Títulos en Pueblos y campo

When Lori Shepherd returns from her trip to America, she is shocked to hear that Prunella "Pruneface" Hooper has been killed. This is the first murder in the village of Finch in more than a century, and everyone is in an uproar. Before the town implodes in the wake of this scandal, Lori sets out to solve the murder. Unfortunately, nearly everyone in Finch had a reason to want Mrs. Hooper dead.

Young and beautiful, Laura Calder isn't content to live on a Montana ranch. Touring Europe with her "Aunt" Tara brings her into contact with the sophisticated world she's craved...and with the two men - and ultimate rivals - who will lay claim to her heart. Boone Rutledge is the son of a Texas billionaire and used to getting what he wants. He wants Laura...and so does Sebastian Dunshill, Earl of Crawford, a handsome, sexy Londoner with a few secrets he can't share.

The latest in this enchanting and fast-selling series, featuring the beloved ghost Aunt Dimity, opens in a picturesque English cottage where the lovable Lori Shepherd is up to her elbows in pureed carrots and formula bottles, striving to be the perfect mother to twins! Luckily, a beautiful Italian nanny arrives just in time - so Lori can help settle the local civil war stirred up by a visiting archaeologist's excavation. With Reginald, the stuffed pink rabbit, and Edmond Terrance, the stuffed tiger in tow, Lori hunts down a missing document.

Emma Porter is 40, fat, frumpy, and a passionate amateur gardener. When her longtime lover dumps her for a younger woman, Emma escapes the cloying sympathy of family and friends by setting out on a summer-long driving tour of England's glorious gardens. A Dimity-contrived coincidence brings her to Penford Hall, a sprawling Gothic mansion in Cornwall, where she finds a duke in search of a missing lantern with extraordinary powers.

Nancy Atherton's growing number of fans will certainly be delighted by Aunt Dimity's latest appearance in the honey-colored English cottage she bequeathed to her "niece", Lori Shepherd. Thanks to Aunt Dimity, Lori's life has taken on fairy-tale proportions: She's financially set for life and happily married...or so she thinks. When Lori's plans for a second honeymoon to England with her workaholic husband fall through, she begrudgingly takes along her father-in-law who promptly disappears, leaving behind a mysterious note.

Quint Echohawk is a lawman, not a rancher, but he's a Calder through and through. And when someone sets out to undermine the Calders' Texas outfit, it's time for him to step in and investigate. From the moment Quint's boots touch Texas dirt, it's clear that everyone in town is running scared from Max Rutledge, the ruthless owner of a competing ranch. Posing as a cowboy looking for work, Quint has no one to trust but "Empty" Garner and his granddaughter, Dallas.

DeShawn lives a high, creative, and promiscuous life in San Francisco. But when he’s called back to his cramped Alabama hometown for his uncle’s funeral, he’s hit by flashbacks of handsome, doomed neighbors and sweltering Sunday services. Amid prickly reminders of his childhood, DeShawn ponders family, church, and the men in his life, prompting the question: Who deserves love?

Francesca ha quarant'anni, un (quasi) ex marito arrogante e meschino, due figli che stanno lasciando il nido e una madre anaffettiva. La sua è un'esistenza in gabbia, in cui il vuoto è ormai diventato una presenza dolorosa e costante. Quando si guarda allo specchio prova un senso di smarrimento da togliere il fiato, ma è proprio nel momento in cui la vita sembra averle già svelato tutto che il vento inizia a cambiare. Un vento toscano, che la porta a trascorrere l'estate da sola in Maremma allontanandosi dalla quotidianità e da ciò che conosce.

Billy and Dawnie may be in their seventies, but that won’t stop them taking chances or starting again. Their grown-up children have families and lives of their own, so now it’s Billy and Dawnie’s turn and a life near the sea in Devon beckons. But the residents of Margot Street (or Maggot Street as Dawnie insists on calling it), don’t quite know what to make of their new neighbours.

Chase has no idea who he is, why he came to Fort Worth, or who tried to put a bullet in his head the night a cowboy named Laredo Smith saved his life. Laredo seems sure that the big burly man is Chase Calder, owner of the Triple C Ranch in Montana. According to the local papers, Chase Calder had been declared dead - a victim of a fiery car crash. Shifting Calder Wind is the latest installment in the immensely readable two-decades-old series about the Calder family saga.

