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Author
Publisher
Hub City Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
271 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
It's 1939, and the federal government has sent USDA agent Virginia Furman into the North Carolina Mountains to instruct families on modernizing their homes and farms. There she meets farm wife Irenie Lambey, who is immediately drawn to the lady agent's self-possession. Already, cracks are emerging in Irenie's fragile marriage to Brodis, an ex-logger turned fundamentalist preacher: She has taken to night ramblings through the woods to escape her husband's...
42) The innocent
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Years after being released from jail, Matt Hunter's hopes of moving on with his pregnant wife are shattered when he becomes the focus of a serial murder investigation.
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...
45) Snobs: a novel
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st St. Martin's Griffin ed.
Physical Desc
265, 13 p.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
261 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The lives of Jack and Joy Griffin always seem to come back to Cape Cod, where they honeymooned, as they experience the ups and downs of life, including the deaths of Jack's parents, the marriage of their daughter, and Jack and Joy's divorce.
47) Desperate
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
When Gage and Anna meet Lily, a pregnant, homeless teenager, it seems that fate has brought them together. Lily agrees to give the couple her baby in return for financial support, but something isn't right. Gage finds himself being sabotaged at home and work, and his attempts to uncover the truth only seem to make his life unravel faster.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"Set in the years 1950-1970 in a changing America and London, follow[s] two married couples - ministers and academics - whose intricate bonds of faith and friendship, jealousy and understanding, are tested by the birth of an autistic child"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Charlie and Esther Moore have been married nearly fifty years when the contented life they've built together begins to crumble. Esther has been forgetful recently, but it's rarely a problem until the day she puts her car in drive instead of reverse, flying off the end of the carport and into the backyard. Esther's accident and declining health shatter their reverie, and the couple must come to terms with all the paths their lives have not taken if...
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Language
English
Description
He was a fishing guide and struggling artist from a south George trailer park. She was the beautiful only child of South Carolina's most powerful senator. Yet once Doss Michaels and Abigail Grace Coleman met by accident, they each felt they'd found their true soul mate. Ten years into their marriage, when Abbie faces a life-threatening illness, Doss battles it with her every step of the way. And when she makes a list of ten things she hopes to accomplish...
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
When an unchecked danger in their community places her son in jeopardy, attorney Natalie Clarke takes matters into her own hands and her husband Will is left with no choice but to dirty his, too, though he no longer recognizes the woman he married.
53) Mrs. Wiggins
Author
Series
Lexington Alabama volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The daughter of a prostitute mother and an alcoholic father, Maggie Franklin knew her only way out was to marry someone upstanding and church-going. Someone like Hubert Wiggins, the most eligible man in Lexington, Alabama--and the son of its most revered preacher. Proper and prosperous, Hubert is glad to finally have a wife, even one with Maggie's background. For Hubert has a secret he desperately needs to stay hidden. And Maggie's unexpected charm,...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When Noah and Josephine Mitchell discover that their divorce has never actually been finalized, Josephine delivers divorce papers to Noah's new ranch in the Blue Ridge Mountains of northern Georgia and finds herself stranded there by a major snowstorm.
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...
Author
Series
Christmas hope volume 8
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In the small town of Grandon, five very different people discover the true meaning of Christmas. Jennifer and Ryan are both single parents, struggling with their own losses and heartache. Sixteen-year-old Kaylee is faced with a life-changing situation that has affected her whole family. Stephen and Lily are happily married and ready to start a family. All of them are facing their own struggles, and all are finding their way through the dark. When...
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Manifesting irrational jealousy after spotting his wife's innocent conversation with a respected alderman, a popular mayor of Amsterdam spirals into panic and paranoia that compromise his marriage and sanity.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Trapped in a loveless marriage thirty years after escaping her unpromising small hometown, Elizabeth is shocked when her greedy husband is profoundly transformed by a stroke that compels him to correct his ways by blackmailing their community's bad guys.
59) The kiss
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Trapped in a loveless marriage, Frenchwoman Isabelle cares for her daughter and dangerously ill son while pursuing a secret friendship with American power broker Bill Robinson, until a car accident tests their growing love.
Author
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Nearly seven years ago, Rachel's husband Tom disappeared without a trace. Believing his secret life died with him, Rachel is not sure what to expect when a handwritten note arrives from Tom declaring that he is coming home.