Rural Life

Owen Cross’s father is a hard man, proud in his brokenness, who wants nothing more than for Owen to succeed where he failed. With his innate talents and his father’s firm hand guiding him, Owen goes to college with dreams of the major leagues—and an emptiness full of a girl named Micky Dullahan. Owen loved Micky from the first time they met on the hill between their two worlds: his middle-class home and her troubled Shantytown. Years later he leaves her for the dugouts and the autographs, but their days together follow him.

A Nebraska native, Claude Wheeler wants to attend the State University but instead lives a typical college life as a Temple College student. However, when his successful father decides to expand the family farm, Claude's reality is changed forever as he's forced to drop out to help realize his father's dream. Later, as war wages on in Europe, he enlists, hoping to escape his dreary fate and find purpose.

They say a change is as good as a holiday. Joey Miles is hoping so after leaving the city behind, his stockbroking career in flames, to embrace a brand-new challenge: farming. But while returning to his hometown somehow feels right, he's got a long way to go to get back on his feet financially and the last thing he needs is the townsfolk meddling in his love life (or lack thereof).

Von großen Träumen und kleinen Leuten. Hallertau, 1911: Im schwersten Winter seit Menschengedenken kommt die kleine Wally Geistbeck zur Welt. Auf dem Hof ihrer Eltern erlebt sie zusammen mit ihren Schwestern eine glückliche Kindheit – bis mit dem Ersten Weltkrieg und der Inflation der Niedergang der mächtigen Bauerndynastie beginnt. Wally kommt auf die Haushaltsschule im Kloster, um eine gute Partie zu werden. Doch ohne Mitgift bleibt ihr nur, eine Stelle als Dienstbotin zu suchen.

Diana McIntyre and her four boys have had a tough eighteen months but, with the love and support of her family, she believes their lives are finally back on track. Diana’s dream of starting a flower farm has been the perfect diversion, with an elderly dahlia expert showing her the ropes. She won’t have to do this alone. Locum pharmacist and single dad Ned Gardiner hasn’t called Victoria home for years. However, his father’s death forces Ned to return to the family farm, a place that holds few happy memories for him.

Hanna mochte sein Lächeln. Es war eines, das einen wärmte, wenn man fror, und tröstete, wenn man traurig war. Hanna hat ein ziemlich mieses Jahr hinter sich: erst die Trennung von Ehemann Ben, dann der Tod des Vaters. Und so reist sie in diesem Sommer alleine an die Schlei. In dem alten Wochenendhaus der Familie will sie ihre Gedanken sortieren und endlich mal wieder in Ruhe durchatmen. Aber sie hat nicht mit der betagten Rosenzüchterin Ella gerechnet, die sich um den Garten kümmert. Und auch nicht mit dem charmanten Bootsbauer Thies.

For many years Elizabeth Lawson has battled single-handedly to run the family's historic horse stud in memory of her beloved father. But a devastating loss puts her dreams at risk. With no options left, Liz is forced to turn to her estranged sister Kayla for help. Kayla has built a new life in the city as a wedding planner, far removed from the stableyard sweat and dust of her rural upbringing. She never thought she'd go back. But when Liz calls out of the blue, Kayla forms a plan that could save their childhood home.

Em 1996, aos 16 anos, Maggie Dawes vai morar com uma tia que mal conhece em um vilarejo remoto na Carolina do Norte. Solitária e infeliz, ela só recupera o apetite pela vida quando conhece Bryce Trickett, um dos poucos adolescentes do lugar. Autêntico, bonito e inteligente, Bryce apresenta a Maggie as belezas do vilarejo e a fotografia, uma paixão que, assim como o jovem, vai definir o resto da vida dela. Em 2019, Maggie é uma renomada fotógrafa que mora em Nova York e se divide entre sua galeria de sucesso e as viagens a trabalho por todo o mundo.

When George, the eldest son of Matthew Silverman, announces he won’t follow in his father’s footsteps as editor of the family-owned local newspaper, the family finds itself on a course for change. The newspaper has been going for nearly 100 years. With younger brother Alexander and sisters Loraine and Alison growing up fast, too, and gradual progress in the world around them, can Matthew do what’s best for them all?

