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Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xi, 243 pages : illustration ; 21 cm
Description
In the village of al-Awafi in Oman live three sisters. Mayya marries after a heartbreak. Asma marries from a sense of duty. Khawla rejects all offers while waiting for her beloved, who has emigrated to Canada. Celestial Bodies is the story of the history and people of modern Oman told through one family's losses and loves.
122) The Rosie effect
Author
Series
Rosie novels (Graeme Simsion) volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Formats
Description
"The Wife Project is complete, and Don and Rosie are happily married and living in New York. But they're about to face a new challenge because--surprise--Rosie is pregnant. Don sets about learning the protocols of becoming a father, but his unusual research style gets him into trouble with the law. Fortunately his best friend Gene is on hand to offer advice: he's left Claudia and moved in with Don and Rosie. As Don tries to schedule time for pregnancy...
Author
Series
Hot and hammered volume 2
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
viii, 335 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Rosie and Dominic Vega are the perfect couple: high school sweethearts, best friends, madly in love. Well, they used to be anyway. Now Rosie's lucky to get a caveman grunt from the ex-soldier every time she walks in the door. Dom is faithful and a great provider, but the man she fell in love with ten years ago is nowhere to be found. When her girlfriends encourage Rosie to demand more out of life and pursue her dream of opening a restaurant, she...
Author
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 21 cm
Description
This moving story of love and family is told through the eyes of five people: Jane Jones, her daughter Rebecca, and three very different men in their lives. After a watershed moment in their marriage, Jane leaves Oliver, her renowned marine biologist husband, and begins a journey across the country with Rebecca in search of understanding about her troubled past.
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
288 pages cm
Description
"Separation Anxiety is a hilarious, heart-breaking and thought-provoking portrait of a difficult marriage, as fierce as it is funny.... My advice: Start reading and don't stop until you get to the last page of this wise and wonderful novel." --Alice Hoffman. From bestselling author Laura Zigman, a hilarious novel about a wife and mother whose life is unraveling and the well-intentioned but increasingly disastrous steps she takes to course-correct...
126) Tony and Susan
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Description
Receiving a manuscript and request for feedback from her vengeful ex-husband, Susan Morrow is drawn into the life of the story's fictional character and confronts a devastating parallel darkness from her own past.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Formats
Description
"What if you once had a painful memory removed? And what if you were offered the chance to get it back? Tell Me an Ending follows four characters grappling with the question of what to remember-and what they hoped to forget forever. Finn, an Irish architect living in the Arizona desert, begins to suspect his charming wife of having an affair. Mei, a troubled grad school drop-out in Kuala Lumpur, wonders why she remembers a city she's never visited....
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
357 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
After escaping Germany during WWII, Jack and Sadie Rosenblum, together with their baby daughter, settle into a life of acting "English." In post-war England, however, no golf club will admit a Rosenblum. So Jack hatches a wild idea: he'll build his own. It's an obsession Sadie does not share, particularly when Jack relocates them to a thatched roof cottage in Dorset to embark on his project.
129) The next wife
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Kate Nelson had it all. A flourishing company founded with her husband, John; a happy marriage; and a daughter, Ashlyn. The picture-perfect family. Until John left for another woman. Tish is half his age...Tish believes she's won...But the truth is, there's a lot of baggage. Namely, his first wife, and suspicions of his infidelity...But what happens next is something neither Kate nor Tish saw coming. As best-laid plans come undone, there's no telling...
Author
Publisher
Grove/Atlantic
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
233 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
After the Thin Man -- Nick and Nora investigate a love triangle gone wrong after a dead man is discovered at their door. Another Thin Man-- After a wealthy business partner of Nora's father's is murdered, Nick and Nora's investigation brings them into the killer's crosshairs.
131) Now and then
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 35
Formats
Description
Investigating a new client's unfaithful wife, Boston private eye Spenser finds himself in trouble when the case goes terribly wrong and three people wind up dead, a situation that reveals the wife's lover's ties to a terrorist organization.
132) The first mistake
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 25 cm
Description
THE WIFE: For Alice, life has never been better. With her second husband, she has a successful business, two children, and a beautiful house. HER HUSBAND: Alice knows that life could have been different if her first husband had lived, but Nathan's arrival into her life gave her back the happiness she craved. HER BEST FRIEND: Through the ups and downs of life, from celebratory nights out to comforting each other through loss, Alice knows that with...
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"Erin is a documentary filmmaker on the brink of a professional breakthrough, Mark a handsome investment banker with big plans. Passionately in love, they embark on a dream honeymoon to the tropical island of Bora Bora, where they enjoy the sun, the sand, and each other. Then, while scuba diving in the crystal blue sea, they find something in the water. . . ."--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Savannah skies volume 1
Publisher
Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
466 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Description
"Macey and Ben Samuelson have much to be thankful for: great friends, a beautiful--if high-maintenance--Victorian house on idyllic Tybee Island, and a rock-solid marriage. The only thing missing is what they want the most. After her fifth miscarriage in six years, Macey worries that the family they've always dreamed of might be out of reach. Her sister suggests adoption, but Macey and Ben aren't interested in pursuing that path...until a three-legged...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
525 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Ethan Saunders, a former spy for George Washington, is recruited by Alexander Hamilton to find his ex-fiancee's missing husband. Meanwhile, Joan Maycott and her veteran husband, amid hardship and deprivation on the western Pennsylvania frontier, find unlikely friendship and a chance for prosperity with a new method of distilling whiskey. The Maycotts' success however attracts the brutal attention of men in Hamilton's orbit, men who threaten to destroy...
136) Fatal: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author John Lescroart, a riveting standalone novel about the unexpected, shattering, and lethal consequences of a one-night stand on a seemingly happily married couple. Kate loves her life. At forty-four, she's happily married to her kind husband, Ron, blessed with two wonderful children, and has a beautiful home in San Francisco. Everything changes, however, when she and Ron attend a dinner party and meet another...
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Formats
Description
"A deliciously compulsive first novel from the critically acclaimed author of the memoir Lights On, Rats Out, Private Means follows two married intellectuals who find themselves at odds with one another and dare to look elsewhere for intimacy and thrills.With their daughters fully grown and their relationship fraying, Upper West Side-based couple Alice and Peter are further agitated when Alice's beloved dog, Maebelle, goes missing. As Alice mourns...
139) Saving Grace
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Description
Grace and Ted Chapman. Literary power couple. Ted is considered "the thinking man's John Grisham" and Grace, his wife of twenty years is beautiful, stylish, carefree. All of this is on the surface. Beneath, what no one sees, is Ted's rages. His mood swings. And the precarious house of cards that their lifestyle is built upon. When Ted's longtime assistant and mainstay leaves, the house of cards begins to crumble and Grace, with dark secrets in her...
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
Story begins in New York in 1975, when art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a SoHo gallery. He buys the work and tracks down the artist, Bill Wechsler, and the two men embark on a life-long friendship. Leo's story spans twenty-five years and follows the evolution of the growing involvement between his family and Bill's--an intricate constellation of attachments that includes the two men their wives,...
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