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61) Fatal: a novel
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Kate loves her life. At forty-four, she's happily married to her kind husband, Ron, blessed with two wonderful children, and has a beautiful home in San Francisco. Everything changes, however, when she and Ron attend a dinner party and meet another couple, Peter and Jill. Kate and Peter only exchange a few pleasant words but that night, in bed with her husband, Kate is suddenly overcome with a burning desire for Peter. What begins as an innocent...
62) The harpy
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Pub. Date
2020.
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...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Matthew Brooks and Vanessa Lyons are a perfect love match, both attorneys at a powerful New York City law firm. But there's a hitch: Matt just made partner, and Vanessa is coming up for partner next year. And Vanessa's husband, the profligate Bradley Lyons, has his suspicions. Vanessa is assigned to the biggest case at the firm, the one that will determine her future. Unfortunately, Matt has been working the case for years, leaving him no choice...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The family lawyer: "Matthew Hovanes is living a parent's worst nightmare: his young daughter is accused of bullying another girl into suicide. But this loving father is also a skilled criminal defense attorney. And something here doesn't add up"--Amazon.com.
Night sniper: "Cheryl Mabern is the NYPD's most brilliant detective--and the most damaged. Now she must confront her darkest fears to stop a calculating killer committing random murders"--Amazon.com.
The...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
This indelible romance begins with a daring conceit--that the author's grandfather may have had an affair with Lucille Ball. Strauss offers a fresh view of a celebrity America loved more than any other. Lucille Ball--the most powerful woman in the history of Hollywood--starred in America's first big-time interracial marriage. She owned more movie sets than did any movie studio. And she more or less single-handedly created the modern tv business. And...
66) The forever home
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Carly had thought they'd always live there. The beautiful Cornish cliffside house they'd taken on as a wreck, that Mark had obsessively re-designed and renovated--a project that had made him famous. It was where they'd raised their children, where they'd sat cosily on the sofa watching storms raging over the sea below. It was where they'd promised to keep each other's secrets ... Until now. Because Mark has fallen in love. With someone he definitely...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Combining the incisive intimacy of Sally Rooney with the sharp wit of Helen Fielding, a compulsively readable and astonishingly relatable debut novel about marriage, motherhood, love, self and the vibrant, surprising city that is modern Tokyo. Mizuki is a Japanese housewife. She has a hardworking husband, two adorable children and a beautiful Tokyo apartment. It's everything a woman could want, yet sometimes she wonders whether it would be more fun...
68) The Eden Test
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Pub. Date
2023.
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
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"In a captivating departure from the Deep South setting of his previous fiction, Steve Yarbrough now gives us a richly nuanced portrait of a marriage being reinvented in a small town in the Northeast, in his most surprising and compelling novel yet. When Kristin Stevens loses her job in California's higher-education system, she and her husband, Cal, relocate to Massachusetts. Kristin takes a position at a smaller, less prestigious university and...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
En las palabras del propio Christian, y a través de sus pensamientos, reflexiones y suẽos, E L James nos ofrece una nueva perspectiva de la historia de amor que ha cautivado a millones de lectores en todo el mundo. Christian Grey ejerce control sobre todo. Su mundo es ordenado, disciplinado y completamente vacío - hasta el día en que Anastasia Steele aparece en su oficina, con sus esbeltas piernas y alborotado pelo castaño. Intenta olvidarla,...
71) The paper palace
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"It is a perfect July morning, and Elle, a fifty-year-old happily married mother of three, awakens at 'The Paper Palace'--the family summer place which she has visited every summer of her life. But this morning is different: last night Elle and her oldest friend Jonas crept out the back door into the darkness and had sex with each other for the first time, all while their spouses chatted away inside. Now, over the next twenty-four hours, Elle will...
73) The lying room
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In this thrilling standalone from the internationally bestselling author of the Frieda Klein series, a married woman's affair with her boss spirals into a dangerous game of chess with the police when she discovers he's been murdered and she clears the crime scene of all evidence.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Ed Edwards is in the used car business, a business built on adjusted odometers, extra-fine print, and the belief that 'buyers better beware.' Burdened by an aging, alcoholic mother constantly on his case to do something worthier of his lighter skin tone and dreaming of a brighter future for himself and his plucky little sister, Ed is ready to get out of the game. When Dave, his lazy, grease-stained boss at the eponymous dealership Smiling Dave's sends...
Author
Series
Rosie and McBrae regency mystery volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Lady Rosamund Phipps, daughter of an earl, has a secret. Well, more than one. Such as the fact that she's so uninterested in sex that she married a man who promised to leave her alone and stick to his mistress. And a secret only her family knows--the mortifying compulsion to check things over and over. Society condemns people like her to asylums. But when she discovers the dead body of a footman on the stairs, everything she's tried to hide for years...
76) Apple Tree Yard
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"An intelligent, erotically charged thriller with deep moral implications. Yvonne Carmichael, renowned geneticist, public authority, happily married mother of two, sits in the accused box. The charge is murder. Across the courtroom, not meeting her eye, sits her alleged accomplice. He wears the beautiful pin-striped suit he wore on their first meeting in the Houses of Parliament, when he put his hand on her elbow, guided her to a deserted and ancient...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The canonical American masterpiece of sin, guilt, and revenge, in an authoritative new edition from Penguin Classics with a foreword by Tom Perrotta At once retrospective and radically new, The Scarlet Letter portrays seventeenth-century Puritan New England, a time period irreversibly encoded in the American identity. Hawthorne built one of the most incisive and devastating human dramas ever written out of a community and its outcasts: Hester Prynne...
78) Siracusa
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"An electrifying novel about marriage and deceit from bestselling author Delia Ephron that follows two couples on vacation in Siracusa, a town on the coast of Sicily, where the secrets they have hidden from each other are exposed and relationships are unraveled. New Yorkers Michael, a famous writer, and Lizzie, a journalist, travel to Italy with their friends from Maine--Finn, his wife Taylor, and their daughter Snow."From the beginning," says Taylor,...
79) Hunting season
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In 1880s Vigt̉a, a stranger comes to town to open a pharmacy. Fof ̣turns out to be the son of a man made legendary for having a magic garden stocked with plants, fruits, and vegetables that could cure any ailment--a man who was found murdered years ago. Fof ̣escaped but has now reappeared looking to make his fortune and soon finds himself mixed up in the dealings of a philandering local marchese set on producing an heir.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Every marriage has its secrets. Skyla lives alone in the shadow of the defunct drive-in movie theater that she and her husband ran for nearly fifty years. Ever since Hollis's death in a freak accident the year before, Skyla spends her nights ruminating about the regrets and deceptions in her long marriage. That is, until she rents a cottage on the property to a charming British man, Teddy Cornwell. A thousand miles away, Linelle is about to turn fifty....
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