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101) Fault lines: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Combining the incisive intimacy of Sally Rooney with the sharp wit of Helen Fielding, a compulsively readable and astonishingly relatable debut novel about marriage, motherhood, love, self and the vibrant, surprising city that is modern Tokyo. Mizuki is a Japanese housewife. She has a hardworking husband, two adorable children and a beautiful Tokyo apartment. It's everything a woman could want, yet sometimes she wonders whether it would be more fun...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Violet Parry is living the quintessential life of luxury in the Hollywood Hills with David, her rock-and-roll manager husband, and her darling toddler, Dot. She has the perfect life--except that she's deeply unhappy. David expects the world of Violet but gives little of himself in return. When she meets Teddy, a roguish small-time bass player, Violet comes alive, and soon she's risking everything for the chance to find herself again. Also in the picture...
103) Fast friends
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Bored housewife Camilla Stewart impulsively invites her old schoolfriends for dinner, hardly imaging that the evening will shatter her comfortable existence. Roz Vallender is a stunning and self-assured TV presenter, while the reckless Loulou Marks owns Vampires, the trendiest wine bar in town. When they reveal that Camilla's husband Jack has been playing around, Camilla determines to make some changes-- and soon finds out that life in the fast lane...
104) Angle of repose
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Stegner's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is the story of four generations in the life of an American family. A wheelchair-bound retired historian embarks on a monumental quest: to come to know his grandparents, now long dead. The unfolding drama of the story of the American West sets the tone for Stegner's masterpiece. Four generations in the life of an American family are chronicled as retired historian Lyman Ward, confined to a wheelchair, decides...
105) Trying
Author
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A searingly honest comedy about what to expect when you're not expecting. Olivia and Felix are trying for a baby. They even moved to the suburbs in anticipation of their future family. But despite approaching her cycle and their sex life with military precision, there's still no sign of what felt like the sure next step, whilst friends' broods seem to be growing by the week. Meanwhile, vying for a promotion at work under the (very attentive) watch...
106) Madame Bovary
Author
Series
Publisher
Ediciones Lea
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
An ordinary woman's unfulfilled dreams of romantic love lead her to a series of desperate acts, including adultery, in a classic novel set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century bourgeois France.
107) A familiar stranger
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Lillian Smith leads an unexceptional life, writing obituaries and killing time with her inattentive husband and disconnected son. Then she meets David, a handsome stranger, in a coffee shop. Lured into an affair, she invents a new persona, one without strings, deadlines, or brooding husbands. Lillian has never felt so reckless, unpredictable, or wanted. But as her affair with David intensifies, she withdraws from everything that's real, even her...
108) Best laid plans
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Nora Best is the envy of her friends. She's just turned fifty and has traded in her home with The Perfect-Ass Husband for an Airstream trailer and an adventure of a lifetime across the US. But during their leaving party, Nora finds her husband in a compromising position with a friend. Storming out of the party she jumps into her truck with no idea how to tow the Airstream or where she's going. Nora ends up in a campground in the mountains of Wyoming,...
109) The next wife
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Kate and Tish Nelson are two halves of a very similar coin: John's ex- and trophy- wife, respectively. Both have enjoyed the luxury that he (and Kate) earned through founding a successful company, but Kate works hard and raises their daughter while Trish is encouraging him to go on a romantic getaway to celebrate their new love. But they both know John's eye wanders, after all, Tish seduced him out of Kate's marriage and into her own, and when needed,...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
From the thrilling imagination of bestselling, award-winning Colm Tóibín comes a retelling of the story of Clytemnestra: spectacularly audacious, violent, vengeful, lustful, and instantly compelling, and her children ... In House of Names, Colm Tóibín brings a modern sensibility and language to an ancient classic, and gives this extraordinary character new life, so that we not only believe Clytemnestra's thirst for revenge, but applaud it. He...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Talcott Garland belongs to two privileged worlds: the upper crust African American society of the Eastern seaboard -- families who summer at Martha's Vineyard -- and the inner circle of an Ivy League law school. He is a successful law professor, devoted father, and husband of a beautiful and ambitious woman, whose future desires may threaten the family he holds so dear. When Talcott's father, Judge Oliver Garland, a disgraced former Supreme Court...
