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"I have held you at night for ten years and I didn't even know your name. We have a child together. A dog, a house. Who are you? Emma loves her husband Leo and their young daughter Ruby: she'd do anything for them. But almost everything she's told them about herself is a lie. And she might just have got away with it, if it weren't for her husband's job. Leo is an obituary writer; Emma a well-known marine biologist. When she suffers a serious illness,...
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English
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In December 1926, Agatha Christie goes missing. Investigators find her empty car on the edge of a deep, gloomy pond, the only clues some tire tracks nearby and a fur coat left in the car--strange for a frigid night. Her husband and daughter have no knowledge of her whereabouts, and England unleashes an unprecedented manhunt to find the up-and-coming mystery author. 11 days later, she reappears, just as mysteriously as she disappeared, claiming amnesia...
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The lives of two very different men collide with shocking consequences in the darkness of the California night in this gripping noir thriller from an acclaimed master Successful Northern California vintner Cameron Gallagher suffers from alcoholism, depression, and persistent nightmares. Truck driver Nick Hendryx lost everything when a hit-and-run accident put his wife in a coma. They are two men with seemingly little in common, but their disparate...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"If your mother was missing, would you tell the police? Even if the most obvious suspect was your father? This is the dilemma facing the four grown Delaney siblings. The Delaneys are fixtures in their community. The parents, Stan and Joy, are the envy of all of their friends. They're killers on the tennis court, and off it their chemistry is palpable. But after fifty years of marriage, they've finally sold their famed tennis academy and are ready...
25) Hideaway
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Language
English
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"Gloria Janes appears to be a doting suburban mother and loving wife. But beyond her canary-yellow door, Gloria controls her husband, Telly, as well as seven-year-old Maisy and her older brother Rowan, through a disorienting cycle of adoration and banishment. When Telly leaves, Gloria turns on Rowan. He runs away, finding unlikely refuge with a homeless man named Carl, with whom he forms the kind of bond he has never found with his parents. After...
26) Jane Eyre
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Lexile measure
890L
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English
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Jane, a plain and penniless orphan in nineteenth-century England, accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall and soon finds herself in love with her melancholy employer, Mr. Edward Rochester, a man with a terrible secret.
Author
Publisher
Kiersten Modglin
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First print edition.
Physical Desc
185 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Andi Edwards discovers her husband isn't where he's supposed to be and isn't answering her calls or texts, a flurry of scenarios races through her mind. Is he hurt? Is he cheating? Is he dead? The truth, she soon finds out, is so much worse than she could've imagined. As she struggles to makes sense of her new and chilling reality, she must decide whether to stand by the man she loves and help protect him or walk away and let him pay for his...
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English
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Pearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not of her memory. It was a Sunday night in 1944 when her husband left the little row house on Baltimore's Calvert Street, abandoning Pearl to raise their three children alone: Jenny, high-spirited and determined, nurturing to strangers but distant to those she loves; the older son, Cody, a wild and incorrigible youth possessed by the lure of power and money; and sweet, clumsy Ezra, Pearl's favorite, who...
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English
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"Violet and Finn were 'meant to be,' said everyone, always. They ended up together by the hands of fate aligning things just so. Three years into their marriage, they have a wonderful little boy, and as the three of them embark on their first vacation as a family, Violet can't help thinking that she can't believe her luck. Life is good. So no one is more surprised than she when Finn leaves her at the beach -- just packs up the hotel room and disappears....
30) Grace
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of four families, bound together by Southern etiquette and separated by class, money, and family, who await the end of World War II to find what the future holds.
31) Aaron's rod
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Series
Pub. Date
1975
Edition
Viking Compass ed., 12th printing.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
An amateur musician leaves a coal mining town in the English Midlands, going first to London and later to Florence.
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Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
368 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Vanessa is a whiz of a chef, so good she makes her grandstanding boss, Hawk--of Albuquerque's chic Nuevo American restaurant Hawk--look good. But Vanessa has a problem--she keeps falling for married men. Swearing off men altogether, she begins helping out at her parents' house until she meets Paul, her parents' neighbor. Just when Vanessa's guard goes down, the red flag goes up: Could Paul be yet another married man?
33) Finally you
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
411 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
No Competition: Local architect Shayne Reynolds is an art collector, but when it comes to Carrie Lockett he's as interested in the artist as he is in her California landscapes and stunning portraits. The talented and reclusive Carrie, however, rejects his overtures, but she won't tell him why...even though he knows she returns his feelings.
All Things Considered: Single mom Lanni Matthiessen has worked hard to make a nice life for her daughter. She...
34) The prime of Miss Jean Brodie: The girls of slender means ; The driver's seat ; The only problem
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
xxxv, 462 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In four short works of contemporary fiction that probe metaphysical truths, a charismatic teacher has a devastating impact on her students, young women struggle for survival in a post-war London hostel, a woman searches for her own death, and a man is implicated in his wife's terrorist activities.
Author
Series
Harlequin Bianca volume 910
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
156 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"Lo que quería-- lo tomaba Cruelmente rechazada en su noche de bodas, Noelle Ducasse escondió la vergüenza de ser una esposa virgen creándose una nueva vida glamurosa para ocultar su profunda y dolorosa soledad. Hasta que Ammar regresó. La imagen de los ojos cándidos de Noelle seguía acompañando a Ammar. Ella podía resistirse cuanto quisiera, pero en esa ocasión el despiadado Ammar no aceptaría un rechazo. Utilizaría cada instante de cada...
36) What you did
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Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
269 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A vicious assault. A devastating accusation. Who should she trust, her husband or her best friend? It was supposed to be the perfect reunion: six university friends together again after twenty years. Host Ali finally has the life she always wanted, a career she can be proud of and a wonderful family with her college boyfriend, now husband. But that night her best friend makes an accusation so shocking that nothing will ever be the same again. When...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1a. ed.
Physical Desc
567 pages ; 20 cm
Language
Español
Description
On the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick's wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police immediately suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn't true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they aren't his. And then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone. So what really did happen to Nick's beautiful wife?
"En un caluroso día de...
38) Our little lies
Author
Publisher
Bookouture, an imprint of StoryFire, Ltd
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
316 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Marianne has a life others dream of. A beautiful townhouse on the best street in the neighborhood. Three bright children who are her pride and joy. Sometimes her past still hurts: losing her mother, growing up in foster care. But her husband Simon is always there. A successful surgeon, he's the envy of every woman they've ever met. Flowers, gifts, trips to France--nothing is too good for his family. Then Simon says another woman's name. The way he...
39) Nothing more
Author
Series
Landon volume 1
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Gallery books trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
New York's skyscrapers and hectic pace are a far cry from where Landon Gibson grew up, and the transition to New York University has been jarring. But he's getting the hang of things, found a job that pays (some of) the bills, enjoys school, and only occasionally runs into his ex, Dakota. You know, the one he chose NYU for...before she dumped him. Luckily, his best friend, Tessa, shares a (terribly small) Brooklyn apartment with him. And given the...
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
300 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
A strong, independent woman and respected entrepreneur, Mia never imagined she'd pine for a marriage proposal. Yet lately, with her beloved Shane, she's on tenterhooks. It's especially surprising, considering Mia's first husband, Adam, was a philandering grifter, assumed lost-at-sea after a boating disaster. But everyone knows what happens when you assume... While working a huge wedding expo in Manhattan, Mia is shocked to spot the man who nearly...