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Language
English
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Description
"December 1926: England unleashes the largest manhunt in its history. The object of the search is not an escaped convict or a war criminal, but the missing wife of a WWI hero, up-and-coming mystery author Agatha Christie. When her car is found wrecked, empty, and abandoned near a natural spring, the country is in a frenzy. Eleven days later, Agatha reappears, claiming amnesia. She provides no answers for her disappearance. That is...until she writes...
22) The betrayals
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A story told through the eyes of four family members chronicles the aftermath of an affair that shattered two families when, years later, a letter begging for help revives repressed memories and exposes dark secrets.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
229 p.
Language
English
Description
"A mesmerizing, psychologically taut novel about a marriage's end and the secrets we all carry. A young woman has agreed with her faithless husband: it's time for them to separate. For the moment it's a private matter, a secret between the two of them. As she begins her new life, she gets word that Christopher has gone missing in a remote region in the rugged south of Greece; she reluctantly agrees to go and search for him, still keeping their split...
24) Fast friends
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
486 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When bored housewife and mother Camilla Stewart impulsively invites her old school friends for dinner, she hardly imagines that the evening will shatter her comfortable existence.
25) Grey
Author
Series
Fifty shades volume 4
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
See the world of Fifty Shades of Grey anew through the eyes of Christian Grey. In Christian's own words, and through his thoughts, reflections, and dreams, E L James offers a fresh perspective on the love story that has enthralled millions of readers around the world. Christian Grey exercises control in all things; his world is neat, disciplined, and utterly empty--until the day that Anastasia Steele falls into his office, in a tangle of shapely limbs...
26) The Eden Test
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Adam Sternbergh brings his wit, humor, and a Hitchcockian sense of dread to What Have We Done, a chilling, surprising, and wholly entertaining portrait of a marriage on the brink. Seven Days. Seven Questions. Forever Changed. That's how The Eden Test, a week-long getaway, advertises itself for couples in trouble. And that's what Daisy, a talented actress, has signed up for, in the hopes of saving her marriage. It's a tall order, seeing as her husband...
Author
Language
English
Description
"After divorce shatters her family, one woman's struggle to pick up the pieces finally leads to a new beginning--but is the past truly behind her? #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber explores the powerful intersections of love and family in this poignant novel"--
29) The painted veil
Author
Publisher
Vintage International
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
246p. 21cm.
Language
English
Description
First serialized in 1924 and published as a complete novel in 1925, "The Painted Veil" is the powerful novel of transgression and redemption by popular and prolific British author W. Somerset Maugham. "The Painted Veil" tells the story of the lovely and superficial Kitty Garstin and her unhappy marriage to Walter Fane, a quiet and honorable man. Kitty agrees to marry Walter not because she loves him, but because she fears being upstaged by her younger...
30) Fidelity
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
357 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Phil Kramer is shot dead on a deserted suburban street in the middle of the night, his wife, Emily, is left with an emptied bank account and a lot of questions. How could Phil leave her penniless? What was he going to do with the money? And, most of all, who was he if he wasn't the man she thought she married?Jerry Hobart has some questions of his own. It's none of his business why he was hired to kill Phil Kramer. But now that he's been ordered...
Author
Publisher
Voice
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
344 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young widow profiles the seemingly idyllic life she shared with her husband and young daughter, her devastation over the pulmonary embolism that abruptly ended her husband's life, and her shocked discovery that he had been unfaithful to her throughout their marriage.
32) One house over
Author
Series
Neighbors volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A solid marriage, a thriving business, and the esteem of their close-knit Alabama community--Joyce and Odell Watson have every reason to count their blessings. Their marriage has given well-off Joyce a chance at the family she's always wanted--and granted Odell a once-in-a-lifetime shot to escape grinding poverty. But all that respectability and status comes at a cost. Just once, Joyce and Odell want to break loose and taste life's wild side, without...
33) The harpy
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
194 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lucy and Jake live in a house by a field where the sun burns like a ball of fire. Lucy has set her career aside in order to devote her life to the children and to the house itself, which comforts her like an old, sly friend. But then a man calls one afternoon with a shattering message: his wife has been having an affair with Lucy's husband, Jake. The revelation marks a turning point: Lucy and Jake decide to stay together, but make an arrangement...
34) Mad River Road
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
While an ex-con sets out to exact revenge against his former wife for her role in his imprisonment, a woman in Florida is convinced by a seductive stranger to quit her dead-end job in order to pursue a more exciting life.
35) The only story
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2018
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
One summer in the sixties, in a staid suburb south of London, Paul comes home from university, aged nineteen, and is urged by his mother to join the tennis club. In the mixed-doubles tournament he's partnered with Susan Mcleod, a fine player who's forty-eight, confident, ironic, and married, with two nearly adult daughters. She is also a warm companion, their bond immediate. And they soon, inevitably, are lovers. Clinging to each other as though their...
36) California girls
Author
Language
English
Description
Finola, a popular LA morning show host, is blindsided on live TV by news that her husband is sleeping with a young pop sensation who has set their affair to music. Zennie's breakup is no big loss, so agreeing to be the surrogate for her best friend is a no-brainer. Their sister Ali is used to being overlooked, but when her fiance sends his disapproving brother to call off the wedding, it's a new low. Side by side by side, these sisters will start...
37) The echo wife
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"'When they said all happy families are alike, I don't think this is what they meant...' Evelyn Caldwell's husband Nathan has been having an affair - with Evelyn Caldwell. Or, to be exact, with a genetically cloned replica. After a morning that begins with a confrontation and ends with Nathan's body bleeding out on the kitchen floor, the two Caldwell wives will have to think fast--before sharing everything includes sharing a jail cell. The Echo Wife...
Author
Publisher
Kennebec Large Print/Gale Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
631 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Beautiful but bored as the wife of a country doctor, a nineteenth-century French woman pursues her romantic dreams through a series of lovers.
39) The Loft
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Five guys conspire to secretly share a penthouse loft in the city, a place where they can indulge in their deepest fantasies. But the fantasy becomes a nightmare when they discover the dead body of an unknown woman in the loft, and they realize one of the group must be involved. Paranoia seizes them as everyone begins to suspect one another.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2011, c1996
Edition
1st St. Martin's Griffin ed.
Physical Desc
296 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Struggling with two mortgages when their former house does not sell, Liz and Jonathan are encouraged by a charismatic realtor to rent the house to a London couple, an arrangement that is complicated by extramarital desires and Liz and Jonathan's troubled teen daughter's obsession with the tenants.