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81) The good wife
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Patty Dickerson's husband was sentenced to twenty-eight years in prison for the murder of an elderly woman, and now Patty has to raise their son alone amidst the scorn and humiliation within her community.
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
David Tully hunts for a burglar's killer in order to save his wife It's been 3 days since David Tully has seen his wife, and there's a homicide cop waiting at his front door. Someone has been murdered, but it's not Ruth Tully. The dead man is Crandall Cox. The name is unfamiliar, but he was killed with Tully's gun. At the time of the murder, Tully was hard at work at the state capital. His alibi may be airtight, but his wife's is not. There's a warrant...
Author
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"The lives and adventures of seven intrepid women are revealed in "this gem of a book... as captivating as the northern landscape itself"( Portland Book Review ). Polar explorers were the superstars of the "heroic age" of exploration, a period spanning the Victorian and Edwardian eras. In Polar Wives, Kari Herbert reveals the unpredictable, often heartbreaking lives of seven remarkable women whose husbands became world-famous for their Arctic and...
85) The good earth
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of a Chinese peasant and his passionate, dogged accumulation of land during famine, drought, and revolution.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020].
Language
English
Description
An inspiring memoir of life, love, loss, and new beginnings by the widower of bestselling children's author and filmmaker Amy Krouse Rosenthal, whose last of act of love before her death was setting the stage for her husband's life without her in a column in the New York Times. On March 3, 2017, Amy Krouse Rosenthal penned an op-ed piece for the New York Times' Modern Love column - You May Want to Marry My Husband. It appeared ten days before her...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
It's 1934, and the decaying London cul-de-sac of Bleeding Heart Square is an unlikely place of refuge for aristocratic Lydia Langstone. But as she flees her abusive marriage there is only one person she can turn to--the genteelly derelict Captain Ingleby-Lewis, currently lodging at no 7. However, unknown to Lydia, a dark mystery haunts 7 Bleeding Heart Square. What happened to Miss Penhow, the middle-aged spinster who owns the house and who vanished...
88) Spencerville
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
Keith Landry returns to his Ohio hometown to reclaim his soul and lost love, Annie, only to find her married to a very dangerous man.
90) East Lynne
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A married aristocratic woman succumbs to desire in this nineteenth-century English novel. Lady Isabel Vane married for all the wrong reasons--only to one day find her lawyer husband neglecting her for another woman. Seething with jealousy, she leaves behind her husband and their child for the flirtatious Francis Levison. It's a risk she takes willingly, but it comes with a heavy price that will lead her to the depths of despair and a quest for redemption....
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
A chronicle of the Gere family, telling of the suffering they endured after twelve-year-old Brenda, the firstborn, was abducted and murdered, leading father Joe into an alcoholic decline that ended in suicide, and focusing on the long search for Brenda's body, and the trial of her attacker, Michael Green.
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A story of love and romance between two lost people in 1950s Britain, from the author of The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner Every morning Pam decides to leave George. Somehow she never quite gets around to it. She's flirted with suicide too, but she doesn't see the point. A woman would have to be mad to kill herself for the sake of George. He's a brute, vain and selfish, with a cruel sense of humor and absolutely no regard for his wife....
93) Fractured
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
WATCH WILL TRENT ON ABC!
“Breathless tension!” raved the San Francisco Chronicle. “One of [the year’s] most remarkable achievements,” crowed the Philadelphia Inquirer. Karin Slaughter dazzled readers and critics alike with Triptych, her New York Times bestselling suspense novel set in metropolitan Atlanta. Now the #1 internationally bestselling
...94) Wander: A Novel
Author
Publisher
Red Hen Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"From the beginning, a sense of foreboding jumps from the pages of Wander . . a quick read filled with intrigue and suspense." -- The Denver Post Winner of the Nancy Pearl Book Award for Best Book of Fiction (Literary/Mainstream) from the Pacific Northwest Writers Association Set in the 1980s in the rural community of Bidarkee Bay, Alaska, a fictional area the size of a small state with a population of barely 20,000, Wander is the story of Patrice...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A tale exploring themes of class, women's rights and domestic abuse in the 1970s American South shares the story of The Beach House's Lovie Rutledge, who reflects on a summer during which a beach vacation to escape her unfaithful, disdainful husband culminates in a fateful romance with a handsome biologist.
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Do you dream of wicked rakes, gorgeous Highlanders, muscled Viking warriors and rugged Wild West cowboys? Harlequin® Historical brings you three new full-length titles in one collection! A MARRIAGE DEAL WITH THE VISCOUNT Allied at the Altar by Bronwyn Scott (Victorian) After an abusive marriage, Sofia finally finds true safety in the arms of Viscount Taunton. But to leave her past behind, Sofia must consider his offer of full protection -- in the...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Lord Julian is feeling pressure from his family to remarry, despite the guilt he feels over the loss of his first wife, Lily, and agrees to accompany his mother on a trip to London, where he will be reintroduced to Miss Sophie Wilkins, a young lady who has become the acquaintance of Julian's nephew, Lord Devlin Monroe.
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A mentally ill artist dies, leaving behind an acclaimed body of work and a dark legacy, in this bestselling Richard & Judy Book Club pick Gifted, troubled painter Rachel Kelly lived a life of manic highs and suicidal lows. When Oxford postgraduate Antony Middleton met her, she was pregnant and dangerously depressed. Her marriage to the gentle, devout Quaker became her safe haven, where she was free to create and be herself. But now, after her sudden...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The New Neighbor is a dizzying descent into a Byzantine maze of psychological suspense. Carter Wilson proves once again why he is one of the best most inventive thriller writers working today." - S. A. Cosby, New York Times bestselling author of Razorblade Tears and Blacktop Wasteland
USA Today bestselling author Carter Wilson returns with another chilling psychological thriller, for readers of Megan Miranda and Alex Michaelides
Aidan holds the...
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