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Author
Publisher
Roxane Gay Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jackie Newsome's best friend is dead, and everyone knows who killed her. Jackie is an ex-emotional eater and mother of four, who has finally lost the weight she long yearned to be free of. But leaving her old self behind proves harder than she ever imagined. She believes she should be happier, but misery still chases her, and motherhood threatens to consume her. Her only salve is Theresa, her best friend whose life she desperately covets. Their bond...
122) Married lovers
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
504 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
What happens when lust and desire collide with marriage and power--and the results lead to murder? Cameron Paradise, a stunningly beautiful twenty-four-year-old personal trainer, flees her abusive boyfriend in Australia and ends up in L.A. Cameron soon gets a job at a private fitness club where she encounters the city's most important players. She has plans to open her own studio, and while every man she meets comes on to her, she is focused on working...
Author
Publisher
Pinnacle Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
vii, 488 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the depths of sleep, Seattle TV reporter Anna Malone awakens to her phone ringing. She rarely drinks, and this hangover is brutal. Why can't she shake the feeling that something terrible happened last night? And why can't she recall any of it? What Anna does remember: an awkward restaurant meal with her married lover, Russ Knoll, and his unsuspecting wife, Courtney. Russ's phone call reveals that Courtney is missing, and as days go by with no...
124) All that we are
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"In the decade since Emma Dean's husband died, she's maintained a peaceful and organized life in her hometown of Wyndham Beach--until she finds evidence of her husband's longtime affair. How, Emma wonders, can a man who's been gone for ten years still break her heart? Still reeling from the betrayal, Emma must focus on the group of artists she's invited to take up residence at the art center she founded, one of whom is secretly seeking refuge from...
125) Empty vows
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Forty-something widow Jessie Tucker is beloved throughout Lexington, Alabama, for her kind heart and endless generosity. But she feels it's past time she rewarded herself--especially when upstanding Hubert Wiggins tragically loses his wife and son. Making herself indispensable, yet discouraged by Hubert's lack of romantic interest, Jessie cooks up a deception she knows will make pious Hubert do right by her... Hoax or not, Hubert couldn't be happier....
126) The last secret
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Nora Hammond seems to have it all: a loving husband, two children, a job at her husband's family newspaper in a staid New England town, and an important role in her community's charitable activities. But her privileged life threatens to unravel when she learns of her husband's infidelity -- and when the specter of her own past returns with terrifying force. A tautly told tale that accelerates to a shattering conclusion, The Last Secret explores the...
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen and full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Gigi is struggling to find true love while shifting through men who are simply not interested. After her latest date, Conor, has failed to call her. Gigi visits a bar he said he frequented in order to see him. There, she meets Alex, a friend of Conor's who works at the bar. Gigi admits that Connor is not expecting her. Alex explains that Connor isn't interested and takes it upon himself to explain the 'signs' to Gigi. Meanwhile, having just left Gigi,...
128) A familiar stranger
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
268 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lillian Smith leads an unexceptional life, writing obituaries and killing time with her inattentive husband and disconnected son. Then she meets David, a handsome stranger, in a coffee shop. Lured into an affair, she invents a new persona, one without strings, deadlines, or brooding husbands. Lillian has never felt so reckless, unpredictable, or wanted. But as her affair with David intensifies, she withdraws from everything that's real, even her...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
424 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Nancy finds out her husband is unfaithful when he gives her a lawnmower for Christmas, yet he has bought a lot of jewelry ... for whom? Carmen, Nancy's best friend, lost her adored husband and finds that choosing a new man is not going to be easy. Mia's just arrived in London to live with her dad, and once she's met the potential stepmother-from-hell he's dating, is determined to play Cupid, but her wayward arrows cause havoc.
130) Finding your feet
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On the eve of retirement, a judgmental middle-class snob discovers her husband has been having an affair with her best friend and is forced into exile with her bohemian sister who lives on an impoverished inner-city council estate.
131) Deep water
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
271 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Deep Water" is set in the small town of Little Wesley. Vic and Melinda's loveless marriage is held together only by Melinda's extramarital affairs. Eventually, Vic tries to win her back by asserting himself through a tall tale of murder--one that soon comes true.
Vic and Melinda Van Allen's loveless marriage is held together only by a precarious arrangement whereby, in order to avoid the messiness of divorce, Melinda is allowed to take any number...
132) The last affair
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Nora Holliday is not that kind of woman. Not the kind who has an illicit affair with a married man. But Josh Landon is everything Nora's alcoholic husband isn't. And now she and Josh are so infatuated, they can't stay away from one another. Abby Landon, Josh's daughter, is home from college nursing a broken heart. She's seeking solace, not more scandal, so when she catches her dad kissing Nora, she vows to take the homewrecker down. And as for Abby's...
133) Little children
Author
Language
English
Description
A group of young suburban parents, including a stay-at-home dad, a former feminist, and an over-structured mom, finds its sleepy existence shattered when a convicted child molester moves back into town and two of the parents have an affair.
134) Anna Karenina
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in late 19th century Russia high-society, the aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent Count Vronsky.
135) Mrs. Caliban
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1392
Language
English
Description
"In the quiet suburbs, while Dorothy is doing chores and waiting for her husband to come home from work, not in the least anticipating romance, she hears a strange radio announcement about a monster who has just escaped from the Institute for Oceanographic Research ... Reviewers have compared Rachel Ingalls's Mrs. Caliban to King Kong, Edgar Allan Poe's stories, the films of David Lynch, Beauty and the Beast, The Wizard of Oz, E.T., Richard Yates's...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A former ballet dancer struggles to protect her children before receiving an anonymous package revealing her weak artist husband's infidelities, a discovery that leads to a difficult breakup during a New York summer.
137) Blood orange
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young lawyer's idyllic family life and blossoming career are upended by a murder case involving a questionable confession and the lawyer's toxic affair with a manipulative senior partner.
A young lawyer's outwardly perfect life spirals out of control as she takes on her first murder case in this dark and twisty debut thriller for readers of Paula Hawkins, A.J. Finn, or Shari Lapena. I did it. I killed him. I should be locked up. Alison, a young...
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Formats
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • With his trademark emotional heft and storytelling skill, the bestselling author of The Flight Attendant presents a resonant novel about the unconventional family that forms after Terry and Laura Sheldon, a Vermont storm trooper and his wife grieving the loss of their twin daughters, take in a foster child.
His name is Alfred; he is ten years old and African American. And he has passed through so...
His name is Alfred; he is ten years old and African American. And he has passed through so...
139) Promises
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Perceptive chronicles of contemporary family life, they have captivated wide audiences. In Promises, she portrays the devastating impact of an extramarital affair. Margaret and Adam Crane are happy with their professional careers, their three young children, and their home. But when a woman from Adam's past suddenly appears, she ignites desires that threaten to consume the very fabric of his marriage. In the resulting emotional and financial chaos,...
140) Where hope begins
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the aftermath of her husband's act of adultery and abandonment, Savannah must finally face the ghosts that haunt her and discover for herself whether authentic faith, grace, and ultimate healing really do exist. When her husband of twenty-one years leaves her, Savannah Barrington believes she's lost almost everything she's ever loved. With her daughter in college and her son in boarding school, Savannah retreats to her parents' lake house in the...