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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.

"Les Chemins d'étoiles" raconte l'histoire, tragique, d'un très grand amour : celui qui unit, le temps d'une année, deux enfants : Daniel, dix ans, et Lisa, neuf. Lui est juif et, en ce mois de juin 1942, sa mère vient de le confier à une famille de paysans de la vallée de la Dordogne pour le soustraire à la fureur nazie. Elle est la fille de ces fermiers qui accueillent Daniel ; elle n'est pas "comme tout le monde" : sensible à tout, elle ne sait s'exprimer. Pourtant Daniel entend l'enfant muette, partage avec elle ses rêves qui les projettent très loin, par ces chemins d'étoiles que le vieux Baptiste montre au petit garçon, et au bout desquels, sans aucun doute, il retrouvera ses parents.

It's 1998. Varg Veum sits by the hospital bedside of his long-term girlfriend, Karin, whose life-threatening injuries provide a deeply painful reminder of the mistakes he's made. Investigating the seemingly innocent disappearance of a wind-farm inspector, Varg Veum is thrust into one of the most challenging cases of his career, riddled with conflicts, environmental terrorism, religious fanaticism, unsolved mysteries and dubious business ethics.

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.

Just as Emmalee prepares to escape her hardscrabble life in Red Chert holler, Leona dies tragically. Grief-stricken, Emmalee decides she'll make Leona's burying dress, but there are plenty of people who don't think the unmarried Emmalee should design a dress for a Christian woman - or care for a child on her own.

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.

Ein Hauch von Hollywood in Wümmerscheid-Sollensbach! Es ist Frühling und der kleine Ort zwischen Rhein und Mosel in heller Aufregung: Im Dorf sollen Dreharbeiten stattfinden, und mehr als einer der Einwohner träumt vom Ruhm. Allein die hochschwangere Sophie bewahrt einen kühlen Kopf. Sie genießt den Frühling und freut sich, dass alle ihre Freunde sie in Tante Dottis Bistro unterstützen so gut es geht. Doch dann droht ein Geist aus der Vergangenheit alles zu zerstören, was Sophie sich aufgebaut hat. Wird sie gemeinsam mit ihren Freunden das Bistro retten können?

Jack Rossi is Dare Island's new police chief. The laid-back North Carolina community is just what he needs to recover from a rocky marriage and a big-city police department. He's learned his lesson: no more high-profile women or high-pressure jobs. The last thing he wants is an unconventional alt girl rocking his world. Grad student Lauren Patterson made headlines when she kept a bank robbery from going bad. She's fled to Dare Island to clear her head and focus on writing her story.

When two teenagers - Johannes and Mari - are found murdered inside their school, in the small Norwegian village of Fredheim, the finger is soon is pointed at 18-year-old Even, whose relationship with Mari ended just before she died. Mari was writing a story for the school newspaper about Even and his dad, who died in a car accident 10 years earlier. But was it really an accident? And had Mari uncovered information that someone was willing to commit murder to protect?

Posie Rose wollte als Stern am Hollywoodhimmel aufgehen. Ganz sicher wollte sie nicht zurück in ihre alte Heimatstadt, die vor zehn Jahren von einer schrecklichen Gewalttat erschüttert wurde. Erst recht wollte sie nicht die Freundin ihres Jugenderzfeindes William spielen, der alles andere ist als der Ritter in strahlender Rüstung. Nachdem sie aber am selben Tag sowohl ihren Job als auch ihre Wohnung in LA verliert, bleibt ihr und ihrer Schildkröte nichts anderes übrig, als buchstäblich zurück zu kriechen an den Ort, der sie schon einmal fast umgebracht hätte.

In Wild Thyme, Pennsylvania, secrets and feuds go back generations. The lone policeman in a small township on the sparse northern border, Henry Farrell expected to spend his mornings hunting and fishing, his evenings playing old-time music. Instead, he has watched the steady encroachment of gas drilling bring new wealth and erode neighborly trust. The drug trade is pushing heroin into the territory. There are outlaws cooking meth in the woods, guys Henry grew up with. When a stranger turns up dead, Henry’s search for the killer will open old wounds.

With Holding Lies, John Larison takes us deep into a thriving subculture of the Northwest, one born of the ferns and firs, rain and hot-springs, firebombs and whitewater. He takes us even deeper into the troubles of Hank Hazelton, a 59-year-old river guide, as he struggles to reconnect with his only daughter after a 14-year estrangement. His failure as a father haunts him, along with other deep regrets, tragedies, and longings. In the days before his daughter's arrival, Hank discovers a drift boat stranded below a rapid, empty except for a long smear of blood on its seat.

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TV presenter Allis Hagtorn leaves her partner and her job to take voluntary exile in a remote house on an isolated fjord. But her new job as housekeeper and gardener is not all that it seems, and her silent, surly employer, 44-year-old Sigurd Bagge, is not the old man she expected. As they await the return of his wife from her travels, their silent, uneasy encounters develop into a chilling, obsessive relationship, and it becomes clear that atonement for past sins may not be enough.

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.

26 ans de Marine nationale, 91 ans de mauvaise foi... Quand Zoé, 17 ans, emménage dans le Finistère chez un oncle qu’elle connait à peine, elle ne décolère pas. Pour la lycéenne solitaire qui ne rêve que d’Amérique et de voyages, la petite ville de Saint-Renan ressemble à son pire cauchemar. Déterminée à en partir dès que possible, elle compte les jours qui la séparent de sa liberté. Mais toutes ses certitudes sont mises à rude épreuve par Pierre, son voisin nonagénaire au caractère bien trempé.

Back in 1964, tragedy struck when Peter Redburn and his friends were playing together. Now an adult, Peter has never been able to escape his feelings of guilt. A funeral forces him to confront the rivalries and secrets of the past.

Mohawk, eine Kleinstadt in Upstate New York, verdankte ihren Aufstieg einst der Lederindustrie und hat später teuer dafür bezahlt: Die Krebsrate ist hier um ein Vielfaches höher als im Rest Amerikas, das Leder nicht mehr gefragt, die Stadt vergessen. Es sind die späten Sechziger, doch die wenigsten Menschen haben teil an den großen Veränderungen dieser Zeit. Wer hier lebt, hat keine extravaganten Träume, sondern will einfach nur das Beste für die Familie und eine anständige Arbeit. Anne Grouse geht es ähnlich. Und auch wenn sie mal andere Pläne hatte – mittlerweile sieht sie sich an die Stadt gefesselt.

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.

Sie dachte, nichts könne sie entzweien. Sie wusste nichts von der Liebe... Nichts kann die drei Schwestern Grey trennen, der Tod der Mutter schweißt sie noch enger zusammen. Ihr Vater jedoch kann den Verlust seiner Frau nicht überwinden und wird ihnen zur Bürde. Nur Vivi Ann, die wie niemand sonst mit den Pferden der Ranch umgeht, findet seine Anerkennung und Liebe, die ältere Winona ringt vergeblich darum. Trotz allen Zusammenhalts geraten die Schwestern in immer größere Konkurrenz zueinander – mit verheerenden Konsequenzen.