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Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Lydia Millet's chilling new novel is the first-person account of a young mother, Anna, escaping her cold and unfaithful husband, a businessman who's just launched his first campaign for political office. When Ned chases Anna and their six-year-old daughter from Alaska to Maine, the two go into hiding in a run-down motel on the coast. But the longer they stay, the less the guests in the dingy motel look like typical tourists-- and the less Ned resembles...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
408 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Ten years after being forbidden to socialize with--let alone fall in love with--Jag, the son of a palace servant, Sophie returns to India with her British husband and finds that the memories of her first love have never truly left her.
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"A young man is in torment, disgusted with himself after the collapse of his marriage, still half-hoping for a reconciliation that would allow him to forgive himself and move on as he clumsily, and sometimes hilariously, tries to manage the wreckage of his personal life with whiskey and sex. What saves him is theater: in particular, the challenge of performing the role of Hotspur in a production of Henry IV under the leadership of a brilliant director,...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
312 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Fleeing with her two daughters who have never seen the world outside of their polygamous compound, a desperate woman crashes her car in rural Oklahoma, where she finds unlikely help from a farmer grieving the loss of his wife.
Author
Publisher
Bloodhound Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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"Sarah Morgan is a successful and powerful defense attorney in Washington D.C. As a named partner at her firm, life is going exactly how she planned. The same cannot be said for her husband, Adam. He's a struggling writer who has had little success in hiscareer and he tires of his and Sarah's relationship as she is constantly working. Out in the secluded woods, at the couple's lake house, Adam engages in a passionate affair with Kelly Summers. But...
8) Just breathe
Author
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
469 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
With Chicago and her marriage in the rearview mirror, cartoonist Sarah Moon flees to the small northern California coastal town where she grew up. As she comes to terms with her lost marriage, Sarah encounters a man she never expected to meet again: Will Bonner, the high school heartthrob she'd skewered mercilessly in her old comics. Now a local firefighter, he's been through some changes himself. But just as her heart is about to reawaken, Sarah...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"When his dream of the perfect marriage, the perfect son, and the perfect life implodes, a Wall Street millionaire takes a cross-country bus trip in search of his college sweetheart and ideals of youth. Myopic, narcissistic, hilariously self-deluded and divorced from the real world as most of us know it, hedge fund manager Barry Cohen oversees $2.4 billion in assets. Deeply stressed by an SEC investigation and by his 3 year-old-son's diagnosis of...
11) Solar: a novel
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Description
Michael Beard is a Nobel prize winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions, and half-heartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. While he coasts along in his professional life, Michael's personal life is another matter entirely. His fifth marriage is crumbling under the weight of his infidelities....
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"The story of a woman who, in the wake of her best friend's sudden death, must face the crisis in her marriage, the fury of her almost-teenage daughter, and the possibility of opening her cantankerous heart to someone new"--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Life hasn't always been perfect for Abe and Cassandra Green, but an afternoon on the San Francisco Bay might be as good as it gets. Abe is a rheumatologist, piloting his coveted new boat. Cassandra is a sculptor, finally gaining modest attention for her art. Their beautiful daughter Elizabeth is heading to Harvard in the fall. Somehow, they've made things work. But then, out of nowhere, they plunge into a terrible fight. Cassandra has been unfaithful....
14) Married to distraction: restoring intimacy and strengthening your marriage in an age of interruption
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
xiii, 224 p. ; 25 cm.
15) Conviction
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
c2019.
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 25 cm
Description
The day Anna McDonald's quiet, respectable life explodes starts off like all the days before: packing up the kids for school, making breakfast, listening to yet another true-crime podcast. Then her husband comes downstairs with an announcement, and Anna is suddenly, shockingly alone. Reeling, desperate for distraction, Anna returns to the podcast. Other people's problems are much better than one's own-a sunken yacht, a murdered family, a hint of international...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Nick and Phoebe Maguire, in search of a fresh start for themselves and their infant son, move cross-country to Southern California, arriving at the worst possible economic time. Instead of a beachside home, they find themselves broke, trapped, and increasingly desperate in the dark heart of foreclosure alley. Nick and Phoebe each devise their own plan to claw their way back into the middle class and beyond. Hatched under one roof, their two separate,...
18) The curiosities
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
344 pages, 10 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Nell Parker has a Ph.D. in art history, a loving husband named Josh, and a bungalow in Madison, Wisconsin. But Nell's last pregnancy ended in the second trimester, and her husband encourages her to apply for jobs rather than pause to grieve, believing she needs something to focus on other than the baby that may never be. Finding a job turns out to be difficult for an art historianuntil Nell sees the ad seeking a director for a new nonprofit called...
19) That's my man
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Don Ameche stars as a bookkeeper who yearns to own a racehorse, and whose dreams materialize when he comes into possession of a promising stallion named Gallant Man. But his passion for racing threatens to spoil his relationship with his wife, who shares Joe's idealism but not his willingness to wager their future on such a high-stakes dream.
20) Saving Grace
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Grace and Ted Chapman. Literary power couple. Ted is considered "the thinking man's John Grisham" and Grace, his wife of twenty years is beautiful, stylish, carefree. All of this is on the surface. Beneath, what no one sees, is Ted's rages. His mood swings. And the precarious house of cards that their lifestyle is built upon. When Ted's longtime assistant and mainstay leaves, the house of cards begins to crumble and Grace, with dark secrets in her...
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