Rural Life

I've spent the last twenty years reinventing myself. Shaking off the snotty rich girl facade for law school at Tulane University, only to pivot and obtain a Master's in Social Work, much to my parents' dismay. I settled in New Orleans and embedded myself in local politics, fighting for the people with the least representation. That is until my mother's illness called me home.

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.

Elsa's eldest, Cole Steel, is on the brink of the rest of his life. Like his father before him, he's a remarkable sailor—but unlike his father, he has no wife, no children, and just the open ocean at his feet. Elsa's not entirely pleased with his reckless nature. But she knows he has the same adventurous spirit his father always had. Aiden lives through Cole every day. Recently, Cole signed a contract to sail professionally. It's the opportunity of a lifetime—with a caveat. His boss is widely known as the toughest in the business.

When his quaint small-town life became stifling and suffocating, Hunter Davis left his family and friends behind for the bright lights of New York City. With a new ability to spread his wings, Hunter found success in the business of fine arts and high-society schmoozing. After years of successfully avoiding the sea side residence, Hunter is called upon to pitch in at the family business when his father is injured.

Every cowboy has a wild side all it takes is the right woman to unleash it All of Logan McCord's carefully laid plans erupt the day he walks in on his would-be fiancée getting well, not so carefully laid. Tonight, just once, Logan is acting on instinct. And that instinct is telling him to...

William and Emma Sinclair have settled into life at Moorend Farm in North Yorkshire and live happily with their growing family, believing they have left the shame of their past behind. William is determined to prove his success to his embittered mother and charts a secure living for his sons to follow in his footsteps and reap the benefits of William and his wife's hard work. When Emma takes Jamie and Meg to visit her parents in Scotland, they receive a warm welcome from all their relations, except 'Grandmother Sinclair'.

Laura Wilson is back in Blueberry Beach, dealing with a mysterious illness that has depleted her energy and left her listless and unable to enjoy life. She's working part time in her grandfather's shop when a mysterious stranger rents the small apartment above theirs. He's strong, athletic, handsome, and full of life and energy. They couldn't be farther apart physically, but they bond as they each take on more responsibility as her grandfather's health declines. Will they decide providing precious memories to the hundreds of customers in the old shop is enough to build a future on?

நகரவாசியாக இன்று விளங்கும் பெண்மணி ஒருவர் கிராம வாழ்க்கையைப் பற்றி எழுதியுள்ள கதை இது. கிராமத்தின் ஒரு பகுதியான அக்ரஹாரத்தின் கதை.

In the first line of Ocean State, we learn that a high school student was murdered, and we find out who did it. The story that unfolds from there with incredible momentum is thus one of the buildup to and fallout from the murder, told through the alternating perspectives of the four women at its heart. The murderer Angel, her mother Carol, and the victim Birdy, all come alive on the page as they converge in a climax both tragic and inevitable. Watching over it all is the retrospective testimony of Angel’s younger sister, Marie.

The Carrington family owns the only pub in the small country town of Kangaroo Ridge. It’s been eight years since the five siblings became orphans and since twins Sebastian and Tamara stepped up to look after their younger brothers and sister with the help of their aunt, Maddie. Seb and Tam gave up their teenage years to make sure the family stayed together, but that’s been hard and they’ve grown apart. Seb is silent and stoic; Tam, on the other hand, wants to kick over the traces and catch up on the life she missed out on.

"MALVINA", der er en selvstændig fortsættelse af "TAVS" og "VANDGÅRDEN", handler om pigen, der voldtaget af sin husbond og udstødt af det hjemlige landsbysamfund tager ophold på Vandgården hos Asfærg og Tavs. Der er nu gået fire år siden Malvina fødte sit skammens barn og hele fem år siden hun sidst besøgte sin landsby. Den grumme fortid synes glemt, men da Malvinas stedfader dukker op for at hente hende med hjem til moderens sygeleje, overvinder hun sin modvilje. Støttet af Tavs stiller hun sig ansigt til ansigt med landsbyens foragt og placerer skammen dér, hvor den hører hjemme.

