Ergebnis für "Joseph" in Kleinstadt- & Landleben

Die kleine Stadt liegt mitten im Flachland, von keinem Berg, von keinem Wald, keinem Fluss begrenzt. Sie läuft in die Ebene aus. Sie fängt mit kleinen Hütten an und hört mit ihnen auf. Die Häuser lösen die Hütten ab. Da beginnen die Straßen. Eine läuft von Süden nach Norden, die andere von Osten nach Westen.

An epic comedy about love, spirit, and the quest for transcendence in an anything-but-transcendent America, from the author of the perennial cult bestsellers The River Why and The Brothers K. A random bolt from a DC-8 falls from the sky, killing a child and throwing the faith of a young Jesuit...

The police fabricated a story about the night four members of MS-13 died in a tiny home on a quiet city street almost two years previous. George Tokay and his friends were not supposed to share the secret about what really happened that night. No one was to know the truth. But someone talked, and now MS-13, ruthless and wanting revenge, is back in town, and people are dying.

Full-cast adaptations of three of Winifred Holtby’s best-known novels, plus short stories and bonus programmes about the author: Winifred Holtby was an acclaimed novelist, journalist, feminist and social reformer. Her work encompasses six novels, two short story collections, a play and the first critical study of Virginia Woolf, but she is best known for her posthumously published masterpiece South Riding, which won the James Tait Black Memorial Award. She died in 1935, aged just 37.

Un "roman paysan" qui échappe aux lieux communs et à l'imagerie d'Epinal des célébrations du "terroir". Joseph est ouvrier agricole, dans une ferme du Cantal. Mais ce nouveau roman de Marie-Hélène Lafon n'est en rien un "roman paysan" nostalgique, nourri de "couleur locale" : la ferme où il vit n'ignore ni les ordinateurs ni les congélateurs. Et le dimanche, au bistrot du village, quand il a un peu trop bu, les phrases de Joseph miment celles des animateurs populaires de la télévision.

Joseph Walls spends his childhood in a haunted house. Elsewhere, Kristin Stevenson finds herself in a hospital bed. Before long, she and Joseph meet through their mutual friend, T.J. The trio spend their weekends exploring Appalachia in a blue Buick Roadmaster. On Halloween night in the year 2000, everything changes. Joseph takes his new friends to the house where he grew up. Unbeknownst to Joey, Kristin has been having bad dreams about this house.

Nora Connors Rainer has returned to her hometown, Linden Corners, to tend to her elderly but spunky pie-baking mother - and to nurse a broken heart. To keep busy, Nora opens "A Doll's Attic", a consignment shop where locals can unload their unwanted heirlooms. And the upcoming holidays are bringing a host of interesting objects - and people - through her doors.

William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly abridged and remastered stories are now available to download for the first...

It was a simpler time. Widower Jacob Ernst struggles to raise his young sons, Nathan and Mead, on their modest farm in the small town of Painted Post. Listening to the songs of their hounds while pursuing the wily raccoon through the nighttime forests, Jacob teaches his children a deep respect for all woodland creatures and the many legends abounding in these tall hills. For Painted Post is a storied place where the lessons of life, love, and death play out beneath its mighty oaks. And Nathan and Mead grow loyal to each other and their coonhounds till the end.

At 34, Brian Duncan has it all. A trendy Manhattan life, a high-powered PR job, and a gorgeous fiancée with an exciting future of her own. Then, in a single moment of deception, Brian's world crumbles. Bitterly betrayed, he decides to toss away all he has worked for. Irresistibly drawn to the road, he leaves the city's busy streets behind. On a hillside along New York's Hudson River Valley, Brian is transfixed by the beauty of an enormous windmill. Running toward it is a lovely little girl and her alluring mother, Annie Sullivan.

An unlikely criminal, Andy Durant is robbing gas stations to buy back land once connected to his wife's farm in upstate New York. But when he's shot and killed during a robbery, he leaves his wife, Grady, and their three children to fend for themselves. Moving back to the debt-laden farm, Grady ignites a plan that involves getting in the middle of an adjoining neighbor's marriage. Meanwhile, one by one the whole family is charmed by Royal Provo, a young and charismatic orphan working on the property.

They say timing is everything, and for single dad Hamish Colquhoun, the timing couldn't be worse. With a new law practice to establish, a centuries-old farmhouse to restore, and the challenges of raising a tween daughter, romance is the last thing on his mind. But when Afton Lennox, his best friend’s runaway bride, comes home seeking redemption, she ignites all the feelings he’s tried for years to bury.

Eight-year-old Janey Sullivan has had a difficult year, between losing her mother and adjusting to life with her guardian, Brian Duncan. But with the holidays approaching, her one Christmas wish is to find the perfect gift for Brian - if she can learn to trust him first.

In the glow of the holiday season, one life is quietly transformed. The story follows a central character whose everyday struggles and hidden longings come into sharp focus against the backdrop of Christmas. Through encounters with family, friends, and moments of solitude, the season becomes more than decorations and traditions — it becomes a mirror reflecting what has been lost, what still matters, and what might yet be found. As challenges unfold, the character is tested in ways both tender and difficult.

Free Range is a humorous and quirky compilation of short stories. They were developed over time about a young JD Nirmaier being left with only his own devices and vivid imagination while growing up in the very rural North Woods of Wisconsin. Set during the early nineteen sixties and beyond, the stories are intended to highlight the incredible power and potential of the young (and older) human imagination, especially when left unchecked.

Everyone remembers where they were when they heard that AJ Silver had died. In summer 1996, there was no avoiding the story that America's biggest teen pop sensation had plunged to his death on a rollercoaster at a family-run amusement park in rural England. Now, 27 years have passed, and – even if you’re too young to remember the event – you’ve probably heard AJ Silver's songs topping the charts again. So what better time to take a forensic look at what happened that summer?

Ein Städtchen mit zehntausend Einwohnern im Nirgendwo von Europas Osten bildet die Bühne für ein Schauspiel des alltäglichen Wahnsinns, des normalen Irrsinns gesellschaftlicher Verhaltensmuster. Man versteht was man kennt und glaubt was man sich erhofft. Nichts ist absurder als die Realität und nichts ist grotesker als der Wahnwitz der Normalität. Winzige Abweichungen innerhalb der gewohnten Monotonie verursachen monumentale Einsichten und nicht rational erklärbare Handlungen, deren Bedeutungen sich in der Konfrontation mit der Realität erst noch beweisen müssen.

Drawn to the little seaport of Colebrook by an anonymous letter, elderly and eccentric Captain Hagberd settles down to build a home ready for the day when his son, Harry, who ran away to sea many years ago, finally returns. As the years pass, the old man convinces himself that Harry will come back on some never-realized "to-morrow", and Bessie, the lonely and unhappy daughter of the Captain's neighbor, comes to share in the Captain's desperate hope....

California. Elle Blessing has painted herself into a corner. Desperate to maintain her veneer of success, the twenty-something influencer feels trapped in her miserable job and mostly platonic relationship. And when she reluctantly joins her fiancé on a trip to Alaska, she can't decide if their hunky guide is annoyingly grumpy or drop-dead gorgeous.

Sarah Carter avoids attachments at all costs. Leaving behind her small-town Alaskan home after the presumed-fatal disappearance of her boyfriend, she keeps people at a distance in fear of reliving the pain. So when her mom needs assistance running the lodge after an injury, she's less than thrilled to return to the Land of the Midnight Sun—even if the hired help catches her eye.