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41) The echo wife
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"'When they said all happy families are alike, I don't think this is what they meant...' Evelyn Caldwell's husband Nathan has been having an affair - with Evelyn Caldwell. Or, to be exact, with a genetically cloned replica. After a morning that begins with a confrontation and ends with Nathan's body bleeding out on the kitchen floor, the two Caldwell wives will have to think fast--before sharing everything includes sharing a jail cell. The Echo Wife...
Author
Language
English
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Thirty-eight-year-old single mother Rebecca Martin, having shed her romantic illusions along with her ex-husband, discovers she may have given up on love too soon when Michael Christopher, a man who has just left the monastery after twenty years, moves into her downstairs apartment.
45) The Middlesteins
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Edie is fixated on food and if she doesn't stop she won't live much longer, but when her husband of thirty years, Richard, finally leaves her, the rest of the family steps in to try and fix things.
46) Espresso shot
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Coffeehouse manager Clare Cosi is hired to create a gourmet coffee and dessert bar for her ex-husband's upcoming wedding to magazine editor Breanne Summour, a difficult task that is complicated by a series of fatal "accidents" targeting people close to Breanne.
Author
Series
DCI Monika Paniatowski mystery volume 10
Language
English
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Description
DCI Monika Paniatowski has only been back from maternity leave for three days when she is called in to investigate a nightmare of a case. Not only is the murder victim a mother of three small children, but her husband is a wealthy politician. Monika knows that if she can't make a quick arrest her career is on the line. It's lucky, then, that within minutes of meeting Councillor Danbury, she has a bruised face - and a prime suspect.
Author
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Silvana, married to Janusz only a few months before they are separated by World War II, spends over six years hiding out in the forests of Poland with their son, Aurek, while Janusz, the sole survivor of his military unit, retreats to France where he begins an affair with a local girl, and their experiences make it difficult for them to become a family when the hostilities finally end.
51) Spartan gold
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
Husband and wife treasure hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo find a World War II U-boat in the swamps in Maryland and end up being pursued by a Russian Persian millionaire who will stop at nothing to get his hands on a bottle the Fargos now hold which was part of Napoleon's Lost Cellar.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A traumatic event unfolds when a girl with flowing hair of golden wheat appears in an apple orchard, where a group of people await her. A woman plays out a prostitution fantasy with her husband and finds she cannot go back to her old sex life. An ugly woman marries an ogre and struggles to decide if she should stay with him after he mistakenly eats their children. Two sisters travel deep into Malaysia, where one learns the art of mending tigers who...
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Language
English
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Description
"Love Lives Here is a collection of stories that include the ways Maria and her husband navigated family their way, without clear instructions or a road map. It's meant to inspire you to think about how to make life meaningful and how to create a space to grow while loving others."--Back cover.
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Language
English
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Miss Julia ignores her husband Sam's request for her to mind her own business, and while figuring out who has been passing bad checks in her name and waiting for arrival of Hazel Marie's twins, she begins to investigate the possible murder of a person whose dead body is found in a toolshed six blocks from her house.
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Language
English
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Book editor Pauline becomes increasingly agitated when it appears that her daughter Teresa's husband Maurice is a philanderer, and disturbed that Teresa's love for Maurice--an echo of the self-destructive love Pauline felt for Teresa's father--is blinding her to the truth.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Pearlie Cook, caring for her fragile husband and polio-stricken son in San Francisco in 1953, is forced to reconsider everything she thought she knew about life and marriage when a stranger appears at her door and offers her $100,000.
57) A violet season
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Ida Fletcher has to make many sacrifices to support her daughter and has to help her husband from losing his part of the family farm.
59) Shadow tag
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Irene America, having discovered that her artist husband Gil is reading her diary, begins making things up for him to find, placing their marriage on even shakier ground, and while she drinks and works on her doctoral thesis about a painter of Native American subjects, Gil begins the defining work of his career, and their three children suffer the consequences of their parents' failed relationship.
60) The beach house
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Language
English
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Known in Nantucket as the crazy woman who lives in the rambling house atop the bluff, Nan doesn't care what people think. At sixty-five-years old, her husband died twenty years ago, her beauty has faded, and her family has flown. If her neighbors are away, why shouldn't she skinny dip in their swimming pools and help herself to their flowers? When she discovers the money she thought would last forever is dwindling and she could lose her beloved house,...
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