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361) The art of scandal
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"On the night of her Mayor husband's 40th birthday, Rachel Abbott receives a sexy, explicit text from her husband, which she quickly realizes was meant for another woman. They're at a crossroads and divorce is inevitable, but Rachel is determined not to leave her thirteen-year marriage with nothing. Meanwhile, Matt, the rising star of a Kennedyesque political dynasty with eyes on the White House, can't afford a messy split in the middle of his reelection...
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Fifteen minutes after Bill Griffith's father died from a bicycle accident in 1972, his mother turned to him and said, 'If I don't tell you this now, I'll never be able to tell you. I had a long and happy relationship with a man you knew slightly.' Thus began Griffith's journey to reconstruct this hidden relationship between his mother and a deeply cultured jack-of-all-trades cartoonist and crime novelist. Invisible Ink unfolds like a detective story,...
363) The ditch
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press Large Print Core
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When Robert Walter, popular mayor of Amsterdam, sees his wife toss her head back with laughter while chatting to one of his aldermen at a New Year's reception, he immediately suspects the worst. Despite their long and happy marriage, Robert is convinced that Sylvia is cheating on him--with the respectable alderman who is dedicated to the environment, no less. The man who wants to spoil the capital's skyline with wind turbines. The New Year's reception...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Shocking revelations of a wife's adultery explode in an incendiary nineteenth-century trial, exposing upper-crust New York society and its secrets. What could possibly go wrong in a wealthy matriarch's country home when her dilettante son, his restless wife, and his widowed brother live there together? Strong Passions, rooted in the beguiling times of Edith Wharton's 'old New York,' recounts the true story of a tumultuous marriage. In 1862, Mary...
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...
366) Waking up in Reno
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Two married couples travel on their dream vacation to Reno, NV, for a monster truck show. An alarming secret is revealed that two of the spouses are having an affair.
367) Blood and sand
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Juan is the naïve son of a once-famous bullfighter who tries to recapture the glory of his family's name. Though he is branded fifth rate, he soon becomes Spain's greatest matador and returns home to marry his childhood sweetheart. But when a beautiful, passionate aristocrat seduces him, Juan succumbs to her temptations, only to see his own happiness and success crumble.
368) Lillie
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Portrays the acclaimed British actress and courtesan Lillie Langtry from the blush of youth to the blight of old age. At a time when society expected women to be docile and demure, Lillie posed for celebrity endorsements, conducted her own business affairs, and paid her first husband to keep his distance. Even more scandalously, she openly entertained a string of lovers among Europe's elite, including the very married Prince of Wales.
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.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Kate and Matt have the perfect relationship until one day Matt abruptly leaves. When he sends Kate a diary his wife wrote for his son, Kate learns more about the man she loves than he could ever tell her himself, and about his past.
371) The scarlet letter
Publisher
Hollywood Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
In a time when adultery is punishable by death, Hester Prynne becomes involved in a risky and scandalous affair with her town's handsome minister.
372) Anna Karenina
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Set in late 19th century Russia high-society, the aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent Count Vronsky
Author
Publisher
Scribe
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Marian Evans is a scandalous figure, living in sin with a married man, George Henry Lewes. She has shocked polite society. In secret, though, she has begun writing fiction under the pseudonym George Eliot. As Adam Bede's fame grows, curiosity rises. Gradually it becomes apparent that the moral genius Eliot is none other than the disgraced woman. Now celebrity begins. The world falls in love with her. She is the wise and great writer, sent to guide...
374) Love betrayal murder
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When attorney Vanessa Lyons is denied her partnership, she can only assume that her affair with Matthew Brooks was the reason. Then, on a crowded Manhattan street corner, a knife leaves behind a scene of horror. But with so many having been betrayed, and no one telling the truth, will the murderer be brought to justice?
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Angelique, a young student, is in love with a married doctor. She tries to convince him to leave his pregnant wife. Is the love affair the one-sided obsession of a desperate woman clinging to a hopeless dream, and turning it into a nightmare when she realizes it may not come true?
376) Tulip fever
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
An artist falls for a young married woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait during the Tulip mania of seventeenth century Amsterdam.
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...
379) Scandalous
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Sasha Miller arrives at Cambridge University with a single goal: to earn a place among the great scientists of her time. But that dream comes crashing down when the naive student is seduced by her womanizing professor, Theo Dexter. Now Theo is claiming her work as his own, and a devastated Sasha vows revenge. Eight years later, now head of a successful business empire, Sasha has spent years laying the groundwork for the payback Theo so richly deserves....
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