Titoli in Piccoli centri e rurale

Non è facile provare simpatia per Nat, la giovane traduttrice spigolosa protagonista della storia, né capire cosa l'abbia spinta ad abbandonare Madrid per vivere in un luogo sperduto chiamato La Esquapa. E fino all'ultimo non sarà facile neanche capire esattamente quale sia l'amore che dà il titolo al romanzo. Eppure le parole di Sara Mesa ci guidano sicure e precise attraverso una vicenda che non ci lascia tregue e che una volta conclusa continuerà a farci pensare.

La historia de Un amor ocurre en La Escapa, un pequeño núcleo rural donde Nat, una joven e ​inexperta traductora, acaba de mudarse. Su casero, que le regala un perro como gesto de bienvenida, no tardará en mostrar su verdadera cara, y los conflictos en torno a la casa alquilada - una construcción pobre, llena de grietas y goteras - se convertirán en una verdadera obsesión para ella.

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.

Jacqueline Keys was ostracized from her small hometown of Pine Springs, Texas, when she was 17, sent away because she was gay. Fifteen years later - long after she'd hitch-hiked to Los Angeles, put herself through college, and had written her first best seller - Jacqueline is persuaded to go back to the tiny town of Pine Springs after her father's death. The quick trip she'd envisioned for the funeral turns into weeks as she learns her father's business is suddenly hers to manage. And she is also again face-to-face with the woman who, as a teen, had been Jackie's first crush.

Olympic silver medalist Kalista Brooks has built a successful life in California, complete with a thriving sports technology company and a handsome fiancé. But when her father’s heart condition takes a critical turn, she rushes home to Atlanta. There, her father makes a surprising request: to relive favorite memories from all four seasons in just one month at their old farmhouse in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

It’s the perfect getaway. Until there’s no way out. You have been dreaming of an unforgettable weekend escape, and Black Tarn Lodge seems to offer everything—a magnificent Gothic mansion with towering turrets nestled in the misty Lancashire hills. Expecting elegant dinners, vintage wines and a screening of a legendary lost film in the private cinema, all seems perfect. Until night falls and a thick fog isolates you from the world. Your phones go missing. Guests start vanishing. And then you find the body.

Vetta, giornalista romana sulla soglia dei quaranta, vive un momento di crisi con Federico, l’uomo con cui divide il fardello dell’esistenza da troppi anni. Così accoglie con entusiasmo l’invito a un matrimonio che si svolgerà a Carloforte, Isola di San Pietro nel sud della Sardegna, dove i tonni nuotano veloci, i falchi fanno la guardia e gli umani coltivano segreti. Lo sa bene Vetta che nell’isola ha trovato il suo altrove e dove spera di convincere Federico a comprare una casa per rifugiarsi dalle insidie del quotidiano.

In un Meridione ben distante dai segni della modernità urbana, la protagonista cresce oppressa da un ambiente familiare in cui le condotte pubbliche e private sono spietatamente misurate sul terrore del giudizio sociale e sul rigore vincolante del dovere quotidiano. Il nido protettivo diventa allora nodo difficile da sciogliere e da portare. “Famiglia era questo: una messa in comune del privato, un difetto di autonomia, una continua chiamata in causa dell’altro, un sostenersi che diveniva peso.”

On a bleak Christmas morning, Sewa Tribal Police Officer Heather English patrols a desolate canyon on the Arizona reservation. Back in Kansas, her father, the sheriff of Benteen County, is lonely enough with no family around to go in to work at his office. On the way, Sheriff English calms a wild incident in a church parking lot. Then he hears of a death threat. The crèche, at the center of the town’s largest holiday yard display, has been desecrated, and its owner plans to kill the neighbors he suspects are responsible.

Florent-Claude Labrouste er 46 år gammel og ansat i Landbrugsministeriet. Han bor sammen med sin tyve år yngre japanske kæreste Yuzu i en luksuslejlighed i Paris, men er led og ked af sit job, og sin unge, smukke kæreste har han kun foragt til overs for. Han begynder så småt at lege med tanken om at slå hende ihjel, men beslutter sig i stedet for at forsvinde frivilligt. Han opsiger sin stilling, forlader sin kæreste og indlogerer sig på et af de få hoteller i Paris, hvor man stadig må ryge.

