Resultados para "Silence" en Pueblos y campo

Bess Choi is proud of what she's accomplished. Owner of Strange Brew, a popular coffee shop in Silence, she's worked hard and has overcome many obstacles to build the life she has. It's a good life, one that includes work she loves, an apartment to call her own, and plenty of good friends. But...

Savannah (Savvy) Colter is not easily overwhelmed, which is a good thing, since she is the sheriff of Edwards County. It's rare to find someone her age—a woman to boot—carrying such responsibility, but over the years, Savvy has more than proven herself worthy of the position… to most...

Phyllis (Phil) Dubois has long left her performing days behind, opting for a more anonymous role in the music industry instead. Something not everyone is happy about. When the pressure for her to return to the stage mounts, she packs her things in an old RV and hits the road in search of some...

Seventy-two men arrive in the middle of the Sicilian countryside. They are "immigrants," "refugees" or "migrants." But in Altino, they're called the ragazzi, the "guys" that the Santa Marta Association have taken responsibility for. In this small Sicilian town, their arrival changes life for everybody. While they wait to know their fate, the ragazzi encounter all kinds of people: a strange vicar who rewrites their pasts, a woman committed to ensuring them asylum, a man determined to fight against it, an older ragazzo who has become an interpreter, and a reclusive poet who no longer writes.

"Tender and resonant . . . This work made me feel immensely proud." --Addie E. Citchens, author of Dominion "An important story of resilience and belonging." --Meagan Church, NYT bestselling author of The Mad Wife "This inspiring and informative novel is a must-read." --Janie Chang, bestselling...

Tensions continue to mount as Seth and Olivia search for who or what is responsible for Abby’s death. Meanwhile, Morgan continues her battle to expose the electric company’s negligence toward the community, but Seth’s brother Jackson, a savvy attorney, has swept in to save the day. Morgan is finding it increasingly difficult to protect Heidi’s father, although his true identity still remains a secret. And with Morgan back in town, Nick and Whitney are struggling to keep their marriage intact.

A cold case re-opened. In 1997, in a basement flat in Hackney, Isla Green is awakened by a call in the middle of the night: her father is under suspicion of Mandy’s murder. A devastating secret. How well does Isla know her father? Is he capable of doing something terrible? And is there another secret in their community – a conspiracy of silence which stretches deep into Australia’s past?

In the heart of Little Dixie, a town shrouded in secrets, the mysterious search for two boys ignites a chain of events that will expose the town's dark underbelly. As two brothers flee a terrifying past, a group of teenagers stumble upon an unsettling discovery on Mount Hartshorne, and a dedicated detective confronts a web of corruption, the lines between the seen and unseen blur, revealing a sinister force lurking beneath the surface.

Thunder rattles the windows of the deserted hotel. Morgan spots the young girl on the floor, her dark hair fanned out and covered in shattered glass. Lightning strikes, illuminating the blood on every surface. Following an emergency call in the middle of a fierce storm, Detective Morgan Brookes arrives at Keswick Manor, a crumbling, empty hotel in the Lake District, where she finds the dead body of a young woman. She recognises her bright blue eyes instantly.

On l'appelle la Mule. Elle est sourde et muette de naissance. Dans ce grand domaine de la haute Corrèze où elle est domestique, on la traite comme une bête ; on abuse d'elle, et de toutes les manières, assuré qu'elle ne saurait dénoncer ses tourmenteurs. Antoine Rolandier, de retour de captivité, la retrouve. Il sait que, tout enfant, Jeanne - c'est le nom de la jeune femme - ne quittait pas d'un pas Paul Rolandier, son grand-père, le plus riche meunier de la vallée de Bar.

Raised in a cult where opinions and freedom in women were not tolerated, Mara Greene narrowly escaped a life as a child bride—one where she would’ve been shared and owned by all the men in the compound. Her testimony helped put the cult leader in prison, but she’s never truly gotten past the horrors inflicted on her. Her conditioning to keep silent persists even now—despite having found a safe haven at the Resting Warrior Ranch.

It begins in Enugu, at Uncle Kelechi’s glittering 50th birthday, a night of laughter, highlife music, and family pride. For young Unoma, it is a world of color and belonging. For her father and his brother, it is the night that exposes the deep differences between them. Weeks later, tragedy strikes. One life is lost, another forever changed, and the truth buried beneath years of silence. Decades on, that silence still governs Unoma’s world.