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81) Hausfrau
Author
Publisher
Random House, Inc
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
8 sound discs (9.5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An American woman named Anna Benz in her late thirties is living with her banker husband Bruno and their three children in an idyllic suburb of Zurich, Anna is, despite appearances, coming undone. Increasingly unable to connect with her husband, his family, or her expat friends, Anna, finds release through a series of short-lived but intense sexual affairs. Taking up with three different men, she is ultimately caught, setting off a chain of events...
82) Bodies of water
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
In 1960, Billie Valentine is a young housewife living in a sleepy Massachusetts suburb, treading water in a dull marriage and caring for two adopted daughters. Summers spent with the girls at their lakeside camp in Vermont are her one escape -- from her husband's demands, from days consumed by household drudgery, and from the nagging suspicion that life was supposed to hold something different. Then a new family moves in across the street. Ted and...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 22 cm
Description
At fifty-three, Maggie Harris has a good marriage and two mostly happy children. Perpetually anxious, shes also accumulated a list of semi-reasonable fears: falling air conditioners, the IRS, identity theft, skydiving, and airbag recalls. But never once did Maggie worry that her husband of nearly thirty years would leave her. On the day Adam walks out the door, everything that makes Maggie secure goes with him. Only then does she realize that while...
84) Flappy se atreve
Author
Publisher
Titania
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
220 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
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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Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
424 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
23 1/2 LIES: Lindsay Boxer's estranged father is gunned down execution-style, and her investigation uncovers life-altering truths. (with Maxine Paetro) FALLEN RANGER: To Rory Yates, being a Texas Ranger means absolute loyalty to the badge. But he's put through the ultimate test when an armored car robbery suspect might be an ex-Ranger gone rogue. (with Andrew Bourelle) WATCH YOUR BACK: When a starving artist is paid to expose his client's cheating...
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Against the tumultuous background of World War II, Dr. Yaran will find himself caught in the thrall of the anti-Semitic Governor General, the most powerful man in the country. Dr. Yaran falls in love with the Governor General's defiant wife, Velvet, upending not only the life of the doctor's beloved daughter, but the entire community. In his quest to save everything and everyone he loves, Dr. Yaran will navigate the intersections of magic, science,...
88) The muse
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
393 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Odelle Bastien, a Caribbean émigré living in London in 1967, discovers a painting rumored to be the work of Isaac Robles, a young artist of immense talent and vision whose mysterious death has confounded the art world for decades. As she tries to sort through the conflicting stories of its discovery, she does not know who to believe, including her art gallery colleague, Marjorie Quick. The mystery surrounding the painting includes Olive Schloss,...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
William Wooler is a family man, on the surface. But he's been having an affair, an affair that ended horribly this afternoon at a motel up the road. So when he returns to his house, devastated and angry, to find his difficult nine-year-old daughter, Avery, unexpectedly home from school, William loses his temper. Hours later, Avery's family declares her missing. Who took Avery Wooler?
90) Waiting
Author
Publisher
Vintage International
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Every summer Lin Kong, a doctor in the Chinese Army, returns to his village to end his loveless marriage with the humble and touchingly loyal Shuyu. But each time Lin must return to the city to tell Manna Wu, the educated, modern nurse he loves, that they will have to postpone their engagement once again. Caught between conflicting claims of these two utterly different women and trapped by a culture in which adultery can ruin lives and careers, Lin...
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"An internationally renowned writer, Valeria Costas has dedicated her life to her work and to her secret lover, Martìn Acla, a prominent businessman. When his sudden stroke makes headlines, her world implodes; the idea of losing him is terrifying. Desperate to find a way to be present during her lover's final days, Valeria commissions his artist wife, Isla, to paint her portrait—insinuating herself into Martìn's family home and life. In the grand,...
92) The good wife
Author
Series
Brennan sisters trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
417 pages 21 cm
Description
"Is it possible to love someone too much? Always considered the beauty of the family, the youngest Brennan sister, Sarah, remains deeply in love with her husband of ten years. Boone Walker, a professional baseball player, travels almost year-round while Sarah stays home and cares for their two children. Her love for her husband is bottomless -- so much so that her sisters say it will end up hurting her. Living apart most of the time makes life difficult,...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Jack Shanley is a well-known New York artist, charming and vain, who doesn't mean to plunge his family into crisis. His wife Deb gladly left behind a difficult career as a dancer to raise the two children she adores. In the ensuing years, she has mostly avoided coming face-to-face with the weaknesses of the man she married. But then an anonymously sent package arrives in the mail: a cardboard box containing sheaves of printed emails chronicling Jack's...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
330 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
""Abbi Waxman is both irreverent and thoughtful."--#1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Giffin And now the author of The Garden of Small Beginnings returns with a hilarious and poignant new novel about four families, their neighborhood carpool, and the affair that changes everything. At any given moment in other people's houses, you can find...repressed hopes and dreams...moments of unexpected joy...someone making love on the floor to a man...
95) The golden cage
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Faye has loved Jack since they were students at business school. Jack, the perpetual golden boy, grew up wealthy, unlike Faye, who has worked hard to bury a dark past. When Jack needs help launching a new company, Faye leaves school to support him, waitressing by day and working as his strategist by night. With the business soaring, Faye and Jack have a baby, and Faye finds herself at home, caring for their daughter, wealthier than she ever imagined,...
96) Siracusa
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"An electrifying novel about marriage and deceit from bestselling author Delia Ephron that follows two couples on vacation in Siracusa, a town on the coast of Sicily, where the secrets they have hidden from each other are exposed and relationships are unraveled. New Yorkers Michael, a famous writer, and Lizzie, a journalist, travel to Italy with their friends from Maine--Finn, his wife Taylor, and their daughter Snow."From the beginning," says Taylor,...
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
394 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"In the summer of 1926, when Thelma Morgan marries Viscount Duke Furness after a whirlwind romance, she's immersed in a gilded world of extraordinary wealth and privilege. For Thelma, the daughter of an American diplomat, her new life as a member of the British aristocracy is like a fairy tale--even more so when her husband introduces her to Edward, Prince of Wales. In a twist of fate, her marriage to Duke leads her to fall headlong into a love affair...
98) Nobody's fool
Author
Series
Nobody's fool volume 1
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
549 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Richard Russo's novel follows the unexpected operation of grace in a deadbeat town in upstate New York -- and in the life of one of its unluckiest citizens, Sully, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years. Divorced from his own wife and carrying on halfheartedly with another man's, saddled with a bum knee and friends who make enemies redundant, Sully now has one new problem to cope with: a long-estranged son who is in imminent...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
320 pages
Description
Abigail Baskin never thought she?d fall in love with a millionaire. Then she met Bruce Lamb. He?s a good guy, stable, level-headed, kind?a refreshing twist from her previous relationships. But right before the wedding, Abigail has a drunken one-night stand on her bachelorette weekend. She puts the incident?and the sexy guy who wouldn?t give her his real name?out of her mind, and now believes she wants to be with Bruce for the rest of her life. Then...
100) Empty vows
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Formats
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"Forty-something widow Jessie Tucker is beloved throughout Lexington, Alabama, for her kind heart and endless generosity. But she feels it's past time she rewarded herself-especially when upstanding Hubert Wiggins tragically loses his wife and son. Making herself indispensable, yet discouraged by Hubert's lack of romantic interest, Jessie cooks up a deception she knows will make pious Hubert do right by her... Hoax or not, Hubert couldn't be happier....
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