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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
Nick and Phoebe Maguire, in search of a fresh start for themselves and their infant son, move cross-country to Southern California, arriving at the worst possible economic time. Instead of a beachside home, they find themselves broke, trapped, and increasingly desperate in the dark heart of foreclosure alley. Nick and Phoebe each devise their own plan to claw their way back into the middle class and beyond. Hatched under one roof, their two separate,...
Author
Publisher
PESI Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Part memoir, part self-help, Dr. Tracy Dalgleish's debut book provides a rare look inside real therapy sessions with four couples--and into her own marriage. With unflinching candor and heartfelt empathy, she digs to the root of the isues that fuel our day-to-day relationship conflicts and illuminates the common struggle of what it means to be human: the incredible difficulty of showing up wholly and authentically in our most intimate relationship...
Author
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
English
Description
A girl afflicted with pyrokinesis tries to control her fire-starting long enough to go to a dance with a boy she likes. A woman trapped in a stalled marriage is excited by an alluring ex-con who enrolls in her YMCA cooking class. A teen accompanies her mother, a prestigious poet, to a writing conference where she navigates a misguided attraction to a married writer -- who is, in turn, attracted to her mother -- leaving her "inventing punishments for...
Author
Publisher
The Unnamed Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Funny, acerbic Edie Richter is moving with her husband from San Francisco to Perth, Australia. She leaves behind a sister and mother still mourning the recent death of her father. Before the move, Edie and her husband were content, if socially awkward - given her disinclination for small talk. In Perth, Edie finds herself in a remarkably isolated yet verdant corner of the world, but Edie has a secret: she committed an unthinkable act that she can...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"From the multi-award-winning and critically acclaimed author of The Testament of Jessie Lamb comes this riveting novel about the devastating secrets revealed in the midst of a disintegrating marriage. The story of a marriage, and of two lives in science. When Conrad fails to return from a conference, Eleanor wonders if it is because of the affair she is having? Or perhaps it is because his research into transgenic monkey hearts is stalling; perhaps...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In stylish prose and with piercing wit, Ian MacKenzie tells the story of Emma, a young woman who has moved from New York to Brazil just as massive demonstrations against the government are breaking out across the country amid growing economic inequality. Emma has come to Brazil for her husband's career, with no job prospects of her own, a weak grasp of the language, and a deep ambivalence about having a child. Her early days in Sao Paulo are listless...
68) King of greed
Author
Series
Kings of sin volume 3
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Powerful, brilliant, and ambitious, Dominic Davenport clawed his way up from nothing to become the King of Wall Street. He has everything-a beautiful home, a beautiful wife, and more money than he could spend in a lifetime. But no matter how much he accumulates, he's never satisfied. In his endless quest for more, he drives away the only person who saw him as enough. It isn't until she's gone that he realizes there may be more to life than riches...
69) Dead girl in 2A
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Jack Buchanan knows the woman sitting next to him on his business flight to Denver-he just can't figure out how he knows her. Clara Stowe isn't in Jake's line of work and didn't go to college with him. They have nearly nothing in common apart from a deep and shared certainty that they've met before. As their airplane conversation deepens, both struggle to figure out what circumstances could have possibly brought them together. Then, in a revelation...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"1941. In Communist-ruled, war-ravaged Estonia, two men have deserted the Red Army--Roland, a fiercely principled freedom fighter, and his slippery cousin Edgar. When the Germans arrive, Roland goes into hiding; Edgar abandons his unhappy wife, Juudit, and takes on a new identity as a loyal supporter of the Nazi regime. 1963. Estonia is again under Communist control, independence even further out of reach behind the Iron Curtain. Edgar is now a Soviet...
71) Answered prayers
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Overcoming a childhood marked by tragedy, married to a successful investment banker and having raised two grown daughters, Faith has enjoyed her role as mother and wife, and the good life that emanates from their bustling Manhattan townhouse. But every step of the way, Faith has carried within her a secret she could divulge to no one. For Faith, it is the sudden death of her stepfather - a man who, like her husband Alex, always remained just beyond...
Author
Publisher
Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
For the past decade, a favorite New England restaurant has been the scene for three couples to gather and celebrate birthdays, but after one celebrant's bombshell announcement, the couples find themselves examining their marriages and friendships in a whole new light.
Series
Criterion collection volume 742
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Tom and Gerry, a married New York couple who are on the skids, financially and romantically. With Tom hot on her trail, Gerry takes off for Florida on a mission to solve the pair's money troubles, which she accomplishes in a highly unorthodox manner.
74) Slick
Author
Series
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Lifelong friends Dana and Sylvia often share their dirty little secrets, but Sylvia isn't happy about having to cover up Dana's ongoing affair with Lewis. Sylvia despises the man her friend is creeping with. In addition to sexing Dana, Lewis believes that he can have any woman he wants wrapped around his finger. That includes Sylvia, but after several sexual advances from Lewis, she makes it clear that only one man has her heart. She's head over heels...
75) Bethlehem
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A young woman arrives at the grand ancestral home of her husband's family, hoping to fortify her cracking marriage. But what she finds is not what she expected: tragedy haunts the hallways, whispering of heartache and a past she never knew existed. Inspired by the true titans of the steel-boom era, Bethlehem is a story of temptation and regret, a story of secrets and the cost of keeping them, a story of forgiveness. It is the story of two complex...
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Language
English
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In the village of Noon Sun, Benedict Stone has settled into a predictable routine. Business at his jewelry shop has dried up; his marriage is on the rocks. His life is in desperate need of a jump start. And then a surprise arrives at his door. Gemma is Benedict's audacious niece - the daughter of his estranged brother, Charlie. The two brothers haven't spoken in almost two decades, since Charlie left for America. Reckless and stubborn, Gemma invites...
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Sarah Slade is starting over. She and her husband just bought a beautiful though crumbling Victorian house in a charming and lush community. The fixer-upper is a perfect opportunity to reach a new audience on her highly successful lifestyle blog, and it also serves as a distraction from her failing marriage. But Black Wood House has a grisly history--one involving a gruesome murder-suicide. And even as Sarah wallpapers over the house's horrifying...
Author
Publisher
Ediciones Selectas Diamante
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
Español
Description
Presents a story of a marriage in trouble and the struggles of the young couple to salvage their relationship.
"Si alguna vez ha cruzado por su mente la idea de disolver su matrimonio, si siente que no vale la pena seguir luchando en ese lugar donde ha sido despreciado; haga un alto y dese la ultima oportunidad leyendo este libro. Usted tiene en sus manos una novela que debe ser leida antes de tomar una decision de divorcio, renunciar a sus mas altos...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
"From Bethany Chase--whom bestselling author Emily Giffin calls "a great new voice in fiction"--comes a wise and delightfully relatable novel about a woman's journey to rebuild her life, and her heart, after a stunning betrayal. Can you ever really know the person you love? She never saw it coming. Without even a shiver of suspicion to warn her, Caroline Hammond discovers that her husband is having an affair with a man--a revelation that forces her...
80) The arrangement
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Description
Ainsley Greenburg is a fixer. It's what she prides herself on. So, when she realizes her marriage is at its breaking point, she makes a decision to repair it, no matter the cost. Approaching her husband to propose the arrangement is supposed to be the hard part, but Peter agrees to the salacious plan almost immediately. The rules are simple: they will each date someone new once a week. They will never discuss what happens on the dates. Soon, though,...
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