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For years, rumors of the 'Marsh Girl' have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved.

A 30-something painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist. When he discovers a strange painting in the attic, he unintentionally opens a circle of mysterious circumstances. To close it, he must complete a journey that involves a ringing bell, a two-foot-high physical manifestation of an Idea, a dapper businessman who lives across the valley, a precocious 13-year-old girl, a Nazi assassination attempt during World War II in Vienna, a pit in the woods behind the artist’s home and an underworld haunted by Double Metaphors.

Cormac McCarthy, best-selling author of National Book Award winner All the Pretty Horses, delivers his first new novel in seven years. Written in muscular prose, No Country for Old Men is a powerful tale of the West that moves at a blistering pace.

Will Campbell has been in an interesting relationship for the last three years—with a woman he doesn’t know. Every time he’s worked the kissing booth at a Sweetbriar Ridge festival, he’s been kissed by the same mysterious woman. It’s the same thing every time—a steamy kiss that leaves you wanting more and then a disappearing act. But this year? He vows to stop her and convince her to do more than just kiss and run.

A young, unmarried Amish woman, attended by the country veterinarian, delivers an enormous baby, and no one in Lakota, Wisconsin knows what to make of the boy. Raised by his brother on a struggling farm, Gabriel Fisher walks at eight months, communicates with animals and possesses extraordinary athletic abilities. When his brother dies, Gabriel is taken in by his devout Amish grandparents and, for a time, he disappears into the anonymity of Amish life.

In a quaint village, nestled outside the bustling heart of Seoul, lies a book-lovers paradise. With its wafts of delicious food and book-filled shelves Soyangri Book Kitchen is dotingly managed by its plucky proprietor Yoojin. Her aim? To create a sanctuary, for weary souls like her own. But the Book Kitchen is more than just a place to eat or read, it’s a place which offers its guests a true escape, not just inside the pages of its many books, but in the warm embrace of an overnight ‘Book Stay’.

Former childhood friends Jasmine Morgan, a PR expert, and Derek Carter, a meticulous corporate executive, have a renowned rivalry. Yet they’ve never revealed to anyone what turned their relationship sour. So when they’re thrown together on a revitalization project in the quaint town of Miller’s Cove, Florida, they plan to keep their distance and keep communication at a minimum.

It was the stuff rom-coms are made of—meet a girl in an airport bar. Buy her a drink. Get her number. Then I smudged it. Literally. A year later, I'm still kicking myself for letting her get away. But I have bigger things to worry about. Like running my family's Fortune 500 company. Until she shows up in my small town. As my newest employee. The spark is back in an instant. And our plan to just be friends? Forget about it. Especially once I've tasted her lips.

All Beulah Land wants is to play piano in her favorite honky tonk, take care of her elderly bestie, and thumb her nose at the church across the road. Life has other plans. Soon Beulah finds herself playing piano in the very place she swore she'd never enter again. The church choir goes on strike, the minister is as irritating as he is handsome, and everyone has an opinion on what Beulah should do with her life. So what's a girl to do? Create her own misfit choir out of barflies.

When you're a famous wedding planner, planning your own wedding, everyone expects it to be the event of the year. Just one problem . . . I don't actually have a groom. I did—but then he decided to walk away before I even walked down the aisle. Now if I want to save my reputation, and my business, I need to find someone willing to play the part of my fake southern fiancé and pull off my small town wedding without a hitch.

Lo sguardo attento e compiaciuto di Valerio Di Stefano ci accompagna attraverso le viuzze di un paesino dove la vita scorre ancora lenta, tra i profumi e i sapori di una terra "forte e gentile" come i suoi abitanti.

Howard Norman’s The Bird Artist, the first book of his Canadian trilogy, begins in 1911. Its narrator, Fabian Vas is a bird artist: He draws and paints the birds of Witless Bay, his remote Newfoundland coastal village home. In the first paragraph of his tale Fabian reveals that he has murdered the village lighthouse keeper, Botho August. Later, he confesses who and what drove him to his crime—a measured, profoundly engrossing story of passion, betrayal, guilt, and redemption between men and women. The Bird Artist is a 1994 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.

Début XXe siècle, une saga au coeur du quotidien et des traditions des paysans cévenols. Un hommage au courage et au labeur de gens humbles mais dignes, un grand "classique" de Christian Laborie. Il est l'arbre à pain, l'arbre généreux dont le fruit est la ressource nourricière des plus démunis. Il est le châtaignier, celui qui donne son nom au mas isolé du Castanet, propriété d'une famille de paysans huguenots, dans cette région reculée des Cévennes. Les Monteil vivent là, enracinés sur le versant aride de la montagne schisteuse, la Vieille Morte.

Sarah Bennett and Jason Harper are coming home. The soldier running from his past and the actress coming home to bring her late dad's restaurant back to life. 18 years away, Sarah in California and Jason at war. Will coming home help them find more peace, love, or tragedy? A war interracial small-town romance.

At one time, Dominic Evans was my everything. That was before everything fell apart. My parents had warned me he wasn't the right kind of man for me and Dom proved them right. Now seventeen years later, I'm returning home. Running from my own mistakes in the form of an abusive, cheating fiancé. With my trail of bad luck, my car breaks down and Dom is the one who comes to my rescue. I hate having to rely on him, but I don't have much of a choice. Next thing I know Dominic sets up a work space for me in his garage; and finds me a job.

Four new festive rural stories from favourite Australian authors about the country practices at the heart of these small towns.

Everyone knows who Caleb Kelley is. I'm at the top of my game, known all around Colorado and beyond for not only my elite skills in professional hockey but also my family's ranching heritage. For this reason, I trust very few people as I'm used to strangers and so-called friends trying to get close to us for a piece of fame. But when I receive a letter from a woman I slept with years ago, letting me know I'm a father, I implicitly trust her. Emily Russo is forever ingrained in my memory and is the exception to every rule.

Surveying the proposed site for a high-end golf course should have been a breeze for spunky landscape architect Sophie Smith. But when this born-and-bred city girl is suddenly—and quite literally—swept off her feet by a sexy cowboy on horseback, she realizes that the country life has some serious (and seriously steamy) possibilities. That is, until she finds out exactly who her smokin' hot wrangler really is.

Manchmal ist das größte Glück nur eine Fellnase entfernt. Isalie Charlotte Hansen hat sich ihren größten Traum erfüllt und ist als Influencerin von Hamburg aus durchgestartet. Ihre Kanäle, auf denen sie Marketingtipps gibt, haben Hunderttausende Follower und sie ist bei Unternehmen als Beraterin gefragt. Doch als sie einen Auftrag von einem Bauernhof an der Küste erhält, betritt Isalie Neuland. Nicht nur, dass sie sich mit der neuen Materie auseinandersetzen muss, auch Max, der schlecht gelaunte Sohn ihrer Auftraggeberin, legt ihr so manchen Stein in den Weg.

Isabel, the long-lost Gibson sister, is finally back home on Brinkley’s Island, Maine. With Sophie and Violet, her sister and her niece, she’s got the family bookstore—and with Johnny Lenox, she’s got something even more special. But even as life settles, not everything is falling into place. Isabel and Johnny have set the date three times, baked three wedding cakes, invited the whole island to three parties, only to have each attempt at matrimony fall apart at the last minute.