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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"With the opening line of Silver Sparrow, My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist, author Tayari Jones unveils a ...story about a man s deception, a family s complicity, and two teenage girls caught in the middle. Set in a middle-class neighborhood in Atlanta in the 1980s, the novel revolves around James Witherspoon's two families the public one and the secret one. When the daughters from each family meet and form a friendship, only one of them...
2) The wives
Author
Language
English
Description
She's never met the other wives. None of them know each other, and because of this unconventional arrangement, she can see her husband only one day a week. But she loves him so much she doesn't care. Or at least that's what she told herself. But one day, while she's doing laundry, she finds a scrap of paper in his pocket, an appointment reminder for a woman named Hannah, and she knows it's another of the wives. She thought she was fine with her arrangement,...
Author
Series
Unconditional novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Kimera Davis finds comfort in dating married men. It's easier that way. Her needs are taken care of and she doesn't have to give more of herself than she wants to. No messy feelings involved. But when the man she's seeing poses an unexpected question, Kimera quickly realizes that she's not the only woman pulled in by his charm"--Back cover.
Author
Series
Sisterhood series volume 13
Publisher
Kensington Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
For the past twenty years, Bronson Powers, former Hollywood stuntman and converted Mormon, has been homesteading deep in the desert outside Joshua Tree with his three wives and ten children. Bronson and his wives, Yalulah, Mary, and Jackie, have been raising their family away from the corruption and evil of the modern world. Their insular existence is upended when a young developer Maya Abbadessa stumbles upon their land. Hoping to make a profit,...
9) Black widows
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Against the wishes of his family and the laws of the elders of the Mormon church, Blake Nelson has adopted the old polygamous ways and lives alone with his three wives, miles from anywhere, in rural Utah. Blake and his wives kept to themselves-and kept most folks out. That is, until his dead body is discovered. Black Widows is told in the three voices of Blake's very different wives, who hate each other, and who sometimes hated their husband. Blake's...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Utah Territory, winter of 1888. Deborah Tyler waits for her husband, Samuel, who is weeks overdue from his travels as a wheelwright. Junction is a tiny town of seven Mormon families scattered along the floor of a canyon, and Deborah earns her living by tending orchards and making work gloves. Isolated by the red-rock cliffs that surround the town, the townspeople are regarded with suspicion by the Mormon faithful who question the depth of their belief....
11) War of the wives
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
Imagine being happily married for 28 years. You have three children, a lovely house and a husband who travels a lot, but even after all this time, you still love each other. Or: imagine being happily married for 17 years. You have one daughter, a lovely home and though your husband travels a lot, you still love each other passionately. Then one day you get a call that turns your world upside down: your husband is dead. You are devastated. You go to...
Author
Series
Art Oveson novels volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"After a high-profile case thrusts deputy Art Oveson into the spotlight, Salt Lake City's mayor taps him to head the city's Anti-Polygamy Squad. As a Mormon ashamed that his own ancestors played a part in the church's polygamist past, Art's eager to do his part to remove the extremists still practicing plural marriage. But after one of the polygamist patriarchs is murdered and a shell-shocked young woman found at the scene of the crime, Art finds...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Lark has good things coming: a career as a board-game designer and a whirlwind romance with a handsome investor. Trip is so compassionate and supportive, he's almost too good to be true. Jessica has always been cautious, but she can't resist Jonathan. The brilliant TED-talking visionary has big plans for his inspiring medical start-up. Now Jessica is invited to be part of the team - and to partner with the founder outside the office. Holly has settled...
14) A duke in time
Author
Series
Widow rules volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Katherine is in for the shock of her life when she learns upon her husband Meri's accidental death that he had married two other women. Her entire business, along with a once-in-a-lifetime chance to be a royal supplier, is everything she's been working for and now could be destroyed if word leaks about the three wives. Meri's far more upstanding brother Duke of Randford has no clue how to be of assistance. He spent the better part of his adult years...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Three spirited wives in nineteenth-century Utah. One husband. A compelling novel of family, sisterhood, and survival by the Washington Post bestselling author of One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow. 1856. Three women-once strangers-come together in unpredictable Utah Territory. Hopeful, desperate, and willful, they'll allow nothing on earth or in Heaven to stand in their way. Following the call of their newfound Mormon faith, Tamar Loader and...
16) 3 mujeres
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Ibérica, S.A
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
Nunca ha conocido a las otras esposas. Ninguno de ellos se conoce y, debido a este arreglo poco convencional, solo puede ver a su esposo un día a la semana. Pero ella lo ama tanto que no le importa. O al menos eso es lo que se dijo a sí misma. Pero un día, mientras lava la ropa, encuentra un trozo de papel en su bolsillo, un recordatorio de una cita para una mujer llamada Hannah, y sabe que es otra de las esposas. Ella pensó que estaba bien con...
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