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1) Stay close
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Three people--a suburban housewife, a talented documentary photographer, and a detective--living lives they never wanted, hiding secrets that even those closest to them would never suspect, will find that the past doesn't recede ... and that desperation and hunger can lurk behind even the prettiest facades.
2) Cruel intent
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her contractor's unfaithful wife is brutally murdered, former TV anchorwoman Ali Reynolds sets out to prove the husband's innocence in spite of skepticism on the part of Ali's detective boyfriend, a situation that strains their relationship and catches the attention of the real killer.
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
What happens when your not-so-secret celebrity crush walks right into real life and changes everything? Mormon housewife Becky Jack--seven months pregnant with her fourth child--is about to find out when she meets celebrity hearththrob Felix Callahan.
5) Nightbitch
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
An artist turned stay-at-home mom becomes convinced that she is turning into a dog and, as her symptoms intensify, struggles to keep her alter-canine-identity a secret, until she meets a group of mothers who may also be more than what they seem.
Author
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...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
Todo cambia en la vida de Olga cuando, después de quince años de matrimonio, Mario la abandona por una jovencita. Sola con sus dus hijos, su mundo en apariencia perfecto se desmorona. Atrapada entre las cuatro paredes del piso que antes llamaba hogar, Olge no duerme, no como y casi no se reconoce: cuando se mira por la mañana, la imagen que le devuelve el espejo es la de una mujer que ha perdido todos sus atributos, y tendrá que buscar otras palabras...
Author
Series
Wednesday novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
-- The Jane Austen Book Club As the years roll on and their children grow, the quintet forms a writers circle to express their hopes and dreams through poems, stories, and, eventually, books. Along the way, they experience history in the making: Vietnam, the race for the moon, and a women’s movement that challenges everything they have ever thought about themselves, while at the same time supporting one another through changes in their personal...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The page-turning new novel from the internationally bestselling author known for her "conversational writing style and a knack for making readers care about her characters" (The Washington Post) takes us into the homes of an idyllic suburban neighborhood where we discover the burning secrets hiding just below the surface. Bucolic Newport Cove, where spontaneous block parties occur on balmy nights and all of the streets are named for flowers, is...
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