1961. Als die junge Lehrerin Helene von der Großstadt ins ländliche, erzkatholische Hessen versetzt wird, begegnet man ihr zunächst mit Ablehnung. Der althergebrachte drakonische Erziehungsstil, die Gleichgültigkeit der Kollegen: Für die engagierte Helene ist es ein Kampf gegen Windmühlen. In Tobias, dem anfangs wortkargen, später jedoch deutlich zugänglicheren Landarzt, findet sie schließlich doch einen Verbündeten. Niemand ahnt: Ihre Versetzung aufs Land war kein Zufall. Denn mitten durch den Landstrich zieht sich die Grenze zur "Ostzone".

Anthony grew up without any knowledge of his father. Only when his mother dies does he unlock the secrets she kept for 20 years. Each discovery leads him closer to the people who knew his father best. Including the man who killed him.

On the cusp of summer, 1986, Rowan Brockman's mother asks if he can come home to Septimus in the Western Australian Wheatbelt to help with the harvest. Rowan's brother Albert, the natural heir to the farm, has died, and Rowan's dad's health is failing. Although he longs to, there is no way that Rowan can refuse his mother's request as she prepares the farm for sale.

When brutish miner Hugo Mitchum is found murdered on the frozen shore of a North Country lake, the local officials and town gossips of Beau Caelais are quick to blame Marietta Abernathy, outspoken environmental activist and angry, witchy recluse. But Marietta herself has disappeared under mysterious circumstances.

After nearly two hundred years of housing retardants, as they were once known, the Beechwood Institute is closing the doors on its dark history, and the complicated task of reassigning residents has begun. Ella Jules, having arrived at Beechwood at the tender age of eight, must now rely on the state to decide her future. Ella’s aging parents have requested that she be returned to her childhood home, much to the distress of Ella’s siblings, but more so to Lynetta, her beloved caretaker who has been by her side for decades.

Nothing is as it seems in New Hope, Indiana - the land of curly-haired designer dogs, bunco nights, and manicured lawns. Wanting the good life for her sons, Holly stretched to afford a home in picture-perfect suburbia. Her dream is destroyed the night her son is found in the neighborhood park, unresponsive after an overdose on prescription drugs. Forced to navigate the terrifying gauntlet of addiction and treatment, she uncovers a maze of secrets and lies. How far will she have to go to save her son? Back to Before explores one mother's roller coaster ride of hope and heartache.

Eine Geschichte über erwachsene Geschwister, alternde Eltern, Kindheitsfreunde und -feinde und all die Dinge, die uns - ob wir wollen oder nicht - unser ganzes Leben lang begleiten. Es ist ein normaler Tag in Upstate New York, als die Endsechzigerin Astrid Zeugin eines tödlichen Unfalls wird. Dieses Erlebnis bringt sie zum Nachdenken: Hat sie ihr Leben gut genutzt? Ist es zu spät für Neues? War sie eine gute Mutter? Ihr Sohn Elliott ist unglücklich in seiner scheinbar perfekten Familie, Tochter Porter ist Single, gewollt schwanger, aber überfordert, und Nicky führt ein Vagabundenleben.

Der Bestseller aus den USA: erzählt warmherzig, klug und mit feinem Humor von dem, was Familie und Beziehungen ausmacht. Es ist ein durch und durch normaler Tag in einer Kleinstadt in Upstate New York, als das Leben von Astrid Strick sich schlagartig ändert. Eine Bekannte wird vor Astrids Augen überfahren, und obwohl Astrid diese nicht einmal mochte, bringt sie der Vorfall zum Nachdenken. Das Leben kann so schnell vorbei sein - hat Astrid ihres gut genutzt? Ist es zu spät, Neues zu wagen? Und war sie wirklich eine gute Mutter?

In a small seaside city on the Jersey Shore, three half-siblings confront the death of a distant and bullying patriarch. They now have the chance to imagine new relationships and new futures, ones that would have been near-unthinkable while their father was alive. Caught in their crossfire are the conservative religious communities that border Asbury Park, the longtime locals who have been pushed to the fringe by the shore’s revitalization, and the legendary town upon which the whole world seems to converge.