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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
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Littlefield, Massachusetts, named one of the Ten Best Places to Live in America, full of psychologists and college professors, is proud of its fine schools, its girls' soccer teams, its leafy streets, and charming village center. Yet no sooner has sociologist Dr. Clarice Watkins arrived to study the elements of "good quality of life" than someone begins poisoning the town's dogs. Certainly these types of things don't happen in Littlefield. With an...
45) Stay close
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three people-- a suburban housewife, a talented documentary photographer, and a detective-- living lives they never wanted, hiding secrets that even those closest to them would never suspect, will find that the past doesn't recede ... and that desperation and hunger can lurk behind even the prettiest facades.
Publisher
StarVista Entertainment / Time Life
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
Description
The complete second season of the delightfully offbeat TV comedy that originally began as a skit on the legendary Carol Burnett Show. As portrayed by Vicki Lawrence, the formidable Mama put the 'diss' in dysfunctional. Mama dispenses no-nonsense motherly advice and verbal kicks in the backside. There's her nervous sister Fran, slow-witted son Vint, and his bubble-headed girlfriend Naomi, plus frequent appearances by Betty White and Carol Burnett as...
47) Dark skies
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Dark Skies is a supernatural thriller that follows a young family living in the suburbs. As husband and wife Daniel and Lacy Barrett witness an escalating series of disturbing events involving their family, their safe and peaceful home quickly unravels. When it becomes clear that the Barrett family is being targeted by an unimaginably terrifying and deadly force, Daniel and Lacy take matters in their own hands to solve the mystery of what is after...
48) Cul-de-sac
Author
Language
English
Description
"Someone on this quiet cul-de-sac will be shot dead. Will it be Maggie, the perfectionist wife, or Craig, the husband who can't quite live up to her expectations? Maybe it will be Nick, an oncologist, or his wife, Dani, a successful dentist, both with secrets of their own. Or Julia, a widow, whose grandson has moved in with her, introducing unsavory habits and acquaintances into her quiet existence. Then there's Olivia and Sean. Having lost his job,...
50) The school run
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When a group of mothers takes the competition for private schooling too far, the consequences are deadly, in this twisting tale of secrets and betrayal.
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...
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Struggling to adjust to the upper-crust white suburb of Rolling Hills, Virginia, De'Andrea Whitman is challenged by her therapist to make a white girlfriend and finds one in Rebecca Myland as they are brought together to fight back against the community's rising racial sentiments.
54) Buried stuff
Author
Series
Jane Wheel mysteries volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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
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...
58) Middlesex
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry blonde classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them--along with Callie's failure to develop--leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. In fact, she is not really a girl at all.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Powerful and important . . . an instant classic."
—The Washington Post Book World
The award-winning look at an ugly aspect of American racism by the bestselling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, reissued with a new preface by the author
—The Washington Post Book World
The award-winning look at an ugly aspect of American racism by the bestselling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, reissued with a new preface by the author
In this groundbreaking work, sociologist James W. Loewen, author of the classic bestseller Lies My Teacher Told Me, brings to light decades of hidden racial exclusion in America. In a provocative,
...Author
Publisher
Beaufort Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Set in a suburb of Chicago, Illinois during May 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Scott Hatcher and his neighborhood must come to terms with the disappearance then discovery and follow-on official death investigation of Scott's wife Marie and their neighbor John Bergman.
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