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62) Malice
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
On the evening of her mother's funeral Grace Adams decides she has had enough and shoots her father when he tries to molest her once again. After two years of prison, it looks like Grace is going to be able to go on with her life, but the past seems to keep resurfacing.
63) Gone girl.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne reports that his wife, Amy, has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick's portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark question. Did Nick Dunne kill his wife?
64) Eleanor and Franklin: the story of their relationship, based on Eleanor Roosevelt's private papers
Author
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
c1971
Language
English
Description
Gives insight into Eleanor's childhood and describes in depth her relationship with her husband, Franklin.
66) Absolution
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In Saigon in 1963, two young American wives form a wary alliance. Tricia is a starry-eyed newlywed, married to a rising oil engineer "on loan" to US Navy Intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a talented hostess and determined altruist, on a mission to relieve the "wretchedness" she sees all around her. When Tricia miscarries, Charlene sweeps her into a cabal of well-dressed do-gooder American wives. Armed with...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixty-eight-year-old David has a brain tumor that he attributes to Agent Orange exposure. He wakes up from surgery repeating the name of a Native American soldier whom he was once ordered to discipline, and decides to return something precious he long ago stole from that man.
Publisher
MagicPlay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005, c1991
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
In 1920's China, a female college student agrees to become the fourth wife of a wealthy nobleman. Each night, the master raises a red lantern outside the house of the wife he wishes to spend the night with. The wives have little to do but compete for their husband's favor, which draws them into a fierce battle.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
A collection of true stories that reveal the often hidden aspects of military life in America, recounting the experiences of family members who are left behind to deal with isolation and anticipatory grief while their loved ones are fighting wars on foreign soil.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A riveting work about the woman who sacrificed her future for one of the most famous writers of the twentieth century and a probing look at what it means to be a wife and a writer in the modern world. Looking for wonder and some reprieve from the everyday, award-winning writer Anna Funder slips into the pages of her hero George Orwell. As she watches him create his writing self, she tries to remember her own. When she uncovers his forgotten wife,...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Leah is changed. Months earlier, she left for a routine expedition, only this time her submarine sank to the sea floor. When she finally surfaces and returns home, her wife Miri knows that something is wrong. Barely eating and lost in her thoughts, Leah rotates between rooms in their apartment, running the taps morning and night. As Miri searches for answers, desperate to understand what happened below the water, she must face the possibility that...
72) Dreamcatcher
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperPaperbacks
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
An abused wife retreats into her dreams for love just as a detective finds himself falling for her in this gripping paranormal romance. For powerful emotion and unforgettable romance, New York Times -bestselling author Sharon Sala can’t be beat. This beautifully repackaged classic is sure to delight her long-time fans and attract new ones! Unable to free herself from her husband’s obsession, beautiful Amanda Potter retreats into her own dream...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
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Description
An accidental meeting in Paris changes the lives of powerful businessman Peter Haskell and Oliva Thatcher, wife of a famous senator, leading them to question everything they have worked for and believed in, and giving them hope for the future.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Nicole Oruwari has the perfect life: a handsome husband; a palatial house in the heart of glittering Lagos, Nigeria; and a glamorous group of friends. She left gloomy London and a troubled family past behind for sunny, moneyed Lagos, becoming part of the Nigerwives--a community of foreign women married to Nigerian men. But when Nicole disappears without a trace after a boat trip, the cracks in her so-called perfect life start to show. As the investigation...
77) Palindrome
Author
Language
English
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Description
Palindrome When both your past and future spell fear. Award-winning author Stuart Woods has crafted a masterful novel no reader will soon forget. For years, Liz Barwick has been battered by her brutal husband, a famous pro football player. This time it takes an emergency room to keep her from death. Now the beautiful and talented photographer retreats to an island paradise off Georgia's coast to find solitude -- and herself. As she becomes increasingly...
78) The Second Wife
Author
Publisher
Bloodhound Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The honeymoon is over-and his nightmare has begun-in this twisted thriller by the author of The Husband Trap . . .
After his wife's suicide, Scott manages to find love again with Casey. For their first anniversary, she has a surprise for him-but it's not a good one . . .
Casey has been collecting photos and videos of Scott that would place his teaching career in serious jeopardy. Holding that over his head, she intends to make him suffer....
80) The weekenders
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Some people stay all summer long on the idyllic island of Belle Isle, North Carolina. Some people come only for the weekends-and it's something they look forward to all week long. When Riley Griggs is waiting for her husband to arrive at the ferry one Friday afternoon, she is instead served with papers informing her that her island home is being foreclosed. To make matters worse, her husband is nowhere to be found. She turns to her island friends...
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