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Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In 1944, twenty-three-year-old Tess DeMello abruptly ends her engagement to the love of her life when she marries a mysterious stranger and moves to Hickory, North Carolina, a small town struggling with racial tension and the hardships imposed by World War II. Tess's new husband, Henry Kraft, is a secretive man who often stays out all night, hides money from his new wife, and shows no interest in making love. Tess quickly realizes she's trapped in...
23) Sisters: a novel
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
156 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
A novel of marriage, infidelity, and obsession follows a new wife who struggles with her unrelenting fascination with her husband's first wife.
25) Bird in hand
Author
Language
English
Description
It was an accident. It was dark, it was raining, Alison had only had two drinks. And the other car ran the stop sign. But Alison finds herself trapped under the crushing weight of grief and guilt, feeling increasingly estranged from her husband Charlie, who has his own burdens.
26) The bride test
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Khai Diep has no feelings. Well, he feels irritation when people move his things or contentment when ledgers balance down to the penny, but he doesn't experience big, important emotions like love and grief. Rather than believing he processes emotions differently due to being autistic, he concludes that he's defective and decides to avoid romantic relationships. So his mother, driven to desperation, takes matters into her own hands and returns to...
Author
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books, Viking
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
vi, 294 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Caroline and Francis's hopes for a revitalizing week-long house swap are challenged by underlying marital tensions, a neighbor's suspicious interest, and disturbing clues throughout the house that reveal that the residents know Caroline, and her secrets.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The divorce has just become final, and Richard is already engaged to someone. One woman is determined to change that situation--no matter what it takes. Soon a tangle of lies binds her life with those of Richard and his new fiancee. A tangle of lies, that hide some dangerous truths.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Flora Mancini has been happily married for more than twenty years. But everything she thought she knew about herself, her marriage, and her relationship with her best friend, Margot, is upended when she stumbles upon an envelope containing her husband's wedding ring, the one he claimed he lost one summer when their daughter, Ruby, was five. Flora and Julian struggled for years, scraping together just enough acting work to raise Ruby in Manhattan...
32) Desert gift
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xi, 388 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jillian Galloway is an expert on marriage with a successful radio talk show, but when her husband of twenty-five years asks for a divorce she doesn't know how to cope with the upheaval in her life and she flees to her parents' desert home.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When Celia Hooper discovers that her dear friend Clementine is to marry widower Seth Marlowe - a man with a sinister past - she calls upon her husband, Detective John Hooper of the Thames River Police, to help her find out what really happened to Seth's first wife several years ago. Rumor has it that she killed herself and Seth's daughter ran away to live on the streets but no one seems to know the truth"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"After being together for ten years, Sylvie and Dan have all the trimmings of a happy life and marriage; they have a comfortable home, fulfilling jobs, beautiful twin girls, and communicate so seamlessly, they finish each other's sentences. However, a trip to the doctor projects they will live another 68 years together and panic sets in. They never expected "until death do us part" to mean seven decades. In the name of marriage survival, they quickly...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the breakdown of a marriage in the wake of suburban hostility, a woman's growing obsession with a cheeky wild fox, and the mysterious appearance of a baby on the woman's doorstep.