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Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
With raw, poetic ferocity, Kimberly King Parsons exposes desire's darkest hollows—those hidden places where most of us are afraid to look. In this debut collection of perceptive and brutally unsentimental short stories, Parsons illuminates the ache of first love, the banality of self-loathing, the scourge of addiction, the myth of marriage, and the magic and inevitable disillusionment of childhood. Taking us from hot Texas highways to cold family...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Searching for an inn, the enigmatic traveler Hans stops in a small city on the border between Saxony and Prussia. The next morning, Hans meets an old organ-grinder in the market square and immediately finds himself enmeshed in an intense debate--on identity and what it is that defines us--from which he cannot break free. Indefinitely stuck in Wandernburg until his debate with the organ-grinder is concluded, he begins to meet the various characters...
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Killers hiding in plain sight. Small-town secrets. A girl who knows too much. From the Amazon Charts bestselling author of Unspeakable Things and Bloodline comes a nerve-twisting novel inspired by a shocking true crime. Minnesota, 1977. For the teens of one close-knit community, summer means late-night swimming parties at the quarry, the county fair, and venturing into the tunnels beneath the city. But for two best friends, it’s not all fun and...
Author
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The Tufts scholarship that put Nora Stuart on the path to becoming a Boston medical specialist was a step forward. Being hit by a car and then overhearing her boyfriend hit on another doctor when she thought she was dying? Two major steps back. Injured in more ways than one, Nora feels her carefully built life cracking at the edges. There's only one place to land: home. But the tiny Maine community she left fifteen years ago doesn't necessarily want...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"To the tourists and summer residents, Kentwater County is a picturesque community of small-town charm, fruitful farmland, and gorgeous freshwater beaches. To middle-aged widow Isabel Puddles, it's where she enjoys breakfast every morning at a local café with her childhood best friend and spends her evenings cozying up with a good book and her devoted Jack Terrier, Jackpot. In between, Isabel makes ends meet through a variety of trades - preserving...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In 1959 Montana, when a fatal car accident shatters his world, 10-year-old Lucas finds himself confronting crime and vengeance, humor and heroism, all against the backdrop of growing up during the Space Race, the brutal racism of segregation and the hopeof a new generation to move us forward.
"Set in 1959, the "year the music died," The Smoke in Our Eyes is a cinematic, clock-ticking saga set in a small Montana town. When a fatal car accident shatters...
Author
Publisher
Lee Boudreaux Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"Fleeing New Orleans as Hurricane Katrina approaches, Henry Garrett is haunted by the ruins of his marriage, a squandered inheritance, and the teaching job he inexplicably quit. He pulls into a small Virginia town after three days on the road, hoping to silence the ceaseless clamor in his head. But this quest for peace and quiet as the only guest at a roadside motel is destroyed when Henry finds himself at the center of a bizarre and violent tragedy....
Author
Series
Sweetwater Springs volume 7
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Boutique owner Sophie Daniels certainly isn't looking to adopt a dog the day veterinarian Chase Lewis convinces her to take in Comet. A rambunctious puppy with a broken leg may not be the best choice for a first-time pet owner. And house calls from the handsome doctor--her high school sweetheart who's just moved back to Sweetwater Springs--may not be the best choice for her heart either. Chase has come home to help his nephew but finds that he's...
Author
Series
Blessings volume 10
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Trent July has been the mayor of this historic town for the past four years, but now he's ready to let someone else take up the mantle. Barrett Payne, a former Marine, decides he wants the job. But when a surprise candidate also enters the ring, the town has opinions on who would be the best candidate. And of course that's not the only drama, as Malachi "Mal" July continues to make reparations for the damage he's caused and to the people he's betrayed,...
Author
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
She was fine arranging other people's weddings... But life had other plans. When it comes to creating the perfect happily-ever-after, Yardley Belanger is a bona fide miracle worker. From bridal bouquets to matching cowboy boots, the quirky wedding planner's country-chic affairs have caused quite a stir in the small town of Cemetery. But when it comes to her own love life? She's clueless. Completely clueless. Perhaps it's for the best. The thirty-one-year-old...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Jo Marie Rose first arrives in Cedar Cove seeking a sense of peace and a fresh start. Coping with the death of her husband, she purchases the newly christened Rose Harbor Inn and sets out to begin her life anew. Yet the inn holds more surprises than Jo Marie can imagine.
