Títulos em Cidade Pequena e Rural

No final do século XIX, o sertanejo Tonho Pólvora compra a fazenda Alvorada, no interior de Minas Gerais. Com trabalho duro e falando a língua da terra, ele faz o lugar prosperar e se torna uma das lideranças da região. Na mesma época, em São Paulo, o jovem contador José Antônio dá um golpe na empresa onde trabalha e se lança, em fuga, para o interior do país, atrás de um lugar seguro para se estabelecer.

Seis anos depois de ter saído da Inglaterra, a melancólica e reservada Liza McCullen é a responsável por um barco de observação de baleias e golfinhos em Silver Bay, na Austrália, onde também administra com a tia, Kathleen, o Hotel Baía da Esperança, que já viu dias melhores.

Na década de 1950, Merham não passava de uma cidadezinha litorânea como tantas outras: pacata, tradicional e obcecada pelas aparências. Os homens cuidavam do comércio, as mulheres cuidavam dos filhos e todos cuidavam da vida um do outro. Até que um boêmio grupo de artistas estrangeiros excêntricos se muda para a Casa Arcádia, uma bela construção art déco à beira-mar.

From New York Times bestselling author Mia Sheridan comes an emotional, slow burn romance about a woman desperate to hide and the man who sees through her walls—perfect for fans of Colleen Hoover and Lucy Score. “A beautifully touching story of true love and triumph over heartbreaking...

It’s 2004, and childhood friends Sami and Lucy are on the edge of adulthood. Lucy knows what she is going to do—she’s going to school and getting out. But Sami, caught in an endless loop with a boy, True, who is from a troubled family, can’t seem to get unstuck.

Maggie Brandt is finishing her third season as a small-scale organic vegetable farmer in rural Colorado when the Great Recession of 2008 hits. After months of unemployment, her husband, Fish, takes a job with an oil and gas company, a decision that rocks Maggie and their fifteen-year-old daughter, Ozzie, both committed environmentalists. As the community organizes against a suspicious outsider who is buying farmland and water rights throughout the county, Ozzie’s activism escalates toward criminal mischief.

He’s showing me a lot more than he should. The one time I choose to be unpredictable, I find myself practically naked in a dark cabin on a ranch, face-to-face with a smirking man barely wearing a towel. Despite his chiseled body and a wicked smile that makes following the rules feel optional, nothing happens. Why? Because I, Audrey Van, don’t know how to have fun. I came to my friend’s cabin with my whimsy list in hand, determined to fix that. I’ve earned my doctorate and built a career with zero parking tickets and even fewer hangovers. I’ve been so good … and so boring.

Nearly 500 years ago, a woman was burned . . . and this village never forgot. Lonely widow Susan Reid, scarred by a childhood accident, makes an impulsive decision to start again in a remote Cornish village. Polherron is picturesque, steeped in myths and ancient traditions—the perfect place to...

In 1854, on the lawless western edge of Virginia, Elizabeth Young stands among the throngs and watches as her beloved uncle is hanged for murder. There is more to this spectacle than meets the eye, she can tell, and she vows then and there she’ll get to the bottom, she’ll uncover truths, then she’ll leave these godforsaken mountains. She’ll go where the land is flat, where life is in the open, where dreams have room to roam. But fate has another idea.

Bob Dylan once declared that "Sex and politics and murder is the way to go if you want to get people's attention," and readers won't be able to look away from Shadows on Sidewalks, the new erotic thriller from James Grady. James Traven returns home to his small Montana town in autumn 2024 to care for his mother after a devasting fall. He quickly finds himself trapped in a life-threatening web of lies and lust. With the clock ticking, Traven must save the savvy and beautiful Lana LaBuff from almost-certain murder.

My best friend's brother—Aspen Springs' fire captain—is now just a window peep away. A few nights ago, my new neighbor was my nameless one-night stand. Suddenly, he's everywhere. And so is the rest of his fire crew. Now I've got three firemen showing off their hoses… Plus a surprise pregnancy that's about to put a kink in things.

A summer Christmas in Featherwood Falls—where love heals, hope rises, and nothing goes as planned.

A honeymoon couple disappear while canoeing the St. Croix River. With visiting VIPs due in days and quick searches revealing no sign of the missing couple, U.S. Park Service Investigators Doug and Jill Fletcher are dispatched to the scene. The Fletchers quickly determine the honeymooner's disappearance is not an accident and the search becomes more complicated than the simple rescue everyone hoped for. Jill and Doug are caught on the river as thunderstorms loom on the horizon. With lightning crackling around them, their canoeing skills are pushed to the limit.

Cottage on Gooseberry Bay is a heartwarming mystery series about finding answers, fostering hope, and building lasting friendships while embracing the magic of life by the sea and small-town celebrations. In Book 21, Ainsley is left reeling after the sudden death of one of her clients, Teyana Trenton, who came to Gooseberry Bay searching for answers about her biological parents. What initially appears to be a tragic rollover accident—one that also claims the life of the town’s beloved fire chief—soon proves to be something far more sinister.

Carlyle, Missouri looks like any other unassuming river town along the mighty Mississippi: Bucolic environs, small historical districts where town legacies are kept alive, for better or worse, and a population made up of simple, salt of the earth people averse to change in any form. But when a promising new biochemical is released into that old, mighty river to help clean up a century of accumulated waste, pollution, and human hubris, things backfire, spectacularly.

Aspirations for character development and enrichment.

In the shadows of London's Highgate Cemetery, Ngaroma stands before her great-great-grandfather's crypt, unknowingly about to unravel a tale that spans two centuries and two hemispheres. Victorian New Zealand sets the stage for an extraordinary story of two brothers bound by blood but divided by empire. Hōhepa, born to a British captain and a Māori mother, navigates a precarious path between two worlds during a time of mounting colonial tensions.

Stone Mason is a quiet, pressure-driven novel about work that cannot be rushed and choices that cannot be undone. When traveling stonemason Silas Vance takes a winter job on a failing mountain ranch, he expects cold, isolation, and hard labor. What he doesn’t expect is a house that is actively losing its argument with the earth—or a woman who has chosen to stay when everyone else has walked away.

In America, during WWII, there were 400,000 soldiers lost to the war, almost all of them young men, many of whom were married and had just started their families when they were swept up in the war.

Für ihre große Liebe hat Konditorin Helene den Sprung ins kalte Wasser gewagt und ist nach Paris gezogen, wo sie sich den Traum von einer eigenen Patisserie verwirklichen will. Schockiert beendet Helene die Beziehung – und muss in dem kleinen, verschlafenen Dorf ihrer Eltern einen Neuanfang wagen. Tatkräftige Unterstützung erhält sie dabei von ihrer besten Freundin Marie, die Helene hilft, mit ihren ausgefallenen Tortenkreationen das Dorfleben aufzumischen. In ihrem kleinem Backsteinhaus mit verwildertem Garten kann Helene endlich wieder frei atmen.