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Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"While on vacation on an idyllic island called Miden, a seemingly aimless woman meets an attractive man and leaves her country to be with him. A few months later, newly pregnant and just beginning to feel comfortable in her lover's space, her life is upended when a girl arrives at the door. Slight and pretty, the girl discloses a drawn out and violent affair she's had with her professor, the father of the woman's unborn child. In alternating perspectives,...
62) Bird: a novel
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
This is a novel about the persistence of longing in which the twin lives of the title character blur and overlap. Bird puts her child on the bus for school and passes the day with her baby. Interwoven into the passage of the day are phone calls from a promiscuous, unmarried friend, and Bird's recollection of the feral, reckless love she knew as a young woman. It's a day infused with fear and longing, an exploration of the ways the past shapes and...
Author
Publisher
Delphinium Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
After discovering that her husband has been cheating on her with their mutual friends, a Midwestern librarian distracts herself with a 1981 trip through Europe where she meets a variety of fascinating men and finds love again.
Summer, 1981. After twelve years of marriage, the discovery of her husband's serial philandering opens Betsy's eyes and pushes her out of the nest. Betsy grabs a backpack and a few good books and puts distance-- geographically...
64) Deep water
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton and Company
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
"Deep Water" is set in the small town of Little Wesley. Vic and Melinda's loveless marriage is held together only by Melinda's extramarital affairs. Eventually, Vic tries to win her back by asserting himself through a tall tale of murder--one that soon comes true.
65) Indiscreet
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Romance is in the air when a dashing diplomat is introduced to a beautiful and famous actress. The fact that he's married doesn't stop the love-struck pair from falling into a passionate affair.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Evie, devastated by her father's death and the knowledge that he was leaving his family for his pregnant mistress, finds strength through a prestigious photography class and handsome classmate Declan.
Evie Parker is devastated in the wake of her father's sudden death, but she knows something her mother doesn't: the day of his heart attack, her dad was planning to move out. He had been dating his twenty-two-year-old receptionist,...
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
At first glance, these stories seem grounded in the everyday: they paint pictures of idyllic Southern landscapes with characters fulfilling their roles as students, boyfriends, sons and wives. But all is not what it seems. Tackling issues of masculinity, sexual identity, and place, Nick White deconstructs the core qualities of Southern fiction, exposing deeply flawed and fascinating characters on wildly compelling quests.
Author
Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Young Daniel Boone Trewick, caught with a young woman, flees Missouri believing he has killed the girl's father in a fight. He joins a freighting outfit on the Santa Fe Trail, and in Taos he meets Thomas L. "Pegleg" Smith and is invited to join an expedition to California to steal horses and mules. Meanwhile in California, Juan Medina, a young vaquero in trouble for consorting with the ranch owner's daughter, is framed and jailed. After the ladrones...
Author
Publisher
AmazonCrossing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In a city as corrupt as it was luxurious, those who dared to dream were bound to pay the price. Havana, Cuba, 1947. Young Patricio flees impoverished Spain and steps into the sultry island paradise of Havana with only the clothes on his back and half-baked dreams of a better life. Blessed with good looks and natural charm, he lands a job as a runner at El Encanto--one of the most luxurious department stores in the world. Famous for its exquisite...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Enjoy three heart-racing thrillers from the New York Times bestselling master of suspense. 23 1/2 LIES: Lindsay Boxer's estranged father is gunned down execution-style, and her investigation uncovers life-altering truths. FALLEN RANGER: To Rory Yates, being a Texas Ranger means absolute loyalty to the badge. But he's put through the ultimate test when an armored car robbery suspect might be an ex-Ranger gone rogue. WATCH YOUR BACK: When a starving...
74) Bobby
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in a Los Angeles hotel kitchen. We see Kennedy's acceptance speech after winning the California Democratic presidential primary, his death at the hands of gunman Sirhan Sirhan, and the chaos and despair that ensued. The people at the hotel don't know what is coming. Our grief at hearing RFK's own words, so eloquent, so hopeful and inspiring. Watch the horrible events unfold and wonder what might have been....
Author
Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton and Co
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
"Originally titled 'The Saddest Story' and heralded by Graham Greene as 'one of the finest novels of our century, ' Ford's 1915 tale of passion and deceit in the lives of two married couples is a modernist masterpiece. The Norton Critical Edition of The Good Soldier allows the reader to thoroughly study Ford's great work and unravel its mysteries and meanings. This Second Edition is again based on the meticulously edited first text of the novel and...
Author
Series
Spenser volume 1-2
Publisher
[Mystery Guild]
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The Godwulf manuscript. For Spenser, that most unorthodox of private detectives, no case is ever straightforward and the theft of a 14th-century illuminated manuscript proves no exception. His investigation soon leads him into organized crime, dope-pushing, theft, radical politics, adultery and murder. The first book in the Spenser series.
God save the child. Appie Knoll is the kind of suburb where kids grow up right. But something is wrong. Fourteen-year-old...
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