72) Rough Justice
Author
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Olivia assumes the mantle of Welsh heroine Matilda of the Hunt, only to find her first quest complicated by doubts about her quarry's guilt, in a novella-length tie-in to the fan-favorite series. By the author of the Casey Duncan mysteries.
Mallt-y-Nos. Matilda of the Hunt. The lone woman who rides with the Wild Hunt, tasked with finding killers who've escaped justice and letting the hounds reap their souls. For Olivia Taylor-Jones, Matilda isn't...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A stunning novel "with sentences like burning flags" (Annie Proulx) about a couple trying to rebuild their lives in their deteriorating coastal town. Up all night, Marlene drives the highways and back roads near her home in hopes that some landmark will spark an image of her daughter, one untainted by years of grief. Her husband Les steams out to sea in his effort to cope. He is a commercial fisherman on a boat staffed up with desperate loners and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises Limited
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
''"Plenty of tenderness and Colorado sunshine flavor [make] this a pleasant escape." —Publishers Weekly Hope's Crossing is still reeling from a devastating accident, but one occupational therapist may be exactly what the town needs… Evie Blanchard was at the top of her field. But when burnout forces her to walk away from her job as a pediatric occupational therapist, she moves from Los Angeles to Hope's Crossing seeking a quieter life. So the...
Author
Series
Village of Primm volume 2
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Holly Banks is on a desperate mission to have it all, but nothing in life goes according to plan. She’s quickly learning that keeping up with the Joneses is a full-time job, especially when the women of Primm, her new neighborhood, seem to have it together all the time. With her husband’s job in flux, her daughter’s difficulty with learning to read, and her mother’s new zest for dating, Holly’s life is already anything but picture perfect....
Author
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When Hollywood comes to small-town Ohio, the scene is set for an unpredictable romance in a fun and flirty novel by Sariah Wilson, the bestselling author of The Chemistry of Love. The small town of Patience needs a financial boost. Temporary librarian and aspiring film-score composer Jane Wagner’s plan? Invite movie star Nick Haddon to the town’s harvest festival and stand back for the tourist surge. No one thought he’d say yes―much less...
77) The vanishing
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"From New York Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz comes a new gripping romantic suspense trilogy fraught with danger and enigma. Decades ago in the small town of Fogg Lake, "The Incident" occurred: an explosion in the cave system that released unknown gases. The residents slept for two days. When they woke up they discovered that things had changed-they had changed. Some started having visions. Others heard ominous voices. And then the scientists...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In its heyday, Piney Peaks and its beloved Christmas house were made famous by Sleighbells under Starlight, a romantic holiday movie. Fifty years later, the small town is ready for a new love story. As a successful film liaison, Elisha Rowe has her heart set on one thing and one thing only: putting her hometown back on the map. So, when she gets the chance to secure the long-hoped-for sequel to Sleighbells under Starlight, a beloved holiday movie,...
79) Bayou beloved
Author
Series
Butterfly Bayou volume 6
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When a woman returns home to Louisiana's Butterfly Bayou, her high school crush finally notices she exists, in a small-town contemporary romance from New York Times bestselling author Lexi Blake. Quaid Havery always planned to follow in his father’s footsteps. He went to law school and then came home to take over his dad’s legal practice. Being the only lawyer in small-town Papillon, Quaid is pretty sure he’s seen everything. After all, he...
80) Treeborne
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Wedged between the bluffs and the river for which it's named, there's a small and all-but-forgotten town. Janie Treeborne lives on an orchard at the edge of Elberta, Alabama, and in time, she has become its keeper. A place where conquistadors once walked, and where the peaches they left behind now grow, Elberta has seen fierce battles, violent storms, and frantic change--and when the town is once again threatened from without, Janie realizes it won't...
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