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Adultery Adultery Fiction Boston (Mass.) History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Fiction FICTION / Historical / General Illegitimate children Fiction Man-woman relationships Fiction Married women Fiction Murder Investigation Fiction Puritans Fiction Triangles (Interpersonal relations) FictionNicholson, William.
Summary: "From an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and the author of Motherland, a novel about two love affairs set in Amherst--one in the present, one in the past, and both presided over by Emily Dickinson. Alice Dickinson is a young advertising executive who worksin London and dreams of becoming a screenwriter. She decides to take some time off work to research her idea for a screenplay: the true story...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NICAlexander, Tamera
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 ALEAustin, Finola
Summary: "Yorkshire, 1843: Lydia Robinson - mistress of Thorp Green Hall - has lost her precious young daughter and her mother within the same year. She returns to her bleak home, grief-stricken and unmoored. With her teenage daughters rebelling, her testy mother-in-law scrutinizing her every move, and her marriage grown cold, Lydia is restless and yearning for something more. All of that changes with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC AUSBurton, Jessie
Summary: Odelle Bastien, a Caribbean emigre living in London in 1967, discovers a painting rumored to be the work of Isaac Robles, a young artist of immense talent and vision whose mysterious death has confounded the art world for decades. As she tries to sort through the conflicting stories of its discovery, she does not know who to believe, including her art gallery colleague, Marjorie Quick. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Burton 2016Rivers, Susan
Summary: "When Major Gryffth Hockaday is called to the front lines of the Civil War, his new bride is left to care for her husband's three-hundred-acre farm and infant son. Placidia, a mere teenager herself living far from her family and completely unprepared to run a farm or raise a child, must endure the darkest days of the war on her own. By the time Major Hockaday returns two years later, Placidia...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Rivers 2017Belfoure, Charles
Summary: "St Petersburg, 1903. Prince Dimitri Markhov counts himself lucky to be a close friend of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra. Cocooned by the glittering wealth of the Imperial court, the talented architect lives a life of luxury and comfort, by the side of his beautiful but spiteful wife, Princess Lara. But when Dimitri is confronted by the death and destruction wrought by a pogrom, he is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BELPaul, Gill
Summary: Jackie Kennedy was beautiful, sophisticated, and contemplating leaving her ambitious young senator husband while recovering from the birth of a stillborn child. So when she's offered a holiday on the luxurious yacht owned by billionaire Ari Onassis, she says yes. Maria Callas is at the height of her operatic career and widely considered to be the finest soprano in the world. And then she's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PAUMonroe, Mary
Summary: "With mysterious serial murders putting peaceful Lexington, Alabama, on edge, Jessie and Hubert Wiggins' steadfast calm and devotion to each other reassures everyone that faith will see them through. But Jessie and Hubert have paid a terrible hidden cost to maintain their devout facade and respectable standing. Nothing can allay the guilt they feel--or stop the growing distrust between them ..."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dafina 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONHawthorne, Nathaniel
Summary: Boston 1642: Imprisoned for the crime of adultery, young wife Hester Prynne is condemned on her release to bear a public display of her shame - a scarlet letter 'A' stitched upon her dress. For the sake of her baby daughter Pearl, the product of her illicit liaison, she determines to weather the scorn of her Puritan community with defiance and dignity. Meanwhile, her husband is resolved to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Millennium Publications 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Hawthorne 2015Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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Publisher / Publication Date: Courage Books 1991
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Summary: Presents the 1949 novel about Grace Caldwell, a Pennsylvania heiress who is raped when she is fourteen by a friend of her brother's and whose eventual marriage still does not save her from scandal in her later life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC O'HASchuyler, Nina
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHMonroe, Mary
Summary: Popular, generous, forty-something widow Jessie Tucker decides to make herself indispensable to recently widowed Hubert Wiggins but is disappointed when he is not everything she dreamed he would be and instead turns her attentions to a much younger man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dafina 2022
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Summary: "An irresistible novel about food, desire, and the real-life love triangle between M.F.K Fisher, her husband, and the man she left him for--the true love of her life Los Angeles, 1934. Mary Frances is on the cusp of becoming M.F.K. Fisher--the writer whose artful personal essays about food created a genre. She is hungry, and not just for food: she wants Tim, her husband Al's charming friend,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016
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Summary: Jackie Kennedy was beautiful, sophisticated, and contemplating leaving her ambitious young senator husband while recovering from the birth of a stillborn child. So when she's offered a holiday on the luxurious yacht owned by billionaire Ari Onassis, she says yes. Maria Callas is at the height of her operatic career and widely considered to be the finest soprano in the world. And then she's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Paul 2020De Giovanni, Maurizio
Summary: In the middle of a summer heat wave, as Naples prepares for one of its most important holy days, a renowned surgeon falls to his death from the window of his office. For Commissario Ricciardi and Brigadier Maione it is the beginning of an investigation that will bring them into contact with the most torrid, conflicting and enduring of human passions. In the world Ricciardi and Maione are about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEGHansen, Ron
Summary: A tale based on a true story from 1920s Manhattan follows the affair between voluptuous Ruth Snyder and undergarment salesman Judd Gray, whose plot to kill Ruth's husband triggers an explosive police investigation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANTóibín, Colm
Summary: Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony's parents, a huge extended family that lives and works, eats and plays together. It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis, now in her forties with two teenage children, has no one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Hidden in the depths of eighteenth-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual kind of clientele. Women across the city whisper of a mysterious figure named Nella who sells well-disguised poisons to use against the oppressive men in their lives. But the apothecary's fate is jeopardized when her newest patron, a precocious twelve-year-old, makes a fatal mistake, sparking a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PENHawthorne, Nathaniel
Summary: Travel back to Boston, Massachusetts as it existed in the 1642 for this classic tale of Puritanical Romance and sin. Meet Hester Prynne, who has a baby from an adulterous affair, and must wear a scarlet A on her dress to represent her shameful act. She refuses to name the father, so her long-lost husband sets out to expose her lover. This classic tale is a must-read for everyone as it explores...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HAWHawthorne, Nathaniel
Summary: Roger Chillingworth arrives in New England after two years separation from his wife, Hester Prynne, to find her on trial for adultery. She refuses to reveal her lover and is sentenced to wear a scarlet letter A sewn onto her clothes. Resolving to discover the man's identity, Roger sets out to destroy his rival, while Hester desperately tries to protect her illegitimate daughter from a society...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Collector's Library 2017