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Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
211 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
While on vacation with her family in Valencia, Claire Halde witnesses a shocking event that becomes the catalyst for a protracted downward spiral and a profound personal unravelling as she struggles to come to grips with her role in the incident. This haunting novel, which unfolds across three timelines set in as many decades, takes the reader on a dark journey through the minds of three women whose pasts, presents, and futures are decided by a single...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Linda has lived in a quiet neighborhood ever since fleeing the dark events of her childhood in Wales. Now she sits in her kitchen, wondering if this is all there is--pushing the vacuum around and cooking fish sticks for supper is a far cry from the glamorous lifestyle she sees in the glossy catalogues coming through the mail slot addressed to the previous occupant, Rebecca. Terry isn't perfect--he picks his teeth, tracks dirt through the house, and...
345) The home front
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
398 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After her abusive husband leaves to fight in Europe during WWII, Maggie Wentworth struggles to find balance in her life and on her Wisconsin farm. Each day she has to deal with an aging father, a four-year-old son, and the temptation of a German POW who is harvesting apples in her orchard."--
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Raised in East Hampton, Caroline never thought she'd be one of the "city people" who spent summers and weekends at the beach. But, once her husband's business takes off, a job stint transplants the couple permanently into Manhattan life, where the phrase When you marry for money, you work for it every day, reflects her neighbors' lives. And where entitled husbands, like hers, embark on affair after affair with little consequence.Time for the wives...
Author
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
218 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The diary of Eva Braun, the woman who was Adolf Hitler's mistress. Based in part on real diaries, the novel opens with Eva, 17, meeting Hitler, 45, in a photo shop and ends 16 years later with their marriage, just before they commit suicide in his bunker.
350) True places: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
347 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A girl emerges from the woods, starved, ill, and alone ... and collapses. Suzanne Blakemore hurtles along the Blue Ridge Parkway, away from her overscheduled and completely normal life, and encounters the girl. As Suzanne rushes her to the hospital, she never imagines how the encounter will change her - a change she both fears and desperately needs. Suzanne has the perfect house, a successful husband, and a thriving family. But beneath the veneer...
352) Burnt sienna
Author
Pub. Date
©2000
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Ex-marine Chase Malone must stop a dangerous and powerful arms dealer before he kills again in this new high-action thriller by the bestselling author of "Double Image" and "Black Evening." The wealthy and dangerously twisted arms agent has spent the last two decades marrying a succession of beautiful women--all of whom have met with mysterious deaths just after having their portraits painted by a top artist.
353) The scarlet letter
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
294 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
354) El gran Gatsby
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
5 audio discs (5 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Jay Gatsby, el caballero que reina sobre West Egg, el anfitrión de las noches sin tregua, pero también el triunfador marcado por el trágico sino de una soledad no pretendida, es el arquetipo de esos años veinte que se iniciaron con la Prohibición y discurrieron en el gangsterismo y la corrupción política organizada. Protagonista de una década que culminaría con la catástrofe de 1929, su imagen de esplendor no hace sino anunciar un drama...
355) Adèle
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
216, 9 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
She wants only one thing: to be wanted. Adèle appears to have the perfect life: She is a successful journalist in Paris who lives in a beautiful apartment with her surgeon husband and their young son. But underneath the surface, she is bored--and consumed by an insatiable need for sex. Driven less by pleasure than compulsion, Adèle organizes her day around her extramarital affairs, arriving late to work and lying to her husband about where she's...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"At the urging of a Los Angeles detective, international rights lawyer Anna Carlson assists in a murder investigation. It's a personal request from Suk-bo Yi, a ninety-nine-year-old woman questioned in a mysterious death at a Koreatown nursing home. A stranger to Anna, Suk-bo has a tale to tell. For reasons of her own, she's chosen Anna--only Anna--to hear it... Suk-bo's story begins in 1937, when the Japanese occupying Korea force her to marry one...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 389 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The story behind the origins of Anna Karenina and the turbulent life and times of Leo Tolstoy"--
Anna Karenina is one of the most nuanced characters in world literature. Readers often assume that Tolstoy, a nobleman-turned-mystic would write himself into the principled Levin. But in truth, Anna's fateful suicide is the road that Tolstoy nearly traveled himself. Blaisdell unravels Tolstoy's family, literary, and day-to-day life during the period...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xi, 347 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Born Betsy Bowen into grinding poverty, the woman who became Eliza Jumel was raised in a brothel, indentured as a servant, and confined to a workhouse when her mother was in jail. Yet by the end of her life, "Madame Jumel" was one of America's richest women, with servants of her own, a New York mansion and Saratoga Springs summer home, a major art collection, and several hundred acres of land. During her remarkable rise, she acquired a fortune from...
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