Cook, Lorna
Summary: "1943: The world is at war, and the villagers of Tyneham are being asked to make one more sacrifice: to give their homes over to the British army. But on the eve of their departure, a terrible act will cause three of them to disappear forever. 2018: Melissa had hoped a break on the coast of Dorset would rekindle her stagnant relationship, but despite the idyllic scenery, it's pushing her and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avon 2019
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COOCortese, Katie
Summary: A girl afflicted with pyrokinesis tries to control her fire-starting long enough to go to a dance with a boy she likes. A woman trapped in a stalled marriage is excited by an alluring ex-con who enrolls in her YMCA cooking class. A teen accompanies her mother, a prestigious poet, to a writing conference where she navigates a misguided attraction to a married writer -- who is, in turn, attracted...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kentucky 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CORWasson, Brian
Summary: "Sophomore Kalvin Shmelton has finally perfected his underground candy-selling hustle at school. He keeps his prices reasonable, his inventory fresh, and himself out of the drama. But when a heartbroken Sterling Glistern, Kal's longtime crush, barges into the storage closet where he keeps his candy supply, a new source of income unexpectedly presents itself: relationship therapist. He only...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WASShteyngart, Gary
Summary: When his dream of the perfect marriage, the perfect son, and the perfect life implodes, a Wall Street millionaire takes a cross country bus trip in search of his college sweetheart and ideals of youth.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SHTMacomber, Debbie
Summary: "Nichole, a woman in her early thirties, is recovering from a broken heart after learning her husband was having an affair and separating from him. The twist is that her mother-in-law, Leanne, is the one who told her that her son was cheating. Leanne has looked the other way for decades as HER own husband cheated, and can't bear to see her son repeating the same pattern. In telling Nichole, she...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2016
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACMonroe, Mary Alice.
Summary: In this tale that explores the themes of class, women's rights and domestic abuse in the 1970s American South, the author returns to her classic Southern setting in the Isle of Palms with the sequel to her novel The Beach House. She weaves together issues of class, women's rights, and domestic abuse set in the tumultuous South during the 1970s as she tells the story of Olivia, "Lovie" Rutledge,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2012
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Reisman, Nancy
Summary: "During a vacation in Rome, the Murphy family experiences a life-altering tragedy. In the immediate aftermath, James, Nora, and their children find solace in their Massachusetts coast home, but as the years pass the weight of the loss disintegrates the increasingly fragile marriage and leaves its mark on each family member. Trompe l'Oeil seamlessly alternates among several characters' points of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House Books 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REIParis, B. A.
Summary: Iris and Gabriel seem to have it all: a beautiful country home, a daughter taking a gap year in Greece, and their good friends from Paris, Laure and Pierre, always up for a holiday weekend away. But when a young man has a tragic accident in a nearby quarry, Gabriel is the one to find him and hear his final words, leaving Gabriel with a guilty burden. As Iris tries to help ease her husband's...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC PARRose, Jeneva
Summary: "Sarah Morgan is a successful and powerful defense attorney in Washington D.C. As a named partner at her firm, life is going exactly how she planned. The same cannot be said for her husband, Adam. He's a struggling writer who has had little success in his career and he tires of his and Sarah's relationship as she is constantly working. Out in the secluded woods, at the couple's lake house, Adam...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloodhound Books 2020
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Basran, Gurjinder
Summary: Grief is a creature of many faces as Simran discovers when her mother, the lynchpin of her family, dies. Faced with the disintegration of her marriage and her estrangement from her own daughter, she struggles to make sense of her world and how things have come to be. With her mother’s death, Simran is haunted by memories and questions for which she has no answers. As the life she has carefully...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BASEphron, Delia
Summary: "An electrifying novel about marriage and deceit from bestselling author Delia Ephron that follows two couples on vacation in Siracusa, a town on the coast of Sicily, where the secrets they have hidden from each other are exposed and relationships are unraveled. New Yorkers Michael, a famous writer, and Lizzie, a journalist, travel to Italy with their friends from Maine--Finn, his wife Taylor,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press 2016
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EPHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EPHKitamura, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KITYeatman, Robin
Summary: "Imagine if Patricia Highsmith had written The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and instead of heroic daydreams she gave her protagonist murderous ones--that would be Bookworm. Robin Yeatman's story is subversive, surprising, and satisfying in a way that only the best comic noir can be."--Claire Oshetsky, author of Chouette Victoria is unhappily married to an ambitious and controlling lawyer...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Offutt, Chris
Summary: "Mick Hardin, a combat veteran now working as an Army CID agent, returns home on a leave that is almost done. His wife is about to give birth, but they aren't getting along. His sister, newly risen to sheriff, has just landed her first murder case, and local politicians are pushing for city police or the FBI to take the case. Are they convinced she can't handle it, or is there something else at...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2021
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC OFFCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OFFVanderah, Glendy.
