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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.

After the blockbuster international success of From Here to Eternity, James Jones retreated from public life, making his home at the Handy Writers’ Colony in Illinois. His goal was to write something larger than a war novel, and the result, six years in the making, was Some Came Running, a stirring portrait of small-town life in the American Midwest at a time when our country and its people were striving to find their place in the new postwar world. Five decades later, it has been revised and reedited under the direction of the Jones estate.

Giacomo Cordero abita in Val Maira, con il nonno Girolamo, la madre Lunetta e l'anziana e riservata Desideria. Il ragazzo ha studiato ma gli viene imposto di restare a casa, a Prazzo, dove si vive di taglio del bosco, di piccolo allevamento e agricoltura, e dove gli abitanti delle malghe spesso sopravvivono nella più assoluta miseria. L'Italia è appena entrata in guerra e il vecchio Girolamo, ruvido e determinato capofamiglia, commerciante scaltro e capace, è diventato il fornitore ufficiale di merci per l'esercito.

Unformed Landscape begins in a small village on a fjord in the Finnmark, on the northeastern coast of Norway, where the borders between Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia lie covered in snow and darkness, where the real borders are between day and night, summer and winter, and between people. Here, a sensitive young woman like Kathrine finds few outlets for her desires. Half Norwegian, half Sami (an indigenous people), Kathrine works for the customs office inspecting the fishing boats arriving regularly in the harbor.

Allison: When I left for California, I gave myself a new name and never looked back. Now my carefully crafted good-girl image is getting torn to shreds in the press thanks to my Oscar-winning A-hole of an ex-boyfriend. So I escape to the only safe haven I know and trust - my hometown - to take a breather while I plot my triumphant Hollywood comeback. However, when I arrive at my parents’ house, Jackson Burke answers the door instead. And suddenly the past comes rushing back.... Jackson: First kiss. First time. First love. Allison Murphy and I shared a lot of firsts.

Single-mother bounty hunter Lori Anderson has finally got her family back together, but her newfound happiness is shattered when she’s snatched by the Miami Mob – and they want her dead. Rather than a bullet, they offer her a job: find the Mob’s ‘numbers man’ - Carlton North - who’s in protective custody after being forced to turn federal witness against them. If Lori succeeds, they’ll wipe the slate clean and the price on her head - and those of her family - will be removed. If she fails, they die.

Marie ne connaissait pas la date exacte de sa naissance. Johannes, le vieux pâtre de Maslafon, l'avait trouvée endormie parmi les brebis un matin d'automne 1901. Il la baptisa "Marie des brebis" et l'aima comme sa fille. Près d'un siècle plus tard, cette même Marie, en sa grande vieillesse, confie sa vie à Christian Signol. Il l'écoute avec passion et nous offre un livre audio qui fleure bon le laurier sauvage des Causses, le miel et l'orange de Noël. L'existence de Marie, toute simple et modeste, rythmée par les saisons et les bouleversements de l'histoire, est une formidable leçon de courage et d'humanité, comme si parfois la vérité n'était jamais aussi juste que dans la bouche des plus humbles.

Sadie may be married now, but she's as spirited as ever, and her life is no less tame. In fact, soon after she and Mark are settled into the farmhouse Mark is renovating, she's visited by three FBI agents who question her about the two children who mysteriously appeared one day at the ranch. Before the agents leave, they warn Sadie that her beloved horse, Paris, is highly valuable, and that she and Mark may be in grave danger because of Paris.

Un roman feel-good sur l'art de vivre à la danoise. "Ça n'est plus possible Chloé, plus personne ne te supporte ici. Tes collègues ont peur de toi et moi, j'ai peur pour toi. Depuis deux ans, tu n'es plus la même... - Je-ne-veux-pas-en-parler. - Je le sais que tu ne veux pas en parler, mais je suis ton chef. Et je ne peux plus te laisser comme ça, Chloé... Sache que j'ai pris une grande décision..." Quand Alexandre, le rédacteur en chef de Chloé, journaliste intrépide et habituée des territoires en guerre, lui annonce qu'elle part séance tenante à Gilleleje, petit village côtier du Danemark, la jeune femme s'étrangle d'indignation.

