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The beloved characters of Chitra Banerjee Divakarunis bestselling novel Sister of My Heart are reunited in this powerful narrative that challenges the emotional bond between two lifelong friends, as the husband of one becomes dangerously attracted to the other. Anju and Sudha formed an astounding, almost psychic connection during their childhood in India. When Anju invites Sudha, a single mother in Calcutta, to come live with her and her husband,...
62) Sometimes I lie
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English
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Amber wakes up in a hospital. She can't move. She can't speak. She can't open her eyes. Though she can hear everyone around her, no one knows because she's in a coma. But she doesn't remember what happened. And she has a sneaking suspicion her husband had something to do with it. Alternating between her paralyzed present, the week before her accident, and a series of childhood diaries from twenty years ago, the narratives build and collide for an...
66) The summerhouse
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Series
Pub. Date
2001.
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English
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What if a woman could go back to the beginning and rethink her choices for love and life? When Leslie Headrick, Madison Appleby, and Ellie Abbott first met, they were in their early 20s and the world lay before them with its infinite possibilities. Now that they're about to turn 40, they reunite for a weekend at a summerhouse in Maine where they share the details of their lives during the past 20 years. Each woman has serious doubts and questions...
67) Diary: a novel
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Working as a hotel maid despite her dreams of being an artist, Misty keeps a diary as she sits by the side of her husband, comatose after a suicide attempt, which unlocks Misty's creative energies and causes her to paint compulsively.
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Publisher
Longstreet
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
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A fictionalized biography of Laura Woods, a famous woman of Texas. In her 87 years she loved an Apache warrior who was a white boy kidnaped by Indians, she trained horses for her husband and she distinguished herself as a suffragette.
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2002.
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English
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"For Joanne, her husband Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost too good to be true. It is. For behind the town's idyllic facade lies a terrible secret a secret so shattering that no one who encounters it will ever be the same."--Back cover.
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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Corrie Philips' enviable life--working for her university's alumni magazine and being married to an attentive, wealthy husband--is called into question by her desperate desire for a child and her attraction to the boyfriend who returns after a decade's absence.
71) Gone: a novel
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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Celebrating the achievement of a successful career only to be abandoned by her failed sculptor husband, Eve Adams struggles to raise her children alone while balancing conflicting demands, the realities of midlife, and her evolving views on forgiveness and letting go.
72) Orchard: a novel
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Sonja Skordahl, a Scandinavian immigrant, finds herself torn between her husband, Henry, and Ned Weaver, an internationally famous artist who uses her as a model, in a novel set against the backdrop of rural Wisconsin.
73) Cáscara de nuez
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Series
Panorama de narrativas volume 943
Publisher
Anagrama
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
75) Pages for you
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Publisher
Picador USA
Pub. Date
[2001]
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English
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Haunted by an unspoken passion, a narrator decides to write some pages comprising the beginning, the blossoming, and finally the ending of a young woman's intense love affair. "Each day a page, to show you that I am finding a story, the story of how we might have been together..."
77) While I was gone
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Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c1999.
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English
Description
A woman who has everything going for her gives in to adultery. The heroine is Jo Becker of Massachusetts, a well-off veterinarian with grown children and a husband she loves. One day she meets a man from her past and it happens. The novel analyzes why.
79) Perfect match
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English
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Career-driven assistant district attorney Nina Frost prosecutes child molesters and works determinedly to ensure that a legal system with too many loopholes keeps these criminals behind bars. When her own five-year-old son, Nathaniel, is traumatized by a sexual assault, Nina and her husband, Caleb, a stone mason, are ripped apart by an enraging sense of helplessness in the face of a futile justice system. Nina hurtles toward a plan to exact her own...
80) The virgin blue
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Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
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Meet Ella Turner and Isabelle du Moulintwo women born centuries apart, yet bound by a fateful family legacy. When Ella and her husband move to a small town in France, Ella hopes to brush up on her French, qualify to practice as a midwife, and start a family of her own. Village life turns out to be less idyllic than she expected, however, and a peculiar dream of the color blue propels her on a quest to uncover her familys French ancestry....
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