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61) The 9th judgment
Author
Series
Women's Murder Club volume 9
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2010
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Description
A young mother and her infant child are ruthlessly gunned down while returning to their car in the garage of a shopping mall. The same night, the wife of A-list actor Marcus Dowling is woken by a cat burglar and in just seconds there is a nearly empty safe, a lifeless body, and another mystery that throws San Francisco into hysteria. Before the Women's Murder Club can piece together either case, one of the killers forces Detective Lindsay Boxer to...
Author
Series
Ballad novels volume 9
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
311 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
A story inspired by a true crime made famous by the Kingston Trio's folk song recording reimagines the events surrounding the murder of North Carolina mountain girl Laura Foster and the hanging of her lover, Tom Dula, in a meticulously researched account that reveals additional information that may prove Dula's innocence.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
241 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
In the title novella, the rivalry between two brothers in love with the same Jewish girl moves from 1946 Moscow to a slave-labor camp above the Arctic Circle, where a tryst in the House of Meetings will have a haunting influence on three characters.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
396 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Emily "Fido" Faithfull, a spinster pioneer in the British women's movement, is distracted from her cause by the details of her friend's failing marriage and affair with a young army officer, in this drama of friends, lovers, and divorce, Victorian style.
65) Ethan Frome
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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.
66) Less than angels
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
223 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Catherine Oliphant writes for womens magazines and lives comfortably with anthropologist Tom Mallowalthough shes starting to wonder if theyll ever get married. Then Tom drops his bombshell: Hes leaving her for a nineteen-year-old student. Though stunned by Toms betrayal, Catherine quickly becomes fascinated by another anthropologist, Alaric Lydgate, a reclusive eccentric recently returned from Africa. As Catherine starts to weigh her options, she...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
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"Life for Ethan and Zo used to be simple. Ethan co-founded a lucrative media start-up, and Zo was well on her way to becoming a successful filmmaker. Then they moved to a rural community for a little more tranquility--or so they thought. When newfound political activism transforms Zo into a barely recognizable ball of outrage and #MeToo allegations rock his old firm, Ethan finds himself a misfit in his own life. Enter a houseguest who is young, fun,...
Author
Series
Tristan and Isolde novels volume 2
Publisher
Three Rivers Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
336 pages : map, genealogical table ; 21 cm.
Description
Continues the story of Isolde, queen of Ireland, and her unhappy marriage to Cornwall's King Mark, uncle of her beloved Tristan.
Author
Publisher
Suma de letras
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
396 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Valeria es escritora de historias de amor. Valeria vive el amor de forma sublime. Valeria tiene tres amigas: Nerea, Carmen y Lola. Valeria vive en Madrid. Valeria ama a Adrián hasta que conoce a Víctor. Valeria necesita sincerarse consigo misma. Valeria llora, Valeria ríe, Valeria camina... Pero el sexo, el amor y los hombres no son objetivos fáciles. Valeria es especial. Como tú.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
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Description
"Frances is a cool-headed and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend and comrade-in-arms is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry performance one night, Frances and Bobbi catch the eye of Melissa, a well-known photographer, and as the girls are then gradually drawn into Melissa's world, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman's sophisticated...
71) The guardian
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
10 sound discs (ca. 12 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Grief has given way to excitement and passion for young widow Julie Barenson. She suddenly has two suitors. But the pleasure she expects is short-lived. Her life becomes a living nightmare, as one man's jealousy spins into a deadly obsession. By the author of Nights in Rodanthe and Message in a Bottle. "Tricky... builds steadily to an edge-of-your-seat conclusion."?Booklist
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 22 cm
Description
The tale of a gifted teenager who finds that mastering high school is much easier than mastering her heart. Mayfair Cummings is young, beautiful, and brilliant. But her intelligence makes her the outcast of both the private school she attends and the broken family she hopes to salvage. When she catches the eye of both a popular senior and her handsome English teacher, not even her brilliant mind can help her navigate the explosive new relationships...
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
565 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
In 1880's Georgetown, Colorado, seventeen-year-old Nealie Bent deals with lies, secrets, and heartache before choosing the man who will give her the Bride's House. Years later, Nealie's daughter, Pearl, grows up in the Bride's House. When the enterprising young Frank Curry comes along and asks for Pearl's hand in marriage, Pearl's father sabotages the union. But Pearl has inherited her mother's tenacity of heart, and her father underestimates the...
74) Volver a empezar
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
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Lily y su exmarido, Ryle, acaban de pactar la custodia compartida de su niña cuando Lily se encuentra de nuevo con su primer amor, Atlas. Después de casi dos años separados, está entusiasmada porque, por una vez, el tiempo está de su lado, e inmediatamente dice que sí cuando Atlas le pide una cita. Pero su alegría se desvanece cuando piensa que, aunque ya no están casados, Ryle sigue teniendo un papel en la familia, y no consentirá que Atlas...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
240 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Augusta and Owen are living a quiet country life of companionship and artistic creation--she a painter, he a writer--until Alison, a beautiful British woman, moves in to the previously unoccupied cottage next door. As Gus and Owen's life becomes intertwined with Alison's, past betrayals, losses, and new desires come to a head"--
76) The lemon grove
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"Identical twins Ruzbeh and Behruz are at the center of Ali Hosseini's debut novel in English--a story about love, redemption, and the courage to survive in the face of calamity and loss. The novel begins in the small town in southern Iran where the boys were raised and in their summer home which is surrounded by a lemon grove. Their idyll is shattered by personal and geopolitical events. Both boys fall in love with Shireen, a childhood friend. Behruz...
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xxxiv, 252 pages ; 20 cm.
Description
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.
78) The other woman
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"The most twisty, addictive and unputdownable debut thriller you'll read this year. HE LOVES YOU: Adam adores Emily. Emily thinks Adam's perfect, the man she thought she'd never meet. BUT SHE LOVES YOU NOT: Lurking in the shadows is a rival, a woman who shares a deep bond with the man she loves. AND SHE'LL STOP AT NOTHING: Emily chose Adam, but she didn't choose his mother Pammie. There's nothing a mother wouldn't do for her son, and now Emily is...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
261 p. 22 cm.
Description
"English anthropologist Andrew Banson has been alone in the field for several years, studying the Kiona river tribe in the Territory of New Guinea. Haunted by the memory of his brothers' deaths and increasingly frustrated and isolated by his research, Bankson is on the verge of suicide when a chance encounter with colleagues, the controversial Nell Stone and her wry and mercurial Australian husband, Fen, pulls him back from the brink. Nell and Fen...
80) Layla
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When Leeds meets Layla, he's convinced he'll spend the rest of his life with her--until an unexpected attack leaves Layla fighting for her life. After weeks in the hospital, Layla recovers physically, but the emotional and mental scarring has altered the woman Leeds fell in love with. In order to put their relationship back on track, Leeds whisks Layla away to the bed-and-breakfast where they first met. Once they arrive, Layla's behavior takes a bizarre...
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