Set largely in the 1990s, the 12 linked stories in Joel Mowdy’s first book take place in and around Mastic Beach, a community on New York’s Long Island that’s close to the wealthy Hamptons but afflicted by widespread poverty. Mostly in their teens and early 20s, the characters struggle to become independent in various ways, ranging from taking typical low-paying jobs - hotel laundry, janitorial, restaurant, and landscaping work - to highly ingenious schemes, to exchanging sexual favors for a place to stay.

Greenville County, South Carolina, is a wild, lush place that is home to the Boatwright family - a tight-knit clan of rough-hewn, hard- drinking men who shoot up each other's trucks, and indomitable women who get married young and age too quickly. At the heart of this story is Ruth Anne Boatwright, known simply as Bone, a bastard child who observes the world around her with a mercilessly keen perspective.

Dearly beloved, we are gathered in this month of June for a wedding at the Parker family ranch. Or so the invitation says! Little does the family know that not just one Parker sister is getting married, but three. Will this be the wedding of the season, or will three sisters end up with broken hearts?

At first, Alexa Glock's initial case as a traveling forensic investigator seems straightforward - her expertise in teeth helps her identify the skeletal remains of a hunter found on the remote Stewart Island of New Zealand. But when she realizes the bullet lodged in his skull was not self-inflicted, and then a second shark-ravaged body washes up on Ringaringa Beach, it's clear that something dangerous is lurking in the beautiful waters surrounding the island. The disturbing sight seems to confirm what locals have hashed out in the pub.

Holly Banks is on a desperate mission to have it all, but nothing in life goes according to plan. She’s quickly learning that keeping up with the Joneses is a full-time job, especially when the women of Primm, her new neighborhood, seem to have it together all the time. With her husband’s job in flux, her daughter’s difficulty with learning to read, and her mother’s new zest for dating, Holly’s life is already anything but picture perfect. Then her dog digs up an old artifact in the village center, and the mishap draws the attention of local media.

Tych dwoje na pewno łączy wypielęgnowany trawnik i stara kosiarka... Ale co jeszcze? Adam nie wie, co to spokój. Żyje jak na wulkanie, jeżdżąc na liczne spotkania biznesowe. Pędzi, bo w firmie zawsze jest coś do zrobienia. Niewiele osób rozumie, dlaczego pewnego dnia sprzedaje niemal wszystko, co ma, i kupuje dom nad jeziorem. A razem z domem "w pakiecie" ogrodniczkę, której płaci za pielęgnowanie ogrodu, sprzątanie i gotowanie. Marysia w szufladce nocnego stolika trzyma różowe plastikowe etui.

Fuori piove, fa freddo. Dentro la chiesa, in un piccolo paese del Nord-Est, fa ancora più freddo. È quasi buio, la luce del mattino non riesce a imporsi. Un uomo, Tilio, sta portando via i moccoli dai candelieri, raschia la cera colata, mette candele nuove. Sistema tutto seguendo l'ordine che gli hanno insegnato, perché si deve mettere ogni cosa al suo posto nella giusta successione. Parla con se stesso, intanto, in attesa che sulla scena compaia Fredi, il sacrestano. Tra una messa e l'altra i due sorseggiano caffè corretto alla vodka.

How does a librarian from New Jersey end up in a convenience store on Vancouver Island in the middle of the night, playing Bible Scrabble with a Korean physicist and a drunk priest? She gets married to the wrong man for starters - she didn't know he was "that kind of Catholic" - and ends up in St. Cloud, Minnesota. She gets a job in a New Age bookstore, wanders toward Buddhism without realizing it, and acquires a dog. Things get complicated after that.

La piccola cittadina tropicale di San Cristobal, incastonata tra la foresta e il fiume, è sconvolta dall'improvvisa comparsa di trentadue bambini. Nessuno sa da dove vengano, parlano una lingua incomprensibile, sono affamati e violenti. Gli abitanti della città, che avevano appena trovato una stabilità economica, sono terrorizzati.

La Grande Guerre terminée, Hélène, infirmière au Val-de-Grâce, se rend au chevet de sa mère, qui lui confie dans un dernier soupir qu'elle n'est pas sa vraie génitrice. Son père, Joseph, lui relate alors l'aventure de sa naissance, d'une mère internée dans un asile et morte dans un incendie. Embauchée à l'hôpital de Douai, Hélène fait la rencontre de Stéphane Lacasse, un copain d'enfance, mineur et tout juste de retour du front : le coup de foudre est réciproque. Lors d'une réunion pour la reconstruction des géants de Douai, les Gayant, Hélène, accompagnée de Stéphane, effraie un homme.