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What if your two favorite people hated each other with a passion? The wife has it all. A big house in a nice neighborhood, a ride-or-die snarky best friend, Temi, with whom to laugh about facile men, and a devoted husband who loves her above all else--even his distate for Temi. On a seemingly normal day, Temi comes over to spend a lazy afternoon with the wife: drinking wine, eating snacks, and laughing caustically about the husband's shortcomings....
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Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix's children's school. Josie has been listening to Alix's podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her series....
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2008
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xvi, 299 pages ; 21 cm
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Family therapist Terrence Real presents a message that women need to hear: You aren't crazy--you're right! Women have changed in the last 25 years--they have become powerful, independent, self-confident, and happy. Yet many men remain irresponsible and emotionally detached. Here, Real shows women how to master the new rules of twenty-first-century marriage by offering them a set of effective tools with which they can create the truly intimate relationship...
4) Day: a novel
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"April 5th, 2019: In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of domestic bliss is beginning to crack. Dan and Isabel, troubled husband and wife, are both a little bit in love with Isabel's younger brother, Robbie. Robbie, wayward soul of the family, whostill lives in the attic loft; Robbie, who, trying to get over his most recent boyfriend, has created a glamorous avatar online; Robbie, who now has to move out of the house - and whose departure...
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Titania
Pub. Date
2022.
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220 pages ; 23 cm.
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Flappy Scott-Booth is the self-appointed queen bee of Badley Compton, a picturesque Devon village. While her husband Kenneth spends his days on the golf course, she is busy overseeing her beautiful house and gardens, and organising unforgettable events,surrounded by friends who don't miss a thing she says. Her life is a reflection of herself. She is extremely perfect. Until the day Hedda Harvey-Smith and her husband Charles move into town, into a...
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A funny, touching, unforgettable story of an invisible everywoman pushed to the brink--who finally pushes back. Grace Adams gave birth, blinked, and now suddenly she is forty-five, perimenopausal. and stalled-the unhappiest age you can be, according to the Guardian. And today she's really losing it. Stuck in traffic, she finally has had enough. To the astonishment of everyone, Grace gets out of her car and simply walks away. Grace sets off across...
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Colección Ancora y delfín volume 1595
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Ediciones Destino
Pub. Date
febrero 2023.
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363 pages ; 23 cm.
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"Eugene Schieffelin es rico, singular y aficionado a los p̀jaros. Su hermana y su mujer, devotas amantes de Shakespeare. Sus amigos, miembros de una Sociedad m̀s desfasada que cient̕fica que suęa con llenar los cielos neoyorquinos de p̀jaros europeos. Nueva York, una ciudad que a︢n no se parece a ella misma, el escenario ideal para cualquier locura, por descabellada que sea. En esta novela, ambientada en el Nueva York de la segunda mitad del...
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Graydon House
Pub. Date
c2022.
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320 pages ; 21 cm.
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Who wouldn't want to live in Brighton Hills? This exclusive community on the Oregon coast is the perfect mix of luxury and natural beauty. Stunning houses nestle beneath mighty Douglas firs, and lush backyards roll down to the lakefront. It's the kind of place where neighbors look out for one another. Sometimes a little too closely. Cora thinks her husband, Finn, is cheating. She just needs to catch him in the act. That's where Paige comes in. Paige...
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Picador
Pub. Date
[2003]
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370 pages ; 21 cm.
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Story begins in New York in 1975, when art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a SoHo gallery. He buys the work and tracks down the artist, Bill Wechsler, and the two men embark on a life-long friendship. Leo's story spans twenty-five years and follows the evolution of the growing involvement between his family and Bill's--an intricate constellation of attachments that includes the two men their wives,...
10) The suspect
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Sundance Now
Pub. Date
[2023]
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2 DVDs (249 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Joe O'Loughlin is a successful psychologist with a loving family, but a recent medical diagnosis has thrown his life off balance. When the police ask him to assist in the case of a murdered young woman, ghosts from his past begin to resurface.
11) Skinny dip
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Skink novels (Carl Hiaasen) volume 5
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Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2016.
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466 pages ; 21cm.
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Ex-police officer Mick Stranahan rescues a woman from the ocean. Joey Perrone's husband tried to kill her by pushing her overboard from a cruise liner because he suspected that she had figured out his scam of doctoring water samples so that a ruthless agribusiness tycoon can illegally dump fertilizer into the endangered Everglades. Mick helps Joey haunt and taunt her homicidal husband.
12) 5000 blankets
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
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1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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When her husband has a mental breakdown and goes missing, a woman and her young son set out to find him on the streets, sparking a movement that inspires a city.
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Ashmore Castle volume 2
Publisher
Sphere
Pub. Date
2023.
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437 pages ; 23 cm.
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In 1903 England, Kitty, the young pregnant wife of the new Earl of Stainton, lives in fear of her formidable mother-in-law, while the Earl's younger sisters get their first taste of romance with the wrong suitors, and below stairs, ambition, jealousy and revenge stalk the castle's corridors.
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Malcolm Gephardt, handsome and gregarious longtime bartender at the Half Moon, has always dreamed of owning a bar. When his boss finally retires, Malcolm stretches to buy the place. He sees unquantifiable magic and potential in the Half Moon and hopes to transform it into a bigger success, but struggles to stay afloat. His smart and confident wife, Jess, has devoted herself to her law career. After years of trying for a baby, she is facing the idea...
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
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1 videodisc (approximately 129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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This time, the legendary Zorro fights against evil-doers with the help of his beautiful wife, Elena, and their precocious young son, Joaquin. Alejandro De LaVega is torn between two worlds: his life as Zorro and his life as a family man. After Alejandro once again breaks his promise to stop wearing the mask, Elena leaves him, and she soon begins seeing Armand, a haughty French Count. But a mysterious explosion in the desert leads Zorro to believe...
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HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
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337 pages ; 22 cm
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"Jane Eyre has no interest in a husband. Eager to make her own way in the world, she accepts the governess position at Thornfield Hall. Though her new employer, Edward Rochester, has a charming air—not to mention a handsome face—Jane discovers that his smile can sharpen in an instant. Plagued by Edward's mercurial mood and the strange wails that echo through the corridors, Jane grows suspicious of the secrets hidden within Thornfield...
17) The guest
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2024.
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"New York Times bestselling author B. A. Paris captivated psychological thriller readers everywhere with Behind Closed Doors. Now she invites you into another heart-pounding home full of secrets, in The Guest. Some secrets never leave. Iris and Gabriel have just arrived home from a make-or-break holiday. But a shock awaits them. One of their closest friends, Laure, is in their house. The atmosphere quickly becomes tense as she oversteps again and...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
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"The year is 1921. Lesley Hamlyn and her husband, Robert, a lawyer and war veteran, are living at Cassowary House on the Straits Settlement of Penang. When 'Willie' Somerset Maugham, a famed writer and old friend of Robert's, arrives for an extended visit with his secretary Gerald, the pair threatens a rift that could alter more lives than one. Maugham, one of the great novelists of his day, is beleaguered: Having long hidden his homosexuality, his...
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Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
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374 pages ; 24 cm
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A huge-hearted, redemptive coming-of-old-age tale, a love story, and an ode to good food. Nothing could be more out of character, but after fifty-nine years of marriage, as her husband Bernard's health declines, and her friends' lives become focused on their grandchildren--which Jenny never had--Jenny decides she wants a little something for herself. So she secretly applies to be a contestant on the prime-time TV show Britain Bakes. Whisked into an...
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