Rural Fiction

News on the docks is Adelaide Bradley is back in Seaside, and rumor has it she’s here to stay! (No ring was spotted on her finger, I might add!) After eight long years of living in the big city and working for Massachusetts General, she has decided to return to the shores. One can only imagine how thrilled Barbara and Keegan are to have their oldest daughter back. But it makes you wonder if Adelaide will continue to peruse her nursing career or is she here to help at her family’s restaurant, The Seaside Grill.

Kelly Roberts finds refuge in the rugged and remote cattle country of Northern Australia, but when tragedy strikes, she is forced to find a new life for herself and her children outside of Rainsford Station. She retreats to the family’s only asset - a freehold block of land owned jointly by her eccentric father-in-law, Quinn. In the valley at Evergreen Springs, Quinn hopes the fractured family might all come together to start over again.

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.

'I've never felt so at home in all my life. Ireland isn't just in my blood; it's in my heart. But I was mistaken if I thought this safe haven could erase my past . . . ' When Marian Fleury finds a love letter hidden in her husband Theo’s belongings, her heartbreak puts her on the first plane...

In the aftermath of an EMP blackout, Don Morton battles through a world plunged into mayhem, determined to safeguard his wife and son at their mountain refuge. But as he navigates the lawless land to reach them, a chilling reality unfolds—a merciless cartel has set its sights on their hidden haven. With whispers of an impending siege swirling, the Mortons are catapulted into a high-stakes game of survival.

Mr Edgar Finchley, unmarried clerk, aged 45, is told to take a holiday for the first time in his life. He decides to go to the seaside. But Fate has other plans in store...From his abduction by a cheerful crook, to his smuggling escapade off the south coast, the timid but plucky Mr Finchley is plunged into a series of the most astonishing and extraordinary adventures. His rural adventure takes him gradually westward through the English countryside and back, via a smuggling yacht, to London.

A grieving widow. A handsome billionaire. A second chance at love and family. Liza Bradford never planned to become a widow. Now, she's raising two boys on her own, building her dream event business from scratch, and trying to keep the pieces of her life together. Love? That was a once-in-a-lifetime thing—until Drew Cameron walked back into her world. Drew has it all—success, wealth, charm. But the one thing he truly longs for is a family. Captivated by Liza's strength and warmth, he's willing to wait—and fight—for the future they could share.

In Creal Springs, Illinois, the dying is peaceful. That's the worst part. They go easy, in their sleep, with a look on their faces the undertaker doesn't have to fix. The county calls it a hard winter. Old hearts. Cold nights. Nothing to see. Eli Crews sees it. He fixes water wells. He has a wife who is better than he deserves, a daughter who thinks he hung the moon, and a thing he did in a stairwell in Ramadi that he has never said out loud to a living soul.

When comfort becomes lonely, will two academics risk everything for love? Lucy O'Shields is comfortable. She's the secretary for the English Department she graduated from, and the quirky circle of professors surrounding her office keep her busy, content, and entertained. Thankfully, the hopeless-crush-at-first-sight she nursed as a student for one of these professors was squelched long ago. Dr. Forrest Graham is uncomfortable.

A completely gripping and unforgettable story of long-lost family secrets and forbidden romance that will whisk you away to the beautiful village of Sandy Cove on the west coast of Ireland. When Laura inherits a small cottage from a friend who was like a mother to her, she wonders whether this...

When Gus Shepard’s quiet artistic life is upended by his mother’s death in 2003, he’s sent to the rural town of Livingston, Montana, to live with his estranged woodworking father. For Gus, it’s a place filled only with grief, painful childhood memories, and too much sawdust—until he meets Bridger Owens, a local skateboarder with a rebellious streak.

In the quiet town of Lost Trail, Montana, the apparent abduction of long-time librarian Sybil Tombe shakes community to its core. An elderly neighbor reports seeing a gray-haired, bearded man driving up to Sybil’s house the night she disappeared. New sheriff Zak Waller plunges into the investigation, but keeps uncovering more questions than answers.

Former Hope’s Haven schoolteacher Martha Eicher has always been the responsible one, putting her family first and caring for her widowed father and two younger sisters. But now they’re all happily married, and Martha isn’t sure where she fits in anymore . . . until she hears that Asher Lantz needs a nanny. Even though her childhood friendship with Asher ended abruptly years ago, when a misunderstanding drove a wedge between them, Martha offers her assistance.

After landing a major cookbook deal, star food-blogger Tash Ranger swaps city life for the family farm. But Tash's homecoming is bittersweet, for now she can no longer avoid seeing her best friend Maddy, who was severely injured in a riding accident. When Tash returns to Castlereagh Road with her joy and boundless appetite for life, he realizes finally what his loved ones have been trying to tell him for months – that Maddy wouldn't want him to throw his life away.

Marchesa Colombi �� lo pseudonimo con cui Maria Antonietta Torriani (1840-1920) scrisse le sue opere. Questo romanzo, apprezzato da Natalia Ginzburg e da Italo Calvino, fece sì che questa scrittrice fosse apprezzata maggiormente dopo la sua morte. I suoi romanzi sono di stampo sociale e in difesa dell’uguaglianza tra donne e uomini, ma non per questo perdono la loro vivacità, umorismo e sensibilità.Cornice musicale: Musica proibita di Stanislao Gastaldon, suonata da Ivan Genesio.

L'affascinante David Bell incarna la realizzazione del sogno americano. Nonostante sia poco piú che ventenne è già manager di una grande rete televisiva. All'apice del successo il giovane trova però davanti a sé un vuoto insopportabile che lo spinge ad allontanarsi da Manhattan per intraprendere un viaggio nel cuore dell'America, a bordo di un vecchio camper e con la cinepresa sempre a disposizione, accompagnato da tre stravaganti soggetti.

Isabel hates Christmas. She’s got a Christmas disaster for each of her 25 years. When her boss sends her from the sun-kissed beaches of Australia to snowy small-town Wyoming, it’s just another thing to add to her "do not like" list. Snow sucks. Christmas sucks. And cowboys suck most of all. Except, maybe, for one.

Long before Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly made most readers' acquaintance in Patrick Taylor's bestselling novel An Irish Country Doctor, he appeared in a series of humorous columns originally published in Stitches: The Journal of Medical Humour. These warm and wryly amusing vignettes provide an...

Between 1821 and 1826, the prolific writer and journalist William Cobbett travelled the countryside of the South of England on foot and horseback. Rural Rides is a fascinating account of his journeys, and depicts a way of life in transition, juxtaposing lyrical descriptions of the countryside with criticism of the poverty of agricultural workers. A man of radical politics who encouraged the rural rising of 1830, Cobbett went on to become MP for Oldham and sought to represent the interests of both industrial and agricultural workers. Above all, Rural Rides celebrates agrarian England.

He's a billionaire hiding at my bed-and-breakfast, pretending to be ordinary. I'm the woman who fell for every pretty word… Carter Banks shows up at my struggling beachside B&B looking for a place to disappear for the summer. I accept his reservation because we need the money. As it stands, I have three months to save my family's legacy and no time for distractions. But the chemistry is off the charts, and we can't get enough of one another. Between late-night meetups and early morning coffee runs, I'm falling for a man who feels like home.