Narrative theme: Sense of place Books

On April 27th, 2011, 59 tornadoes touched down in Alabama, killing 238 people and leaving 650,000 without power for days. The even caused widespread damage to rural areas of Alabama and left many without homes or loved ones. Based on first-hand...

by Ginna Gordon Based on the fictional journals of Stefani MichelAs the Wheel of Life turns at Sweet Farm, the homestead of the Wymans, a Carmel Valley, Calfornia family, we focus on three sisters: Rita, Nana and Fox, and their three daughters: Tate,...

The Zeppelin Bend is a romance novel. Gabriella King a tall, lithe blonde is a talented painter and also a fantastic tennis player. Gabby is by most people’s standards beautiful. She is the only daughter of a wealthy prominent Texas...

Forced to reassess her future, IT nerd and country girl, ADDIE KENDALL, returns to her family's Wimmera farm.City CEO and former Wimmera boy, HARRY CHANDLER, hears alarming news from his former school friend, compelling them to unite in solving injustice...

"Procter-King has written a 'home' for all of us. Destiny Falls is the place that holds your first love, your first triumph; it's where you lost a person you cared about." 4 Stars, RT Book Reviews. Heartwarming second-chance romance...

In When Stars Rain Down, Angela Jackson-Brown introduces readers to a small, Southern town grappling with haunting questions still relevant today---and to a young woman whose search for meaning resonates across the ages.

Santorini Poems:  The poems in this collection are a window onto the Greek landscape, registering the sights and sounds of its unbounded splendor — the coffee grounds, the komboloi, the olive grove. . . .  Comprised of free verse and...

In this dark farce of a novel, set in an old-fashioned Central European spa town, eight characters are swept up in an accelerating dance: a pretty nurse and her repairman boyfriend; an oddball gynecologist; a rich American (at once saint and Don Juan); a...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Rumor of War," this suspenseful and penetrating novel explores the themes of racism and violence by examining the anatomy of a horrible crime.

***NYC Big Book Award 2024 Distinguished Favorite for Women's Fiction***Whoever said you can't go home again didn't know Sadie Jane Klein.When mechanically-minded Sadie Klein, Ph.D., finds herself poufy dress-deep in a well-meaning scheme gone awry, she...

Sometimes life's unexpected hardships force you to consider drastic changes you'd never have dreamed of but lead in time to some sweet and unexpected joys.Laura O'Dell's life lately has been full of nothing but problems. Her father has died, she's lost...

Sid Emerson goes missing while trying to determine what mysterious cosmic force lies within Death Valley's wilderness-a force that draws in such an odd mixture of eccentrics, societal outcasts, alien conspiracies, and those seeking hidden truths to...

With lies this deep, who can be trusted to tell the truth? The small community of Grady made national news in the aftermath of a string of missing girls, both dead and alive, being discovered in the quaint lakeside town in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.As...

About the Book:Bang, Bang, Bang Went the Gun.Children were starving.Fathers sought food to alleviate their children's hunger.The sound of children's stomachs was crying out in pain.Trucks were few, food slim picking for many.Hands rushed for food.The...

Finding high-stakes underground games in Deadwood is not a problem for Maribeth Thorp. Explaining how she suddenly has so much money is. Having a detective for a neighbor is challenging enough, but when she finds out what he is investigating, she is...

When the weakest link is your heart...Lia's entire life revolves around being a top surgeon. When a youth with a gun takes over her OR, even the sexy FBI agent can't save her from injury when things go sideways.Hostage negotiator Joe is burning out. When...

Betrayal embittered them both-can love heal the hurt and help them save a horse named Cowboy? Introverted and insecure, Jody Colton would rather not deal with the world, or the betrayals that come with caring too much. But when she sees Cowboy, the...

In Pittsburgh in 2007, Christina Harris' bad luck starts when Jerry the Jerk slams into her bumper and he rudely blames her for the car accident. Christina is flabbergasted when she learns that Jerry is the Best Man at her sister's wedding the next day...

Sheldon Madison got a job offer she could not refuse which returned her home to the town she grew up in, Cedar Falls, Montana. She had no idea she would not only end up working with Nathan Holt, the boy she had a crush on in school but ended up dating...

As a young farm girl, Bonnie, lives through tragedy when her younger brother dies in a fire. Just as Jonah from the Bible did, she learns how to continue her faith in God with the help of her family.This journey through heartbreak and hope in small town...

Cousin Fred leaned forward in his chair and stage-whispered, "She left the babies in the bed and ran off with a salesman." So many questions went through my head. What could compel a woman of the 1860s to leave three young boys sleeping in their beds and...

Meet the men of Eggnog Ranch then help them ring in the New Year! These cowboys are just the kind of sexy heroes that make you want to kiss them at midnight.Spend New Year's Eve on the ranch with five unforgettable short romance stories...

