Rose, Jeneva
Summary: "Sarah Morgan is a successful and powerful defense attorney in Washington D.C. As a named partner at her firm, life is going exactly how she planned. The same cannot be said for her husband, Adam. He's a struggling writer who has had little success in his career and he tires of his and Sarah's relationship as she is constantly working. Out in the secluded woods, at the couple's lake house, Adam...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloodhound Books 2020
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Summary: "A mesmerizing, psychologically taut novel about a marriage's end and the secrets we all carry. A young woman has agreed with her faithless husband: it's time for them to separate. For the moment it's a private matter, a secret between the two of them. As she begins her new life, she gets word that Christopher has gone missing in a remote region in the rugged south of Greece; she reluctantly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2017
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KITParis, B. A.
Summary: The perfect marriage? Or the perfect lie? Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace. He has looks and wealth, she has charm and elegance. You might not want to like them, but you do. You'd like to get to know Grace better. But it's difficult, because you realise Jack and Grace are never apart. Some might call this true love. Others might ask why Grace never answers the phone. Or how she can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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Summary: "For days, all of Denver, Colorado, has worried over the fate of a missing child, little Tanner Holcomb. Then, a miracle: handsome, athletic Johnny Bradley finds him, frightened but unharmed, on a hiking trail miles from his wealthy family's mountain home. In a heartbeat, his rescuer goes from financially strapped fitness trainer to celebrated hero. The heat of the spotlight may prove too much...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STOCraft, Kathryn
Summary: "After enduring years of a struggling marriage, Ronnie Farnham has decided to divorce her husband and is beginning to hope for a happy future--until the morning Jeff is supposed to move out, when he locks himself in their barn with a rifle. When a massive police presence arrives to control the 12-hour stand-off, the women in Jeff's life are pushed to their breaking points"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2015
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Summary: Lydia Millet’s chilling new novel is the first-person account of a young mother, Anna, escaping her cold and unfaithful husband, a businessman who’s just launched his first campaign for political office. When Ned chases Anna and their six-year-old daughter from Alaska to Maine, the two go into hiding in a run-down motel on the coast. But the longer they stay, the less the guests in the dingy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2016
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Summary: Madeline Dare, a recently transplanted New Yorker and stay-at-home mom, takes on a freelance position for a Boulder, Colorado, newspaper and must protect her family when her investigative coverage of a local serial arsonist gets a bit too hot.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2012
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Summary: Iris and Gabriel have just arrived home from a make-or-break holiday, but a shock awaits them. One of their closest friends, Laure, is in their house. The atmosphere quickly becomes tense as she oversteps again and again: sleeping in their bed, wearing Iris's clothes, even rearranging the furniture. Laure has walked out on her husband--and their good friend--Pierre, over his confession of an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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Summary: When the 20 year marriage of literary power couple Grace and Ted Chapman begins to crumble, to the rescue comes Beth, a new assistant. Soon, though, it's clear to Grace that Beth might be too good to be true. This new interloper might be the biggest threat of all, one that could cost Grace her marriage, her reputation, and even her sanity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GREHillier, Jennifer
Summary: "All it takes to unravel a life is one little secret... Marin had the perfect life. Married to her college sweetheart, she owns a chain of upscale hair salons, and Derek runs his own company. They're admired in their community and are a loving family - until their world falls apart the day their son Sebastian is taken. A year later, Marin is a shadow of herself. The FBI search has gone cold....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILMcEwan, Ian
Summary: "Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home--a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse--but John's not here. Instead, she's with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them have a plan. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month-old resident of Trudy's womb. Told from a perspective unlike any other, Nutshell is a classic tale...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2016
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Summary: "Mark and Maggie's annual drive east to visit family has gotten off to a rocky start. By the time they're on the road, it's late, a storm is brewing, and they are no longer speaking to one another. Adding to the stress, Maggie--recently mugged at gunpoint--is lately not herself, and Mark is at a loss about what to make of the stranger he calls his wife. When they are forced to stop for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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Summary: Allergic to group activities of any kind, all her life Serenata has run, swum, and cycled on her lonesome. But now that she's hit 60, all that physical activity has destroyed her knees. As she contemplates surgery with dread, her previously sedentary husband Remington, recently and ignominiously redundant, chooses this precise moment to discover exercise. Which should be good for his health,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHRWilliams, John
Summary: As the spirit of experimentation swirled around him in the 1960s and '70s, John Williams, working in relative obscurity as an English professor, wrote finely crafted novels distinguished by precise form, powerful but restrained prose, and close attention to physical detail and its symbolic import. His three major works Butcher's Crossing (1960), Stoner (1965), and the National Book...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILGreen, Jane
Summary: "Grace and Ted Chapman. Literary power couple. Ted is considered "the thinking man's John Grisham" and Grace, his wife of twenty years is beautiful, stylish, carefree. All of this is on the surface. Beneath, what no one sees, is Ted's rages. His mood swings. And the precarious house of cards that their lifestyle is built upon. When Ted's longtime assistant and mainstay leaves, the house of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION GREKilroy, Claire
Summary: "In her first novel for over a decade, Claire Kilroy takes readers deep into the early days of motherhood. Exploring the clash of fierce love for a new life with a seismic change in identity, Kilroy vividly explores the raw, tumultuous emotions of a new mother, as the narrator, Soldier's, marriage strains and she struggles with questions of equality, autonomy and creativity"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEHolsinger, Bruce W.
Summary: "This deliciously sharp novel captures the relentless ambitions and fears that animate parents and their children in modern America, exploring the conflicts between achievement and potential, talent and privilege. Set in the fictional town of Crystal, Colorado, The Gifted School is a keenly entertaining novel that observes the drama within a community of friends and parents as good intentions...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2019
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Summary: Believing she has finally achieved happiness in her second marriage, children and best friendship with the most loyal woman she has ever known, Alice turns suspicious when her husband and best friend start disappearing for extended times.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2019
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Summary: Cassie Barrett, a world-renowned anthropologist, wakes up in a graveyard and doesn't know who she is. Taken in for a few days by William Flying Horse, a Native American police officer, she waits for her life to reappear. When Hollywood heartthrob Alex Rivers shows up to claim her as his wife, she is stunned but still doesn't remember anything.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PICVanderah, Glendy.
Summary: "In a moment of crisis, Ellis Abbey leaves her daughter, Viola, unattended - for just a few minutes. But when she returns, Viola is gone. A breaking point in an already fractured marriage, Viola's abduction causes Ellis to disappear as well - into grief, guilt, and addiction. Convinced she can only do more harm to her family, Ellis leaves her husband and young sons, burying her desperate ache...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILYeatman, Robin
Summary: "Imagine if Patricia Highsmith had written The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and instead of heroic daydreams she gave her protagonist murderous ones--that would be Bookworm. Robin Yeatman's story is subversive, surprising, and satisfying in a way that only the best comic noir can be."--Claire Oshetsky, author of Chouette Victoria is unhappily married to an ambitious and controlling lawyer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC YEAGlass, Julia
Summary: Hired as the personal chef to the governor of New Mexico, Greenie Duquette leaves behind her Greenwich Village pastry business and her husband to head west with her four-year-old son, prompting a period of upheaval and reflection for herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GLAMcGinniss, Joe
Summary: Nick and Phoebe Maguire, in search of a fresh start for themselves and their infant son, move cross-country to Southern California, arriving at the worst possible economic time. Instead of a beachside home, they find themselves broke, trapped, and increasingly desperate in the dark heart of foreclosure alley. Nick and Phoebe each devise their own plan to claw their way back into the middle...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016