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"A twisty, compelling new novel about one woman's complicated relationship with her mother-in-law that ends in death... From the moment Lucy met her husband's mother, Diana, she was kept at arm's length. Diana was exquisitely polite, and properly friendly, but Lucy knew that she was not what Diana envisioned. But who could fault Diana? She was a pillar of the community, an advocate for social justice who helped female refugees assimilate to their...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In awe of his strikingly beautiful, highly strung wife and her equally volatile mother, novelist Guy Ableman finds his work persistently interrupted by their drama and dreams of squeezing out one more great book in spite of growing fears that reading is a cultural activity of the past.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1996.
Language
English
Description
In England, a woman is manipulated by her mother-in-law to the point where she is ready to kill. A journalist, she is not ready for a child, but after her in-laws sell the apartment she has no alternative but move to the country and become a mother. That is only the start of the manipulation.
Publisher
Cinedigm Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A newly engaged bride dreamed of her wedding day with her late mother for her entire life, and is looking forward to planning every perfect detail to honor her mom's memory. But her special day is nearly ruined by her intimidating future mother-in-law and her fiancé's sudden work transfer, which pushes her perfect outdoor June wedding ceremony up to a January date -- just three weeks away!
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"One woman's journey home gets derailed by her soon-to-be-ex-mother-in-law in a novel filled with humor, small-town charm, rekindled love, and the resilient ties of family. Cast aside by her cheating husband, Katelyn Chandler is ready to pack it all in and drive home to Little Springs, Texas. She wants a chance to regroup, reconnect with her mother, and get back to her art. But Shirley Pratt--master manipulator, elitist snob, and Katelyn's terror...
7) Snowed in
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Struggling with the freezing conditions of her Portland, Maine, home, her husband's roving eye, and a problematic mother-in-law, Sophie Quinn finds her life turning around due to unlikely opportunities and an unexpected new relationship.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The love life of Charlotte is reduced to an endless string of disastrous blind dates, until she meets the perfect man, Kevin. Unfortunately, his merciless mother will do anything to destroy their relationship--From IMDB.com.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of her husband Adam's death, Sarah, with a daughter and a baby on the way-and left with no money-moves in with Adam's mother, whom he always said was dead, but soon discovers why Adam lied as she becomes trapped in a house with a madwoman.
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Following the trauma of her estranged husband's untimely death, Emma Lowell reluctantly accompanies her mother-in-law Margaret on a sentimental journey to the family's isolated, snowbound mountain cabin where a dark plan unfolds -- that could claim Emma's life.
11) 666 Park Avenue
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
Darkness lurks behind the gilded halls of New York high society, and the elite Upper East Side Witches who rule Park Avenue.
12) Memorial
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"A rom-com novel about two young people at a crossroads in their relationship"--
Mike is a Japanese American chef at a Mexican restaurant. Benson is a Black day care teacher. They've been together for a few years, but now they're not sure why they're still a couple. There's the sex, sure, and the meals Mike cooks for Benson, and, well, they love each other. When Mike finds out his estranged father is dying in Osaka just as his acerbic Japanese mother,...
Author
Series
[Joan Spencer mystery] volume 5
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Things have finally calmed down enough for cozy heroine Joan Spencer and her new husband, Lt. Fred Lundquist, to take a long-delayed honeymoon to celebrate their three-month-old nuptials. Of course, it won't be a traditional honeymoon, since they'll have Joan's teenage son Andrew in tow, and the fact that they are using the trip to finally visit Fred's family makes it even more unusual. But Joan is happy; she'll get some time away with her family,...
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English
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Heather Willette has a good life in Concord, Massachusetts -- complete with a husband who runs his own business and a son to take up his mantle one day. But now that her marriage has fizzled out and Ross, her only child, is graduating from college and getting serious with his girlfriend, Heather wonders if that life is the one she really wants. Ready to seek out her own happiness and discover herself again, Heather decides to leave her husband and...
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