Narrative theme: Sense of place Books

The poems in Frost Flowers by Winifred Hughes plunge, open-eyed and open-hearted, into the natural world—its seasonal rhythms and impenetrable mysteries, its vanishings, its incorrigible quality of being alive.  They seek to chronicle the...

A right-wing radio program incites a range of tensions among the Rascal Harbor townsfolk as they navigate issues of love, health, religion, and patriotism. In this fourth book in the Rascal Harbor series, people and events swirl in ways that provoke as...

ChemistryWe felt a spark in our eyesour hearts darted and sowe felt it was love.Your face redeemed,my breath, a few, each moment, takenuntil all that was a precipitate of whatcould have been,but quickly reacted awayeffervescent little us. Omokhojie...

When they were young, the sight of Michael and Sharon's love could literally stop traffic. Not many couples have a record of the exact moment they fell in love. But Sharon's powerful photograph-a black and white of their first kiss-launched her...

Mice are living cozily in a forty-seven-year-old mattress and box spring in a bedroom on the second floor of an old white farmhouse. The comfortable lives of the resident rodents are forever altered when a new mattress and box spring replaces their...

A new anthology of international poetry collecting ideas and experiences of 'place' in a variety of forms, from free and structured verse to concrete poetry and haiku, each exploring our relationship with place via the personal, political and...

Two brothers were raised to know that Viking blood runs in their veins. But when it comes to passion and rivalry, they're desperate to discover if God's peace can dwell in their hearts.

Mille is just a girl. But she's the only one strong enough to break the family cycle.

After his mother's death, he's taking a break from life as usual. She's his best friend and he'd do anything for her. After a cross-country road trip, will things between them turn a little WICKED?BEAUAs the youngest Barrett, I have a reputation that...

Suburban love is three family stories of everyday life in the suburbs and where true love awakens them from their suburban slumbers changing their lives forever.There are fascinating portrait of each family.All well educated hard working people with...

Second-chance romance only works out in movies. In real life, it's ...messy. I don't need a man for anything.Love and romance? Pfft. No thanks. Never again.Between my career as a wedding planner and being a single mother, I barely have time to think...

WHAT FALLING FEELS LIKE by Jolene Betty PerryHigh school was years ago, and Kendell is ready to admit that Tyler, her best friend's younger brother, has matured into a good-looking man. But the once-popular Kendell is recovering from a...

Six contemporary romance novellas with bestselling and award winning authors.In the sweet novella TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE by Heather B. Moore, Gwen uses her wedding photography business to keep her life simple and focus on something other than her own broken...

A TIMELESS ROMANCE ANTHOLOGY: BLIND DATE COLLECTION: Featuring New York Times bestselling author Victorine E. Lieske and Amazon bestseller Sariah Wilson. Readers will love this collection of six novellas-three contemporary and three historical-all with...

This collection of original poems attempts to capture Philippine history and culture through the beautiful language of poetry. The Filipinos are a poetic and sentimental people. They are both traditional and modern. The Philippines has undergone several...

Once a slacker, now a superhero, but will his ex buy the change? Eleven years ago, Brayden Water's high school sweetheart slammed the door in his face. Floundering, he found purpose first in the military, then by volunteering for genetic...

This is the Part Two of the Journal of Doctor Arbeau, and with a thrilling conclusion!The Journal here is a recent discovery and is very mysterious.Set during the time of World War Two with the German occupation of France.The location is a small quait...

How did one camping trip go this wrong? Caroline Park moved to Cherry Falls to raise her niece. It was supposed to be a fresh start, a clean slate for both of them. She bought the Virgin Street Diner and thought that she could lose herself in work...

Welcome to Beaumont's Quarry, a sweet small town full of love, life and laughter.Small-town Deputy Sheriff Ryan Peterson is no fan of Christmas, but when he's partnered with his closest friend on a tree-judging contest will he start to see his hometown,...

Embark on a literary journey through the beating heart of Mumbai with "Mumbai: City of Dreams, Stories of Reality." This captivating collection of short stories immerses readers in the vibrant tapestry of the Maximum City, where dreams soar against the...

This is the last book of The Laura Harper Trilogy and the ninth and final book in the Riding Out series A crazy horse. A disabled jockey. And a priest who won't give up on either of them. Laura is looking forward to a quiet Christmas with her...

When family isn't safe, you need to make your own. "Funny, poignant and wonderful." ~ Reviewer Jenna learned early that family wasn't safe. As Bloo Moose's vet, she's determined to find her patients loving homes even if she knows the same isn't possible...

