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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2016.
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xxxiv, 252 pages ; 20 cm.
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Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale, whose affair leaves one emblazoned with her sin and the other distraught with hidden guilt; their daughter Pearl, born into ostracism; and Roger Chillingworth, driven to vengeance by hatred. Though these characters face a set of specifically troubling circumstances, their words andactions point to moral truths inherent in human affairs, independent of time and place.
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Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 21 cm
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Mia Graydon's life looks picket-fence perfect; she has the house, the husband, and dreams of starting a family. Their relocation to small-town Pennsylvania comes with the usual challenges--finding a new job, new friends, new furniture--but the move is nothing the couple can't handle. That is, until Mia finally meets the stranger she has been dreaming about for a decade. And here's the catch: He's been dreaming of her, too. Now Mia must navigate the...
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48-year-old Nantucketer Dabney Kimball Beech has always had a gift for matchmaking. Some call her ability mystical, while others - like her husband, celebrated economist John Boxmiller Beech, and her daughter, Agnes, who is clearly engaged to the wrong man - call it meddlesome, but there's no arguing with her results: With 42 happy couples to her credit and all of them still together, Dabney has never been wrong about romance. Never, that is, except...
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Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
viii, 351 pages ; 21cm
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"Cecilia Wilborg has it all. A loving husband, two beautiful daughters and a home in an idyllic Norwegian suburb. When the receptionist at her daughter's swim club asks her to drop off a small boy who hasn't been picked up yet, she knows it is her duty to help. When Cecilia arrives at the address she was given, the house is empty. The boy begs her to take him home with her just for the night. Cecilia reluctantly agrees but she could never guess that...
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"The miraculous new novel from New York Times-bestselling author Eleanor Brown, whose debut, The Weird Sisters, was a sensation beloved by critics and readers alike. Madeleine is trapped--by her family's expectations, by her controlling husband, and by her own fears--in an unhappy marriage and a life she never wanted. From the outside, it looks like she has everything, but on the inside, she fears she has nothing that matters. In Madeleine's memories,...
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Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers?Owen?s sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother. As Hannah?s increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, as the FBI arrests Owen?s boss, as a US marshal...
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Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
375 pages cm.
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"When Major Gryffth Hockaday is called to the front lines of the Civil War, his new bride is left to care for her husband's three-hundred-acre farm and infant son. Placidia, a mere teenager herself living far from her family and completely unprepared to run a farm or raise a child, must endure the darkest days of the war on her own. By the time Major Hockaday returns two years later, Placidia is bound for jail, accused of having borne a child in his...
69) As you wish
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Sixty-year-old Olivia's first marriage was long and unhappy, but now she is a newlywed, thrilled to finally be starting her life with the man she's always truly loved - even if they are getting a late start. Kathy is in her forties and married to a handsome, successful businessman. Theirs would be a fairy-tale romance if it weren't for one problem: He's passionately in love with someone else! Twenty-something Elise is also in a troubled marriage,...
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""Thou and thine, Hester Prynne, belong to me." With these chilling words a husband claims his wife after a two-year absence. But the child she clutches is not his, and Hester wears a scarlet "A" upon her breast, the sign of adultery visible to all. Under an assumed name, her husband begins his vindictive search for her lover, determined to expose what Hester is equally determined to protect. Defiant and proud, Hester witnesses the degradation of...
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
xxv, 415 pages ; 21 cm
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Sinclair Lewiss barbed portrait of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, shattered the myth of the American Middle West as God's Country and became a symbol of the cultural narrow-mindedness and smug complacency of small towns everywhere. At the center of the novel is Carol Kennicott, the wife of a town doctor, who dreams of initiating social reforms and introducing art and literature to the community. The range of reactions to MAIN STREET when it was published...
72) Adulterio
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Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 22 cm
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A wife and mother in her thirties works through midlife apathy by engaging in a passionate affair with a successful politician who was once her high-school sweetheart.
73) Hausfrau
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Publisher
Random House, Inc
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
8 sound discs (9.5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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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...
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Dutton
Pub. Date
c1986
Physical Desc
182 pages
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Caro is the wife of Dr. Alan Grimstone, a lecturer at a provincial university in a West Country town in England. She knows her circle believes that she should be doing more with her life. She is the mother of a young daughter but relieved to be able to leave the girl in the care of an au pair. Her one selfless act--reading aloud to a former missionary at a rest home--is sullied when she allows her husband to ?borrow? some of the old gentleman?s papers...
75) Rebecca
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The second Mrs. Maxim de Winter finds it difficult and frightening to live in the shadow of her predecessor, a situation that is exacerbated by her husband's moodiness, and the presence of sinister housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers.
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Books4pocket. Narrativa volume 251
Publisher
Ediciones Urano
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
542 p. ; 19 cm.
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Tres mujeres casadas se conocen en una clase para futuras madres: Becky, chef de un bistro de moda, acosada por una suegra infernal; Aynde, esposa de una estrella de la NBA; y Kelly, una organizadora de eventos obsesionada con planear su vida al milímitro. A ellas se unirá Lia, una actriz que llega a la ciudad dejando atrás su carrera, su marido y una tragedia.
A chef, an event planner, and a basketball player's wife find their marriages and...
77) Where love lies
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"When Felicity steps off the train on the way to meet her husband, she is so sure of everything in her life. Where she is headed, what she will order at the restaurant, the first words her husband will say to her when she arrives, their happy future together. But then she catches a scent of perfume in the air, and suddenly she is overcome by forgotten emotions-passionate memories of another man she loved many years ago. As the feelings continue to...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
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"Dara, savvy in business but not so savvy in love, has unexpectedly found success running a monthly tag sale after losing her job and inheriting her uncle's farmette in Maryland. Colleen, feeling underappreciated and in a rut with her husband and kids, rents a stall at Dara's tag sale, and now the two women are embarking on a two-week antiquing/thrift shopping roadtrip to Florida in the hopes of finding some diamonds in the rough to fix up and sell....
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
165 pages ; 20 cm.
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"The #1 bestselling international phenomenon that asks, If you won the lottery, would you trade your life for the life of your dreams? Jocelyne lives in a small town in France where she runs a fabric shop, has been married to the same man for twenty-one years, and has raised two children. She is beginning to wonder what happened to all those dreams she had when she was seventeen. Could her life have been different? Then she wins the lottery-and suddenly...
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