Bayly, Jaime
Summary: Wealthy banker Ignacio is convinced that his beautiful but bored young wife, Zoe, is having an affair with his younger brother, Gonzalo, a painter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Editorial Planeta Colombiana 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH BAYErneaux, Annie
Summary: "In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion. Blurring the line between fact and fiction, an unnamed narrator attempts to plot the emotional and physical course of her two-year relationship with a married foreigner where every word, event, and person either provides a connection with her beloved or is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERNFrangello, Gina
Summary: "Gina Frangello is a long-married fortysomething devoted mom when her life is turned upside down by the sudden death of her closest friend. Worn down from years of caregiving both her elderly parents and three kids, Gina starts to interrogate her own mortality and what she once longed for as a younger woman : a kind of sexual, romantic and artistic intensity radically at odds with her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRANGELLO, GINA FRAMcCarthy, Mary T.
Summary: Meet Maggie, Eva and Lisa, founders of The Scarlet Letter Society. Named as such due to their various infidelities, both physical and emotional, the 'SLS' is these womens' refusal to be shamed like Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic tale of forbidden longing. Once a month, these women meet at their local bookstore to discuss love, life and literature. Through their friendships and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Polis Books 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCCFisher, Helen E.
Summary: Updated to include the latest research on anthropology and internet-age relationships, a revised edition of a classic reference examines the brain's role in love and courtship while making recommendations for returning to traditional patterns of romance. By the author of Why We Love. --Publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.3 FISMartin, Wednesday
Summary: From ancient Greek tragedies, to the latest Netflix series, cheating women are portrayed as dangerous and damaged. Why, in this age of female empowerment, do we continue to judge them so harshly? Martin takes us on a fascinating journey to reveal the unexpected evolutionary legacy and social realities that drive female faithlessness, while laying bare our motivations to contain women who step...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Spark, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.73 MARRosenberg, Kenneth Paul
Summary: Explains how the brain's reward systems affect love, sex, and adultery, profiling three main types of infidelity while sharing advice on how to prevent cheating, stop it from progressing, and minimize related damage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Life Long 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.7 ROSWeisberg, Barbara
Summary: "Shocking revelations of a wife's adultery explode in an incendiary nineteenth-century trial, exposing upper-crust New York society and its secrets. What could possibly go wrong in a wealthy matriarch's country home when her dilettante son, his restless wife, and his widowed brother live there together? Strong Passions, rooted in the beguiling times of Edith Wharton's 'old New York,' recounts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Pregnant as the result of an adulterous affair, Hester Prynne pays for her sin publicly while her unnamed lover wrestles with his conscience in private. But Hester transforms her shameful badge - the letter A sewn from red cloth - into a gorgeous emblem of honor as she earns both spiritual redemption and the respect of her Puritan peers. This production of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1979
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Ash, Stephanie
Summary: Tall, trusted Tandy Caide, CPA, is a long-time patron of the arts in her town, which is why you will find her sitting in the front row of the high school’s annual musical production. This year is an Annie year—and it would be no different than other years were it not for the high school’s hiring of a new vocational agriculture (Vo-Ag) teacher. With his beguiling ponytail and decorative beaded...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Unnamed Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASHCarder, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Moody Press 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.736 CARGreene, Graham
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREPlain, Belva.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio 1996
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1 available in Cassette Books, Call number: 813Rosenblum, Emma
Summary: "Jen Weinstein and Lauren Parker rule the town of Salcombe, Fire Island, every summer. They hold sway on the beach and the tennis court, and are adept at manipulating people to get what they want. Their husbands, Sam and Jason, have summered together on the island since childhood, despite lifelong grudges and numerous secrets. Their one single friend, Rachel Woolf, is looking to meet her match,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: LP FIC ROSSummerscale, Kate
Summary: Traces the story of a scandalous trial that rocked Victorian England, describing how Isabella Robinson recorded sexual fantasies in her private diary, which was discovered and read by her husband, who petitioned for divorce on the grounds of adultery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.81 SUMUpdike, John.
Summary: Roger's version (1986): Roger Lambert, a middle-aged professor of divinity, is stuck in his office by Dale Kohler, a young computer scientist who believes that technical advances in computing shows evidence of God's existence. Then a theological-scientific debate ensues, and Roger employs wicked strategies to disembarrass Dale of his faith. But Dale's passion turns to his erotic attraction to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC UPDZola, Émile
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Publisher / Publication Date: [CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, ] 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZOLAlexander, Tamera
Summary: "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 buys a historic Southern home sight-unseen -- it pushes their already-fractured marriage to the breaking point. Claire's world spirals, and she soon finds herself in a marriage she no longer wants, in a house...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction AlexanderFisher, Helen E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.7 FISFlaubert, Gustave
Summary: Madame Bovary est le premier roman de l'écrivain français Gustave Flaubert, publié en 1856. Le personnage éponyme vit au-dessus de ses moyens pour échapper aux banalités et au vide de la vie provinciale.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavalier Classic 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 448.4 FIC FLAHaltzman, Scott
Summary: People who have been cheated on feel shame, rage, and injured self-esteem. Many of them fear abandonment and find it hard to cope. When both partners have made a commitment to move forward together, however, Dr. Haltzman validates each person's feelings and puts them into perspective, offering sound advice on how to recover their equilibrium and reestablish a committed, trust-filled relationship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.736 HALKipnis, Laura.
Summary: An analysis of the social ramifications of adultery examines its cultural significance, considering that adulterers may pose valid questions about social contracts and offering a vision that challenges the modern purposes of fidelity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.736 KIPRosnay, Tatiana de
Summary: In this passionate and perceptive collection, Tatiana de Rosnay paints a portrait of the most forbidden of loves, in many different shades, sometimes tragic, sometimes humorous, sometimes heartfelt, always with a dry wit and an unflinching authenticity.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015