A Prantixedda Inferru, nel cuore dell'Ogliastra, è un'estate da quarantacinque gradi all'ombra (ma senza l'ombra) quando Raffaele, Giuseppe e Sandro arrivano nel paesino con una missione molto improbabile: far rinascere la locale squadra di calcio e vincere la Coppa Sarda. Problema numero uno: il sindaco corrotto del paese e un milionario senza scrupoli remano ontro, e con grande energia. Problema numero due: uno degli amici forse sta giocando contro la sua stessa squadra. Problema numero tre: quale sarà mai la prima regola degli Shardana?

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.

Una famiglia del Nord Italia, tra l'inizio di un secolo e l'avvento di un altro. I Sartori, quattro generazioni, dal 1917 al 2012, dal Friuli rurale alla Milano contemporanea, dalle guerre mondiali alla ricostruzione alla globalizzazione, dal lavoro nei campi alle scrivanie delle multinazionali. Romanzo storico e corale, vasto ritratto narrativo del Novecento italiano, forse il primo di uno scrittore sotto i quarant'anni, il racconto dei Sartori affronta il fardello di un'eredità che sembra andata in malora. Se gli errori e le sfortune dei padri ricadono sui figli, come liberarsene?

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.

Lungo l'arco degli anni l'attenzione e l'amore di Francesco Guccini per i briganti dell'Appennino tosco-emiliano non sono mai venuti meno e sono passati dentro le pagine dei romanzi scritti con Loriano Macchiavelli ("Lo spirito e altri briganti" e "Appennino di sangue") e più in generale nella tonalità leggendaria che informa di sé i suoi personaggi ribelli. In questo libro torna Gnicche, e insieme a lui si fanno avanti altre figure mitiche come Domenico Tiburzi detto Domenichino, Tommaso Bartolomei detto Barbanera ed Enrico Stoppa detto Righetto.

Il y a tout juste un siècle (1903), les huit cents habitants de Cornemule, le gros bourg corrézien, ne s'éclairent qu'à la chandelle et à la lampe à pétrole, et s'en trouvent fort bien. Or voici qu'à l'approche des élections municipales, le maire, Valentin Lescure, proclame : "Je vais être celui qui fait briller le soleil à minuit." L'électricité à Cornemule ! On s'émeut, on tremble : les vaches vont crever, les hommes perdre leur virilité, etc. Mais on n'arrête pas le progrès et, un beau soir, la lumière jaillit sur la place.

Everything has led up to this moment in Lizzie Glick's life. All of her curiosity, concern, and dreams have pointed to this time when she must make some very big decisions. Will she join the Church? Will she continue teaching? Will she marry Stephen? Questions and indecision as well as answers and certainty enter Lizzie's life in Big Decisions, the third and final novel in this series written by an Amish author and based on true-life experiences.

Winsor Glanvil pays court to Louise Carney, heiress to a fortune, and she agrees to marry him. The marriage is opposed by big Jack Rutledge, a jealous rival and formidable foe, so Glanvil and Louise plan to be married in a sequestered valley by a local clergyman. Rutledge and his supporters, learning of the plan, arrive in the valley ahead of the two and seize Glanvil. Glanvil is beaten mercilessly and Rutledge disfigures him, destroying one side of his face with the cutting edge of a spur. Rutledge then rejoins his gang in the clergyman’s house.

Welcome to Travers Corners, a dusty Montana town, where nothing much has happened since Herbert Hoover stopped for gas. Travers Corners, like most small towns, has no newspaper, no radio station; but here, large trout - no better than large trout, fictitious trout - await the angler. And apart from spreading gossip outside the McCraken’s General Store, the residents of Travers Corners love nothing more than fly fishing. Scott Waldie’s delightful cast of characters breathes life into this tiny, out-of-the-way town.

Between juggling lunchboxes, piano lessons, and baby-sitters, public defender turned stay-at-home mom Juliet Applebaum promises to help her famous friend clear her brother's name of murder. But what will she do when she begins to suspect her friend may not be as innocent as she seems?

Recorrer los senderos más recónditos de la naturaleza sobre las huellas que deja a su paso el rebaño trashumante. Probar la sed del lobo cuando está sediento, conocer de cerca los códigos de supervivencia y lealtad de la manada bajo la piel del que aúlla a la luna, cantando al cielo nocturno. Ver con tus propios ojos cómo las leyendas de las marismas cobran vida. La España del silencio es el título que recibe la colección de novelas del mundo rural escrita por Borja Cardelús....