Orem Library

The childhood friendship between Jillian Lawton and Lesley Adamski, both born in 1948 in the same Washington State town, is kept alive over half a century through letters, newspaper clippings, diary entries, and E-mails, in spite of the very different paths they have chosen in life.

The compelling story of a couple living in the wake of a personal tragedy. She is a star employee of an online dating company, while he is a physicist, performing experiments that, if ever successful, may have unintended consequences, altering the nature of their lives and perhaps of reality itself. Rebecca Wright has gotten her life back, finding her way out of grief and depression following a personal tragedy years ago. She spends her days working...

Although Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun after fifty years as a wife and mother, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson's disease and her children are undergoing their own crises--which she hopes to solve by bringing them all together for one last Christmas at home.

Abby uses her father's last novel to help her solve the mystery of his death.

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.

Nineteen-year-old Gwendolyn Hooper is newly married to a rich and charming widower, eager to join him on his tea plantation, determined to be the perfect wife and mother. But life in Ceylon is not what Gwen expected. The plantation workers are resentful, the neighbors are treacherous. And there are clues to the past - a dusty trunk of dresses, an overgrown gravestone in the grounds - that her husband refuses to discuss. Just as Gwen finds her feet,...

"The dissolute Sir John Falstaff plans to seduce Mistress Ford and Mistress Page, two 'Merry Wives of Windsor,' thereby gaining access to their husbands' wealth. The two women have the old rogue's measure, however, and Falstaff's plots lead only to his humiliation. But the Merry Wives themselves fall victim to plotting as their plans to prevent Mistress Page's daughter Anne from marrying the young man she loves are frustrated in their turn." --container....

After eighteen years of marriage, Grace Bennett is tired of her Navy captain husband Steve's lack of emotional support for her and their children, and Grace must decide whether or not to make a new life for herself.

"Alice Culvert is a force: passionate, independent, smart, and gorgeous, she--to her delight--attracts attention wherever she goes, even amid the buzz of mid-90s New York. In knee-high boots, with her newborn daughter, Doe, strapped to her chest, Alice is one of those people who just seem so vividly alive, which makes her cancer diagnosis feel almost incongruous. How could such a being not go on? But all at once, Alice's existence, and that of her...

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.