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1) Men's Wives
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2023
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Men's Wives (1852) is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. Divided into three sections- "The Ravenswing"; "Mr. and Mrs. Frank Berry"; and "Dennis Haggarty's Wife" -Men's Wives satirizes the married lives of England's elite.
In "Ravenswing," a novella, Captain Walker meets a beautiful young woman named Morgiana Crump. The daughter of an eccentric hotelier and a retired actress, Miss Crump is being prepared for marriage by her overeager parents....
2) Desert Wives
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When P.I. Lena Jones's Pima Indian partner Jimmy Sisiwan is arrested in the remote northern Arizona town of Walapai Flats, Lena rushes to his aid. She finds a town up in arms over a new uranium mine located only ten miles from the magnificent Grand Canyon. Jimmy's sister-in-law, founder of Victims of Uranium Mining, has been murdered, and the opposing side is taking hits too. Then Ike Donohue, the mine's public relations flack, is found shot to death,...
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In "The Single Wives Club," a captivating multicultural criminal romance novel, secrets, betrayal, and passion intertwine in a dangerous dance of desire and deceit.
Regina, a wealthy woman trapped in a loveless marriage, finds solace and excitement in the arms of Lionel, a charismatic drug kingpin. Their illicit affair teeters on a precipice, threatening to shatter their lives and those around them. When tragedy strikes and Regina's husband meets...
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Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. In his ambition to provide a male heir to the throne, Henry VIII married six times. Divorce from his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, caused England's break from the Catholic church in Rome. He went on to divorce Anne of Cleves and behead Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard for infidelities. Jane Seymour died and Catherine Parr survived Henry. Henry VIII's Wives in an Hour will introduce you to these...
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Regarded as one of Bennett's finest The Old Wives' Tale (1908) was inspired by a chance encounter in a Parisian restaurant. It follows the lives of two very different French sisters, Constance and Sophia Baines, from their youth, through their work in their mother's draper's shop, to old age. The 200,000-word masterpiece was written by hand in ten months during a period in which Bennett suffered from insomnia.
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2023
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The Old Wives' Tale deals with the lives of two very different sisters, Constance and Sophia Baines, following their stories from their youth, working in their mother's draper's shop, into old age. It covers a period of about 70 years from roughly 1840 to 1905, and is set in Burslem and Paris. It is generally regarded as one of Bennett's finest works. (from Wikipedia)
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It was in the 1950s that mafia boss, Don Amato Rizoso, determined it was time to enter the lucrative human trafficking business. Five dedicated Rizoso mafia wives stepped up to work tirelessly for one desperate purpose: to rescue innocent girls their cutthroat husbands were trafficking in for modern day sale.While, operating in a netherworld teeming with greed and corruption, the wives officially opened business after their daring rescue of multiple...
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When best friends fall for the same girl, it takes a family to save the day.
MacTaggarts love to meddle. I learned that lesson long ago, but when my brother Jack sends me to a physical therapy clinic, I have no clue about his real motive. Until I meet my therapist. Kate Wagner is a bossy lass who wants to shrink my head while she rehabilitates my knee. I don't care how sexy she is. The woman ordered me not to ride my Harley, and that's unacceptable.
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What do you think the trending "trad wives" do besides cook, clean, have babies, and garden all day? They write romantic drama short stories they publish online of course! ;-) But now for your convenience and pleasure, you can read the first collection of the four titles below in one place in this first volume collection of 'Secret Lives of Trad Wives'.Jane Post Partum - Jane and Joseph are over the moon that their family keeps growing. The third...
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In this amazingly timely story about what the wealthy do when Wall Street lays an egg, the author of Gilding Lily once again delivers a witty and insightful treatment of today's woman, as she explores the sacrifices they make, the bargains they strike, the rules they follow, and what happens when it all starts to fall apart.
Who could have guessed that Wall Street would go south just as Marcy Emerson and her husband moved east? Down to earth Marcy...
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Standard Ebooks
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2023
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First published in 1602 by William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor features the popular figure Sir John Falstaff, who first appeared in Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2. Some speculate that Merry Wives was written at the behest of Queen Elizabeth I, who wanted to see Falstaff in love; and that Shakespeare was forced to rush its creation as a result, and so it remains one of Shakespeare’s lesser-regarded
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The University of Adelaide
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2023
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An ironic adaption of the old folktale of Bluebeard, playing with gender roles and literary realism.
Anatole France (16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924) was a French poet, journalist, and novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie française, and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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The University of Adelaide
Pub. Date
2023
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An ironic adaption of the old folktale of Bluebeard, playing with gender roles and literary realism.
Anatole France (16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924) was a French poet, journalist, and novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie française, and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Trapped, Teresa finds her blissful marriage turned into a nightmare. Michael is never home. When he is, he ignores her concerns.She sets out on a new path. With a new angel. With the help of Archangel Rafael, they co-create the Angels' Ex-Wives Club, a safe haven for women like her to tell their stories. Yet, Teresa is not an ex-wife and Rafael is inexplicably drawn to her. Can Teresa and Michael find their way back to each other or will Teresa find...
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Bloomsbury USA
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2021
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Finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection, an Indies Choice Debut Pick, an Amazon Best Book of the Month, and winner of two New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards.The “haunting . . . impressive” (NYTBR) National Bestseller-imagining the untold human history of the making of the atomic bomb.They arrived in New Mexico ready for adventure, or at least...
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The time has come for the final showdown between Sirius Sinister and the evildoers who want to rule the world! Still processing the ramifications of what he learned from the Oracle of Wayna Picchu and the twenty-year jump forward in time courtesy of Hedley Edrick, Sirius Sinister returns to the College of Immortals to find that one of his ex-wives has concocted a foolproof plan to get possession of his blood collection using the Immortal Divorce Court....
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Epic poetry and tragic drama provide us with some of the richest ancient Greek depictions of women who are married to soldiers. In tales of the Trojan War, as told by Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, we encounter these mythical warriors' wives: Penelope, isolated but resourceful as she awaits the return of Odysseus after his lengthy absence; the war widow Andromache, enslaved and displaced from her homeland after the fall of Troy; the unfaithful...
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When your husband serves in the military, you're required to sacrifice as well, adding a level of strain to everyday life that most people can't understand. Frequent moves, unpredictable schedules, extended deployments, reintegration-and, in some cases, caregiving-all make a military spouse like you hungry for the stability and peace found in God's Word.
This special New Testament with Psalms and Proverbs is designed to address your unique needs,...
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