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Author
Series
World of spies mystery volume 2
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Husband and wife college professors Hollis and Finn Larsson receive a mysterious envelope containing passports under new names. They are forced onto a private plane headed to Argentina, with a mission to find an art thief.
82) Flight: a novel
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Language
English
Description
"The new novel from the critically acclaimed author of Want, told through the shifting voices of a family gathering for Christmas in upstate New York after the death of their beloved matriarch, at odds over the settling of her estate-a novel about art, grief, shame, ambition, joy, and the American safety net. It's December 22nd and siblings Henry, Kate, and Martin have converged with their spouses on Henry's house in upstate New York. This is the...
Author
Language
English
Description
When her father dies, Kay Wilkinson can't cry. Over ten years, Alzheimer's had steadily eroded this erudite man into a paranoid lunatic. Surely one's own father passing should never come as such a relief. Both medical professionals, Kay and her husband Cyril have seen too many elderly patients in similar states of decay. Although healthy and vital in their early fifties, the couple fears what may lie ahead. Determined to die with dignity, Cyril makes...
85) Anxious people
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Looking at real estate isn't usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives include a recently retired couple who relentlessly hunt down fixer-uppers to avoid the painful truth that they can't fix their own marriage. There's a wealthy bank director who has been too busy to care about anyone else and a young couple who are about...
Author
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books, Viking
Pub. Date
©2016
Language
English
Description
Resolving to leave her secrets behind when she gets married, a young lawyer is strangely drawn to a convicted killer during her first murder case in ways that shape her psychologically charged relationship with a young neighbor years later.
87) Listen to me
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Language
English
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On their drive east to visit family, Mark and Maggie are forced to stop for the night at a remote inn, completely without power, where the road trip goes hauntingly awry.
A modern gothic about a marriage and road trip gone hauntingly awry. Mark and Maggie's annual drive east to visit family has gotten off to a rocky start. By the time they're on the road, it's late, a storm is brewing, and they are no longer speaking to one another. Adding to the...
88) Lies she told
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Language
English
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Description
"As stresses weigh her down in her professional and personal lives, Liza escapes into writing the chilling exploits of her latest heroine, Beth...Then, the lines between Liza's fiction and her reality eerily blur...Liza will have to face up to the truths about the people around her, including her own. If she doesn't the end of her heroine's story could be the end of her own"--P. [2] of jacket.
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Language
English
Description
"Sunshine Mackenzie is living the dream, she's a culinary star with millions of fans, a line of #1 bestselling cookbooks, and a devoted husband happy to support her every endeavor. And then she gets hacked. When Sunshine's secrets are revealed, her fall from grace is catastrophic. She loses the husband, her show, the fans, and her apartment. She's forced to return to the childhood home, and the estranged sister, she's tried hard to forget. But what...
90) 45 years
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Kate and Geoff prepare to celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary, their marriage is shaken when unexpected news threatens to change their lives.
"Exquisite."--The New York Times.
"One of the best movies of the year."--Village Voice.
"45 Years is a mesmerizer."--Rolling Stone.
"Quietly explosive."--Los Angeles Times.
Author
Publisher
Little A
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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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Language
English
Description
"I have held you at night for ten years and I didn't even know your name. We have a child together. A dog, a house. Who are you? Emma loves her husband Leo and their young daughter Ruby: she'd do anything for them. But almost everything she's told them about herself is a lie. And she might just have got away with it, if it weren't for her husband's job. Leo is an obituary writer; Emma a well-known marine biologist. When she suffers a serious illness,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Kimani
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Her former husband was the love of her life-
Except he isn't her ex!
Retired Secret Service agent Landon Trent stuns Jadin DuGrandpre with the announcement that they're still married. Even as passion reignites, winning back Jadin's trust won't be easy-especially when a trial pits the two Charleston attorneys on opposite sides. But Landon isn't giving up on their future. Can they recapture what they once shared or will they lose this second chance?...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
With her husband Vladimir under investigation for inappropriate relationships with his former students, a popular English professor finds their extra-marital pursuits taking a toll on their relationship, while a married young novelist becomes dangerously obsessed with Vladimir, threatening to blow their life wide open.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Full screen ed.
Language
English
Description
From the mind of mystery maven Agatha Christie comes what is considered to be the original crime-solving couple, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. Redefining the conventions of the mystery genre, providing a prototype for many male/female detective teams that followed.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Ballantine Books Trade Paperback Ed.
Language
English
Description
"Women have changed in the last twenty-five years-they have become powerful, independent, self-confident, and happy. Yet many men remain irresponsible and emotionally detached. They don't know how to respond to frustrated partners who just want their mates to show up and grow up."--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Whispering Springs novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Zoe is an interior designer with a unique sense of style. But even more uncanny is her sense of what's going on under the surface, the secrets a house can hold. At the moment, though, Zoe isn't concerned about a client's space. She's more worried about what's going on in her own house in Whispering Springs, Arizona, where she lives with her new husband, private investigator Ethan Truax. After a whirlwind courtship, and a dangerous adventure, they've...
98) The Rosie result
Author
Series
Rosie novels (Graeme Simsion) volume 3
Publisher
The Text Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Don and Rosie are about to face their most important project. Their son, Hudson, is having trouble at school: his teachers say he isnt fitting in with the other kids, and they'd like Don and Rosie to think about getting an autism assessment. As his parents debate whether a diagnosis might help or hinder, Hudson has his own ideas. Meanwhile, Rosie is battling Judas at work, and Don is in hot water after the Genetics Lecture Outrage. The life-contentment...
99) Beyond the pale
Author
Series
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Interpol asks married college professors Hollis and Finn Larsson to procure a priceless rare book manuscript abroad. They are soon left with fifty thousand euros and a possible death threat"--
100) Surprise me
Author
Language
English
Description
"After being together for ten years, Sylvie and Dan have all the trimmings of a happy life and marriage; they have a comfortable home, fulfilling jobs, beautiful twin girls, and communicate so seamlessly, they finish each other's sentences. However, a trip to the doctor projects they will live another 68 years together and panic sets in. They never expected "until death do us part" to mean seven decades. In the name of marriage survival, they quickly...
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