Small Town Development

Now Departing explores the science, craft, and mindfulness behind Victor M. Sweeney’s very peculiar skill set. Working in the funeral business since he was eighteen years old, Sweeney astutely shares the powerful and moving lessons of how we can exist and be remembered with intention and meaning.

Small Town, Big Ambitions is a compelling guide to finding success in any endeavor, providing golden nuggets of advice to help you realize your dreams. Follow Justin's path of personal transformation as he navigates the challenges and triumphs we all encounter.

Small-town drama makes Hollywood look like a walk in the park. For those going through a divorce in a small town and are ready to feel confident, capable, and competent, now is the time to take action with Small Town Divorce. Denise Anderson walked through those same trenches after experiencing her own dramatic small-town divorce. She has coached and mentored dozens of others who have experienced similar drama, taking them from surviving to thriving.

Set in early 1950s rural South Carolina, One Good Mama Bone chronicles Sarah Creamer's quest to find her "mama bone", after she is left to care for a boy who is not her own but instead is the product of an affair between her husband and her best friend and neighbor, a woman she calls "sister". When her husband drinks himself to death, Sarah, a dirt-poor homemaker with no family to rely on and the note on the farm long past due, must find a way for her and young Emerson Bridge to survive.

Nolan Jackson is a journeyman carpenter by trade and a wanderer by nature. And in 2007, while fellow Americans fight in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, Nolan roams, traveling between jobs building tract homes across the West. Following a shocking workplace accident in Las Vegas, he uproots himself from the tentative relationships he has made and heads toward the ocean.

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Texas, 1976: Odessa steht kurz vor dem nächsten Ölboom. Während die Männer der Stadt den kommenden Wohlstand feiern, kennen und fürchten ihre Frauen die Gewalt, die immer zu folgen scheint. Als die vierzehnjährige Gloria Ramírez mehr tot als lebendig auf der Veranda von Mary Whiteheads Ranch gefunden wird, wissen Mary und die anderen Frauen von Odessa, was jetzt passieren wird. Aber sie wissen auch, dass sie dieses Mal zusammenhalten werden. Eine eindringliche Erkundung der Schnittstellen von Gewalt, Herkunft und Klasse.

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Elena Alvarez is living a cursed life. From the deadly fire she accidentally set as a child to her mother's abandonment and now an unwanted pregnancy, she knows better than most that small actions can have terrible consequences. Yet when her grandmother calls and asks her to watch over the children of a recent widower in a small, isolated town in Colorado, she takes it as a chance to finally organize her life.

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