When Lucy Larkin moves in with her gay uncle Frank in the small town of Serenity Bay, she doesn't expect to get caught up in a murder investigation.But when local artist Marcus Briggs is found dead at the site of a controversial rainbow crosswalk, Lucy...

"The Age of Innocence," written by Edith Wharton and published in 1920, is a captivating exploration of love, duty, and societal expectations in the Gilded Age of New York City. This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel transports readers to a world of opulent...

Mayor Olivia Nachman is ambitious and excited to be elected to the county legislature, and better serve her Jewish community. Busy helping the newly elected mayor transition into his new role in January, she's blind-sided by an epic...

"I was angry beyond measure; angrier than I have ever been in my life," Paul declared. "But instead of asking the Lord to remove the scales from the eyes of those responsible, to show them the error of their ways, I begged Him to damn them all. I...

Robert Gibbons' poetic seam runs from Black Mountain and the Beats, touching plateaus of elegy and ecstasy, coal and black vinyl jazz, war and supermarkets, basements of psyche and ragged peaks. It's as if this New Englander sees the territory of the...

Ein Milliardär, der kein Drama gebrauchen kann, legt sich mit einer Musikerin an, die für aufgeblasene Egos nichts übrig hat. Witzig, sexy und mit einem hinreißend schönen Happy End.Sie ist eine rebellische Musikerin/Automechanikerin und bekommt das...

Poetry collection by Maria Luisa Arroyo Cruzado. This is poetry that takes us to external and internal places both distant and familiar, poems in conversation with what it is like to journey through the world as an intelligent and romantic ,...

In a desperate attempt to save her company from bankruptcy, designer Evelyn Lewis decides to sell the only memento from her past worth anything-the family farmland. Determined to get in and get out of the abandoned property, she finds the valuable land...

A free black man in London wanders too close to the docks on the wrong day. A woman gives birth alone in a barn loft near an Australian outback crossroads. A mother removes her apron, walks away from her family, and tells her secrets only once. A woman...

A widowed artist. An old crush. One summer to get her life back.Ivy Marin's life implodes after discovering that her late husband had spent their life savings on a beach house. Strapped for cash as an art teacher and with nowhere to go, Ivy and her...

Kelly Cherry takes on what few contemporary poets are willing to: the ways and hows of human existence, in both personal and historical terms. Tonally and technically, she has a wide range, being capable of writing touchingly intimate love poems on the...

As Fady Joudah states in his praise for Stacy R. Nigliazzo, “[The] many arresting poems in Sky the Oar row us through many life and death narratives, through the medical gaze: American in their specificity, universal in their compassion...

Her giant pup drags her across town, right into the arms of the football coach.Abby Tyler welcomes you to the witty, well-meaning busybodies of Applebottom, Missouri, where the community takes its pies -- and its matchmaking -- very seriously.Ginny Page...

Escape with Leo and Zak in outback Australia as they discover it sometimes takes time, distance, and interfering family to amalgamate.After five years of living in the UK, it's time for Leo to return home to his dad's stud farm in outback Australia. He...

A poetry anthology inspired by passion, travel and love.​​​​​​​there was presence in the stillness,and stillness in a constant state of transiencewhere inner and outer worlds were shaped and tracedby the fading echoes of a single breath left behind;a...

Will the truth set them free or will it destroy a lifelong friendship?Fate declared them neighbors. Scandal insisted they were brothers. The fact that they looked enough alike to be twins only added fuel to the rumors flying about their parentage. For...

“There could have never been two hearts so open… Now they were as strangers”—PersuasionMountain Laurel Elliot is like her name—she blooms best in the cool comfort of shade, hidden in the Kentucky foothills of Appalachia...

A family you won’t forget …Infused with warmth, heart and hope … Glazed with the sorrow of a devastating truth. In Book One of the Plowed Fields trilogy, we met Joe Baker and his large family as a rare white Christmas descended...

She wants a fresh start. He needs a second chance. Will their love be in season?Cara O'Connell longs for her emotional scars to heal. Hoping to escape the painful memories of an abusive relationship, she returns to her seasonal summer job at a...

A slow sashay to desire. After being abandoned by his fiancée and his fans because of a disfiguring accident, former classical pianist Reed O’Donnell returns home to hide. He’s pieced his life back together becoming a landlord and...

Sheriff Dale Harper is busy fighting meth and meth cooks in his county in the Ozarks as well as investigating an older murder-suicide case and a new arson one, when he discovers a homeless feral child. Milagro Palacios, the new director at the local...