When my mother sets me up on yet another blind date with a pack, I never expected to open the door to them. Now here they are, three men from my past I never wanted to see again, challenging me not to turn them away and starting a not-so-innocent game of truth or dare. When a storm throws us all together with no escape, I realize that they aren't at all like the boys I remember. They've changed in so many ways, and so have I.

A House for Mr. Biswas, by Nobel and Booker Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul, is a powerful novel about one man's struggle for identity and belonging. Born into poverty, then trapped in the shackles of charity and gratitude, Mr. Biswas longs for a house he can call his own. He loathes his wife and her wealthy family, upon whom he is dependent. Finding himself a mere accessory on their estate, his constant rebellion is motivated by the one thing that can symbolize his independence.

Through 23 connected short stories, the author looks into the lives of the inhabitants of a small town in the American heartland. In a simple and intense style, these psychological portraits of the sensitive and imaginative of Winesburg's population are seen through the eyes of a young reporter-narrator, George Willard. Their stories are about loneliness and alienation, passion and virginity, wealth and poverty, thrift and profligacy, carelessness and abandon.

Trueman Rock is a daring young cowboy and rider. Six years ago he had to leave the cowtown of Wagontongue because of a history of gunfights and run-ins with bad hombres. Since then, he's become a man who only uses his gun when he needs to, on rustlers and crooks. Now, he's returning to his hometown. But things have changed. The town and its people aren't what they used to be. He expects to find some of his enemies there to welcome him, but instead finds they're all dead. In their place is the Preston family.

I've always lived a simple life. The ranch and my horse are all I've ever needed. My world was quiet and solitude. It suited me just fine. Until I met her… Maddison Mackenzie ended up in Clearwater Creek by chance. She's beautiful, she's chaotic, and she's everything I never knew I wanted. Now I just have to convince her to stay.

I still can't forget him. His golden eyes. The sinful things he whispered in my ear. The mark he'd left on the side of my neck. No man since has compared to him. But I'll never see him again. He disappeared without a trace. But when I run into a man who looks just like him on Main Street? I can't let it go. He's going by a different name, but I know it's him. He's hiding in plain sight. He's dangerous. Full of secrets. And he stares at me with a hunger in his eyes. And I know why. I think he might be a vampire.

Settling down had never even crossed my mind before I laid eyes on her. Survival had always been the goal until I could get my legs under me. Now, I rule my empire that was built on my own blood. I've fought for everything I have, and Willa will be no exception. I won't rest until she's mine, forever.

She's my first love. She's also my father's mistress's daughter. I'm Duke Wilder, and this is my story. I left Wildflower Canyon and Wilder Ranch ten years ago, away from my father and Elena—the girl I loved before I found out she was the daughter of my father's mistress. Now my father is gone, and he's left the ranch to me. I come back ready to sell it off piece by piece, to destroy his so-called legacy, and finally get revenge on the land that failed my mother. But coming back to the Colorado ranch country feels like stepping into a part of myself I've tried to forget.

No one is more prepared to protect her than I am. I've spent my life fighting. It numbs the pain and keeps the darkness from consuming me. Then I found her. Sweet and innocent with haunted eyes. She was worth fighting for. I dare her father or the man he wants her to marry to try to take her from me. I found her, and now she's all mine. Some things are worse than death, and he wanted to save me from them all....

Von New York aufs Land – kann ein katastrophaler Neuanfang wirklich gut enden? Der humorvolle Liebesroman zum Wohlfühlen und Träumen. Als Laura vor drei Jahren nach New York in ein Leben voller Luxus zog, hätte sie nie damit gerechnet, wie schnell dieses enden kann. Aus Rache für die Untreue ihres reichen, amerikanischen Freundes zettelt Laura einen landesweiten Skandal an und muss New York überstürzt verlassen. Der einzig mögliche Zufluchtsort: ihr ehemaliges Heimatdorf in Nordrhein-Westfalen.