Rural Life

Ender Bey ve Meltem Hanım’ın bahçeli, doğayla iç içe olan evlerinde torunları, komşuları, misafirleri hiç eksik olmaz. Bu bahçede çocuklar eğlence ve oyunla birlikte doğayı, hayvanları, arkadaşlığı, sevgiyi, geleneklerimizi, insan ilişkilerini öğrenirler.

Ender Bey ve Meltem Hanım’ın bahçeli, doğayla iç içe olan evlerinde torunları, komşuları, misafirleri hiç eksik olmaz. Bu bahçede çocuklar eğlence ve oyunla birlikte doğayı, hayvanları, arkadaşlığı, sevgiyi, geleneklerimizi, insan ilişkilerini öğrenirler.

Ender Bey ve Meltem Hanım’ın bahçeli, doğayla iç içe olan evlerinde torunları, komşuları, misafirleri hiç eksik olmaz. Bu bahçede çocuklar eğlence ve oyunla birlikte doğayı, hayvanları, arkadaşlığı, sevgiyi, geleneklerimizi, insan ilişkilerini öğrenirler.

Edie - smart, self-assured, beautiful - always worked hard. She worked as a teller at a bank, she worked to save her first marriage, and later, she worked to raise her daughter even as her second marriage came apart. Really, Edie just wanted a good life, but everywhere she turned, her looks defined her. Two brothers fought over her. Her second husband became unreasonably possessive and jealous. Her daughter resented her. And now, as a grandmother, Edie finds herself harassed by a younger man. It’s been a lifetime of proving that she is allowed to exist in her own sphere.

My name is Christine, and I'm on the run from a cult that wants me dead. Annabelle Lane is the cult's cunning and venomous leader, who forced me to commit crimes that are unforgivable. Annabelle's threats aren't to be taken lightly, and everybody knows that once you're in the cult, you're in it for life.

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.

Новела Мати є унікальною й неповторною. У центрі уваги новеліста — одна родина. Події, зображені у творі, відбуваються ввечері, вночі та вранці. У родині бідного селянина помирає мати. Надій на її порятунок мало. Однак син Андрій, як і інші члени родини, не хоче змиритися з тим, що до хати завітає смерть. Тому й лаштується привезти лікаря із Зеленогаївки, хоч надій на порятунок мало.

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.

Martha ist eine beeindruckende Frau, die es aus ärmsten Verhältnissen zu bescheidenem Wohlstand gebracht hat. Aber die Erinnerung an die Entbehrungen ihrer Kindheit als »Verdingkind« bei einer Bauernfamilie im Berner Umland lässt sie nie los: Keine Schwäche zeigen. Arbeiten ohne Unterlass. Hart sein zu sich und anderen. Das prägt auch ihre Söhne, die es in der Nachkriegszeit unbedingt zu etwas bringen wollen. Und ihre Enkel, die dagegen rebellieren und es erstmals wagen, sich ein anderes, ein freieres Leben zu erträumen.

The Black River flows from Missouri into Arkansas, east of Branson and west of the Bootheel. It meanders where the foothills of the Ozarks begin to rise out of the Mississippi plain. The area was sparsely populated when E. R. Coleman was a young man. Like the population they served, businesses were modest, mostly small, and scattered. Arkansas was still the Bear State; slogans boasting that it was - or predicting that it would become - the "Land of Opportunity" were yet to be conceived.

The Dunwhitty family is flying high until their carefully choreographed life falls apart during the 2008 Great Recession. Lisa's firm goes belly-up while Michael's shuts down after selling faulty heart valves. Desperate, Lisa insists they regroup by seeking refuge in rural Central Texas on land she inherits from a distant relative she barely knows.

Als Anneloes Beekman ontdekt dat haar rijke en succesvolle echtgenoot vreemdgaat, verlaat ze hem en hun luxe ­leventje in Wassenaar. In een opwelling koopt ze een ­vervallen huis met blauwe luiken in midden-Frankrijk om er een chambres d'hôtes in te beginnen. Maar na de eerste euforie loopt ze tegen de harde werkelijkheid aan: het huis moet intensief verbouwd worden, en zelf kan ze amper een schroef van een spijker onderscheiden. Gelukkig maakt ze gemakkelijk vrienden. Met hulp van de Nederlandse klusjesman Sjoerd, de Franse kokkin Georgette en nog meer kleurrijke streekgenoten weet ze een nieuw bestaan op te bouwen.

Following her "marvelous" (Wall Street Journal) first novel, Caitlin Horrocks returns with a much-anticipated collection of short stories. In her signature, genre-defying style, she explodes our notions of what a story can do and where it can take us.

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.

Augusta Edelman—Gus to her friends—is a painter, a wife, and not always the best judge of her own choices—one of them bad enough that she and her husband, Owen, have fled their longtime city home and its reminders of troubling events. Now, three years into their secluded country life, Gus works daily on the marriage she nearly lost, discovers new inspiration for her art, and contemplates the mysteries of a childhood tragedy.

The Promise of Tomorrow will challenge your perceptions of love, loyalty, and sacrifice. Renowned author Arnold Dale Haywood skillfully navigates the complexities of the heart, setting the stage for a story that unfolds the layers of human emotion and the consequences of the choices we make.

While being a major contributor to the Black Lives Matter movement, Reese "Gypsy" Shackelford discovers that the movement is alive across the globe. Fighting for the cause in both hemispheres comes with casualties. However, when it hits home, the toll is great and affects the lives of Gypsy's family. If that isn't enough, she must return to her hometown, Fayetteville, North Carolina, for the pending trial of the police officer who is accused of contributing to the death of Gypsy's sister, Taylor Russell.

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.

Als ich noch der Waldbauernbub war: Kindheits- und Jugenderinnerungen Peter Roseggers. Ein Alternativtitel ist Waldheimat. Erzählungen aus der Jugendzeit. Peter Rosegger wurde am Kluppeneggerhof in Alpl als das Älteste von sieben Kindern des Waldbauern Lorenz Rosegger und dessen Ehefrau Maria geboren. Da in Alpl kein Schulzwang bestand, gab es viele Analphabeten. Auch sein Vater war Analphabet, so lernte der Bub viel von der Mutter. Er erfuhr nur einen beschränkten Schulunterricht.

Stefanie Stahl has a husband with renovation ADD. He can't seem to finish anything he starts, and her house is littered with his "projects". If he doesn't smarten up, she swears she's going to murder him and bury him under the pile of scrounged lumber in the backyard. Her friend Griffin James is suddenly single and thinking maybe she needs to sell her fixer-upper and follow her career bliss up the ladder of success, even if that scary ladder is clear across the country.