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Author
Series
Old California volume 2
Publisher
G.K. Hall
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
A woman left on her own for over a year while her husband tries his hand at mining receives a message and decides to go and bring her man home. She's about to fight the most difficult battle of her life, learning to forgive and love again.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"In this gripping follow-up to Love Lies Beneath, beautiful, wealthy Tara Lattimore's story continues. For years, Tara suffered from the sins of others. She committed a few of her own. Now she wonders if the misdeeds of her past are about to catch up with her -- and derail her current marriage and her sanity."--Provided by publisher.
85) Serendipity
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A woman trying to find herself finds love with her ex-husband's best friend in this novel by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author.
Six years ago, Jory Ryan fled Philadelphia after a brief, tragic marriage to wealthy Ross Landers. Now Jory has come home to make peace with the past. But the future invites trouble when Jory falls precipitously for Ross's best friend—and becomes entangled with the Landers family...
Six years ago, Jory Ryan fled Philadelphia after a brief, tragic marriage to wealthy Ross Landers. Now Jory has come home to make peace with the past. But the future invites trouble when Jory falls precipitously for Ross's best friend—and becomes entangled with the Landers family...
87) Lucky boy
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"A heart-wrenching novel that gives voice to two mothers: a young undocumented Mexican woman and an Indian-American wife whose love for one lucky boy will bind their fates together Solimar Castro-Valdez is eighteen and drunk on optimism when she embarks on a perilous journey across the US/Mexican border. Weeks later she arrives on her cousin's doorstep in Berkeley, CA, dazed by first love found then lost, and pregnant. This was not the plan. But amid...
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"Dawn Edelstein is on a plane when she is told to prepare for a crash landing. She braces herself as thoughts flash through her mind. The shocking thing is, the thoughts are not of her husband but of a man she last saw fifteen years ago: Wyatt Armstrong. Dawn, miraculously, survives the crash, but so do all the doubts that have suddenly been raised. She has led a good life. Back in Boston, there is her husband, Brian, their beloved daughter, and her...
89) Vanity fair
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"No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth than the alluring, resourceful Becky Sharp, who ruthlessly clambers up the social ladder while her sweet, sentimental friend Amelia longs for her worthless soldier lover. As fortunes change, and battles are fought at home and abroad, who will survive?"--Book cover.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
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Description
Storied matchmaker and Nantucket resident Dabney Kimball has her own life and match turned upside down when her true love of twenty-seven years prior returns to the island.
"48-year-old Nantucketer Dabney Kimball Beech has always had a gift for matchmaking. Some call her ability mystical, while others - like her husband, celebrated economist John Boxmiller Beech, and her daughter, Agnes, who is clearly engaged to the wrong man - call it meddlesome,...
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Series
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Imagine Aunt Bee from The Andy Griffith Show with a lot more backbone and confidence," wrote Publishers Weekly about Miss Julia, Ann Ross's endearing Dixie doyenne of decorum. In her latest romp, Miss Julia-now Mrs. Sam Murdoch-returns from her whirlwind elopement, only to find herself roped into Hazel Marie's scheme to raise money by throwing a beauty pageant. Though it all seems a tad distasteful, it's nothing compared to the revelation that Pigeon...
93) The corrections
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 34
Description
After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson's disease, and their children have long since flown the family nest to the catastrophes of their own lilves. The oldest, Gary, a once-stable portfolio manager and family man is trying to convince his wife and himself, despite clear signs to the contrary, that he is not clinically depressed.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1996
Description
Part mystery, part family story of Jews trying to integrate into Wasp society on Long Island. The heroine is Lily, a Jewish lawyer defending a con man accused of murder. The man specialized in seducing women for their money and one was killed. Lily suspects the real killer was the con man's jealous girlfriend.
95) Vinegar Hill
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Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
1998, c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Description
In a stark, troubling, yet ultimately triumphant celebration of self-determination, award-winning author A. Manette Ansay re-creates a stifling world of guilty and pain, and the tormented souls who inhabit it. It is 1972 when circumstance carries Ellen Grier and her family back to Holly's Field, Wisconsin. Dutifully accompanying her newly unemployed husband, Ellen has brought her two children into the home of her in-laws on Vinegar Hill--a loveless...
97) Vegas rich
Author
Series
Vegas volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
1996
Description
An illiterate prostitute's rise to fame in the 1920s. She is Sally Coleman who sings in a saloon in Las Vegas and who inherits a fortune from a grateful customer. To gain polish she hires a handsome tutor from Boston, whom she marries, and becomes the town's best known entrepreneur.
98) The lying room
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"In this thrilling standalone from the internationally bestselling author of the Frieda Klein series, a married woman's affair with her boss spirals into a dangerous game of chess with the police when she discovers he's been murdered and she clears the crime scene of all evidence. One little secret between a married woman, her lover, and a killer. It should have been just a mid-life fling. A guilty indiscretion that Neve Connolly could have weathered....
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Raised in East Hampton, Caroline never thought she'd be one of the "city people" who spent summers and weekends at the beach. But, once her husband's business takes off, a job stint transplants the couple permanently into Manhattan life--where the phrase When you marry for money, you work for it every day, reflects her neighbors' lives. And where entitled husbands, like hers, embark on affair after affair with little consequence.Time for the wives...
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