what he wants—and what he wants is Judy. Shocked at her attraction to a man she was prepared to loathe, Judy agrees to his terms: alone time with him at his island getaway.

David and his girlfriend, Stephanie, move to a small town in the Napa Valley with plans to start a winery with the windfall from David's skateboarding success. Shortly after upending their life to chase this dream, Stephanie dies. David, grief-stricken and rudderless, must navigate new, small town dynamics while uncovering the sordid truth of his relationship. He also must come to terms with the guilt of his own seemingly unearned financial success.

Back in high school, they made a pact under the big tree on Magnolia Hill: never fall for a local. A crush? Maybe. A forever? Absolutely not. Not the hot single dad. Not the tattooed preacher's son. Not the broody fire chief. Not the grieving doctor. But Wildflower, Texas, has other plans.

After fleeing her controlling ex-alpha with nothing but two suitcases and a desperate hope for freedom, Kit just wants to rebuild her life in peace. Her plan is simple: lay low in a cozy mountain duplex, avoid complications, and figure out who she really is when no one's trying to control her. But Hollow Haven has other ideas. There's Jonah—the steady single dad whose seven-year-old daughter immediately claims Kit as family. Micah, the gentle baker who creates custom comfort teas and sees straight through to her healing heart. And Reed, the protective handyman who upgrades her security.

Six years ago, her brother left me at the altar. I bundled up my veil along with my stupid dreams of a picture-perfect small town life, and I headed back to the city. I vowed to never leave again, but when the promotion of a lifetime at my interior design firm hangs on returning to the charming tourist town of La Cloche, I decide to brave the ghosts of heartbreak past. I never thought I'd be designing for her.

Kathleen Gallagher is sixteen when she shares her first kiss with Liam Flynn, the older brother of her best friend. The bells were ringing in the New Year and snow was falling: it was the perfect romantic moment. But Kathleen knows they can never be together. Three years later, it's 1939, and...

Caleb Kelly has been my secret weakness since the day I moved to Sugar Brush, Wyoming. I spend my days among the stacks as the town’s librarian and my nights serving drinks at Joy’s Elbow Room. It’s safe, predictable, and a little boring. The only thing that makes my pulse kick is when Caleb Kelly walks through the door and takes a seat at one of my tables. Four years of stolen glances, watching him laugh with his family, listening to him talk about his son, and pretending he doesn’t unravel me just by saying my name. Alice.

Nell is born to a new century, her life forged in the expanses of the New Zealand High Country. She yearns to go beyond the confines of family expectation and vows to keep alive the flame of her inner freedom. Yet that freedom is tested: by her husband’s pride and the rigours of family life on a Maniototo sheep station. Her trust is betrayed. Another love must be reckoned with. Tragedy befalls her. Two wars, a pandemic and the Depression keep Nell tethered by duty. Is it even possible for a woman of Nell’s era to carve her own path?

When photographer Lila Hart returns to the quiet town of Evergreen Ridge, she only plans to stay long enough to help save the Maple Inn—her childhood refuge and the last piece of home she has left. But when she walks through its snow-covered doors and sees Ethan Cole, the steadfast craftsman who once stole her heart, everything she thought she’d left behind stirs to life again. Together they work to restore the inn before winter ends, uncovering old memories, fragile truths, and the kind of love that doesn’t fade—it deepens.

Mila has spent her life working on Stormy Weather Farm, alongside her fiercely loyal, slightly eccentric family. The Storms believe in hard work, the importance of tradition, and—most of all—love at first touch. It’s a family legend, passed down like a vintage bottle of truth: when you touch the one meant for you, you’ll just know. Mila always thought it was just a romantic notion… until Boone. A rugged, brooding single father with a past that still smolders, Boone has one priority: giving his twelve-year-old daughter a stable, quiet life. Love? He’s been there, done that, burned the T-shirt.

Becca Burnside finally has life heading in the right direction. She's loving her new job, writing magazine features about being a woman in her forties, her boys are happy, her romance with Conal O'Hagan is blossoming – and for once, she actually feels like she's got it together. But when Conal starts talking about the future, Becca's commitment collywobbles kick in with a vengeance.