Narrative theme: Sense of place Books

Mackenzie's life needs a complete makeover. Just like her retired racehorse.Halfway between a quarter-life crisis and a midlife one -- that's where you'll find Mackenzie O'Neill. With the glitter of West Palm Beach and the debris of a failed marriage in...

Tony D'Marino lives a seemingly charmed existence. From immigrant roots to a Harvard MBA, he's amassed a formidable stock portfolio and owns a sprawling Soho loft with Hudson River views. But images of post-apocalyptic Detroit have triggered a traumatic...

THE LIGHTNING WITHIN US is literary fiction set in the isolated mountains of Central Idaho and on the rim of Hells Canyon in eastern Oregon. It is 1993, but for Lina Hudson, time stopped fifteen years ago.  In the tinder-dry summer of 1978,...

Jackie Craven toys with time in WHISH, winner of the 2024 Press 53 Award for Poetry. Surreal prose blocks follow the uneasy relationship between a wistful narrator and shape-shifting characters-managers, bookkeepers, secretaries-who manifest as hours of...

In The Halo of Bees: New & Selected Poems 1990-2022, award-winning author Michael Hettich presents selections of his previous books-more than two dozen, spanning five decades-alongside a section of new poetry written for this collection. His...

Dianna Friedman never expected her husband to leave her. After over twenty years of marriage, she’s making the most of what she has left–a sarcastic near-grown son and a mountain of bills that just keeps growing. She’s in over her head,...

For all of us who knew Kevin McIlvoy as a peerless fiction writer and miraculous teacher, here is the posthumous gift of his first poetry collection, Singing Lessons. Mc was a musician who found his truest instrument in words. Meditating on love,...

It only takes a moment to change your life.Annie O’Connell runs a business she loves, has a daughter she raised entirely on her own, and protects two younger brothers the way she has all their lives. She’s the foundation of her family, but...

What happens when you fall for the girl everyone hates?Summer 1987: Mark Prewitt's only priority is to avoid his dad's new wife and waste time with his friends, but idle nights are the devil's playground. When his friends decide to pull a cruel prank on...

It's summertime in Texas, when temperatures-and tempers-soar.A mysterious woman moves to The Sisters, and the tongues start wagging. Who is this Rose Belvedere? Why did she move here, of all places? Was that a body the movers stuffed into the van? Calls...

“It happens more than just sometimes that overly refined persons like thee and me may opt to turn away from ordinary things and seek entry into a more perfect world than this one. I’m thinking about art galleries, concert halls, coin and...

The Island Files is a radically innovative collection of stories that explore Maine’s unique island communities and the unforgettable cast of characters that inhabit and visit these communities. Framed within the context of a groundbreaking work of...

Mr Perkins makes sure this is a very different sort of story about a cat.  There cannot be too many books about a moggy working in a lawyers' office.  When he strolls into Spong, Salter and Tethering Solicitors out of nowhere, he is set to...

住在海獅小鎮的迪倫和住在紅橡樹小鎮的潔西卡相知相惜，婚後鶼鰈情深，可是一場意外卻奪走了潔西卡的性命，迪倫從此一蹶不振，直到在水族館偶遇一條被他喚為"潔西卡"的白鯨，他才又重新振作起來，並進一步為了買下白鯨鋌而走險......這是一場淒美的人魚戀，結局感人，值得一讀！This is a sad, yet beautiful, love story about Dylan who lost his wife, Jessica, the love of his life, in an accident...

'Like a Thrill' is a unique collection of poems and essays capturing the author's groundbreaking adventures and wisdom on her journey around the world from Rio Downtown over the peaks of the Peruvian Andes to the depths of the Siberian taiga woods and...

Zasnovan na anegdoti za koju se veruje da mu je licno ispricao njegov ujak Jovan Djordjevic, roman Pop Cira i pop Spira (1894) smatra se jednim od najboljih humoristickih romana srpske knjizevnosti. Pored toga sto je nepresusni izvor humora, ovo Sremcevo...

In a near-future world where robots are becoming increasingly prevalent, recently widowed social worker Anna grapples with grief, betrayal, and an uncertain future. As she explores the potential of AI and robotics to revolutionize eldercare, Anna's...

This sweeping poetry collection charts John Moore's experiences of travel and work in new places.Planning sixteen countries across five continents, his poetry breathes life into the reality of living under extreme conditions. From minus fifty degrees in...

 'The Morning Cloud is Empty' is an exploration of the inner world of man, emotions, and the heart. It explores climate crisis and human crisis.The poet laid bare his varying musings with sharp and deliberate words; lines peppered with poetic riches...

Clint's poetry uses geology, landscape and family history to weave together an emotional response to the places he knows and loves in the East Riding and North Yorkshire. Walking the coastline is a cathartic experience. Here you'll explore beautiful...

