Hilderbrand, Elin.
Summary: Celebrity chef Deacon Rowe is struggling with addiction, depression and not one, but two scandals. As summer nears, he travels to the idyllic Eastern bluff of Nantucket, where he takes his own life. In the shocking wake of Deacon's suicide, his first wife and childhood sweetheart, Laurel Rowe, sets out to gather Deacon's far-flung family--including Deacon and Laurel's son, and Deacon's other...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION HILLansens, Lori.
Summary: Mary Gooch was once young and slender and carefree. But with each passing year she's accumulated an excess of pounds and worries. On the eve of her 25th wedding anniversary, her handsome husband does not come home. Shocked out of her inertia, Mary boards a plane for the first time and begins a desperate search. With a surge of energy that she hasn't felt in years, Mary fights for her husband...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LANLaurin, Nina
Summary: My phone rings, and a wave of panic spreads under my skin. It's Colleen, my husband's first wife, who's supposed to be missing or dead. There's a big difference.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC LAUCampbell, Michele
Summary: Tabitha Girard had her heart broken years ago by Connor Ford. Their affair should have been a summer fling. But it meant everything to Tabitha. Years later, Connor comes back into Tabitha's life, older, richer, and desperately unhappy. He married for money, a wealthy, neurotic, controlling woman whom he never loved. He has always loved Tabitha. When Connor's wife Nina takes her own life, he's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CAMMcDermott, Alice
Summary: Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney on loan to navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a bully. In Saigon in 1963, the two women form a wary alliance as they balance the era's mandate to be "helpmeets" to their ambitious husbands with their own, inchoate impulse to "do good" for the people of Vietnam. Sixty years later,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: When a tragic car accident ends the life of Richard Glass, it also upends the lives of Evie and Nicole, and their children. There's no love lost between the widow and the ex. In fact, Evie sees a silver lining in all this heartache-- the chance to rid herself of Nicole once and for all. But Evie wasn't counting on her children's bond with their baby half-brother, and she wasn't counting on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC NATSmith, Betty
Summary: "Set in Brooklyn in the 1920's Tomorrow will be better tells the story of Margy Shannon, a shy, joyfully optimistic young woman just out of school who lives with her parents and witnesses how a lifetime of hard work and poverty has worn them down. Determined not to end up like them, Margy takes refuge in her dreams of a better life. Her goals are simple: to find a husband she loves, have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SMIHilderbrand, Elin
Summary: Celebrity chef Deacon Rowe is struggling with addiction, depression and not one, but two, scandals. As summer nears, he travels to the idyllic Eastern bluff of Nantucket, where he takes his own life. In the shocking wake of Deacon's suicide, his first wife and childhood sweetheart, Laurel Rowe, sets out to gather Deacon's far-flung family, including Deacon and Laurel's son, and Deacon's other...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HILBakis, Kirsten
Summary: Anna Fort wants to be a supportive wife, even if that means accompanying her husband for the winter of 1918 to a remote, frozen island estate so he can finish his book as the guest of an eccentric millionaire. When she learns three girls are missing from a school run by their host, Anna realizes finding them is up to her, even if that means risking her husband's career, and possibly her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC BAKKoppel, Hans
Summary: Struggling with fear, despair, and suspicious Swedish authorities when his wife fails to return home, Mike endures a nightmarish existence with his daughter, unaware that his vigil is being secretly filmed and shown to his wife by her abductors in a nearby cellar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOPMcFadden, Maryann.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCFWatson, Jan.
Summary: "Following a whirlwind courtship, seventeen year old Copper Brown finds herself living in the bustling city of Lexington, Kentucky, far away from her beloved mountain home, newly married to a man she barely knows. After running free on Troublesome Creek, Copper finds it difficult to adjust to city life and the demands of being a lady."-Book Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WATBrown, Carolyn
Summary: New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown returns with a heartbreakingly hilarious novel about three women who had nothing in common, except their husband. Leaving one widow behind is unfortunate. Leaving three widows behind is just plain despicable. Oil heiress Kate Steele knew her not-so-dearly departed husband was a con man, but she is shocked that Conrad racked up two more wives...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC BROFrank, Dorothea Benton.