112) The echo wife
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"'When they said all happy families are alike, I don't think this is what they meant...' Evelyn Caldwell's husband Nathan has been having an affair - with Evelyn Caldwell. Or, to be exact, with a genetically cloned replica. After a morning that begins with a confrontation and ends with Nathan's body bleeding out on the kitchen floor, the two Caldwell wives will have to think fast-before sharing everything includes sharing a jail cell. The Echo Wife...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
After falling in love in the last years of the 1970s, Eleanor and Cam are now raising three children on a New Hampshire farm: summer softball games, Labor Day cookouts, snow days and skating on the pond. When a tragic accident permanently injures the youngest child, Eleanor blames Cam. Her inability to forgive him leads to a devastating betrayal and the end of their marriage. Over the decades that follow, the members of this family and the many others...
Author
Series
Kitty Pangborn novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
When her boss, PI Dexter Theroux, is hired by the mistress of one of L.A.'s most corrupt businessmen to tail her lover, secretary Kitty Pangborn suspects that the case may be linked to more than simple jealousy, especially when she and Dex stumble upon a corpse.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After falling headlong into a passionate affair during a semester spent teaching in Ohio, theater professor Phillipa Maakestad returns home to Iowa for her daughter Ginny's wedding. She faces a wedding-day tornado, a menace of a mother-in-law who may or may not have been a Nazi collaborator, and the tragicomic revenge fantasies of her heretofore docile husband. Naturally, she does what any newly liberated woman would do: she takes a match to her life...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Ramona's got a bratty boss, a toddler teetering through toilet training, a critical mom who doesn't mind sharing, and oops, a cheating husband. That's how a Category Four hurricane bearing down on her life in Savannah becomes just another item on her to-do list. In the next forty-eight hours she'll add a neighborhood child and the class guinea pig named Clarence Thomas to her entourage as she struggles to evacuate town. Ignoring the persistent glow...
117) Someone we know
Author
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books, Viking
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
It's a quiet suburb in upstate New York, until anonymous letters start to arrive. "My son broke into your home recently while you were out." Into their homes, and into their computers as well. Learning their secrets, and maybe sharing some of them, too. When a woman down the street is found murdered, the tension reaches the breaking point. Who killed her? Who knows more than they're telling? And how far will all these very nice people go to protect...
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"Margarita sospecha que su marido tiene un amorío con una de sus estudiantes. Elizabeth intenta escapar del vacío de una vida de privilegios en la Nueva York de los años cincuenta. Doris Dana, amor y albacea de Gabriela Mistral, vive una noche de alcohol y sexo con una amiga de infancia. Juliana, una pastelera octogenaria, ansía encontrar la identidad de una mujer que cambió el rumbo de su vida. Anne, conserje de un edificio, huye en busca de...
119) The prince: a novel
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A modern retelling of The Golden Bowl by Henry James for fans of Sally Rooney and Kate Atkinson. From their grand mansion on the Upper East Side to their magical private island in Long Island Sound, everything points to the Woodford family as being perfect and idyllic. Why, then, is there such tension in the air? Enter Federico, a penniless Italian prince who is about to marry Emily Woodford, the only child of the family's widowed patriarch, Henry....
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When Joan turns up at private investigator Henry Kimball's office asking him to investigate her husband, he can't help feeling ill at ease. He knew Joan in his previous life as a high school English teacher, when he was at the center of a tragedy. Joan wants his help to prove her husband is cheating, but what should be a simple case becomes complicated when Kimball finds two bodies in an uninhabited suburban home. It feels like the past is repeating...
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