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"Set in Hamptons high society, The Divorce Party features two women-one newly engaged and one at the end of her marriage-trying to answer the same question: when should you fight to save a relationship, and when should you let go? An insightful and funnymulti-generational story, this deeply moving novel is sure to touch anyone whose heart has weathered an unexpected storm"--
2) My ex-life
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English
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"David Hedges is having an unusual midlife crisis. His boyfriend, Soren, has left him for an older man. His job is exasperating. As his life reaches new lows, his weight reaches new highs. Across the country, Julie Fiske isn't having a much better time herself. Carol, the woman (younger, of course) that Henry, her second husband, left her for, is downright likable--more likeable than Henry was. Her sullen teen daughter adamantly refuses to apply to...
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English
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"A fresh, funny take on the search for a soulmate." —People
A savvy, page-turning novel about a woman torn between her husband and the man she thought she'd marry by the author of the New York Times Bestseller and Reese's Book Club Pick, The Last Thing He Told Me
Annie Adams is days away from her thirty-second birthday and thinks she has finally found some happiness. She visits the world's...
A savvy, page-turning novel about a woman torn between her husband and the man she thought she'd marry by the author of the New York Times Bestseller and Reese's Book Club Pick, The Last Thing He Told Me
Annie Adams is days away from her thirty-second birthday and thinks she has finally found some happiness. She visits the world's...
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Language
English
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A tale set against a backdrop of the glossy magazine and advertising worlds of 1960s London follows a harrowing courtroom custody battle between Eliza, who gave up her writing job to marry; and her ex-husband, Matt, an edgy working-class man.
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English
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Adrienne Willis is 45 and has been divorced for three years, abandoned by her husband for a younger woman. The trials of raising her teenage children and caring for her sick father have worn her down, but at the request of a friend and in hopes of respite, she's gone to the coastal village of Rodanthe in North Carolina to tend the local inn for the weekend. With a major storm brewing, the time away doesn't look promising...until a guest named Paul...
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Little A
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English
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"Murray has always known how to suppress his pain. In the shadows of a predawn run, a man tries to escape what he can't control: his failed marriage. Grief. Even his own weakness. Murray is a college running coach insistent on his relentless training regimen and obsessed with his star athlete - until he finds her crumpled and unresponsive during a routine practice one morning. Unable to avoid or outrun realit, Murray is forced to face the consequences...
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English
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"It's been nearly six years since Julia Jones had her heart broken. After her husband became involved with another woman, she did everything she could to save their marriage, to no avail. Their two daughters continue to stand by Julia in the wake of their father's behavior--and they've had a tough time getting along with the 'other woman' who became their stepmother. Distraught after selling the family home, Julia moves into a condominium complex...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Sharing nothing in common except their 16-year-old daughter, divorced parents John and Irene reconnect in the wake of a devastating tragedy and discover things about each other that they had not revealed during their marriage.
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Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When Michael Frazier's ex-wife, Erica, shows up on his doorstep pleading for help, she drops a bombshell that threatens to rip his family apart: Erica's nine-year-old daughter is missing, and Michael is the father. But finding Felicity comes at a price, the closer Michael gets to the truth, the further into jeopardy his marriage falls and the faster his family begins to unravel.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLD
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Russ and Lina Bowman can barely remember what life was like before kids, debt, and suburbia rained on their romance, but every once in a while, in between the arguments about their declining sex life and whose driving carpool, they are reminded what drew them together in the first place, they're best friends.
12) Saraband
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Swedish
Description
Johan and Marianne lost touch after their divorce. Years later Marianne looks up Johan and tries to get him out of isolation. Upon her arrival to his home, they spend several intense weeks together. Sequel to Scenes From A Marriage. Bergman's last film.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"Musician Robert is a starving artist with minimal commitments. When Robert's daughter announces that she's engaged, he advises her against it; his own marriage to Emily didn't last, and he doesn't understand why she would want to give up her independence. Yet when Robert and Emily reunite and dredge up old memories, both discover they have a lot of unresolved issues and that love, marriage, and divorce aren't quite as simple as they'd like"--Container....
14) Unforgettable
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
Tessa Connover is barely coping with the end of her marriage when her ex-husband, David, becomes happily engaged to Julia Banks. He not only brings Julia into the home they once shared, but also into the life of their daughter, Lilly. Trying to settle into her new role as a wife and a stepmother, Julia believes she has finally met the man of her dreams, the man who can help her put her own troubled past behind her.
15) The hidden
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Series
Krewe of Hunters volume 17
Language
English
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"Estes Park, Colorado, is a place of serenity. But it wasn't always so serene. Shortly after the Civil War, Nathan Kendall and his wife were murdered there, leaving behind a young son. The crime was never solved. Now historian Scarlet Barlow is working at a small museum attached to a B and B, the same building where that murder occurred. She recently came to Colorado, reeling after her divorce from FBI agent Diego McCullough. Diego--who's just been...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"The beloved author of Early Morning Riser ("The funniest novel of the year." -The Washington Post) brings us twelve glittering stories of love--friendships formed at the airport bar, ex-husbands with benefits, mothers of suspiciously sweet teenagers, ill-advised trysts--in all its forms, both ridiculous and sublime"--
17) The road home
Author
Series
Broken road (Richard Paul Evans) volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Simon & Shuster hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Chicago celebrity and pitchman Charles James is supposed to be dead. Everyone believes he was killed in a fiery plane crash, a flight he narrowly missed. But thanks to that remarkable twist of fate, he's very much alive and ready for a second chance at life and love. Escaping death has brought Charles some clarity: the money, the fame, the expensive cars; none of it brought him true joy or peace. The last time he was truly happy was when he was married...
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"As a child, Kate Hamilton was packed off each summer to her grandfather's ivy-covered villa in southern France. That ancestral home, named Marthe Marie, is now crumbling, and it falls to Kate--regarded as the most responsible and practical member of her family--to return to the rugged, beautiful seaside region to confront her grandfather's debts and convince him to sell. Kate makes her living as a psychologist and life coach, but her own life is...
19) His girl Friday
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
1940.
Language
English
Description
In this undeniable gem of Hollywood's golden age, Walter, a hard-boiled newspaper editor, discovers that his ex-wife and former employee, Hildy, is set to marry a wet-blanket insurance salesman. Walter, certain that this is the wrong move for a strong-willed and ambitious woman such as Hildy, decides to sabotage her marital plans by enticing her with one last story--the execution of a convicted murderer. A classic of the Screwball Rom-Com genre, HIS...
20) Unforgettable
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
Tessa Connover is barely coping with the end of her marriage when her ex-husband, David, becomes happily engaged to Julia Banks. He not only brings Julia into the home they once shared, but also into the life of their daughter, Lilly. Trying to settle into her new role as a wife and a stepmother, Julia believes she has finally met the man of her dreams, the man who can help her put her own troubled past behind her.
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