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Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
Berkeley hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 320 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Divorcee Linda Breland packs up her two daughters and moves from New Jersey to her hometown in South Carolina, where she sparks the interest of nearly-divorced Brad Jackson, who hires her to run his restaurant.
Author
Series
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
viii, 312 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seeking revenge for the death of his ex-wife, labeled an accidental overdose by the NYPD, Detective Willy Kunkle leaves Vermont for Manhattan, where his investigation uncovers rumors of foul play and secrets about his own life.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
258 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
British journalist Stephen Sharkey escapes the trauma of covering the terrorist attacks on New York City to live in a country cottage and write a book about violence and the reporter's complicity in it, and learns, along with his former partner's widow, Kate Frobisher, that no place is completely safe.
Author
Series
Frank Bascombe novels volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
485 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Frank Bascombe's career in real estate is thriving and his life finally seems to be on the right track, but when he is faced with marital and medical crises, he must find a new way to navigate the challenges of life without endangering everything he has worked for.
Author
Publisher
The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
328 p. 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Neill's father committed suicide ten years ago, he left behind thousands of pages of secret journals, journals that are stunning in their detail, and, it must be said, their complete banality. But their spectacularly quotidian details, were exactly what artificial intelligence company Amiante Systems was looking for, and Neill was able to parlay them into a job, despite a useless degree in business marketing and absolutely no experience in computer...
8) Good faith
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Formats
Description
Joe Stratford thinks he is living out the American dream, but when he makes one wrong decision, his whole world comes crashing down around him and he must find a way to rebuild.
Author
Language
English
Description
When you read this book, you will make many assumptions. You will assume you are reading about a jealous wife and her obsession with her replacement. You will assume you are reading about a woman about to enter a new marriage with the man she loves. You will assume the first wife was a disaster and that the husband was well rid of her. You will assume you know the motives, the history, the anatomy of the relationships. Assume nothing.
11) The sportswriter
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Contemporaries
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
2nd Vintage ed.
Physical Desc
375 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In just one short week, Sportswriter Frank Bascombe finds his life falling apart around him.
12) No offense
Author
Series
Little Bridge Island volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A broken engagement only gave Molly Montgomery additional incentive to follow her dream job from the Colorado Rockies to the Florida Keys. Now, as Little Bridge Island Public Library's head of children's services, Molly hopes the messiest thing in her life will be her sticky-note covered desk. But fate - in the form of a newborn left in the restroom - has other ideas. So does the sheriff who comes to investigate the "abandonment". When John Hartwell...
13) The donut legion
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Charlie Garner has a bad feeling. His ex-wife, Meg, has been missing for over a week and one quick peek into her home shows all her possessions packed up in boxes. Neighbors claim she's running from bill collectors, but Charlie suspects something more sinister is afoot. Meg was last seen working at the local donut shop, a business run by a shadow group most refer to as 'The Saucer People'; a space-age, evangelist cult...Along with his brother Felix...Charlie...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Someone is telling the story of the life of Charlie Barnes, and it doesn't appear to be going well. Too often divorced, discontent with life's compromises and in a house he hates, this lifelong schemer and eternal romantic would like out of his present circumstances and into the American dream. But when the twin calamities of the Great Recession and a cancer scare come along to compound his troubles, his dreams dwindle further, and an infinite past...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
268 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Shantanu Das is living in the shadows of his past. In his fifties, he finds himself isolated from his traditional Bengali community after a devastating divorce from his wife, Chaitali; he hasn’t spoken to his eldest daughter Mitali in months; and most painfully, he lives each day with the regret that he didn’t accept his teenaged daughter Keya after she came out as gay. As the anniversary of Keya’s death approaches, Shantanu wakes up one morning...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Dr. Toby Fleishman wakes up each morning surrounded by women. Women who are self-actualized and independent and know what they want--and, against all odds, what they want is Toby. Who knew what kind of life awaited him once he finally extracted himself from his nightmare of a marriage? Who knew that there were women out there who would actually look at him with softness and desire? But just as the winds of his optimism are beginning to pick up, they're...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 302 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of one summer on a lush private island, about addiction and sex, family and independence, and who holds the power in a modern underworld. Camp counselor Cory Ansel, eighteen and aimless, afraid to face her high-strung single mother in New York, is no longer sure where home is when the father of one of her campers offers an alternative. The CEO of a Fortune...
18) The spite house
Author
Publisher
Nightfire, TOR Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A terrifying Gothic thriller about grief and death and the depths of a father's love, Johnny Compton's The Spite House is a stunning debut by a horror master in the making--The Babadook meets A Headful of Ghosts in Texas Hill Country. Eric Ross is on the run from a mysterious past with his two daughters in tow. Having left his wife, his house, his whole life behind in Maryland, he's desperate for money--it's not easy to find steady, safe work when...
Author
Series
Amgash novels volume 4
Language
English
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Description
"As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bundled away to a small town in Maine by her ex-husband and on-again, off-again friend, William. For the next several months, it's just Lucy, William, and their complex past together in a little house nestled against the moody, swirling sea. Rich with empathy and emotion, Lucy by the Sea vividly captures the fear and struggles that come with isolation,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Tony Webster has always made the very reasonable assumption that he could trust his memories, but when he's forced to revisit his past, everything he believes about himself and his life is challenged. The fact is that Tony Webster, a middle-aged man, never gave much thought to his past at all until his closest childhood friends' return with a vengeance -- one of them from the grave and another maddeningly present. Tony thought he'd left all this uncertainly...
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