Ergebnis für "usa" in Kleinstadt- & Landleben

»Dieses Buch wird Sie zu einem besseren Menschen machen.« An einem klaren Frühlingmorgen erscheint ein Fremder in Golden, einer amerikanischen Kleinstadt im Süden. Wer aber ist er, und warum ist er gekommen? Sein Name ist Theo. Und er stellt weit mehr Fragen, als er beantwortet. Theo besucht...

Victoria, siebzehn und schwanger, wird von ihrer Mutter vor die Tür gesetzt. Da überredet ihre Lehrerin Maggie die Brüder McPheron, zwei alte Viehzüchter, das Mädchen bei sich aufzunehmen. Ein erst widerwilliger Akt der Güte, der das Leben von sieben Menschen in der Kleinstadt Holt in Colorado umkrempelt und verwandelt.

'One of the greatest storytellers of our time' - Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing From the multimillion copy number one bestselling author of The Women, The Nightingale and The Four Winds, Wild is a remarkable story about the resilience of the human spirit, the triumph of hope and...

The latest novel from million-copy bestseller author Graham Norton - a dazzling, decades-sweeping story about love, bravery and what it means to live a significant life. 'Warm and wise, Frankie is a woman worth getting to know' BONNIE GARMUS 'I loved Frankie so much. I couldn't stop reading it...

I had everything I had ever wanted . . . And it meant nothing. Because the love of my life had lost everything. My career was exactly where I'd wanted it—I was on a great team, getting lots of playing time, and I'd finally won the ultimate prize. But Bailey was hurting, and I couldn't live...

Sallie ist die Tochter des mächtigsten Mannes einer Kleinstadt in Virginia. Geboren zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts, ist sie fünf Jahre alt, als ihre Mutter stirbt nach einem Streit mit Sallies Vater, dem charismatischen Duke Kincaid. Er heiratet erneut und bekommt einen Sohn. Als Sallie dem Halbbruder beibringen will, so stark wie der Vater – und sie selbst – zu sein, führt ihre waghalsige Nachhilfe zu einem schweren Unfall. Sallie wird verstoßen und muss das Anwesen verlassen. Mit siebzehn Jahren kehrt sie zurück ins Große Haus, entschlossen, sich ihren Platz in der Familie zurückzuerobern.

Tutti ammirano i Mulvaney, tutti li invidiano. Sono un clan chiassoso e allegro, una famiglia perfetta; la loro fattoria nel nord dello stato di New York è una casa da fiaba abitata da uno stuolo di cani, gatti, cavalli, mucche e pecore, sempre piena di amici e parenti. Michael, il padre, ha un'impresa edile ben avviata, è conosciuto, rispettato, membro orgoglioso del country club. Sua moglie Corinne è una donna "nervosamente allegra", visceralmente anticonformista, con una solida fede religiosa, la mente sempre in fermento, la passione per l'antiquariato e la politica.

He's the wrong cowboy for her plan . . . and the only one her heart wants. Emma Holt has her life in Granite Junction planned out—become a guidance counselor for the high school, help everyone out, and quietly pine for her brother's best friend. But when he tells her that she is like his...

The emotional equivalent of a Category Six hurricane is raging through the small Southern town of Barksdale in the form of a rumor that a provocative African American newcomer might be of supernatural origin.

Some Luck is the first novel in the dazzling Last Hundred Years trilogy from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize Jane Smiley; a literary adventure that will spans a century in America. 1920. After his return from the battlefields in France, Walter Langdon and his wife Rosanna begin their life...

Luigi Pirandello ci presenta la storia di Marta Ajala, vero e proprio simbolo delle contraddizioni e dell'ipocrisia che regolano la nostra società. Il marito, Rocco Pentagora, la scopre mentre sta leggendo una lettera con delle avances da parte di un uomo. Lei però ha sempre respinto quelle proposte ed è rimasta fedele al marito che, però, non le crede. E così Rocco decide di cacciare di casa la moglie perché adultera. All'improvviso Marta si ritrova esclusa dalla vita sociale con tutti i conoscenti che iniziano ad ignorarla e ad evitarla.

*The USA Today bestseller* ‘Holy mother of…! This book was SO good. I devoured it…You NEED to read this!’ Reader review ‘An edge-of-your-seat, page-flipping, stay-up-all-night, heart-racing suspense thriller!’ Real Reviewer ‘Holy cr*p! This is good! Riveting, exciting…kept me...

Small-town charm and steamy billionaires: Welcome to Cinnamon Springs . . . How to Break My Heart is a cosy and steamy enemies-to-lovers romance following a small-town cafe owner and her best friend’s billionaire brother as they’re forced to work together to plan a wedding. Perfect for fans...

Il tormento spirituale della protagonista Angela Carballino, e quello del suo sacerdote-mentore San Manuel Bueno, si fonde con la notazione paesaggistica e con la descrizione del borgo di Valverde de Lucerna. Scritto e pubblicato da Miguel de Unamuno (una delle personalità più forti e dirompenti della letteratura spagnola del XX secolo) nel 1931, il romanzo breve si compone di 10 macro-scansioni narrative e rivela l'essenza della fede umana come un surrogato oppiaceo che dà illusioni e speranze alla popolazione rurale della Spagna.

Covenant continues the beloved saga of the residents of Jericho, a sleepy town in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, where life and love have as many twists and turns as a winding mountain road. Six weeks have passed since the fateful unfolding of events at the town fourth of July celebration. Questions swirl about the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of the town nemesis, Gerald Watson. Was it an accident, or was Watson murdered?

With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members struggle to maintain order, an unexpected visitor arrives, escaping the crumbling society to the south. Soon after, others follow. Frustrated by the building chaos, a group of young friends and their families turn to the land and Anishinaabe tradition in hopes of helping their community thrive again.

The Good House, by Ann Leary, is funny, poignant, and terrifying. A classic New England tale that lays bare the secrets of one little town, this spirited novel will stay with you long after the story has ended. Now a major motion picture starring Sigourney Weaver and Kevin Kline! Hildy Good is a...

Never ever date a client. That’s what I keep telling myself. Until Terence Daniels walks into my office. Biggest mistake of my life. Next thing I know, I’m fleeing Louisiana, hunkering down with my best friend in Dallas. Things just cannot get any worse. Until Kate’s car breaks down outside this bar that looks like their patrons kill women with sticks. We have no choice but to go inside. What I find in there is nothing that I would expect. What unfolds in the coming weeks are more mistakes. Better ones. And then one that I’ll forever call my favorite mistake.

Saddle up for three steamy Western romances from USA TODAY bestselling author Stacey Kennedy's Naked Moose series. The Devil in Blue Jeans Moving to Montana to buy a dive bar with her best friends sounds like a can’t-miss idea to Charly Henwood. The scenery is breathtaking, and the cowboys...

I had a love-hate relationship with hockey players. They'd won over my protected, carefully-controlled heart, and I accepted that they had a place in my town. And in my heart. Mostly because Joel had waltzed right in and made himself at home. And . . . I'd fallen for him. Deep. But now the man...