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"A deeply validating manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America today, and an argument that the former needs a reboot-from journalist and proud divorcée Lyz Lenz. Studies show that nearly 70 percent of divorces are initiated by women-women who are tired, fed up, exhausted, and unhappy. We've all seen how the media portrays divorcées: sad, lonely, drowning their sorrows in a bottle of wine. Lyz...
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Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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Taking a caretaking job at a nature preserve, Katie gets more than she bargained for when a terrified woman arrives late at night expecting a safe place to hide, and she suddenly doesn't know whom she can trust as she decides how much she'll risk to do the right thing.
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Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Kate Parker knows what she's getting into when she marries billionaire businessman Hank Tudor -- she's his sixth wife, after all, and was by his side as his assistant when his fifth marriage to actress Caitlyn Howard fell apart. But honeymoon plans go awry when a headless body is discovered near Hank's summer home, forcing Kate to contend with two more of his exes: Catherine Alvarez -- the first -- who lives as a shut-in with her computers, carefully...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
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English
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Yeongju is burned out. She did everything she was supposed to: go to university, marry a decent man, get a respectable job. Then it all fell apart. In a leap of faith, Yeongju abandons her old life, quits her high-flying career, and follows her dream. She opens a bookshop. In a quaint neighbourhood in Seoul, surrounded by books, Yeongju and her customers take refuge. From the lonely barista to the unhappily married coffee roaster, and the writer...
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Harper
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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""Christensen is a forceful writer whose . . . prose is visceral and poetic. . . . She is a portrait artist, drawing in miniature, capturing the light within."-San Francisco Chronicle From the PEN-Faulkner Award-winning author of The Great Man comes a novel about grief, love, growing older, and the complications of family that is the story of a fifty-something woman who goes home-reluctantly-to Maine after the death of her mother. Can you ever truly...
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Home renovation mysteries volume 1
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Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"After discovering her husband having an affair, Jaime receives only a single thing in the ensuing divorce, a run-down historical house where she discovers a dead body in the wall once starting her renovations"--
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Kregel Publications
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"As a divorce and single mama survivor, Betsy St. Amant Haddox shares her own raw, unfiltered story of what happened when the romance author got dumped, complete with plenty of what-not-to-do's she learned on her bumbling journey toward wholeness. Turn the pages with Betsy as she navigates the abandonment by her husband, the seeming silence from heaven, dating as a single mom (which, by the way, is the equivalent of hula-hooping barbed wire), and...
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Atria Books
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2024.
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English
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Joy Okafor is overwhelmed. Recently divorced, a life coach whose phone won't stop ringing, and ever the dutiful Nigerian daughter, Joy has planned every aspect of her mother's seventieth birthday weekend on her own. As the Okafors slowly begin to arrive, Mama Mary goes to take a nap. But when the grandkids go to wake her, they find that she isn't sleeping after all. Refusing to believe that her sister is gone-gone, Auntie Nancy declares that she has...
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Kensington Books
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[2019]
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English
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"Cat has a full plate at her Aspen Hills Warm Springs Resort, as a group of aspiring cozy mystery authors arrives for a writer's retreat. The baker Dee Dee Meyer stirs up trouble by filing a false complaint with the health inspector against the B & B - all because she insists Cat's best friend Shauna stole her recipes - Cat marches into the shop to confront her. But Dee Dee's about to have her own batch of trouble. Greyson Finn - a celebrity chef...
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The Unnamed Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Claire Pedersen and her husband are relocating from NYC to the Catskills-they have found a terrific deal on a property in foreclosure. The house has been in April Ives' family for three generations, but the single mother of three children from two different fathers needs the money. Claire and April are instantly antagonistic, but the sale proceeds, and renovations begin. Soon after, Claire's husband develops an erotic fascination with Anna, a young...
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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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In the Vietnamese fishing village of Phan Thiet in 1942, Tuyet meets and falls in love with Japanese major Yamazaki Takeshi, a wounded veteran with a good heart, but when he risks his life for the Resistance, she and her family are drawn into the conflict, with devastating consequences.
12) Leaving: a novel
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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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Former college sweethearts reconnect decades later after each has married, raised a family and forged careers and embark on an intense affair that forces them to confront the moral responsibilities of their love for their families and each other.
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