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 2017Kitamura, 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 REVGarcía 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
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Hawthorne, 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'HAHawthorne, 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
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Summary: Hester Prynne is ostracized from her seventeenth-century Puritan community for refusing to name the father of her child, the product of an adulterous relationship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen 2011
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Summary: This is a novel about the persistence of longing in which the twin lives of the title character blur and overlap. Bird puts her child on the bus for school and passes the day with her baby. Interwoven into the passage of the day are phone calls from a promiscuous, unmarried friend, and Bird’s recollection of the feral, reckless love she knew as a young woman. It’s a day infused with fear and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOLJacobs, Jonnie.
Summary: Marta Crawford is away on business when she stops at the hotel bar after a particularly difficult day. There she meets the charming Todd Wilson and, much to her dismay, wakes up the next morning in his bed. Filled with remorse and regret, she tells Todd she's made a terrible mistake and puts her reckless behavior behind her. But Todd isn't willing to let go. He follows her, worms his way into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACMcEwan, Ian
Summary: "Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home--a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse--but John's not here. Instead, she's with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them have a plan. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month-old resident of Trudy's womb. Told from a perspective unlike any other, Nutshell is a classic tale...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCEQuatro, Jamie
Summary: "Maggie is entirely devoted to her husband Thomas, their two beautiful children, and to God--until what begins as a platonic intellectual and spiritual exchange between writer Maggie and poet James transforms into an erotically-charged bond that challenges Maggie's sense of loyalty and morality, drawing her deeper into the darkness of desire." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2003
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Summary: "A woman around her thirties begins to question the routine and predictability of her days. In everybody's eyes, she has a perfect life: a solid and stable marriage, a loving husband, sweet and well-behaved children and a job as a journalist she can't complain about. However, she can no longer bear the necessary effort to fake happiness when all she feels in life is an enormous apathy. All that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COEEssbaum, Jill Alexander.
Summary: "Anna Benz, an American woman in her thirties, lives in comfort and affluence with her Swiss banker husband and their three young children in a picture-perfect suburb of Zurich. Despite the tranquility and order of her domestic existence, Anna is fallingapart inside. Isolated in a foreign country and a faltering marriage, Anna begins three adventures to restart her life: Jungian analysis,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESSMonroe, Mary.
Summary: Longing to break free from her dead-end marriage, Christine Thurman, who has escaped her upbringing on the wrong side of the tracks, is drawn back into her old life when she has a torrid affair with a bad boy from her past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dafina 2007
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1995
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Summary: This is the time to run away, she thinks, to call it a mistake, to race back to home and safety. If I don't go home I will never feel safe again. On meeting Micajah Burnett, the son of an old school friend, Eve Armanton is faced with a choice. Years of a miserable marriage means she's as broken as the beautiful antique violin she's just found, and Micajah offers a spark of life, an opportunity...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUSTolstoy, Leo
Summary: Anna Karenina has beauty, social position, wealth, a husband, and an adored son, but her existence seems empty. When she meets the dashing officer Count Vronsky she rejects her marriage and turns to him to fulfill her passionate nature--with devastating results.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION TOLBlume, Judy.
Summary: Sandy Pressman is a very nice suburban wife whose boredom is getting the best of her. No matter how much her husband urges her to make friends at the club, she just can't seem to concentrate on improving her golf game or getting her hair done. For some reason these things pale in comparison to the naked man on the motorcycle who keeps appearing outside her bedroom window ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2004
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Summary: Though Daisy is married to the insensitive but hugely successful Tom Buchanan, Jay Gatsby still longs for his old love. Gatsby's youthful neighbor, Nick Carraway, fascinated with the display of enormous wealth in which Gatsby revels, finds himself swept up in the lavish lifestyle of Long Island society during the Jazz Age.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Debolsillo 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2004