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Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In a shiny new subdivision in 1970s Toronto, Marilyn greets new neighbors with fresh-baked cookies before she starts stealing from them. Stay-at-home-wife Francesca believes passion is just one yard away, only in the arms of another man. And Darren doesn't understand why his mother insists he keep his head down, even though he gets good grades like his white friends. When a series of inexplicable suicides begin to haunt their community, no one is...
42) Duplex: a novel
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Mary and Eddie are meant for each other -- but love is no guarantee, not in these suburbs. Like all children, they exist in an eternal present; time is imminent, and the adults of the street live in their assorted houses like numbers on a clock. Meanwhile ominous rumors circulate, and the increasing agitation of the neighbors points to a future in which all will be lost. Soon, a sorcerer's car will speed down Mary's street, and as past and future...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
Nestled on the edge of Chicago{u2019}s gritty west side, Oak Park is a suburb in flux. To the west, theaters and shops frame posh houses designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. To the east lies a neighborhood still recovering from urban decline. In the center of the community sits Ilios Lane, a pristine cul-de-sac dotted with quiet homes that bridge the surrounding extremes of wealth and poverty. On the first warm day in April, Mary Elizabeth McPherson, a...
Author
Publisher
Union Square & Co
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Rachel Miller is a lawyer and mother of two who's just as comfortable in a courtroom as she is on the sidelines of a soccer field. Sure, her marriage is on autopilot, her parents are overly involved, and the other suburban moms are just a little bit catty. But if you ask Rachel, life is good. That is until her world is upended when racy photos of her and her high school boyfriend, the famous actor Jack Bellow -- along with his love letters to her...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnams Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Martha used to be a force of nature: calm, collected, and in charge. But since moving her husband and two daughters to Dublin under sudden and mysterious circumstances, she can't seem to find her footing. Robin was the "it" girl in school, destined for success. Now she's back at her parents' with her four-year-old son, vowing that her ne'er-do-well ex is out of the picture for good. Edie has everything she could want, apart from a baby, and the acceptance...
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The annual Halloween block party is the pinnacle of the year on idyllic suburban cul-de-sac Ivy Woods Drive. An influential group of neighborhood moms--known as the Ivy Five--plans the event for months. Except the Ivy Five has been four for a long time. When a new mother moves to town, eager to fit in, the moms see it as an opportunity to make the group whole again. This year's block party should be the best yet ... until the women start receiving...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The lushly descriptive and tragic Burmese Days, a devastating indictment of British colonial rule, is based on Orwell{u2019}s own experience while serving in the Indian Imperial Police. His beloved satirical classic, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, features a young idealist whose attempt to rebel against middle-class respectability{u2014}by working in a bookshop and trying to be a writer{u2014}goes terribly and comically awry. The hero of Coming Up for...
Author
Publisher
Suma De Letras
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"QUIZÁ NO CONOZCAS A TUS VECINOS TAN BIEN COMO CREÍAS. En un tranquilo barrio residencial de Nueva York, un barrio de calles arboladas y acogedoras familias, algunos hogares han recibido una nota anónima: Me resulta muy difícil escribir esta carta. Espero que no nos odie. Hace poco mi hijo entró en su casa cuando usted estaba fuera... Un chico ha estado curioseando en las viviendas y en los ordenadores de sus dueños. ¿Quién es y qué ha descubierto?...
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When actress and model Allison Langley leaves her former rockstar husband, Christopher, in the middle of the night, it's all her Oak Hill neighbors can talk about. The gossip comes to an abrupt halt when five-year-old Billy Barnes goes missing on his walk home from kindergarten. Billy's mother, Rachel, blames herself for being at work and letting her only child walk alone. Cassidy, Billy's teenage babysitter, was also late to arrive on the afternoon...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Claire thought she had everything a woman was supposed to want: a loving husband, a newborn son, a beautiful home in the suburbs. Then she walked in on her husband canoodling with their Realtor in their newly renovated kitchen, and in an instant, her perfect life came crashing down. With her marriage headed for divorce, Claire knows it's time to stop feeling sorry for herself. But how can she move on when she's still stuck in the orbit of her soon-to-be...
51) Signal fires
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English
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"Signal Fires opens on a summer night in 1985. Three teenagers have been drinking. One of them gets behind the wheel of a car, and, in an instant, everything on Division Street changes. Each of their lives, and that of Ben Wilf, a young doctor who arrives on the scene, is shattered. For the Wilf family, the circumstances of that fatal accident will become the deepest kind of secret, one so dangerous it can never be spoken. On Division Street, time...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
From the author of A Little Hope--a Read with Jenna Bonus Pick--comes an enormously powerful and life-affirming novel about three individuals whose lives intersect in unforeseen ways. Set in a close-knit Pennsylvania suburb in the grip of winter, A Quiet Life follows three people grappling with loss and finding a tender wisdom in their grief. Chuck Ayers used to look forward to nothing so much as his annual trip to Hilton Head with his wife, Cat--that...
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English
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"The national bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex and The Marriage Plot First published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters-beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys-commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year. As the boys observe them from afar, transfixed, they piece together...
54) Olivia Vendetta
Author
Publisher
Stanké
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Français
Description
"« C'est un cliché, mais je rêve depuis des années d'assommer mon passé à coups de pelle dans face pour enfin faire la paix avec mes vieux démons. Un ambitieux programme pour des retrouvailles organisées dans une cabane à sucre. » De retour d'exil, Olivia renoue avec de vieux amis, mais surtout avec de douloureux souvenirs, en marge du conventum soulignant les vingt ans de la fin de son secondaire. Toutefois, cette réunion à saveur nostalgique...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
"Allison Weiss has a great job...a handsome husband...an adorable daughter...and a secret. Allison Weiss is a typical working mother, trying to balance a business, aging parents, a demanding daughter, and a marriage. But when the website she develops takes off, she finds herself challenged to the point of being completely overwhelmed. Her husband's becoming distant, her daughter's acting spoiled, her father is dealing with early Alzheimer's, and her...
Author
Series
Wildwater Walking Club volume 1
Publisher
Voice/Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"After her best friend's mysterious death, Elizabeth Smith's picture-perfect life in the Memphis suburbs has spiraled out of control -- so much so that she hires a personal assistant to keep her on track. Composed and elegant, Brianna is exactly who she needs and slides so neatly into Elizabeth's life, almost like she belonged there from the start. Soon, the assistant Elizabeth hired to distract her from her obsession with her friend's death is the...
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