Die Unberechenbarkeit zweiter Chancen. Morgen wird alles anders oder jetzt ist auch schon egal. So leben die Bewohner des heruntergekommenen rheinischen Kurorts Villrath. Seit die lokale Heilquelle vor Jahren versiegte, stehen die Gästezimmer leer. Da fördern Bauarbeiten ein mineralhaltiges Rinnsal zutage. Was könnte den Glanz vergangener Tage zurückbringen, wenn nicht das gute alte Heilwasser? Vera, letzte Trägerin der Villrather Nixenkrone und Wirtin des "Stübchen", beschließt gegen jede Vernunft, einen alten Jugendtraum wiederzubeleben. Notfalls mit Lug und Trug.

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When her grandfather Marley passes away Grace Power discovers she’s been left the beautiful but crumbling estate of Heartcross Castle. As a single mum of three, Grace has no idea what she’s going to do with it - but who can say no to a roof over their kids’ heads and a chance to get away from past hurts? Heartcross Castle is full of secrets - especially a lost security deposit box that holds the truth to everything. But when celebrity chef Andrew Glossop sets his eyes on the castle, Grace tells him there is absolutely no chance he is getting his hands on her home.

It’s been more than a decade since Charlie Trewin left her sleepy Cornish fishing village for the dazzling lights of London, vowing never to return. But when shocking news of her father’s death forces her back to Carncarrow, she’s confronted with everything she thought she’d left behind: the tragic loss of her mother, her father’s obsessive hoarding—and her own unresolved emotions about them both.

In the coastal town of Alden, Maine, Hope and Jack Kelly have settled down to a life of wedded bliss. They have a beautiful family, a growing lobster business, and the Salt House - an oceanfront cottage they're renovating into their dream home. But tragedy strikes when their young daughter doesn't wake up from her afternoon nap, taking her last breath without making a sound. A year later each member of the Kelly family navigates the world on their own private island of grief.

Welcome to the Lazy Windmill, where guests find that life is what you make it, love is priceless, and family is determined by far more than DNA. Casie Carmichael's accidental dude ranch is well on its way, but the residents of her Hope Springs haven are running wild. With an unwed mother-to-be, a turbulent teen romance, and a bronc-riding grandmother to contend with, the last thing Casie has time for is a romantic relationship. But convincing the recently returned Colt Dickenson that she's not interested in him - or the confusion he causes her - is easier said than done.

The Llewelyn family's livelihood largely depends on the ferry, run by Siona Llewelyn, the kindly yet rugged head of the family. The family is large but close knit, held together by their mother Emily—a hard-working woman made old before her time having borne seven sons, and now with child once again. As the boys grow into young men, tensions flare in the family unit, made worse by a web of rivalries and ambitions. When a death shocks the family to its core, it will take the intervention of a special person to remind them of what they have lost.

Rhian Grey left her home in Sweyn’s Eye to make a life for herself in Yorkshire, where she learnt the skills of spinning and weaving. She also learnt to love Mansel Jack, a charismatic and ambitious mill-owner. When Rhian returns to Sweyn’s Eye, it is to a town torn apart by anxiety and uncertainty, by the devastation of the Great War, a town whose workers' lives are governed by fear. Amidst the anguish and dedication of the women who were left behind, Rhian must decide where her own future lies.

Lola Getz and Webster Bond felt an instant spark when they met as high school students in Victory Shores. But their budding romance was cut short when Lola’s parents died in a plane crash and she had to return to Mexico. There, she became a famous artist and married a man who turned out to be a fraud. Webster, meanwhile, joined the army, earned medals of honor, and came back to his hometown as a cop. Years later, Lola’s life is in danger when armed men break into her house.

Port Kingerton: the insular cray-fishing town at the butt-end of South Australia, where everyone knows everyone. And everyone knows too that when Abigail Fancy left town at seventeen, she hung out the window of her boyfriend's Corolla, middle fingers held high, swearing she'd never come back. And she hasn't, until now. At her parents' house Abigail finds a party (read: town meeting) in full swing over something iffy found on the beach—a thigh bone.

Blythe Harmon is on the fast track to a life she never wanted. On her thirtieth birthday, just as she’s about to lock herself into a high-powered job and accept a marriage proposal to match, an unusual bequest from her beloved late grandmother, Nomi, offers an escape and an invitation to adventure. Equipped with Nomi’s urn of ashes and a treasure map, Blythe sets off for a small island in the San Juans where she rents the mysterious and unsettling Improbable House.