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61) The woman in red
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Destiny toys with us all, but Anita Garibaldi is a force to be reckoned with. Forced into marriage at sixteen, Anita feels trapped in a union she does not want. But when she meets the leader of the Brazilian resistance, Giuseppe Garibaldi, in 1839, everything changes. Swept into a passionate affair with the idolized mercenary, Anita's life is suddenly consumed by the plight to liberate Southern Brazil--a struggle that would cost thousands of lives...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"There is a stranger outside Caroline's house. Her spectacular new beach house, built for hosting expensive parties and vacationing with the family she thought she'd have. But her husband is lying to her and everything in her life is upside down, so when the stranger, Aidan, shows up as a bartender at the same party where Caroline and her husband have a very public fight, it doesn't seem like anything out of the ordinary. As her marriage collapses...
Author
Series
Promise Lodge volume 5
Publisher
Zebra Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"For abandoned wife Annabelle Beachey, Promise Lodge is a refuge where she's gained confidence and self-sufficiency. But she and others are dismayed when newly arrived Bishop Clayton King claims the community is too progressive and sets out to change its ways. Worse, her husband, Phineas returns, expecting her to give up her faith as he has. And he won't leave Promise Lodge without her . . . But little by little, Annabelle's determination and new...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"There are so few established facts about how the son of a glove maker from Warwickshire became one of the greatest writers of all time that some people doubt he could really have written so many astonishing plays. We know that he married Anne Hathaway, who was pregnant and six years older than he, at the age of eighteen, and that one of their children died of the plague. We know that he left Stratford to seek his fortune in London, and eventually...
Author
Series
Bestseller) volume 861/2
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
Imagine that your husband wrote you a letter, to be opened after his death. Imagine, too, that the letter contains his deepest, darkest secret, something with the potential to destroy not just the life you built together, but the lives of others as well. Imagine, then, that you stumble across that letter while your husband is still very much alive. Cecilia Fitzpatrick has achieved it all; she is an incredibly successful businesswoman, a pillar of...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Find You First and Elevator Pitch comes a gripping psychological thriller about a formerly missing woman who has suddenly returned under mysterious circumstances. One weekend, while Andrew Mason was on a fishing trip, his wife, Brie, vanished without a trace. Most everyone assumed Andy had got away with murder -- it's always the husband, isn't it? -- but the police could never build a strong case against...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Bath, England, 1892. Celebrated mystery author Lady Amy Lovell is set to tie the knot with a fellow member of the Mystery Book Club of Bath. Amy's great-aunt has offered to host their wedding at her stately manor house. But on the eve of the ceremony, the festive air in the drawing room is marred by Mr. and Mrs. Finch arguing in another room. The next morning at the wedding breakfast, Mrs. Finch falls face-first into her breakfast--dead. When Amy's...
Author
Publisher
St Martins Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Tom Putnam has resigned himself to a quiet and half-fulfilled life. An English professor in a sleepy college town, he spends his days browsing the Shakespeare shelves at the campus bookstore, managing the oddball faculty in his department and caring, alongside his formidable mother-in-law, for his wife Marjory, a fragile shut-in with unrelenting neuroses, a condition exacerbated by her discovery of Tom?s brief and misguided affair with a visiting...
69) Need you now
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When big-city life threatens the safety of one of their three teenagers, Brad and Darlene Henderson move the family to tiny Round Top, Texas. The adjustment is difficult for the kids, and when Darlene takes an outside job for the first time, tension rises. The widowed father of one of her students is paying too much attention to her. Trouble is, Darlene feels like someone is listening to her for the first time in a long time. If Darlene ever needed...
Author
Publisher
Booket
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
"Mario, un joven funcionario, es la personificación de la rutina. Cada día a la misma hora llega a casa, donde espera encontrar a su esposa, Blanca, que es su polo opuesto. Antes de que Mario la "rescatara", bebía, fumaba y tomaba pastillas sin ningún control. Mario le roba horas al trabajo y al ocio para estar con Blanca, su único interés, que se convierte en obsesión. Una novela breve pero elegante, con un final sorprendente."--
"Mario,...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Lane won Candace's heart over chocolate martinis and karaoke. But weeks into their whirlwind marriage, Candace realized Lane came with burdensome baggage in the form of his possessive live-in sister and her eerily watchful six-year-old son. Lane had a secret that seemed to hold him hostage, and Candace would do anything to uncover it. Harper was the kind of woman who cooked homemade meals and dusted under the furniture. It was the least she could...
