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41) The tilted world
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
x, 303 pages ; 24 cm
42) All summer long
Author
Description
"This is a story of how plans evolve and lives change in unexpected ways, how even those who have everything are still looking for something more. Even the most successful people can often struggle to keep things together. All Summer Long asks the ultimate question: can money buy happiness? From Sullivans Island to Necker Island to Nantucket to the beaches of Southern Spain, well come to recognize the many faces of true love, love that deepens...
Author
Series
Restoration volume 1
Formats
Description
When Marilyn, tired of being the perfect wife, leaves her husband Jim after twenty-seven years of marriage, it will take a devoted transformation to restore their love.
44) Blinded
Author
Series
Alan Gregory novels volume 12
Publisher
Wheeler
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
557 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
Author
Appears on list
Description
You think you know a person . . . Ariel Pryce wakes up in Lisbon, alone. Her husband is gone―no warning, no note, not answering his phone. Something is wrong. She starts with hotel security, then the police, then the American embassy, at each confronting questions she can’t fully answer: What exactly is John doing in Lisbon? Why would he drag her along on his business trip? Who would want to harm him? And why does Ariel know so little about her...
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 18 cm
Description
When her grandfather insists that she marry Ivor Chalfont to forge an alliance between their warring families, Ariadne Daunt, who loves someone else, is trapped in a marriage of convenience with a man determined to win her love.
48) Ethan Frome
Author
Description
On a poor farm near Starkfield in western Massachusetts, Ethan Frome struggles to wrest a living from the land, unassisted by his whining and hypochondrialcal wife Zeena. When Zeena's young cousin Mattie Silver is left destitute, the only place she can go is Ethan's farm. An embittered man and an enchanting young woman meeting in such circumstances unleash predictable consequences as passions are aroused between the three protagonists.
50) Snobs: a novel
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
265 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Preparing to marry heir Charles Broughton, attractive accountant's daughter Edith Lavery makes humorous and astute observations about contemporary England's class system.
52) Ulysses
Author
Formats
Description
Ulysses draws upon a complex network of symbolic parallels from mythology, history, and literature (including a framework and episodes that echo the Odyssey) to document an ordinary day in the lives of three Dubliners. Regarded today as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, Ulysses entered the world in a firestorm of controversy. Denounced as obscure, unintelligible, nonsensical, and obscene, it was first published in Paris in 1922...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
416 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
When allegations about his actress wife's infidelity are posted online, James, a screenwriter with a violent past, attacks his wife's lover, sparking a media frenzy that compels him to go into hiding and resort to extreme measures to protect his wife.
54) A perfect day
Author
Formats
Description
Robert Harlan has three loves in his life: his wife, Allyson; his daughter, Carson; and his writing. When he is unexpectedly laid off from his job, his wife encourages him to pursue his dream of writing. He writes a novel entitled A perfect day, and it becomes a huge success. Robert finds himself swept into a new world far from his wife and his home. In time Robert loses track of the things he loves most--until he meets a stranger who tells him intimate...
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Description
Margaret and Patrick are newlyweds when they set off on what they hope will be a great adventure - a year living in Kenya. While Patrick practices equatorial medicine, Margaret works as a photojournalist. In a dizzying multicultural city, she quickly realizes there is a great deal she doesn't know about the complex mores of her new home, and about her own husband. A British couple invites Margaret and Patrick to join them on a climbing expedition...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
305 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Two unconventional women--Meri Fowler, pregnant, newly married, and discovering the gap between reality and expectation, and Delia Naughton, wife of a notoriously unfaithful liberal senator--confront the costs and challenges of love.
58) Lonestar angel
Author
Series
Lonestar (Colleen Coble) volume 4
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
346 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
When Eden Larson's estranged husband, Clay, delivers the news that their lost baby girl who was kidnapped years earlier may have been found, the couple's love for each other is rekindled as they investigate.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
viii, 379 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
The arrival of a "cousin" from mainland China, arranged by Mama Wong to serve as a nanny, throws the household of Carnegie Wong, a second-generation Chinese American, his WASP wife Blondie, and their three children into turmoil.
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