Showing results by publisher "Random House Audio" in Small Town & Rural

James Sallis meets Mindhunter in this stylish and atmospheric noir set in small town Iowa in the 1960s, a midcentury heartland gothic with abounding twists and a feverish conclusion. Local outcast Rigby Sellers lives in squalor on a dilapidated houseboat moored on the Mississippi River. With...

“[Maeve] Binchy makes you laugh, cry, and care. Her warmth and sympathy render the daily struggles of ordinary people heroic and turn storytelling into art.” –San Francisco Chronicle With the insight, humor, and compassion we have come to expect from her, Maeve Binchy tells a story of...

This beautiful portrait of a family in a fishing village in Maine is "a fresh look at marriage, motherhood, and the wondrous inner lives of teenagers. A truly beautiful and unforgettable love story of a family on the brink” (Lily King, author of Writers & Lovers). A must-read from the...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Six years after their cousin vanished from their home while they were sleeping, two sisters set out to learn the truth behind what happened—even if it puts their own lives in danger—in this haunting thriller from the internationally bestselling author of What’s Done...

Vor 25 Jahren durfte Joseph beim FC Seneca den Elfmeter schießen – und traf direkt in die Arme des gegnerischen Torwarts. Von da an gewinnt sein Heimatverein nie wieder. Panenka, wie er seit dem Vorfall spöttisch genannt wird, ist zum Außenseiter im lokalen Pub, sogar zum Sündenbock der ganzen Stadt geworden, was ihm unerträgliche Kopfschmerzen bereit – nicht nur im übertragenen Sinne. Einzig die Beziehung zu seiner Tochter, die nach einer Trennung bei ihm eingezogen ist, und seinem 8-jährigen Enkel Arthur geben ihm Trost. Dann trifft Panenka die sanftmütige Esther.

A Quebec bestseller based on the life of Michel Jean’s great-grandmother that delivers an empathetic portrait of drastic change in an Innu community. Kukum recounts the story of Almanda Siméon, an orphan raised by her aunt and uncle, who falls in love with a young Innu man despite their...

Like the small towns J. California Cooper has so deftly portrayed in her previous novels and story collections, Wideland, Oklahoma, is home to ordinary Americans struggling to raise families, eke out a living, and fulfill their dreams. In the early twentieth century, Irene and Val fall in love...

With her frayed jeans and cascade of tousled dark hair, Lynn Shaw looks more like one of the teenage residents of Horizon House than their counselor. So it’s no wonder State Senator Erik Gunther mistakes her for one. Not that he exactly fits the description of a politician, with his movie-star...

Ein spannender Hochgenuss! Im idyllischen Dorf Sainte-Valérie wird eine Hochzeit gefeiert: Die Tische sind geschmückt, es duftet nach Lavendel und der Wildschweinbraten dreht sich am Spieß. Der ehemalige Kommissar Pierre Durand fiebert bereits dem Ende der Feier entgegen, denn dann will er ein Gläschen mit Köchin Charlotte trinken. Doch so weit kommt es nicht: Der Bruder der Braut wird tot aufgefunden, von Schrotkugeln durchsiebt. War es ein Jagdunfall? Oder Mord?

BONUS FEATURE: Exclusive interview with the author! A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time It is July 1962. Florence is a talented musician who dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the perfect life she will create with Edward, an...

The much-anticipated reissue of a novel that is one of Joyce Carol Oates’s personal favorites among her oeuvre; featuring a new afterword by Oates IN THE HEART OF A LANGUID JULY, ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD JOHN REDDY HEART drives a traffic-stopping, salmon-colored Cadillac into the quiet upstate town of...

The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Empire Falls returns with a spellbinding page-turner about a crime in a small town that exposes long-held secrets and betrayals among a group of lifelong friends. When Tyler Sinclair left Stone Mountain at eighteen, he had no plans of returning. With only a...

Ganz unterschiedliche Lebenswege warten auf die Schwestern vom Dorfladen – doch ihre Heimat wird ihre Herzen für immer verbinden … Dingelbach, am Fuße des Taunus, 1925. Der kleine Dorfladen der Familie Haller ist nach wie vor der Dreh- und Angelpunkt, das Herzstück, des ganzen Ortes. Aber Einiges hat sich doch verändert. Frieda besucht weiterhin die Schauspielschule in Frankfurt und steht kurz vor ihrem Abschluss. So ganz loslassen kann sie ihre Heimat allerdings nicht, hängt sie doch sehr vor allem an ihrer kleinen Schwester Ida.

Frühling in der Provence. Die Felder blühen. Und einer mordet... Der dritte Fall für Pierre Durand. Das Luberon-Tal überzieht ein Blütenmeer, die Destillerien haben Hochbetrieb. Doch inmitten des Idylls wird die Inhaberin einer Kosmetikfirma tot aufgefunden. Unfall? Mord?

A stunning, lyrical novel set in the rolling foothills of the Appalachians about a young girl and the family truths that will haunt her for the rest of her life. “A girl comes of age against the knife.” So begins the story of Betty Carpenter. Born in a bathtub in 1954 to a white mother and a...

The steady tick of an aged Regulator wall clock and the squeak of an overhead fan turning slowly are soft but insistent, counting down the night, while the high desert thrums like a half-remembered Victrola song. The sounds are below the consciousness of Winchell Dear, an old-time gambler, a...

A stunning new work from universally acclaimed Daniyal Mueenuddin, whose debut short story collection won the Story Prize and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Book Prize, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026: Town & Country, Bustle, AARP...

Sampath Chawla was born in a time of drought that ended with a vengeance the night of his birth. All signs being auspicious, the villagers triumphantly assured Sampath's proud parents that their son was destined for greatness. Twenty years of failure later, that unfortunately does not appear to...

In a small Kentucky college town in 1953, two married women desperately fall in love with each other, until a moment of indiscretion threatens to destroy both their lives. In her new adult novel, award-winning author Julia Watts creates a compelling, emotional queer tale of power and passion...

From the National Book Award-winning, bestselling author of Three Junes comes "an engrossing, richly drawn and exquisitely told story of small-town residents grappling with the difficulties of changing times" (People). “Full of secrets and surprises...A must-read.” —J. Courtney Sullivan...