Narrative theme: Sense of place Books

Experience the beauty of life now in this unique paperback and be enchanted by stories that touch the heart and make you happy. These inspiring short stories explore themes such as the power of thought, the joy of discovery, or the path to fulfillment -...

HiddenLyra Collins thought she was safe, hiding in a sleepy artists' community in Arizona. Having escaped from a cult five years ago, she keeps a low profile, making a living as a sculptor. But when a mysterious man with a dark, dangerous look appears on...

He didn't see the point of falling in love...Dr. Brady Carson spends all of his time at Wintervale's veterinary clinic. While caring for the pets of his friends and neighbors and training service dogs in his downtime, he's never really had time for...

Victoria Forsham wants nothing more than to forget the humiliation of being jilted at the altar. Joining a dating show in Wildwood Falls, Montana seems like a perfect solution.Owen Walker lands the gig of his career when he agrees to be the tour guide...

Trapped in a concrete room beneath the headquarters of an international crime organization, four middle-aged high school classmates find themselves caught in a web of espionage and intrigue that threatens their lives and those of everyone they know...

An emotional and exciting experience as five members of 'Individuals for a Free Society' invade a dying town in the Northeast. What will the outcome be? Read on to find out. 

Kyle Walker had his hands full being Sheriff of Whiskey Bend, Texas. Between the drag racing teens and self-important citizens, the small town keeps him hopping. His life is full except for the one person he longs for, Jaz, who moved away years before...

A carefully crafted life... unraveled.To those around her, Mary Johnson's life seems perfect. She is married to a doctor, her son got a full scholarship to college, and they live in a stunning home in the most desirable neighborhood.Yet lately, it is...

<b>In the aftermath of Partition, millions are uprooted from their moorings as they find themselves on the wrong side of the hastily drawn line.</b><br><br><i>Round and Round the Persian Wheel</i> is a moving narrative...

Rajinder Singh Bedi is the name of modern Urdu fiction that Urdu fiction rightly admires. His stories are definitely unique and fantastic. Bedi's fictions show simplicity as well as metaphorical and mythological aspects. He presents a beautiful study of...

Rajinder Singh Bedi is the name of modern Urdu fiction that Urdu fiction rightly admires. His stories are definitely unique and fantastic. Bedi's fictions show simplicity as well as metaphorical and mythological aspects. He presents a beautiful study of...

Bécon-les-Bruyères est le nom d’un lieu-dit à cheval sur les communes de Courbevoie et d’Asnières. L’anti- «ville tentaculaire», où tout est normal. En la traversant, Bove se livre à...

Der sehnsüchtige Kindheitstraum vom afrikanischen Kontinent findet in mehreren Reisen zu der Wiege der Menschheit seine Erfüllung.

'Lindsay Rabbitt's work is austere and uncompromising, yet warm; empathetic yet wry; tough yet tender. [.....

"Poems Momma Never Read Me" by Elliot M. Rubin is a striking and poignant collection that probes the raw facets of human experience. Drawing profound inspiration from the Beat Poetry movement, Rubin's prose exudes a defiant energy against societal...

There's a homestead deep in the mountains called Merkel Valley and werewolves den there. They're a peaceful clan, focused on hunting game animals and preserving the traditions of Mother Moon from one generation to the next.But there's unrest in the pack,...

Between the world that created these poems and the one in which they still live, Red Camaro shuttles us through lifetimes of touching moments as well as challenging times when the beauty within our history must remain a dream. The result-a muscle...

Introducing Perfectly Timeless Timing, a collection of poetry and a reading experience that can lift you out of your everyday limits in time, on a remarkable journey through certain human, natural and mysterious realities, when a sense of timelessness...

The storm has passed, but the hard work is just beginning...Gansett Island has withstood the fury of Hurricane Ethel, and now the cleanup is underway for many islanders, including McKenzie Martin, who barely escaped the storm with her life and that of...

Why do false beliefs cause people to turn on one another?Who benefits from promoting them?For over a hundred years, generations of southerners passed along lies taught to them about the Civil War and race; and now it was labor unions and newspapers. By...

It is 1827 and Sarah Seely DeWitt finds herself at the center of Texas history in its earliest and bloodiest period. Sarah's journey from St. Louis to Texas catches her up in a love triangle, forces her into a struggle for her family's survival, and...

When an old church is torn down in the small Florida town of Toad Springs, a trunk full of stories written by the inhabitants in the 1930s is discovered in the attic.You'll meet Midge and Smitty Mallet, who end up in Toad Springs after being led astray...

A dozen days-and nights-to explore all the possibilities...Tobias "Slim" Jackson has the perfect life as a pilot on Gansett Island in the summer and in Florida in the winter. He's happiest when he's in the air, or at least that was the case before last...

In the neighborhood of Jim Peterson’s Speech Minus Applause, the dog bowl refills itself. There is nothing and everything to do. Thought is the only sound, and strangers, friends, animals and loved ones, old and new, come and go like...

That Rain We Needed is one man's search for his place of true belonging in an imperfect world. Sometimes comical, other times poignant, always willing to be vulnerable-here Sam Barbee unfolds his map for negotiating family and its complicated...

