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21) Lightning
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
At forty, Alexandra Parker has a beautiful three-year-old daughter, a loving husband, and a successful legal career, when her world is shattered by the news she has breast cancer.
22) The ten-year nap
Author
Language
English
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Description
For a group of four New York friends, the past decade has been largely defined by marriage and motherhood. Educated and reared to believe that they would conquer the world, they then left prestigious jobs to stay home with their babies. What was meant to be a temporary leave of absence has lasted a decade. Now, at age forty, with the halcyon days of young motherhood behind them and without professions to define them, Amy, Jill, Roberta, and Karen...
24) An act of love
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Linda and Owen McFarland, married for seven happy years, are forced to reevaluate their commitment to one another when Linda's teenage daughter accuses Owen's son of rape.
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Description
When her old boyfriend Ben reappears and reminds her of their pact to get married if they were both still single at thirty, Lottie jumps at the chance. But not everyone is thrilled with Lottie and Ben's rushed marriage, and family and friends are determined to intervene. Will Lottie and Ben have a wedding night to remember ... or one to forget?
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Presents two novellas by Phillip Lopate, "The Stoic's Marriage," in which a young man falls in love with the nurse sent to care for his dying mother, and "Eleanor, or, The Second Marriage," recounting the story of a couple whose perfect romantic weekend is disrupted by the unexpected arrival of the man's son.
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Language
English
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Description
Farahad Zama's debut novel transports listeners to faraway India for a story brimming with endearing characters, homespun wisdom, and blossoming love. After Mr. Ali retires, he launches a matchmaking service that helps an array of clients arrange marriages. But he's unaware of his able assistant's dire need for his marriage bureau.
31) The golden bowl
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Presents the complete text of the 1904 novel in which a father and his daughter marry at the same time after which her husband and his wife, known to one another before the weddings, begin an affair; and includes a critical introduction, a chronology, and a preface by the author.
32) Thumbelina
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A tiny girl no bigger than a thumb is stolen by a great ugly toad and subsequently has many adventures, making many animal friends before finding the perfect mate in a warm and beautiful southern land.
33) Evensong
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Margaret Bonner, the young pastor of High Balsam's Episcopal church in the Smoky Mountains, enters a disturbing period of change when her life is invaded by a fiery female evangelist, a mysterious itinerant man, and a troubled boy.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Gina and Laurence had been the best of friends since childhood--but never in love. When they were grown they married others, but when Gina's husband moves out she runs to Laurence for comfort and finds the kind of love that will send both of their marriages to the brink of betrayal.
36) Everlasting
Author
Language
English
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Description
Follows the relationship between Berengaria, who is forced into marriage with a nefarious squire, and her beloved Raven, a Scottish soldier determined to save her from an evil fate.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Once again Sue Miller takes us deep into the private lives of women with this mesmerizing portrait of two marriages exposed in all their shame and imperfection, and in their obdurate, unyielding love.
Meri is newly married, pregnant, and standing on the cusp of her life as a wife and mother, recognizing with some terror the gap between reality and expectation. Delia Naughton–wife of the two-term liberal senator Tom Naughton–is...
Meri is newly married, pregnant, and standing on the cusp of her life as a wife and mother, recognizing with some terror the gap between reality and expectation. Delia Naughton–wife of the two-term liberal senator Tom Naughton–is...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
San Francisco defense attorney Dismas Hardy becomes involved in the case of his career when his wife, Frannie, called before the grand jury in a murder investigation, is put in jail for refusing to reveal a secret entrusted to her by the father of some of her children's classmates.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Katherine Merrill watches her husband's mental health decline over the years of their marriage, but after an outburst at a cocktail party leads to his being arrested, Katherine has him committed to a revered mental asylum where he tries to incorporate art into every moment and contend with his surroundings; meanwhile Katherine is left alone to raise their four children as she tries to reconstruct a life she no longer lives.
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