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84) Version control
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A woman deals with a strange and persistent sense of everything being slightly off, which may or may not be related to her scientist husband's pet project, a "causality violation device" that might actually be working.
Author
Language
English
Description
"In 1920s Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), a young Englishwoman marries a charming tea plantation owner and widower, only to discover he's keeping terrible secrets about his past, including what happened to his first wife, that lead to devastating consequences"--Adapted from publisher description. 1920s Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). Gwendolyn, a young Englishwoman, marries Laurence, an older widower and tea plantation owner. At first Gwen finds it hard to adjust...
86) Whitefern
Author
Series
Audrina novels volume 2
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The long-awaited sequel to My Sweet Audrina, one of V.C. Andrews's strangest, most beloved books--and now a Lifetime movie! Whitefern swallowed Audrina's childhood--and now the sprawling Victorian mansion threatens her adult life too.
87) The other life
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Hiding the truth about her ability to cross into alternate realities where she has made different life decisions, a married and pregnant Quinn Braverman learns that her unborn child will be disabled and glimpses into a parallel life where she is married to someone else and childless.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Artist Laura Matthews finds her new home in the Welsh mountains to be a place so charged with tales and legends that she is able to reach through the gossamer-fine veil that separates her own world from that of myth and fable"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"Historical novel set in 1870 St. Augustine, Florida. Cheney and Shiloh's vacation to Florida turns very mysterious and they wonder if perhaps Sangria House is not the haven they had thought it would be"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The miraculous new novel from New York Times-bestselling author Eleanor Brown, whose debut, The Weird Sisters, was a sensation beloved by critics and readers alike. Madeleine is trapped--by her family's expectations, by her controlling husband, and by her own fears--in an unhappy marriage and a life she never wanted. From the outside, it looks like she has everything, but on the inside, she fears she has nothing that matters. In Madeleine's memories,...
Author
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
With a new name and fake ID papers, Sarah Patterson, on the run from her violent estranged husband -- a police lieutenant -- takes a job working with Hollywood's golden boy director who, as their bond deepens, attempts to keep Sarah out of harm's way.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The Civil War South comes to vivid life in this electrifying story of a woman's plight and a legacy of deceit that echoes for generations. When Major Gryffth Hockaday is called to the front lines of the Civil War, his new bride is left to care for her husband's three-hundred-acre farm and infant son. Placidia, a mere teenager herself living far from her family and completely unprepared to run a farm or raise a child, must endure the darkest days...
94) His right hand
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Draper, Utah, a tight-knit Mormon community is thrown into upheaval when their ward's second counselor -- one of the bishop's right-hand men -- is found dead in an elaborately staged murder on church property. Carl Ashby was known as a devout Mormon, a pillar of the community, and a loving husband and father. Who would want him dead? Linda Wallheim, the wife of the ward's bishop, can't rest as long as the ward is suffering. She is particularly...
95) Daughters of war
Author
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
While wondering if her ten-year marriage is a mistake, an American living in London is persuaded by a nurse friend to join the war effort as her alcoholic, cheating husband puts their family at risk.
96) Lucky boy
Author
Language
English
Description
"A heart-wrenching novel that gives voice to two mothers: a young undocumented Mexican woman and an Indian-American wife whose love for one lucky boy will bind their fates together Solimar Castro-Valdez is eighteen and drunk on optimism when she embarks on a perilous journey across the US/Mexican border. Weeks later she arrives on her cousin's doorstep in Berkeley, CA, dazed by first love found then lost, and pregnant. This was not the plan. But amid...
97) Bird: a novel
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Bird puts her child on the bus for school and passes the day with her baby. Interwoven into the passage of the day are phone calls from a promiscuous, unmarried friend, and Bird's recollection of the feral, reckless love she knew as a young woman. It's a day infused with fear and longing, an exploration of the ways the past shapes and dislodges the present.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2012, ©2010
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Larissa has everything--a handsome husband, great kids, and a big house--but she feels unfulfilled until she meets and has an affair with a charismatic stranger that forces her to rethink all that she has come to believe.
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