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Thomas Hardy's first masterpiece, The Mayor of Casterbridge opens with a scene of such heartlessness and cruelty that it still shocks readers today. A poor workman named Michael Henchard, in a fit of drunken rage, sells his wife and baby daughter to a stranger at a country fair. Stricken with remorse, Henchard forswears alcohol and works hard to become a prosperous businessman and the respected mayor of Casterbridge. But he cannot erase his past....
2) Live wire
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Harlan Coben published his first Myron Bolitar thriller, Deal Breaker, in 1995, introducing a hero that would captivate millions. Over the years we have watched Myron walk a tight rope between sports agent, friend, problem solver and private eye, his big heart quick to defend his client's interests so fiercely that he can't help but jump in to save them, no matter the cost.
When former tennis star Suzze T and her rock star husband, Lex, encounter...
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An ordinary snapshot causes a suburban mother's world to unravel in an instant. When Grace Lawson picks up a newly developed set of family photographs, there is a picture that doesn't belong--a photo from at least twenty years ago. In the photo are five people: four Grace can't recognize and one that looks strikingly like her husband, Jack. When Jack sees it, he denies he's the man in the photo. But later that night, while Grace lies in bed, he drives...
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Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2014
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Unabridged
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English
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Possessing an unsettling ability to predict random future events, Anchorage resident David Winkler foresees his infant daughter's drowning death and travels thousands of miles to Ohio and the Caribbean to prevent the tragedy.
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On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy's fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations made when Nick's clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Husband-of-the-year Nick isn't doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife's head, but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist...
7) Watermelon
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Walsh family volume 1
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Avon Books
Pub. Date
1999, c1995
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419 p. ; 18 cm.
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English
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In Ireland, a few hours after giving birth, Clair Webster is informed by her husband that he is leaving her for another woman. After much drinking Claire realizes the best cure for a broken heart is another man, she stops drinking and starts exercising.
8) Mr. Peanut
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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2010
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Two detectives are called in to investigate the mysterious death of a morbidly obese woman who her husband claims suffered suicide by anaphylactic shock, and as they work on the case, they begin to see upsetting parallels between their own marital relationships and that of the victim and her husband.
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"Kate Atkinson's dazzling Life After Life explored the possibility of infinite chances and the power of choices, following Ursula Todd as she lived through the turbulent events of the last century over and over again. A GOD IN RUINS tells the dramatic story of the 20th century through Ursula's beloved younger brother Teddy--would-be poet, heroic pilot, husband, father, and grandfather--as he navigates the perils and progress of a rapidly changing...
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Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1982
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1st ed.
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303 p. ; 22 cm.
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Pearl Tull is nearing the end of her life, but not her memory. Ever since 1944 when her husband left her, she has raised her three very different children on her own. Now grown, they have gathered together--with anger, with hope, and with a beautiful, harsh, and dazzling story to tell ...
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Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
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First Scribner hardcover edition.
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232 pages ; 22 cm
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"The most profound book yet from the visionary author of Milk Fed and The Pisces, a darkly funny novel about grief that becomes a desert survival story In Melissa Broder's astounding new novel, a woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has fled to the California desert to escape a cloud of sorrow-both for her father in the ICU and a disabled husband whose illness is worsening. What the motel provides,...
12) Husband material
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Sourcebooks Casablanca
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[2022]
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422 pages ; 21 cm.
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Wanted: One (very real) husband, nowhere near perfect but desperately trying his best. In Boyfriend Material, Luc and Oliver met, pretended to fall in love, fell in love for real, dealt with heartbreak and disappointment and family and friends... and somehow figured out a way to make it work. Now it seems like everyone around them is getting married, and Luc's feeling the social pressure to propose. But it'll take more than four weddings, a funeral,...
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"A novel about a woman who one day comes home to find her attic is magic and producing an endless supply of interchangeable husbands"--
When Lauren returns home to her flat in London late one night, she is greeted at the door by her husband, Michael. There's only one problem--she's not married. She's never seen this man before in her life. But according to her friends, her much-improved decor, and the photos on her phone, they've been together for...
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The Delaney family love one another dearly - it's just that sometimes they want to murder each other. If your mother was missing, would you tell the police? Even if the most obvious suspect was your father? This is the dilemma facing the four grown Delaney siblings. The Delaneys are fixtures in their community. The parents, Stan and Joy, are the envy of all of their friends. They're killers on the tennis court, and off it their chemistry is palpable....
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Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
p2000
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6 sound discs (7 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Wild Bill Hickock, U.S. Army colonel Fetterman, and other American figures appear in this historical novel of the nineteenth-century West, in which a woman named Mary Margaret treks across the country with her family to confront her traveling, philandering husband.
16) Web of evil
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Touchstone
Pub. Date
2007
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357 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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After being fired from her high profile Los Angeles' anchorwoman job, Ali Reynolds is angry and has returned to Sedona, Ariz., to lick her wounds. Having shed her cheating husband, she started a blog to help vent her feelings of betrayal. The day before her final divorce decree, her estranged husband is found dead in Palm Springs, leaving behind a rich estate and a pregnant fiancee. Not only is Ali the sole heir to his estate, she's also the primary...
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No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency volume 8
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There is much happening on Zebra Drive and Tlokweng Road. Mma Ramotswe is experiencing staffing difficulties. First Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni asks to be put in charge of a case involving an errant husband. But can a man investigate such matters as successfully as the number one lady detective can? Then she has a minor falling-out with her assistant, Mma Makutsi, who decides to leave the agency, taking the 97 percent she received on her typing final from...
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Jane Eyre (originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published on 16 October 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. of London, England, under the pen name "Currer Bell." The first American edition was released the following year by Harper & Brothers of New York. Primarily of the bildungsroman genre, Jane Eyre follows the emotions and experiences of its title character, including her growth to adulthood,...
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