After a nomadic childhood, dependable rancher, Caleb Sutton, loves his quiet, simple life in Kringle, Texas. That is until his footloose ex-fiancée, the only woman he's ever loved blows back into town. Globe-trotting, freelance photographer,...

When the Tweed cousins, Melba and Cilla, set out to open their candle shop, Brighten Your Corner, obstacles pop out of the woodwork. And from out of the walls and under the floor. Starting with an overbearing cousin who wants to take over, insisting the...

An orphaned teen in the notorious Five Points district of lower Manhattan in 1854, Pencil's cursed to scavenge the unforgiving streets where trust is a stranger. Even as slavery has divided the nation, the good Pencil comes across is as rare as a...

Synopsis: Elmer left his home in Massachusetts and moved to rural Maine after the death of his daughter, and later his wife. He lives a secluded life in a shack in the woods. The local families in the small town of Jessup Maine are all he ever encounters...

He didn't believe in love at first sight... Until it happened to him.Finn McCarthy, the youngest of the McCarthy cousins, is at a crossroads. As the lease on his Gansett Island rental comes to an end, he's making plans to return to his "real" life on the...

The Definitive Wyoming Ghost Town BookWyoming State Historical Society Book Award WinnerIn the award-winning Voices at Twilight, a collection of historical stories and photographs, Lori Howe illuminates past and present Wyoming ghost towns. Towns like...

From New York Times Bestselling author K. Bromberg comes a standalone contemporary romance about trusting fate and finding yourself again.Jack Sutton was the man I didn’t want to need.His know-it-all attitude. His annoying suggestions...

I Can't Find Me delves inside the eyes of the world as they examine the writer. Each move and thought is observed and related back with a spectacular and delicate intimacy. Almost gone is the crudeness of youth as wisdom is chased through the pages,...

It is December 1889, a few weeks before Christmas.When William Thomas stumbles upon a hidden gift left behind by his father who died tragically a year earlier, it sets the boy and his family on a transatlantic voyage to an obscure little town in the...

She started the blaze. The firefighter fanned the flame.Abby Tyler welcomes you to the witty, well-meaning busybodies of Applebottom, Missouri, where the community takes its pies -- and its matchmaking -- very seriously.Lorelei Spencer is over that loser...

'I loved, loved, loved this story!! This is the perfect read for fans of Robyn Carr.' Goodreads Review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Dearest Nell, if you're reading this letter, I'm already gone. You're my best friend in the world, and as my last request I'm asking you to...

Dans leur village à la campagne, un jeune garçon et ses amis acceptent leur vie sans souci comme une donnée de l'existence. En plus de leur monde s'articulant autour des bicyclettes, des baignades, de la pêche, l'exploration et les âneries d'usage, le...

She inherits a castle in Scotland - along with an irresistible enemy.Out of nowhere, Londoner Marla suddenly owns a crumbling castle in the Scottish Highlands. She's determined to restore it and desperate for a fresh start.She is not the only one.Marla's...

Poetry. "In Kyle McCord's new book Gabriel empathizes, the Devil sympathizes, and an exhausted God watches a televangelist. Moving, imaginative and full of surprising turns, McCord's poems are alive with both the world and the dead who 'have no word for...

It's eviction day for The Hope Apartments.The residents have known about it for over a year.It's too bad they ignored all the warning signs.More than a century ago, developer Elijah Hope constructed a state-of-the-art hotel. As the generations passed and...

The Douglas' were a conservative Black family, "boujee" in every sense of the word. They enjoyed a prominent lifestyle in a world where most blacks were not as fortunate. Carletta was a beautiful stunning young girl and the apple of her father's eye. Her...

Coming home was never the plan.Lexy Cartwright has managed her social anxiety just fine since leaving her small hometown. But when she loses her job and moves back in with her mother, she finds it the same as the day she left: same places, same gossip,...

"An eccentric outsider is baffled by contemporary Manhattan in this engrossing second novel ... another entrancing, deeply memorable offering from Pelzman." -Kirkus Reviews"How could anyone who has ever spent time in Manhattan resist taking a...

<p><b>She was the girl of his dreams.</b></p><p>It was a chance meeting, but Finn knew her at a glance. The likeness was unmistakable. Even her smell was familiar.</p><p><b>The problem was, Truly...

After suffering a trauma at the hands of a stranger, a young woman quietly breaking under the weight of expectation and haunted by tragedies in her past, must break down her life and rebuild it.As she slowly realizes that the man she loves no longer fits...

Cypress Groves, Mississippi, 1980s. Benevolence Pumpkin, now a young Black woman in her thirties, has lived in a farmhouse on the sprawling farmland deep in the Mississippi Delta. Since childhood, she and her mother, Miss Beauty Pumpkin, have shared the...

This cowboy's lying to himself.To the folks in Wagon Train, Montana, adopted son Lucky McLintock fits right in with his Rowdy Ranch family. He's mannerly, honorable and rides a flashy horse named Silver. But his mother died in childbirth without giving...