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3) Vanity fair
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Vanity Fair is a story of two heroines---one humble, the other a scheming social climber---who meet in boarding school and embark on markedly different lives. Amid the swirl of London's posh ballrooms and affairs of love and war, their fortunes rise and fall. Through it all, Thackeray lampoons the shallow values of his society, reserving the most pointed barbs for the upper crust. What results is a prescient look at the dogged pursuit of wealth and...
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
352 p.
Description
Celebrating the achievement of a successful career only to be abandoned by her failed sculptor husband, Eve Adams struggles to raise her children alone while balancing conflicting demands, the realities of midlife, and her evolving views on forgiveness and letting go.
10) Forbidden places
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Wartime is never easy, and Grace Bennett and her two friends are doing the best they can. Forbidden Places reveals the stories of one young woman who is widowed after only five years of marriage, a wife who rethinks her feelings after witnessing disturbing changes in her husband, and a woman who wonders if the war will free her from a brutal marriage.
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Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1994.
Physical Desc
190 pages ; 21 cm
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A combined love story and philosophical meditation on the body as a physical phenomenon thrusts the reader into the life of a married woman and her erotic relationship with an unidentified lover who narrates the story.
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HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
421 pages ; 24 cm
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Weaving together ghost stories, myths, and song, this haunting novel follows a young bride as she leaves her life in India behind to move to Nepal with her new husband and his family, examining the loss she experiences as she gives up one home to become part of another.
14) Line of vision
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Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
©2002, ©2001.
Physical Desc
viii, 437 pages ; 18 cm
Description
A young man involved in a love affair with a married woman, Marty Kalish, becomes the prime suspect in the disappearance and murder of her husband, despite his protestations of innocence.
15) The good wife
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
312 p. ; 22 cm.
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When her husband is incarcerated for his involvement in a tragic home invasion, Patty Dickerson must raise their newborn child in a community that is sometimes hostile to her, all the while struggling to maintain her dignity.
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Pub. Date
2018.
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"In the new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of First Comes Love and Something Borrowed, a woman is forced to choose between her family and her most deeply held values. Nina Browning is living the good life after marrying into Nashville's elite. Her husband's tech business is booming, and her adored son, Finch, is bound for Princeton. Tom Volpe is a single dad working multiple jobs. His adored daughter, Lyla, attends Nashville's...
17) Leap of faith
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Publisher
BDD Audio/Random House
Pub. Date
p2001
Physical Desc
5 CDs (5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
18) On swift horses
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Pub. Date
2019.
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"Muriel is newly married and restless, transplanted from her rural Kansas hometown to life in a dusty bungalow in San Diego. The air is rich with the tang of salt and citrus, but the limits of her new life seem to be closing in: She misses her freethinking mother, dead before Muriel's nineteenth birthday, and her sly, itinerant brother-in-law, Julius, who made the world feel bigger than she had imagined. And so she begins slipping off to the Del Mar...
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
292 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
When Kat discovers that her husband, Griff, has been hiding a secret bank account, her joyful consumerism suddenly loses its appeal. Are their fights about money more serious than she understood? Is he, as her friends suggest, preparing for a divorce? Just in case, Kat decides it's time to start saving and she joins an eclectic but lovable group of savers called the Penny Pinchers Club who teach her that saving time with family is as important as...
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
340 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Harvard Law graduate Emilia Greenleaf's perfect life with her beloved husband Jack is turned upside down by her new preschool-age stepson, William, a situation that is further complicated when she loses her own newborn daughter.
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