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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

At midnight on New Year’s Eve, Trowbridge Vermont EMT Brighid Doran delivers the region’s ambulance to a three-alarm house fire. Afterward, she sits in a warm truck with her girlfriend Sam, a US Army officer fresh from the battlefields of Iraq, as they watch a local volunteer firefighter battle the blast in subzero weather.

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.

On Our Selection is a collection of humorous short stories by Australian author Steele Rudd. It follows the trials and tribulations of the Rudd family, pioneers carving out a living in the Australian bush. The book humorously depicts the struggles of farming life, the resilience of the settlers, and the quirks of rural Australian society.

Erin Davenport always imagined she'd end up with a quiet man. Someone like her. Then she met Jay Malone. He's the loudest, pushiest, most sales-oriented man she's ever met. A top Hollywood agent, Jay's bought a waterfront house in Carmel, and everywhere Erin turns, he seems to be there, big, gorgeous, and pulsing with life. He seems to go through women like candy, but Erin has no intention of being his latest treat.

Saffron sank into a despondent heap by the side of the road, wedding dress and all. I've made a terrible mistake. I never should have tried to run. It'll just make it worse when they catch me and take me back. This time, a voice answered from inside her. It was the voice of her fox, which was usually still and quiet inside her. The only time it had spoken to her lately was a single word, back in town: Run! Now, it told her to be calm. We're going to get out of this.

Harmony Creek, Georgia, in the 1950s, was a town steeped in tradition, where the rhythms of life were dictated by the seasons and the relentless sound of the cotton gin. It was a world of stark contrasts, where wealth and poverty existed side-by-side, their lines often blurred but always present. This is the setting for the story of Sam Dalton and Sarah McCloud, two souls from vastly different worlds drawn together by an undeniable force – a love that defies social conventions and economic disparities.

I have a reputation around my small town for being a... difficult boss. But it's not my fault HR continues to hire incompetent assistants with thin skin. I'm one of the top criminal defense attorneys in the state and the best in the county. I can't afford mistakes. If that means I have to be cruel at times, so be it. I don't have time for friends or relationships, I'm married to my work. That is, until HR hires a petite beauty with long dark hair and innocent brown eyes to be my new legal assistant. I can't bring myself to call her on her mistakes or treat her harshly.

I moved home to take care of my grandmother. Instead, I got caught up with the worst kind of people in town, and now, I'm the personal punching bag for a member of the mafia who has no intention of ever letting me go. He doesn't care about me. He cares about what he owns. I used to care about things like staying alive or trying to be a good man, but the longer this goes on, the harder it is to see a future different from this. I don't even have friends in this town.

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.

Duftender Lavendel, ein Mann ohne Vergangenheit und ein Mord am Mont Ventoux. Im Provence-Krimi Lavendel-Wut löst die junge Kommissarin Lilou Braque ihren 7. Fall: Cosy Crime zum Wohlfühlen mit jeder Menge Südfrankreich-Flair! Der Lavendel blüht, und die örtliche Rennrad-Community von Carpentras ist in Aufruhr: Das berühmte Gipfelschild des Mont Ventoux ist verschwunden! Anstatt auf das gestohlene Schild stößt ein Suchtrupp auf die Leiche eines Radfahrers – offenbar ist dieser schon vor Tagen im unwegsamen Gelände des Berghangs zu Tode gekommen.