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81) While I was gone
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
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.
82) Perfect match
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
83) The virgin blue
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Formats
Description
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....
84) The high flyer
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
London attorney Carter Graham's perfect life with her new husband is shattered by the revelation of her husband's secret ties to the occult and the Nazis, and an increasingly desperate Carter seeks aid from Nick Darrow, the mysterious head of St. Benet's Healing Center.
87) The piano
Author
Publisher
Miramax
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
In the award-winning film The Piano, writer/director Jane Campion created a story so original and powerful it fascinated millions of moviegoers. This novel stands independent of the film, exploring the mysteries of Ada's muteness, the secret of her daughter's conception, the reason for her strange marriage and the past lives of Baines and Stewart.
89) The tree bride
Author
Publisher
Theia
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Struggling to reconcile with her estranged husband, Tara Chatterjee relates the story of an East Bengali ancestor who married a tree at the age of five and who grew up to be a nationalist freedom fighter against the British Raj.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Offers a new translation of Flaubert's classic tale, in which the title character turns to spending and a series of affairs to combat the boredom of married life and, heartbroken and crippled by debts, takes drastic action that results in tragedy.
91) The good wife
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2005.
Language
English
Description
When her husband is incarcerated for his involvement in a tragic home invasion, Patty Dickerson must raise their newborn child in a community that is sometimes hostile to her, all the while struggling to maintain her dignity.
92) Mrs. Kimble
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
The award-winning debut novel from Jennifer Haigh, author of Baker Towers, The Condition, and Faith, tells the story of Birdie, Joan, and Dinah, three women who marry the same charismatic, predatory, and enigmatic opportunist: Ken Kimble. Resonating with emotional intensity and narrative innovation reminiscent of Ann Patchetts Bel Canto, Barbara Kingsolvers The Poisonwood Bible, and Zora Neale Hurstons Their Eyes Were Watching...
93) The good husband
Author
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
c1994.
Language
English
Description
A flamboyant woman professor holds court as she lies dying from cancer. The novel traces the effect she has on the people around her: her self-effacing, much younger husband who left the priesthood to marry her, another professor who is suffering from writer's block, and the professor's wife who is falling in love with the ex-priest. By the author of Father Melancholy's Daughter.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"I think I could be a good woman, if I had five thousand a year," observes beautiful and clever Becky Sharp, one of the wickedest and most appealing women in all of literature. Becky is just one of the many figures that populate William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Vanity Fair, a satirical panorama of upper-middle-class life and manners in London at the beginning of the nineteenth century
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1975.
Language
English
Description
Lady of the Lotus takes the reader to another time, another place: India, centuries before Christ. It is the story of a woman who discovers that the man she loves is destined for a path which will ultimately lead him away from her, toward a great destiny...the story of a woman who courageously seeks - and finds - a path of her own. It is a novel of love, a passionate saga of spiritual quest, a beautifully detailed portrait of an ancient civilization,...
96) We are water
Author
Language
English
Description
Told in alternating voices, follows Anna Oh, a middle-age wife, mother, and artist, as she, after twenty-seven years of marriage, divorces her husband to marry Vivica, the Manhattan art dealer who orchestrated her professional success.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Latina novelist Alma Huebner is suffering from writer's block and is years past the completion date for yet another of her bestselling family sagas. Her husband, Richard, works for a humanitarian organization dedicated to the health and prosperity of developing countries and wants her help on an extended AIDS assignment in the Dominican Republic. But Alma begs off joining him: the publisher is breathing down her neck. She promises to work hard and...
Author
Publisher
Covenant
Pub. Date
c1995.
Language
English
Description
When Teri Patterson, a diabetic, is called to serve in her ward Primary presidency, her immediate response is outrage. Not only is it a challenge to be around young children, knowing she cannot have any herself, but Teri's not too thrilled about serving with the three other women who make up the presidency. As the four women work together, however, Teri grows to like, and even love, her new friends. A humorous and inspiring novel. 'The Fine Print'...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Writer Joan Ashby is acclaimed for her explosively dark and singular stories. When Joan finds herself unexpectedly pregnant, she is stunned by Martin's delight, his instant betrayal of their pact that work is paramount, and they did not need children. She makes a fateful, selfless decision to embrace her unintentional family, but challenged by raising two precocious sons it is decades before she finally completes her masterpiece novel. Finally poised...
Author
Series
Agatha Raisin mystery volume 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recently married to James Lacey, the witty and fractious Agatha Raisin quickly finds that marriage, and love, are not all they are cracked up to be. Rather than basking in marital bliss, the newlyweds are living in separate cottages and accusing each other of infidelity. After a particularly raucous fight in the local pub, James suddenly vanishes - a bloodstain the only clue to his fate - and Agatha is the prime suspect. Determined to clear her name...
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