Rivers, 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 2017Summary: A young woman, unable to be intimate with her husband after his war injuries, seeks solace and physical passion in the arms of a gamekeeper.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Based on the classic 1867 novel and play by French writer Émile Zola. The story of a young woman, Thérèse, unhappily married to her first cousin, Camille. She begins a passionate affair with one of Camille's friends, Laurent. Thérèse and Laurent will go to any lengths to be together, but their actions may haunt them forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV THEKitamura, Katie M.
Summary: "A mesmerizing, psychologically taut novel about a marriage's end and the secrets we all carry. A young woman has agreed with her faithless husband: it's time for them to separate. For the moment it's a private matter, a secret between the two of them. As she begins her new life, she gets word that Christopher has gone missing in a remote region in the rugged south of Greece; she reluctantly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2017
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KITRaverat, Anna
Summary: " You can learn a lot about a husband by reading his e-mail--sometimes, too much Kate, a senior executive at a multinational hotel company, has devoted her life to her job and her family. Catering to the needs of others comes easily to her, but now, after ten years of marriage and two children, Kate discovers e-mails from her husband to another woman. Forced to take a long look at her marriage,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REVSummary: Anna Karenina is the young wife of Alexis Karenin, a Russian diplomat. She is on a mission of mercy to help her brother patch things up with his wife after an injudicious affair. While helping her brother, Anna meets the dashing officer, Count Alexis Vronsky. Anna is soon swept off her feet by Vronsky and begins an affair of her own. When Karenin finds out, he offers to forgive Anna is she will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ANNFlaubert, Gustave
Summary: A powerful nineteenth-century French classic depicting the moral degeneration of a weak-willed woman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Heritage Press 1978
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLASummary: Tolstoy's romantic saga of the passionate affair between a married aristocrat and a dashing count.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2018