Summary: The last original wife among her husband's group of cronies, Leslie Anne, after an accident, realizes her perfect life is a sham and embraces the healing powers of South Carolina's white beaches where she, with the help of the feisty and funny residents,reclaims the strong and sexy woman she was meant to be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FRAFrank, Dorothea Benton.
Summary: "Leslie Anne Greene Carter is the last original wife among her husband's group of cronies. They've all traded in for younger... blonder... more enhanced models. But she is proud of her status and the longevity of her marriage. Sure the spark isn't quite there the way it once was. And it would be nicer if her husband paid a bit more attention to her desires but there's something to be said for a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Frank 2013Lansens, Lori.
Summary: On the eve of their Silver Anniversary, Mary Gooch is waiting for her husband Jimmy to come home. As night turns to day, it becomes frighteningly clear to Mary that he is gone. Through the years, disappointment and worry have brought Mary's life to a standstill, and she has let her universe shrink to the well-worn path from the bedroom to the refrigerator. But her husband's disappearance...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANMishima, Yukio
Summary: "Translated into English for the first time, a gripping short novel about an affair gone wrong, from the acclaimed Japanese author, Yukio Mishima. Set in rural Japan shortly after World War II, The Frolic of the Beasts tells the story of a strange and utterly absorbing love triangle between a former university student, his would-be mentor, the eminent literary critic Ippei Kusakado; and Ippei's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage International, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MISNathan, Amy Sue.
Summary: When a tragic car accident ends the life of Richard Glass, it also upends the lives of Evie and Nicole, and their children. There's no love lost between the widow and the ex. In fact, Evie sees a silver lining in all this heartache-- the chance to rid herself of Nicole once and for all. But Evie wasn't counting on her children's bond with their baby half-brother, and she wasn't counting on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NATQuinn, Cate
Summary: ""I had the right husband-and the wrong wives." -One of Blake Nelson's widows The Dry meets The Handmaid's Tale in this fascinating story of wife and death. Against the wishes of his family and the laws of the elders of the Mormon church, Blake Nelson hasadopted the old polygamous ways and lives alone with his three wives, miles from anywhere, in rural Utah. Blake and his wives kept to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUIStanfill, Francesca
Summary: Set in France and England at the end of the twelfth century, the moving story of a spirited, questing young woman, Isabelle, who defies convention to forge a remarkable life, one profoundly influenced by the fabled queen she idolizes and comes to know--Eleanor of Aquitaine. A sweeping, suspenseful tale about marriage, freedom, identity, and motherhood, The Falcon's Eyes not only illuminates a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STAArmfield, Julia
Summary: "Leah is changed. Months earlier, she left for a routine expedition, only this time her submarine sank to the sea floor. When she finally surfaces and returns home, her wife Miri knows that something is wrong. Barely eating and lost in her thoughts, Leah rotates between rooms in their apartment, running the taps morning and night. As Miri searches for answers, desperate to understand what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Baker, Chandler
Summary: "From Chandler Baker, the New York Times bestselling author of Whisper Network comes The Husbands, a novel that asks: to what lengths will a woman go for a little more help from her husband? Nora Spangler is a successful attorney but when it comes to domestic life, she packs the lunches, schedules the doctor appointments, knows where the extra paper towel rolls are, and designs and orders the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAKChapman, Emma
Summary: "In the tradition of Emma Donoghue's Room and S.J. Watson's Before I Go to Sleep, a haunting literary debut about a woman who begins having visions that make her question everything she knows. Marta and Hector have been married for a long time. Through the good and bad; through raising a son and sending him off to life after university. So long, in fact, that Marta finds it difficult to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAJacobson, Howard.
Summary: In awe of his strikingly beautiful, highly strung wife and her equally volatile mother, novelist Guy Ableman finds his work persistently interrupted by their drama and dreams of squeezing out one more great book in spite of growing fears that reading is a cultural activity of the past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2012