Summary: "In a moment of crisis, Ellis Abbey leaves her daughter, Viola, unattended - for just a few minutes. But when she returns, Viola is gone. A breaking point in an already fractured marriage, Viola's abduction causes Ellis to disappear as well - into grief, guilt, and addiction. Convinced she can only do more harm to her family, Ellis leaves her husband and young sons, burying her desperate ache...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2021
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANHarrison, A. S. A.
Summary: Jodi and Todd are at a bad place in their marriage. Much is at stake, including the affluent life they lead in their beautiful waterfront condo in Chicago, as she, the killer, and he, the victim, rush haplessly toward the main event. He is a committed cheater; she lives and breathes denial. He exists in dual worlds; she likes to settle scores. He decides to play for keeps; she has nothing left...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: P HARCraft, Kathryn
Summary: "After enduring years of a struggling marriage, Ronnie Farnham has decided to divorce her husband and is beginning to hope for a happy future--until the morning Jeff is supposed to move out, when he locks himself in their barn with a rifle. When a massive police presence arrives to control the 12-hour stand-off, the women in Jeff's life are pushed to their breaking points"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRAPatrick, Phaedra
Summary: In the quiet village of Noon Sun, Benedict Stone lives out the stagnant life of an unhappily married jeweler, until the daughter of his estranged brother arrives from America and turns his whole life upside down.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2017
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATFuller, Claire
Summary: "Ingrid Coleman writes letters to her husband Gil about the truth of their marriage, but instead of giving them to him, she hides them in the thousands of books he has collected over the years. When Ingrid has written her final letter she disappears from a Dorset beach, leaving behind her beautiful but dilapidated house by the sea, her husband, and her two daughters"--Dust jacket flap.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House Books 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FULCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Fuller 2017Green, Jane
Summary: "Grace and Ted Chapman. Literary power couple. Ted is considered "the thinking man's John Grisham" and Grace, his wife of twenty years is beautiful, stylish, carefree. All of this is on the surface. Beneath, what no one sees, is Ted's rages. His mood swings. And the precarious house of cards that their lifestyle is built upon. When Ted's longtime assistant and mainstay leaves, the house of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION GREParis, B. A.
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author B. A. Paris captivated psychological thriller readers everywhere with Behind Closed Doors. Now she invites you into another heart-pounding home full of secrets, in The Guest. Some secrets never leave. Iris and Gabriel have just arrived home from a make-or-break holiday. But a shock awaits them. One of their closest friends, Laure, is in their house. The...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Hepworth, Sally
Summary: There's a cottage on a cliff. Gabe and Pippa's dream home in a sleepy coastal town. But their perfect house hides something sinister. The tall cliffs have become a popular spot for people to end their lives. Night after night Gabe comes to their rescue, literally talking them off the ledge. Until he doesn't. When Pippa discovers Gabe knew the victim, the questions spiral ... Did the victim...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2023
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HEPOffutt, Chris
Summary: "Mick Hardin is an Army CID officer home on leave, recovering from an IED attack and flirting with prescription painkillers, when a body is found in the center of town. It's Barney Kissick, the local heroin dealer, and the city police see it as an occupational hazard. But when Barney's mother, Shifty, asks Mick to take a look, it seems there's more to the killing than it seems. Mick should be...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OFFMajor, Cesca
Summary: Harried London literary agent Emma is flying out of the door as usual. Preoccupied with work and her ever growing to-do list, she fails to notice her husband Dan seems bereft, her son can barely meet her eye, and her daughter won't go near her. Even the dog seems sad. She is too busy, buried in her phone all day with clients and WhatsApp groups. When she rushes back home for dinner, Dan is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023