Steel, Danielle
Summary: When Rose McCarthy's staff at Mode magazine pitches a cover shoot with Hollywood's hottest young actress, the actress's sizzling affair with a bestselling French author is exposed. The author happens to be Rose's son-in-law, which creates a painful dilemma for her. Her daughter Nadia, a talented interior designer, has been struggling to hold her marriage together, and conceal the truth from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Llc 2021
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Summary: Rebecca didn't know love was possible until she met Paul, a successful, charismatic, married man with a past as dark as her own. Their pain drew them together with an irresistible magnetism; they sensed that they were each other's ideal (and perhaps only) match. But twenty years later, Paul and Rebecca are drowning as the damage and secrets that ignited their love begin to consume their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCOPekkanen, Sarah
Summary: "Josie and Frank Moore are happy... at least Josie thinks they are. As parents of two young girls in the Chicago suburbs, their days can be both busy and monotonous, and sometimes Josie wonders how she became a harried fortysomething mother rather than the driven career woman she once was. But Frank is a phenomenal father, he's handsome and charismatic, and he still looks at his wife like she's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION PEKMaynard, Joyce
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction MaynardEwell, Andrew
Summary: While visiting his and his wife's closest friends, John and Sophie, a creative writing professor sleeps with Sophie, but instead of succumbing to his failures as a teacher, writer and husband, he believes a love affair could be the answer to earning everything he needs to be set for life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2024
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Summary: "Adam Sternbergh brings his wit, humor, and a Hitchcockian sense of dread to What Have We Done, a chilling, surprising, and wholly entertaining portrait of a marriage on the brink. Seven Days. Seven Questions. Forever Changed. That's how The Eden Test, a week-long getaway, advertises itself for couples in trouble. And that's what Daisy, a talented actress, has signed up for, in the hopes of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEUnger, Lisa
Summary: "Be careful to whom you tell your darkest secrets Selena Murphy is commuting home from her job in the city when the train stalls out on the tracks. She strikes up a conversation with a beautiful stranger in the next seat, and their connection is fast and easy. The woman introduces herself as Martha and confesses that she's been stuck in an affair with her boss. Selena, in turn, confesses that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC UNGMcCloskey, Molly
Summary: "From "an extravagantly gifted writer who deserves to be widely read" (Rachel Cusk, The Telegraph), this intimate, quietly stunning novel tells the story of a young American expat who settles in Ireland in the late 1980s, marries, and lives through the consequences of an affair. Alice, a young American, arrives in the West of Ireland with no plans and no strong attachments--except to her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCLaBan, Elizabeth
Summary: When she finds out her husband cheated, Hannah Bent thinks her marriage is over. But she's seen friends divorce, and it's not pretty. Plus, she and Joel have kids and an otherwise-happy life, and she still loves him, although begrudgingly. Furious and feeling stuck, she suggests having her own affair to even the score. Joel, desperate for forgiveness, agrees. But does she really want to go...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LABMoyes, Jojo
Summary: More than forty years after a car accident causes Jennifer Stirling to lose her memory on the day she planned to leave her husband for a mysterious lover, journalist Ellie becomes obsessed by the story and seeks the truth in the hopes of revitalizing her career.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books/Viking 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOYLaBan, Elizabeth
Summary: "With her signature wit and charm, bestselling author LaBan shows how marriage doesn't necessarily follow a straight line, and unexpected detours might just bring a person back to the place he or she most wants to be."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LABEnright, Anne
Summary: In Terenure, a pleasant suburb of Dublin, in the winter of 2009, it has snowed. Gina Moynihan recalls the trail of lust and happenstance that brought her to fall for "the love of her life," Sean Vallely. As the city outside comes to a halt, Gina remembers that days of their affair in one hotel room or another, long afternoons made blank by bliss and denial. Now Gina walks through the weather...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Co. 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENRJames, Henry
Summary: "This volume, the sixth and final in The Library of America's edition of the complete novels of Henry James, brings together two masterpieces of his extraordinary late period--The Ambassadors (1903) and The Golden Bowl (1904)--as well as his last extended narrative work, The Outcry (1911), a short comic novel of social manners."The idea for The Ambassadors came from James's friend William Dean...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMDe Villepin, Emmanuelle
Summary: "Three generations of women untangle a complex family story that encompasses the First and Second World Wars, revealing unexpected lessons about marriage and fidelity"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: From USA Today bestselling author and Christy Award Hall of Fame inductee Tamera Alexander comes the story of two women from different centuries living in the same house who share strikingly similar journeys. Claire Powell's life is turned upside down when her beloved husband admits to a "near affair." But when Stephen accepts a partnership with an Atlanta law firm without consulting her and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ALEHilderbrand, Elin
Summary: A tale inspired by the film "Same Time Next Year" follows a man's discovery of his mother's long-term relationship with the husband of a Presidential frontrunner.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Hilderbrand 2020Monroe, Mary Alice.
Summary: In this tale that explores the themes of class, women's rights and domestic abuse in the 1970s American South, the author returns to her classic Southern setting in the Isle of Palms with the sequel to her novel The Beach House. She weaves together issues of class, women's rights, and domestic abuse set in the tumultuous South during the 1970s as she tells the story of Olivia, "Lovie" Rutledge,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONHermes, Margaret
Summary: After discovering that her husband has been cheating on her with their mutual friends, a Midwestern librarian distracts herself with a 1981 trip through Europe where she meets a variety of fascinating men and finds love again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delphinium Books 2021
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Summary: "A fast-paced, twisty psychological debut about the complexities of marriage and new motherhood, told through the frenetic lens of a wife seeking the truth about her husband, at all costs, as the validity of the life she once knew unravels page by page. Liz Bennett knows that she is one of the lucky ones. Wealthy and charming, Arno is a supportive husband to Liz and a doting father to their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SULMaren, Mesha
Summary: "As Alex and Elana try to make their home among the academics and young leftists in El Paso and Juárez, they are pulled from each other by an affair with a lucha libre fighter, their struggles to define themselves, and the loud cry of home"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2022
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Summary: "Coworkers Ruby and Harry are in love--but they're married to other people. They decide to tell their spouses that their marriages are over and to start a new life together. Ruby has wanted to leave her controlling husband for a while, so she tells him she's leaving and waits at the hotel where she and Harry are to meet. But Harry never shows up. Suddenly, Ruby has lost everything. Harry won't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC TORLender, Stacey
Summary: Priced out of Manhattan, Jessica, Aaron and their daughters move to the one place they swore they would never go: the suburbs. But to her surprise, life in the commuter belt makes a great first impression.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kaylie Jones Books, an imprint of Akashic Books 2017
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Summary: When Mallory Blessing's son, Link, receives deathbed instructions from his mother to call a number on a slip of paper in her desk drawer, he's not sure what to expect. But he certainly does not expect Jake McCloud to answer. It's the late spring of 2020 and Jake's wife, Ursula DeGournsey, is the frontrunner in the upcoming Presidential election. There must be a mistake, Link thinks. How do...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HILGarcía Márquez, Gabriel
Summary: Sitting alone beside the languorous blue waters of the lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach contemplates the men at the hotel bar. She has been happily married for twenty-seven years and has no reason to escape the life she has made with her husband and children. And yet, every August, she travels by ferry here to the island where her mother is buried, and for one night takes a new lover. Across sultry...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf, 2024