Rural Life

Shae-Lynn Penrose drives a cab in a town where no one needs a cab–but plenty of people need rides. A former police officer with a closet full of miniskirts, a recklessly sharp tongue, and a tendency to deal with men by either beating them up or taking them to bed, she has spent years carving out a life for herself and her son in Jolly Mount, Pennsylvania, the tiny coal-mining town where she grew up.

Johanne Johansen muss kurz nach ihrem 65. Geburtstag erfahren, dass das traditionsreiche Familienunternehmen – die Elbreederei Kurt Johansen & Söhne – kurz vor der Pleite steht. Johanne, die nach dem frühen Tod der Eltern bei den Großeltern aufwuchs und sich bis zum Schluss um sie gekümmert hat, ist entsetzt und ratlos. Das Lebenswerk ihrer Eltern steht auf dem Spiel und sie weiß, dass sie es ohne Hilfe nicht schaffen kann.

Als Anneloes Beekman ontdekt dat haar rijke en succesvolle echtgenoot vreemdgaat, verlaat ze hem en hun luxe ­leventje in Wassenaar. In een opwelling koopt ze een ­vervallen huis met blauwe luiken in midden-Frankrijk om er een chambres d'hôtes in te beginnen. Maar na de eerste euforie loopt ze tegen de harde werkelijkheid aan: het huis moet intensief verbouwd worden, en zelf kan ze amper een schroef van een spijker onderscheiden. Gelukkig maakt ze gemakkelijk vrienden. Met hulp van de Nederlandse klusjesman Sjoerd, de Franse kokkin Georgette en nog meer kleurrijke streekgenoten weet ze een nieuw bestaan op te bouwen.

When Brid Harcus is sent to the Orkney Islands, in the far reaches of Scotland, she has high hopes for her trip being short, straightforward and lucrative. Her mother has inherited a cottage from her Great Aunt Jennet which has been unlived in and unloved for decades, and the time has come to make it habitable and saleable. Easy, right? But Midness Cottage has other ideas. For one thing it’s rather more ‘fixer upper’ than Country Living. And Brid definitely hadn’t planned for the strongly held local belief that the cottage is meant to be the home of the Orkney Witch.

After the untimely death of their biological father, triplets Eva, Rosa and Hannah find themselves the unlikely owners of Heatherly Hall, the vast manor house overlooking their home village of Westenbury. But the beautiful house comes with almost as much baggage as it does land, not least high running costs and expectations. It's up to the sisters to find a way to keep Heatherly Hall going and, most importantly, in the family. But with drama in their private lives and secrets about to emerge, can the sisters stick together to focus on the task at hand?

Beatrice, de oudste dochter van de welgestelde Simon Steel, neemt zonder enige moeite het huishouden in huize Dennenlust over wanneer haar moeder overlijdt. Haar drie zussen zien haar strenge beleid met lede ogen aan en merken hoe het landgoed een obsessie voor Beatrice wordt. Bij het overlijden van de vader des huizes, is ze tot in de puntjes voorbereid om het huis en de grond eromheen over te nemen.

Sie soll für einige Tage die Pension ihrer Freundin Marleen auf Norderney übernehmen – ein Job, von dem die 47-Jährige nicht die leiseste Ahnung hat. Kein Wunder, dass die beiden Schwestern schnell an ihre Grenzen stoßen. Und das nicht nur, weil sie nicht kochen können. Ihre Anwesenheit spricht sich auf der Insel schnell herum. Zu schnell. Und so dauert es nicht lange, bis Papa Heinz und Mama Charlotte vor der Tür stehen, um ihre Töchter mit höchst eigenwilligen Ideen zu unterstützen.

Glory, trentotto anni e il cuore a pezzi, torna nella natia Gilead per prendersi cura del padre, il pastore Robert Boughton. Pochi mesi dopo bussa alla porta di casa anche Jack, la pecora nera della famiglia, il figlio piú amato, il piú corrotto, il piú smarrito. Quel ritorno tanto atteso mette l'anziano padre di fronte alla paura di farsi ancora del male, al dovere della comprensione, alla vera natura dell'amore.

Following a painful breakup, Abby protects her emotions by hiding from life, until a head injury causes her brain to start losing new memories. Determined to fight it, Abby sets out to prove her diagnosis wrong by grabbing life with both hands. She’ll save her memory by embarking on a list of experiences that will be simply unforgettable. All seems to be working well, until a trip of a lifetime to New York City, where she bumps into a friendly stranger called Finn. But is he a stranger after all?