La piccola Millie Everleigh, di soli tre anni, scompare in una nitida giornata invernale, e nulla è come sembra... È la telefonata che ogni madre teme. Sto salendo in auto dopo aver fatto la spesa. Mentre il motore si accende, squilla il...

'I loved her then, I love her now. Annie's back and she's better than ever! Fun, feel good and feisty - Annie Valentine is the woman you want to share a cocktail with!' Portia MacIntoshCan she make it big in the big apple?When Annie Valentine lands her...

Skye knows it's now or never. It's time for her to reveal herself to the father she's never met.So she hops on a plane from Dublin to the English seaside town of Borteen.But between the father she's just getting to know and her worried mother, Skye...

The story of a farming family and a small community adapting to life in the aftermath of the First World War, surviving the changes that the twentieth century brings to rural Devon.The Tamar Valley, 1919: on a small farm a family tussles with the changes...

Native New Yorker Joe Caggiano moved to Los Angeles in the 1980s with a dream to make it big in the movie business. Instead, like millions of young hopefuls, he spent 30 years working in the restaurant business. An avid reader with multiple advanced...

Set in the fictional town of Paddy's Arm, Newfoundland, Alice Walsh's debut mystery novel is at once harrowing and homey, equal parts police procedural and diner gossip. When Claire and Bram's only child dies suddenly, it at first appears to...

Inspired by the Lyrical Ballads of Wordsworth and Coleridge, two authors set out to pen a contemporary homage to this timeless collection. As the collaboration progresses, however, the poetry and the unique narrative it carries takes on a life of its own...

  Sailing and the Eastern Seaboard are the inspiration for shared emotional connections and conveying a sense of place in this debut collection of poems with themes of love and romance, unrequited love and nostalgia, father and...

Dr. Hamilton practices medicine in the small town of Sienna, Florida, where he dedicates himself to caring for the residents of his hometown. It's a fictionalized yet accurate depiction of a solo practitioner's life in rural America, highlighting both...

Her college career is cut short, so Rose Harper takes a job that throws her into the path of a weary soldier who joins her in the search of a place to call home.Rose Harper dreams of becoming a teacher, but she quit school at the local college because...

As a young widow with three children, Flora MacCallum thought happiness was behind her-until a friend asked her to run a bed and breakfast on the Massachusetts shore. There, her magical voice awakens the heart of a brilliant composer who is grieving his...

Welcome to Lost Creek Texas, a small town deep in the heart of the Texas Hill Country, where people come seeking new opportunities and a chance to reinvent themselves-and maybe even find love. A man betrayed both professionally and personally. A woman on...

The future of the Seabreeze Inn hinges on one gala event, but will the history of the beachside inn threaten its survival?When Ivy Bay's historic Seabreeze Inn requires critical repairs, a benefactor offers help, and the announcement ripples through the...

What could possibly go wrong at a family reunion? At the Seabreeze Inn, you just never know... Sisters Ivy and Shelly Bay are looking forward to hosting a joyful, long-awaited family reunion at the Seabreeze Inn to introduce their new husbands to...

Daniel and Claire Morrow are newlyweds with different pasts-Daniel lived a life of privilege while Claire was born into poverty. But yet, they fell in love. When they move to Manhattan from their Midwestern college in the days leading up to the Great...

Welcome to Happy, Texas-a small Panhandle town with a name that doesn't always ring true. Discontent is brewing in Happy as Brother Bob questions his beliefs as pastor of a church. Jen, his choir director, flounders in her unhappy marriage while...

Dancing at Lake Montebello begins at the dawn of the civil rights era, calling up memories of life in Baltimore, the most segregated U.S. Northern city, and moves through the poet’s coming of age in the turbulent ‘60s and ‘70s. The...

In rural America, near the end of summer, one of the best things happen... the County Fair. People from far and wide and from all four corners of the county come to see family and old friends. After a tornado scatters the animals one night, the Le Baeu...

When ambitious young Clancy Calhoun leaves his small town in Ireland to start a new life in West Virginia, his world collides with the beautiful and mysterious Rowan O'Reilly aboard the ship to America. Banished from her hometown by a priest and sent...

The Battle for Serenity: A New Dawn EmergesIn the tranquil coastal town of Serenity, new beginnings often carry the weight of old secrets, and no one knows this better than Julia Reynolds. When Judge Julia Reynolds arrived in Serenity, she hoped to make...

Book #2After eight long years, Olivia makes her way home……and there he is, sitting at her counter in the little cafe. She is harboring a secret that no one knows, not even her family….…is it time to reveal it in order to...

A boy in his early 20s... who left his hometown to work on his dream of becoming an artist. One day, he decided to spend some time in the bar, and there he witnesses a performance of a girl who plays on the piano. Her music hypnotizes him in a state of...