15th century Oakham, in Somerset; a tiny village cut off by a big river with no bridge. When a man is swept away by the river in the early hours of Shrove Saturday, an explanation has to be found: accident, suicide or murder' The...
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- Auteur:Harvey, SamanthaSommaire:
- Auteur:Munro, AliceSommaire:
The author's fictional tales about her Scottish ancestors' immigration to Canada in 1818. Stories follow the pioneers' life on the frontier and the family's progress through the generations. 2006.
- Auteur:O'Meara, DavidSommaire:
Winner of the 2004 Archibald Lampman Award (National Capital Region – Ottawa) and shortlisted for the 2004 Trillium Book Award for Poetry and the 2004 ReLit Awards
In The Vicinity David O’Meara gives us a new kind of...
- Auteur:Li, YiyunSommaire:
This novel, set in 1979 China, is the story of those affected by the execution of a 28-year-old counterrevolutionary. Though suffering, Li's characters nevertheless struggle to maintain hope amid cruel circumstance.
- Auteur:Chiaverini, JenniferSommaire:
Fervent abolitionism rules the day in 1862 Water's Ford, Pennsylvania. So when the local men answer Mr. Lincoln's call to arms, wives are left behind to keep the town functioning. Fortunately, the ladies of Elm Creek Valley...
- Auteur:Pick, AlisonSommaire:
A realistic portrayal of the world of urban twenty-somethings, The Sweet Edge tells the story of a young couple who decide to go their own way for the summer in order to figure out their relationship. Ellen chooses to work in a trendy...
- Auteur:Keats, Ezra JackSommaire:
The fun of a snowball fight, the joy of making snow angels, the thrill of sliding down a snowbank, the wonder of falling snow —all are experienced by young Peter during one snowy day in the city.
- Auteur:McCafferty, KeithSommaire:
An award-winning editor for Field & Stream magazine, Keith McCafferty presents his debut novel, The Royal Wulff Murders. A local fisherman lands more than he bargained for when he pulls a dead body out of Montana's Madison...
- Auteur:Brown, LarrySommaire:
Down in Memphis and northern Mississippi, some wildly diverse people are looking for love--but not necessarily in all the right places. Sex-starved alcoholics, college professors, hookers, cops, sailors, runaways, gangsters, and some...
- Auteur:Dallas, SandraSommaire:
Dallas transports listeners to 1930s Kansas, where a club of quilters welcomes a new member--and then must turn to each other for support when a startling secret comes to light.
- Auteur:Simon, ChristineSommaire:
The self-appointed mayor of a tiny Italian village is determined to save his hometown no matter the cost in this charming, hilarious, and heartwarming debut novel. Vacuum repairman and self-appointed mayor of Prometto, Italy (population...
- Auteur:Kubica, MarySommaire:
Sadie and Will Foust have traded bustling Chicago for small-town Maine. Their new neighbor, Morgan Baines, is found murdered in her home. All eyes of suspicion turn toward the new family in town.
- Auteur:De Lint, CharlesSommaire:
"Charles de Lint has brought an entire imaginary North American city to vivid life, Newford: where magic lights dark streets; where myths walk clothed in modern shapes; where humans and older beings must work to keep the whole...
- Auteur:Ghigna, Charles, Wilkinson, Annie, Down, ChristianSommaire:
This is an enhanced ebook with a read-along function. From dusk to dawn a forest creeps into a town where the grown-ups are too distracted to notice. But the children do. They see greenery take root in the lifeless cracks of dull...
- Auteur:Finlay, AlexSommaire:
From the author of the breakout thriller Every Last Fear , comes Alex Finlay's electrifying next audiobook The Night Shift , about a pair of small-town murders fifteen years apart?and the ties that bind them. "The night was...
- Auteur:Major, MichelleSommaire:
An unexpected cross-country road trip throws two almost strangers into each other's lives, but is it just a temporary connection on the road to Magnolia? When her father suffers a serious injury, down-on-her-luck waitress Lily...
- Auteur:Twain, MarkSommaire:
The title story of this collection of short stories features the tale of the "most honest and upright" town of Hadleyburg, whose residents boast of their unsmirched moral character. A stranger, offended by the pious reputation of the...
- Auteur:Hayes, DerekSommaire:
These urban, commuter-friendly stories capture quirky events in satisfying ways. Their dark undertones and sharp-witted ironies employ familiar settings such as apartments, lofts, studios and city streets , but use unusual and...
- Auteur:Fraser, GailSommaire:
Nestled in the Northwest is a quaint little town that its quirky residents are proud to call home. With charming shops lining its one main thoroughfare, Lumby is home to the oldest apple tree in the county and the smallest bank in the...
- Auteur:Laing, OliviaSommaire:
What does it mean to be lonely? How do we live if we're not intimately involved? Olivia Laing explores these questions by traveling deep into the work and lives of some of the century's most original artists.
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