Rural Life

This book is for city dwellers that wish to move to a rural area and know what they will face. It is also for rural residents trying to save money while living in the country. Learn to survive in the country. This book covers all aspects of rural living. It is a book that teaches the difference between the small towns, large towns, and wooded areas. Listeners will know which utilities are available in the country. This book also teaches how to navigate the forest without getting lost or injured. Learn about rural neighbors and how to avoid neighborly disputes.

Gewinner des Selfpublishing-Buchpreis 2022. Das Ende der Leidenschaft ist der Anfang der Reue. Wenn Kit Camino das Cembalo spielt, färbt ihre Welt sich bunt. Jeden Ton sieht sie als Farbe. Doch diese Welt, die Welt ihres Vaters, hat sie hinter sich gelassen. Sie meidet ihn, das Instrument und alles, was sie daran erinnern könnte. Zu viel ist zwischen ihnen vorgefallen. Als ihr Vater unerwartet verstirbt, erschüttert es Kit mehr, als sie sich eingestehen möchte. Er hinterlässt ihr Winters Weiher, das Landhaus der Familie und Sehnsuchtsort ihrer Kindheit. Dort hofft sie, endlich neu anfangen zu können.

A FARMING LIFE shares the uplifting stories of women from six rural families as their resilience is tested by personal loss, illness, fractured relationships, natural disasters and the challenges that come with working in a traditionally male-dominated world. These women are all hands-on farmers - in fact, most are responsible for managing their own farms - and their defiance, tenacity and genuine humility shines through, as does their hope for the next generation of young women already lining up to follow in their footsteps.

"Drei Schwestern" nennt man die Häuserzeile auf Blackberry Island, und spontan kauft die junge Kinderärztin Andi das letzte Häuschen. Nach einer schweren Enttäuschung braucht sie dringend ein Heim für Herz und Seele. Dieses "Heim" findet sie nicht nur im Haus, sondern vor allem bei ihren beiden neuen Nachbarinnen Deanna und Boston. Die zwei Frauen zeigen Andi: Wenn die Straße des Lebens holprig ist, braucht man dringend Freundinnen! Besonders, wenn eine unerwartete Liebe alles durcheinander zu bringen droht.

A veces para poder seguir viviendo, hay que morir y dejar atrás lo que uno fue.El tercer libro de la Trilogía del Malamor concluye las historias de Ángela, Rayen y del peculiar poblado de Almahue y sus desventurados pobladores, condenados a sufrir del hechizo del Malamor.

At 34, Brian Duncan has it all. A trendy Manhattan life, a high-powered PR job, and a gorgeous fiancée with an exciting future of her own. Then, in a single moment of deception, Brian's world crumbles. Bitterly betrayed, he decides to toss away all he has worked for. Irresistibly drawn to the road, he leaves the city's busy streets behind. On a hillside along New York's Hudson River Valley, Brian is transfixed by the beauty of an enormous windmill. Running toward it is a lovely little girl and her alluring mother, Annie Sullivan.

For Patricia Curren, the summer of 1978 begins with a devastating discovery: an unfamiliar black pearl button in the bed she shares with her controlling husband, Jack. Seeking the courage to end her desolate marriage, Patricia spends a quiet summer alone on beautiful Kiawah Island. But when she meets Terry Sloan, a collegiate tennis player trying to go pro, their physical attraction sparks a slow burn toward obsession.

On the surface Sloane has the perfect life - an adoring husband, a precocious daughter, and enough financial security to be a stay-at-home mom. Still, she can't help but feel as though something - or someone - is missing.

When the younger sister she thought was dead arrives on her doorstep, followed closely by a gun-wielding Russian gangster, a shady New York lawyer, and a desperate Connecticut housewife, ex-cop Shae-Lynn Penrose is forced to grapple with the horrible truth she discovers about her sister's life, and with an ominous question: Will her return result in a monstrous act of greed, or one of sacrifice?