Buying and selling real estate is the vehicle by which the complexities of life are shown—the Vietnam veteran who searches for human conection; the spiritualist who dreams of building a Center for Healing that someday will host the Dalai Lama; the...

After the loss of both Kentucky and Tennessee, Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston has one last chance to save his reputation and his nation. He must destroy Federal General Ulysses S. Grant's army before he is reinforced by General Don Carlos...

Butcher Bird, Geraldine North’s collection of 26 short stories, captures universal aspects of the human experience within the peculiar ethos of rural Australia. The author reaches back to her experiences as an isolated, yet carefree and inquisitive...

Terrible things happen to good people. And good people do things they regret. After all, everyone has flaws.Julia finds herself in a rehab facility deep in rural Georgia, which promises to help her find herself. Other women have also checked in, all of...

Surveying the first three years of Lebanon's economic crisis, from October 2019 to October 2022, Body Tectonic is an experiment in news poetry, exploring what it is like bodily when the ground shifts beneath your feet daily and ongoingly. Since October...

The aroma of freshly baked chocolate and caramel cake wafts through the cobbled streets of Tuppenny Bridge, carrying with it the promise of new beginnings for café owner Daisy Jackson...After years of putting others first, Daisy has found a place to call...

Dorie's Pampered Pooch business is failing. She'd rather be rescuing dogs in crisis than buffing their toenails, but she can't admit failure, especially with her sisters' critical voices in the background. Will a homeless dog, a hospitalized grandmother,...

An Eco-Thriller 17 Million Years in the MakingSeamus Quinlan is a geophysicist with a problem neighbor that also happens to be his employer-the Manhattan Project's once top-secret Hanford Nuclear Site, currently the largest radioactive waste cleanup...

Welcome to Thorneside. If you're a new arrival, the place may look like just another sleepy town nestled among the rolling hills of Lindisfarne County. But spend some time here, meet the people, and you'll soon see much more.Meet a church choirmaster who...

Advice for Travelers & other poemsAileen Bassis dispenses unorthodox lyric advice for migrants, refugees, travelers and wanderers in a distinctive portmanteau of poems that delights and disturbs. 

Returning to her Scottish hometown wasn't her plan. Neither was falling for her first boyfriend all over again.Kirsty Munro thought she'd left for good when she escaped her small Scottish hometown for London fourteen years ago. But when family duty...

She flees her own wedding. He never stays for breakfast. And it was only supposed to be a vacation fling.Still in her wedding gown, April ditches her own 'I do's' in Kansas City. She hops in a taxi and escapes to a tiny Scottish island. All she wants is...

In Maine, people are either "from here," born and raised, or "from away." In LandTrust, Katherine Hagopian Berry explores what it means to learn the language of a place.  Spiraling out from poems of displacement, alienation, loss and futility,...

I'D FOUND THE STABILITY OF PEACETHEN MY FAITH WAS CHALLENGED BY THE ENMITY OF CHANGEI met Roy at fourteen and with the toss of a coin that summer night, I dialed in the love of my life. We wasted years until we found the answer to our hearts' longing in...

A lighthearted, leisurely escape to Lake Chatuge where Georgia mountain exploits and erupting secrets trail the ricocheting course of a neurodiverse romance.     Despite her insecurities, newly single biographer Eli Sledge has...

"In the tradition of the great comic novels, Second Pocket First presents Issey, quite possibly the world's worst burglar but nevertheless a five-finger-discount artist of cutthroat sartorial principle, innumerable maddening affectations, and a sterling...

Salvage yard operator and part-time sleuth Tak Sweedner is asked by a buddy, Roque Zamarripa, to investigate a murder. Tak says OK and for his trouble is assaulted with a tire iron. Then he's run off the side of a cliff-the investigation really goes...

“A jaw-dropping work of contemporary California noir. Fans of James Ellroy will fall hard for Casey Dorman.” –Best ThrillersWhen a woman is murdered, her wealthy husband and his troubled psychiatrist both become suspects. The dreams of...

When a recently engaged Manhattanite learns that her first great love has been diagnosed with ALS, she is faced with the impossible decision of whether a few final months with her ex might be worth risking her entire future. A fast-paced emotional...

"An absorbing, restorative tale of community and nature." -Kirkus ReviewsLizzy has largely retreated from the world: she tends her adopted strays and goes to work, but she has forsaken lifelong pastimes and declines invitations from old friends. On...

Would you trade fame for privacy?Movie star Maggie Malone has a glamorous lifestyle with everything money can buy―except privacy. Hounded by the paparazzi and ridiculed for her faith, Maggie secretly struggles with severe anxiety and loneliness. All she...

Maria Michele Brand MonroeShe's a newly licensed vet, and will take over her mom's clinic in their dusty, Southwest Texas town. She's getting married, too. Her perfectly planned-out life is finally underway!Then, on the morning of her wedding, she learns...

Una gioiosa celebrazione estiva a Summer Beach... dove esploderanno vecchie rivalità.Il nuovo, commovente capitolo della serie Coral Cottage, bestseller di USA Today.Quando Marina e sua sorella Kai si offrono volontarie per gestire i festeggiamenti del...