Clayton, Meg Waite.
Summary: Five young California homemakers forge a bond of friendship that sustains them through the turbulent 1960s and beyond. Meeting weekly, the Wednesday Sisters share a love of writing, literary classics, and the Miss America Pageant--in a moving testament to the mysterious link between friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CLAItami, Emily
Summary: Combining the incisive intimacy of Sally Rooney with the sharp wit of Helen Fielding, a compulsively readable and astonishingly relatable debut novel about marriage, motherhood, love, self and the vibrant, surprising city that is modern Tokyo. Mizuki is a Japanese housewife. She has a hardworking husband, two adorable children and a beautiful Tokyo apartment. It's everything a woman could want,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ITAClayton, Meg Waite.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2008
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Summary: Three people--a suburban housewife, a talented documentary photographer, and a detective--living lives they never wanted, hiding secrets that even those closest to them would never suspect, will find that the past doesn't recede ... and that desperation and hunger can lurk behind even the prettiest facades.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2012
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Summary: Once an aspiring writer, Olga traded literary ambition for marriage and motherhood; when Mario dumps her after 15 years, she is utterly unprepared. Though she tells herself that she is a competent woman, nothing like the poverella (poor abandoned wife) that mothers whispered about in her childhood, Olga falls completely apart. Routine chores overwhelm her; she neglects her appearance and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2005
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Summary: Three people--a suburban housewife, a talented documentary photographer, and a detective--living lives they never wanted, hiding secrets that even those closest to them would never suspect, will find that the past doesn't recede ... and that desperation and hunger can lurk behind even the prettiest facades.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2012
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Summary: "A dramatic and inspiring novel based on the true story of the Jane Collective and the brave women who fought for our right to choose, from the USA Today bestselling author of The Paris Bookseller. Chicago, early 1970s: Who does a woman call when she needs help? Jane. The best-known secret in the city, Jane is an underground women's health organization composed entirely of women helping women,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023
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Summary: "If I stay, he will kill me. If I leave, he'll destroy Addie and Drew." Jillian Kane appears to have it all--a successful career, a gorgeous home, a loving husband, and two wonderful children. The reality behind closed doors is something else entirely. For nine years, she has hid the bruises and the truth of her abusive marriage in order to protect Addie and Drew, knowing, if she left, Gordon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2013
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Summary: When her contractor's unfaithful wife is brutally murdered, former TV anchorwoman Ali Reynolds sets out to prove the husband's innocence in spite of skepticism on the part of Ali's detective boyfriend, a situation that strains their relationship and catches the attention of the real killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2008
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Summary: When Ali Reynolds' twin daughters discover the brutally murdered body of Morgan Forester, her home remodeling contractor, Logan, becomes the primary suspect. Logan swears he has absolutely nothing to do with the murder, and Ali believes him. Unfortunately, though, no one else does, including Ali's dear friend Detective Dave Holman. How far will strong-willed Ali go to prove Logan's innocence?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JANLippman, Laura
Summary: In 1966, Baltimore is a city of secrets that everyone seems to know--everyone, that is, except Madeline "Maddie" Schwartz. Last year, she was a happy, even pampered housewife. This year, she's bolted from her marriage of almost twenty years, determined to make good on her youthful ambitions to live a passionate, meaningful life. Maddie wants to matter, to leave her mark on a swiftly changing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M LIPKirkpatrick, Jane
Summary: "One woman, an impossible dream, and the faith it took to see it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WaterBrook Press 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Kirkpatrick 2012Brown, Rebecca L. (Rebecca Lynn)
Summary: "An emotionally charged novel about family -- the slow accumulation of wrongs that drive us apart and the unlikely paths that lead us home again. Piper Hart has poured all her energy into raising her son, Fred, while her often-absent husband, Isaac, has poured all his energy into a career defending the wrongly accused. She's always told herself her son is perfectly normal, but somewhere deep...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2018
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Summary: After 20 years of marriage, it's inevitable that some of the romance is gone. At least that's what MJ Boudreaux tells herself when her husband, Chris, is 3 hours late for their anniversary lunch, and she eats the entire anniversary lemon pie she special-ordered for them by herself. After considering her options, MJ decides that since Chris has been spending so much time at the casino lately,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2017
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Summary: Hoping for a chance at meaningful work away from his status-obsessed wife, New York executive Charlie visits West Virginia to oversee a mining project and finds a friendship with Natty, who longs to escape her own unfulfilling existence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FITBlume, Judy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2004
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Summary: The Moores are missing: In a placid suburban town, the Moores, a perfect family, suddenly vanish without a trace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATShafak, Elif
Summary: Peri, a wealthy Turkish woman, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. Wrestling to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground-- an old polaroid of three young women and their university professor, a relic from the past. Over the evening, as Peri arrives at the party and navigates the tensions that simmer in this crossroads country...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2017
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Summary: Lila Soto has a master's degree that's gathering dust, a work-obsessed husband, two kids, and lots of questions about how exactly she ended up here. In their new city of Philadelphia, Lila's husband, Sam, takes his job as a restaurant critic a little too seriously. To protect his professional credibility, he's determined to remain anonymous. Soon his preoccupation with anonymity takes over...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC LABDickson, Allison M.
Summary: "Two women are watching each other. Phoebe Miller isn't sure when the rusty car started showing up in the cul-de-sac she calls home, or why its driver would be spying on her. What could be interesting about an unhappy housewife who drowns her sorrows in ice cream and wine and barely leaves her house? Only one knows why. When a new family moves in across the street--the exuberant Vicki, who just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction DicksonHeadley, Maria Dahvana
Summary: From the perspective of those who live in Herot Hall, the suburb is a paradise. Picket fences divide buildings--high and gabled--and the community is entirely self-sustaining. Each house has its own fireplace, each fireplace is fitted with a container of lighter fluid, and outside--in lawns and on playgrounds--wildflowers seed themselves in neat rows. But for those who live surreptitiously...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Headley 2018Hood, Ann
Summary: An obituary writer searching for her missing lover at the turn of the twentieth century is linked to a woman considering leaving her loveless marriage in 1963.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION HOOBlume, 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