Life is sweet for chocolate maker Chloe Lyon…Business is booming at her artisan chocolate-makers 'Chocolate Wishes' in the picture-perfect Lancashire village of Sticklepond - not least because all of Chloe's sweet treats contain an inspirational prediction for each customer. If only her own life was as easy to read in the cards, perhaps Chloe could have foreseen being jilted at the altar….

Michail Saltykov, (1826-1889) nacque in uno sperduto villaggio russo, sesto di sette figli, figlio di un tipico nobile di provincia, proprietario di terre che lasciava amministrare alla moglie, di venticinque anni più giovane di lui, figlia di mercanti, avarissima, ignorante e spietata fustigatrice dei figli, che Michail odiò per tutta la vita e che rappresenterà nel suo capolavoro, «La famiglia Golovlev», nella figura della madre.

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.

Il più importante romanzo verista della letteratura italiana, un capolavoro senza pari che racconta la storia di una famiglia di pescatori di Aci Trezza, paesino nei pressi di Catania, all'indomani dell'Unità d'Italia.

Violet Dimond, the Holy Terror, has delivered many of the town children in her capacity as handywoman. But Violet’s calling is dying out with medicine’s advances. Grace, Violet’s adopted daughter, is a symbol of change herself. In the place where she has grown up and everyone knows her, she is accepted, though most of the locals never before saw a girl with skin that colour. For Violet and Grace the coming war will bring more upheaval: can they endure it, or will they be swept aside by history’s tide?

In a small seaside city on the Jersey Shore, three half-siblings confront the death of a distant and bullying patriarch. They now have the chance to imagine new relationships and new futures, ones that would have been near-unthinkable while their father was alive. Caught in their crossfire are the conservative religious communities that border Asbury Park, the longtime locals who have been pushed to the fringe by the shore’s revitalization, and the legendary town upon which the whole world seems to converge.

In the recent years, people have studied the unusual increase in the number of prime-aged men who are unemployed. According to Nicholas Eberstadt, a political economist who holds the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute, the drop of the share of prime-aged men in the labor market in other prosperous democracies has never been as severe as it is in the United States.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of...anything but a wife? The third audiobook in the Swell Valley series by best-selling author Tilly Bagshawe. Henry Saxton-Brae has it all - he's a titled, self-made millionaire, and his fiancée just happens to be a supermodel who is as kind and loyal as she is ravishingly beautiful. To top it all, he's just bought Hanborough Castle, the jewel in the crown of the Swell Valley.

Maggie and Liz may be sisters (and yes, named after a pair of much more famous siblings) but that's about all they have in common. Maggie is a free spirit - travelling the world, flitting through life and relationships without ever really having to connect. Liz, meanwhile, is the lynchpin of Little Martin village society and determined to be the perfect wife, mother and homemaker - even if she does live in a new build. When Liz and Maggie's beloved grandmother, Queen Vic, dies in a characteristically flamboyant fashion, they are left to deal with the aftermath - inheriting the family home.

Tschüß, St. Peter-Ording - Tante Lilo, nicht mehr ganz frische 70, muss aus Gesundheitsgründen in wärmere Gefilde ziehen. Aber was wird nun aus ihrer geliebten Strandperle? Entschlossen vermacht sie das Unternehmen ihren zwei Nichten Insa und Stephanie. Zwei gestandene Frauen, die sich nur vom Hörensagen kennen... Für Insa ist der Nordseeort eine willkommene Abwechslung zum Schnellimbiss in Gelsenkirchen, für Stephanie die perfekte Fluchtmöglichkeit von ihrem betrügerischen Ehemann in Düsseldorf. Doch kaum erreichen sie ihr Erbe, knirscht der Sand im Getriebe ihrer Hoffnung.

The summers spent at Roseland, the sprawling ancestral home of her best friend, Eloise, were among the happiest of Cathy's life. Tucked away on the Cornish coastline and brimming with history, Roseland seemed to belong to another century. Cathy has barely been back since Eloise's death a decade ago. So she is shocked when Jack, the love of Eloise's life and father of her children, announces that he is getting married, and that the wedding will take place at Roseland.