Author
Publisher
Inkshares
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"After a tragic miscarriage and a year spent locked in an asylum, Clara Blackstone travels north to meet her husband Henry for a fresh start, but she's haunted by foggy memories of the past year and a growing distrust of her husband for committing her. After a tense reunion, their carriage runs into a mob surrounding mass murderer Mary Ann Cotton as she's brought to Durham Jail to await trial. When Clara learns that Cotton is not only pregnant but...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, a division of Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A woman tries to rebuild her life after her husband's conviction for huge financial fraud"--
After her husband Alan's decades of financial fraud are exposed, Suzanne's wealthy, comfortable life shatters. Alan goes to prison. Suzanne files for divorce, decamps to a barely middle-class Massachusetts beach town, and begins to create a new life and identity. Ignoring a steady stream of calls from Norfolk State Prison, she tries to cleanse herself of...
Author
Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Kabuto is a highly skilled assassin eager to escape his dangerous profession and the hold his handler, the sinister Doctor, has over him. The Doctor, a real physician who hands over Kabuto's targets as "prescriptions" in his regular appointments with him, doesn't want to lose Kabuto as a profitable asset, but he agrees to let him pay his way out of his employment with a few last jobs. But the most lucrative jobs involve taking out other professional...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Thirty-four-year-old marine biologist Kyra Winthrop remembers nothing about the diving accident that left her with a complex form of memory loss. With only brief flashes of the last few years of her life, her world has narrowed to a few close friendships on the island where she lives with her devoted husband, Jacob. But all is not what it seems. Kyra begins to have visions--or are they memories?--of a rocky marriage, broken promises, and cryptic...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson's critically acclaimed translations of Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas and The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis introduced a new generation of readers to one of Brazil's most groundbreaking authors. Hailed as "the greatest writer ever produced in Latin America" (Susan Sontag), Machado's genius is on full display in this fresh translation of the 1899 classic Dom Casmurro. In his supposed memoir, Bento...
Author
Series
Dorothy Martin mysteries volume 22
Publisher
Severn House Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When Dorothy Martin and her ex-policeman husband Alan are asked by some good friends to look into a series of petty crimes that are perplexing the local Mounties in the picturesque Canadian city of Victoria, they immediately jump on a plane to British Columbia and settle themselves into the heart of the local community. Drinking champagne with the local businessman and would-be politician as well as cups of tea with the local recluse, they infiltrate...
Author
Series
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
"Inglaterra, Edad Media. Dos ancianos parten en busca de su hijo. Este se marcho hace mucho, aunque en circunstancias que no recuerdan, porque han perdido buena parte de la memoria debido a lo que los habitantes de su region llaman ±la niebla». En su periplo se encontraran con un guerrero sajon llamado Wistan, un joven herido y el anciano caballero Sir Gawain, que busca acabar con un dragon. Juntos se enfrentaran a los multiples peligros del viaje....
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Having grown up the privileged daughter of artists, Vincent has a life that is lovely in many ways. At forty-four, she enjoys strolling the streets of Paris and teaching at the modern art museum; she has a vibrant group of friends; and she's even caught the eye of a young, charismatic man named Loup. But Vincent is also in Paris to escape a painful betrayal: her Irish husband, Cillian, has published a bestselling book divulging secrets about his...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
We all know the headiness and excitement of the early days of love. But what comes after? In Edinburgh, a couple, Rabih and Kirsten, fall in love. They get married, they have children{u2014}but no long-term relationship is as simple as "happily ever after."The Course of Love is a novel that explores what happens after the birth of love, what it takes to maintain love, and what happens to our original ideals under the pressures of an average existence....
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