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"A missing woman receives a second chance at life, thanks to her billionaire husband--but the consequences are deadly in this gripping psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Before. Abbie awakens in a daze with no memory of who she is or how she landed in this unsettling condition. The man by her side claims to be her husband. He's an icon of the tech world, the founder of a lucrative robotics company. He tells...
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English
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"In the new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of First Comes Love and Something Borrowed, a woman is forced to choose between her family and her most deeply held values. Nina Browning is living the good life after marrying into Nashville's elite. Her husband's tech business is booming, and her adored son, Finch, is bound for Princeton. Tom Volpe is a single dad working multiple jobs. His adored daughter, Lyla, attends Nashville's...
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Summerhouse volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
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Best friends for nearly twenty years, three women, all with the same birthday, plan to get together at a summerhouse in Maine to celebrate their approaching fortieth birthdays by taking stock of their lives, loves, choices, and dreams.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Growing up under an assumed identity after accidentally shooting her mother and escaping her abusive father, Liza Barton, still fearful that her past will reclaim her, is shocked when her husband inadvertently buys her childhood home.
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House of earth volume 1
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
1992, c1931
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 19
Physical Desc
357 p. : 21 cm.
Language
English
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Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Jessie Sullivan is summoned home to tiny Egret Island, where she meets Brother Thomas, a monk who is about to take his final vows, and encounters the legend of a mysterious chair dedicated to a saint who had originally been a mermaid.
15) The pretend wife
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
379 p. ; 23 cm.
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English
16) Vanity fair
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English
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No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs only for caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make their way through the tawdry glamour of Regency society, battles—military and domestic—are fought, fortunes made and lost. The one steadfast and honourable...
17) Untamed
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The Dial Press
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English
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"There is a voice of longing inside every woman. We strive so mightily to be good: good mothers, daughters, partners, employees, citizens, and friends. We believe all this striving will make us feel alive. Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed, and underwhelmed. We look at our lives, relationships, and world, and wonder: Wasn't it all supposed to be more beautiful than this? We quickly silence that question, telling ourselves to...
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Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
8 sound discs (9 hours) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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One enemy spy knows the secret of the Allies' greatest deception, a brilliant aristocrat and ruthless assassin--code name: "The Needle"--who holds the key to the ultimate Nazi victory. Only one person stands in his way: a lonely English woman on an isolated island, who is coming to love the killer who has mysteriously entered her life.
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Pub. Date
2022
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288 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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If falling in love is the peak of human experience, then marriage is the slow descent down that mountain, on a trail built from conflict, compromise, and nagging doubts. Considering the limited economic advantages to marriage, the deluge of other mate options a swipe away, and the fact that almost half of all marriages in the United States end in divorce anyway, why do so many of us still chain ourselves to one human being for life?
In Foreverland,...
20) The wife
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
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Joe and Joan have been married nearly forty years and Joe is about to be awarded the Nobel Prize for his acclaimed and prolific body of work as an author. "The Wife" interweaves the story of the couple's youthful passion and ambition with a portrait of a long term marriage and a lifetime of shared compromises.