Max Wendt has a family...but it's sliding sideways, and he has been complicit in its faltering. His wife and his daughter have pulled away from him amid his frequent absences, leaving him to bridge the distance between what he remembers and the way things are now. Max Wendt has a job...but it carries him away from home most of the time, and its dynamics are quickly changing. There's a surprising new hire on his pipeline crew, strife among coworkers, and a boss whose proclivities put everything in peril.

Morning rush hour on the Golden Gate Bridge. Amid the river of metal and glass, a shocking event occurs, leaving those who witnessed it desperately looking for answers, most notably one man and his son, Jake, who captured the event and uploaded it to the Internet for all the world to experience. As the media swarms over the story, Jake will face the ramifications of his actions, as he learns the perils of our modern disconnect between the real world and the world we create online.

Jean Gilkyson is floundering in a trailer house in Iowa with yet another brutal boyfriend when she realizes this kind of life has got to stop, especially for the sake of her daughter, Griff. But the only place they can run to is Ishawooa, Wyoming, where Jean's loved ones are dead and her father-in-law, the only person who could take them in, wishes that she was, too.

Wie der Erste Weltkrieg den Alltag des Hamburger Geldadels zerrüttete. Der Erste Weltkrieg setzt dem unbekümmertem Leben der Hamburger Familie Bramfeld, die in der Villa am Feenteich residiert, ein jähes Ende. Frederike, die Tochter des Bankiers Bramfeld, versucht verzweifelt das Erbe zusammenzuhalten. Der einzige Lichtblick: Ihre aufkeimenden Gefühle zu Martin Stelling, den sie über ihre Freundin Viktoria Stelling kennenlernt.

For decades J.J. Tucker has brought laughter and sunshine to the Sandbar Sisters. But her life has spiraled out of control. A disaster has turned Irish Hills upside down and has left J.J. alone and unsure. She can't bear to look back on her life and moving forward hurts too much. Her future, once bright and filled with love, feels lonely and hopeless. J.J. faces a very different future than she had planned and one she's not sure if she wants. She will have to face her fears and her past if she wants to find the laughter in her life again.

I had a perfect life—married to my high school sweetheart and preparing for our new baby. Then tragedy struck. I could have moved us back to have the support of our parents, but home isn't where you come from; it's where you want to be. And I want to be here in Balsam Ridge. So I begin anew, a single mom with a fractured heart. Determined to rise above the grief and grasp the joy that still bubbles inside of me every time I look into the eyes of our baby girl. Starting with a job at the local hemp farm.

Gewinner des Selfpublishing-Buchpreis 2022. Das Ende der Leidenschaft ist der Anfang der Reue. Wenn Kit Camino das Cembalo spielt, färbt ihre Welt sich bunt. Jeden Ton sieht sie als Farbe. Doch diese Welt, die Welt ihres Vaters, hat sie hinter sich gelassen. Sie meidet ihn, das Instrument und alles, was sie daran erinnern könnte. Zu viel ist zwischen ihnen vorgefallen. Als ihr Vater unerwartet verstirbt, erschüttert es Kit mehr, als sie sich eingestehen möchte. Er hinterlässt ihr Winters Weiher, das Landhaus der Familie und Sehnsuchtsort ihrer Kindheit. Dort hofft sie, endlich neu anfangen zu können.

As a child, Carmella Remington was boisterous, alive: always one to move too fast, laugh too long, and feel too deeply. She was the middle child of Neal Remington, the fraught one between Elsa and Colton. Until one day, Carmella made one of the biggest mistakes of her life—a mistake so wretched that it cost Colton’s life. In the wake of this, Carmella's entire life changed forever.

Fatima, Farah, Bubblee and Mae, the four sisters of the Amir family, are sometimes tired of being the only Muslim young women in a rural British village, not helped by their eccentric neighbours, including the hippie nudists next door. Oldest sister Fatima - or, as her family have always nicknamed her, Fatti (which, she worryingly suspects, has just as much to do with her inability to lose weight and guilty-pleasure love of Primula squeezy cheese as it does her birth name) - is having a particularly hard time finding her place in the world.

This uplifting debut novel from Cornwall based writer, Liz Hurley, is sure to put a smile on your face. Ariana Byrne knows how to survive. After becoming a guardian to her four little sisters after their parents died when she was only eighteen, she had to grow up quickly. Now shes in her twenties, stuck in a loveless marriage to Greg, trying to make ends meet for her young twins, William and Leo.

Mulberry Hotel, perched on a clifftop above a sweeping bay, was once the heart and soul of pretty seaside town Mulberry Bay. Run by the Harte family for years, the place itself is almost as beloved as cheery landlady Anna. The hotel was also once home to 30-something sisters Eleanor and Penny, and while youngest sister Penny still lives close by, it's been some time since Elle has visited. But following a family tragedy, Elle is forced to return from her busy London life and reassess her past.