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Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
""Like Big Little Lies with standardized testing, this addictive novel digs hard into the culture of striving parents and anxious children, exploring privilege, competition and the elusiveness of happiness. A deeply pleasurable read." - Meg Wolitzer Smart and juicy, a compulsively readable novel about a previously happy group of friends and parents that is nearly destroyed by their own competitiveness when an exclusive school for gifted children opens...
82) The sounds
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Set against the stunning Marlborough Sounds in New Zealand, this twisty thriller follows a married couple looking to start a new life. But when Maggie joins her husband, Tom, in an idyllic small town halfway around the world, their reunion proves short-lived. As Maggie discovers Tom's secrets, she begins to plumb the dark depths of paradise.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"After enduring years of a struggling marriage, Ronnie Farnham has decided to divorce her husband and is beginning to hope for a happy future--until the morning Jeff is supposed to move out, when he locks himself in their barn with a rifle. When a massive police presence arrives to control the 12-hour stand-off, the women in Jeff's life are pushed to their breaking points"--Provided by publisher.
84) Second coming
Series
Film Movement volume 13, year 12
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Busy working parents Mark and Jackie have not been intimate with each other in several months, so when Jackie discovers she is pregnant, it comes as an inexplicable shock to all. Jackie insists she's been faithful, but Mark reacts with rage, knowing the baby can't possibly be his. As the unnerving side effects of Jackie's condition worsen, will this seeming miracle bring the family closer together or tear them apart?
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Be careful to whom you tell your darkest secrets. Selena Murphy is commuting home from her job in the city when the train stalls out on the tracks. She strikes up a conversation with a beautiful stranger in the next seat, and their connection is fast and easy. The woman introduces herself as Martha and confesses that she's been stuck in an affair with her boss. Selena, in turn, confesses that she suspects her husband is sleeping with the nanny. When...
86) Day
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"April 5th, 2019: In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of domestic bliss is beginning to crack. Dan and Isabel, troubled husband and wife, are both a little bit in love with Isabel's younger brother, Robbie. Robbie, wayward soul of the family, who still lives in the attic loft; Robbie, who, trying to get over his most recent boyfriend, has created a glamorous avatar online; Robbie, who now has to move out of the house--and whose departure...
Author
Series
Bromance volume club
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When his wife asks for a divorce, Nashville Legends second baseman Gavin Scott finds help from an unlikely source: a secret romance book club made up of Nashville's top alpha men. With the help of their current read, a steamy Regency titled Courting the Countess, the guys coach Gavin on saving his marriage. But it'll take a lot more than flowery words and grand gestures for this hapless Romeo to find his inner hero and win back the trust of his wife.--...
88) Married to distraction: restoring intimacy and strengthening your marriage in an age of interruption
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
91) Maldeamores
Publisher
Maya Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Español
Description
Three separate stories about love in Puerto Rico: a man accidentally reveals his brother's extra-marital affair to his sister-in-law when he mistakes her grief over the death of her grandmother for distress about the infidelity. The next story revolves around a man whose love for a bus driver drives him to take her and the bus passengers hostage until she consents to marriage. In the final story, an elderly woman is convinced to care for her terminally-ill...
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
A down-on-his-luck former rodeo champion, Lick is working in the remote Nevada desert with fellow cowboy Al Bean when Teddie Arizona, a gorgeous siren with the henchmen of her "husband" F. Rank Pantaker in hot pursuit, arrives.
94) Home repair
Author
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
From start to finish, Eve's yard sale was a disaster. It had hammered rain all night long and the dreaded Early Bird bargain hunters started ringing her doorbell at dawn. But that was just for starters. Because that's the day Eve's husband Chuck decided to disappear from her life. He just walked out the door and didn't come back. What does a woman do when she's left to contend with a broken heart, two dogs, two children, an aging mother who moves...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
An affair. It can rob a couple of their relationship, their happiness, their very identity. Why do people cheat, even those in happy marriages? Why does an affair hurt so much? When we say infidelity, what exactly do we mean? Do our romantic expectations of marriage set us up for betrayal? Is there such a thing as an affair-proof marriage? Is it possible to love more than one person at once? Can an affair ever help a marriage? For the past ten years,...
96) Be still my soul
Author
Series
Cadence of grace volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Pretty Lonnie Sawyer is shy and innocent, used to fading into the background among the Appalachian hills. Though her family is poor and her father abusive, she clings to a quiet faith. But when handsome ladies' man and bluegrass musician Gideon O'Riley steals a kiss, her fate is sealed. Lonnie's father forces her into a hasty marriage with a man she barely knows and does not love. Equally frustrated and confused, Gideon forces Lonnie on an arduous...
98) False step
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"For days, all of Denver, Colorado, has worried over the fate of a missing child, little Tanner Holcomb. Then, a miracle: handsome, athletic Johnny Bradley finds him, frightened but unharmed, on a hiking trail miles from his wealthy family's mountain home. In a heartbeat, his rescuer goes from financially strapped fitness trainer to celebrated hero. The heat of the spotlight may prove too much for Johnny's picture-perfect family, however. His wife,...
Author
Series
Cadence of grace volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Settling into a simple life in the majestic Blue Ridge Mountains, Lonnie and Gideon O'Riley have finally found happiness after the rocky start to their marriage. The roguish bluegrass musician has fallen in love with his gentle wife and the God she serves, and Lonnie rests secure in his tenderness for her and their young son. Then a heartless ruse brings them back to Rocky Knob -- to face the claims of a woman who says she is Gideon's rightful wife....
100) My hope is found
Author
Series
Cadence of grace volume 3
Publisher
Multnomah Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Gideon O'Riley has been given another chance at a life with Lonnie. But will the fight for her heart risk it all over again? After finally finding love with his sweet bride Lonnie, Gideon's heart was torn when a woman from his past claimed to be his true and rightful wife, forcing him away from his family. God's merciful hand saw Gideon through the heartache, and with Cassie's blessing, he is able to return home. Though his journey back through the...
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