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81) Dirty love
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 25 cm
Description
A collection of short stories examining the lives of suburbanites seeking solace and gratification in food, sex, work, and love.
82) Happy for you
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
256 pages
Description
"Four years into work on a still-unfinished philosophy dissertation, and seemingly unready to accept a marriage proposal from her long-term boyfriend, Evelyn Kominsky Kumamoto feels stalled. Meanwhile, all around her, everyone else seems to be getting onwith their lives: her corn-fed, relentlessly optimistic boyfriend, Jamie, has no hesitation about committing to a shared future, and even her reserved Japanese father is energized by a new relationship-his...
83) Sea creatures
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Starting over in Miami along with her toddler son and husband, Georgia is forced to choose between her son, her marriage, and the possibility of new love when she takes a job as an errand runner for a reclusive artist.
84) Long drive home
Author
Pub. Date
2011
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Description
Impulsively veering his car into the path of a reckless driver, Glen Bauer inadvertently kills a young man and constructs an elaborate cover story, a situation that is complicated by police suspicions, agonizing guilt, and his seven-year-old daughter's witness to the crash.
85) All grown up
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
197 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Hiding the truth about her unhappiness and struggles with anxiety from everyone including her family, best friend, and therapist, Andrea Bern joins her loved ones in a reevaluation of family strength in the wake of her newborn niece's heartbreaking ailment.
87) The shack
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
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Description
After suffering a family tragedy, Mack Phillips spirals into a deep depression causing him to question his innermost beliefs. Facing a crisis of faith, he receives a mysterious letter urging him to an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness.
88) A family affair
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"In a city built on dreams, Trisha Holiday makes her living moving like one. But out of her dancer's costume, she's as down-to-earth as they come. That's why she ignores the admiring note--and the accompanying $1000 bill--that arrives backstage after one of her ethereal performances. Yet the sender, a wealthy foreign prince, isn't easily dissuaded. Seven years living and studying in the United States have made Malik long for the freedom to choose...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
252 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.
Description
A Georgetown University physics professor describes the rigidly scheduled and isolated existence he led before embarking on a life-risking effort to climb the world's highest mountains and surf every ocean.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
viii, 369 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
"Isabel Gallegos is only a handshake away from living her dream life. After years of putting everyone else's needs before her own, she's selling her family's vineyard and moving to a quiet cottage on the California coast. But just as she's about to seal the deal, a letter arrives from Argentina with shocking news: Her beloved cousin has died and Isabel is now the sole guardian of three young children."--P. [4] of cover.
92) Living
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
The story of an ordinary man, reduced by years of oppressive office routine to a shadow existence, who at the eleventh hour makes a supreme effort to turn his dull life into something wonderful.
Author
Series
Hopeless novels volume 1
Formats
Description
Sky, a senior in high school, meets Dean Holder, a guy with a promiscuous reputation that rivals her own. From their very first encounter, he terrifies and captivates her. Something about him sparks memories of her deeply troubled past, a time she's tried so hard to bury. Though Sky is determined to stay far away from him, his unwavering pursuit and enigmatic smile break down her defenses and the intensity of the bond between them grows. But the mysterious...
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
Set adrift when her mother sells the salon which has been a neighborhood institution for decades, Nora Rolvaag takes a camping trip, intending to do nothing more taxing than roast marshmallows over an open fire and under a starry sky. Two chance encounters, however, will have enormous consequences and her get-a-way turns out to be more of a retreat from her daily life than she ever imagined. But Nora is the do-or-die-trying daughter of Patty Jane,...
Author
Description
Discovering a tattered letter that says she is to open it only in the event of her husband's death, Cecelia, a successful family woman, is unable to resist reading the letter and discovers a secret that shatters her life and the lives of two other women. By the author of What Alice Forgot.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Forced to relocate to Florida and accept an in-law's dubious employment after losing his job, Drew Perry awaits the birth of his first child and becomes unwittingly embroiled in the company's shady business dealings.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xii, 349 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Despite having jobs and men that they love, Tibby, Lena, Carmen, and Bridget know something is missing: the closeness that once sustained them. Carmen is a successful actress in New York, engaged to be married, but misses her friends. Lena finds solace in her art, teaching in Rhode Island, but still thinks of Kostos and the road she didn't take. Bridget lives with her longtime boyfriend, Eric, in San Francisco, and though a part of her wants to settle...
98) All my life
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (1 hr., 32 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on a powerful true story, it follows the journey of a young engaged couple who make the difficult decision to accelerate their wedding in the wake of a devastating discovery. In a race against time, they launch a crowdfunding campaign that spreads the story of their inspiring love far and wide to help create their dream wedding. This year, love like there's no tomorrow.
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Katya, a rising ballerina, and Sasha, a graduate student, are young and in love when an unexpected tragedy befalls their native Kiev. Years later, after the couple has safely emigrated to America the consequences of this incident cause their son, Yuri, to be born with a rare health condition that isolates him from other children. Maggie, a passionate and dedicated teacher agrees to tutor Yuri at his home, even though she is haunted by her own painful...
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Description
From their first meeting, to their stunning engagement and lavish wedding, to their happily-ever-after, Noah and Emily Carter were meant to be together. Theirs is a special kind of love and they want the world to know. More than a million adoring fans have followed their lives on Instagram since the day Noah publicly proposed to Emily. But behind the carefully staged photos and encouraging posts, their life is anything but a fairytale, and Noah's...
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