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Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Martha's Vineyard, 1898. In her first life, Ida Russell had been a painter. Five years ago, she had confidently walked the halls of Boston's renowned Museum School, enrolling in art courses that were once deemed "unthinkable" for women to take, and showing a budding talent for watercolors. But no more. Ida Russell is now Ida Pease, resident of a seaside farm on Vineyard Haven, and wife to Ezra, a once-charming man who has become an inattentive and...
382) La empleada
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
"Todos los días friego la preciosa casa de los Winchester de arriba abajo. Recojo a su hija del colegio y preparo deliciosas comidas para toda la familia antes de subir a cenar sola a mi minúscula habitación del piso superior. Intento no p restar atención a Nina lo ensucia todo simplemente para ver cómo lo limpio. A las extrañas mentiras que cuenta sobre su propia hija. A su marido esposo, que cada día parece más abatido. Pero cuando...
383) The art of floating
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Berkley trade paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
"At a time when nothing seems real, it takes something truly unusual to put your life into focus. When her beloved husband, Jackson, disappeared without a trace, popular novelist Sia Dane stopped writing, closed down her house, stuffed her heart into a cage, and started floating. It wasn't the normal response to heartache, but Sia rarely did things the normal way. Exactly one year, one month, and six days after Jackson's disappearance, Sia discovers...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Pocket Books paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
"Steamy romance sizzles between a resurrected earl and his repentant bride in USA TODAY bestselling author Meredith Duran's latest historical romance. BACK FROM THE DEAD, AN EARL SEEKS VENGEANCE...Liam Devaliant, Lord Lockwood, was born into a charmed life. Charismatic, powerful, and wild, he had the world at his feet--and one woman as his aim. His wedding to Anna was meant to be his greatest triumph. Instead, in a single moment, a wicked conspiracy...
385) From darkest skies
Author
Series
From darkest skies volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
After a five year sabbatical following the tragic death of his wife and fellow agent Alysha, Keon Rause returns to the distant colony world of Magenta to resume service with the Magentan Intelligence Service. With him he brings an artificial recreation of his wife's personality, a simulacrum built from every digital trace she left behind. She has been constructed with one purpose -- to discover the truth behind her own death -- but Keon's relationship...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Berkley Trade paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
"The Bahamas, 1943. Hoping to escape her turbulent past, twenty-three-year-old Dodie Wyatt has fled to Nassau. But the world is at war, and one night the peaceful life she has created for herself is shattered when she discovers a man dying in an alleyway . . . Ella Stanford is married to a powerful diplomat who's been appointed to keep the Duke of Windsor far from his Nazi friends in Germany. And in this city now teeming with danger, Ella has her...
387) The invitation
Author
Series
Stephanie King novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Grand Central Publishing edition.
Language
English
Description
"The first time Jemma and Matt were invited to Polskirrin -- the palatial ocean-view home belonging to Matt's old friend Lucas Jarrett -- it was for an intimate wedding that ended in tragedy. Jemma will never forget the sight of the girl's pale, doll-like body bobbing listlessly toward the rocky shore. Now, exactly one year later, Jemma and her husband have reluctantly returned at Lucas's request to honor an anniversary they would do anything to forget....
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"One of the most celebrated writers of criticism in nineteenth-century Spain, Leopoldo Alas employed his satirical talent to powerful and humorous effect in fiction as well. In His Only Son, Bonifacio Reyes, a romantic flautist by vocation--and a failed clerk and kept husband by necessity--dreams of a novelesque life. Tied to his shrill and sickly wife by her purse strings, he enters timidly into a love affair with Serafina, a seductive second-rate...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"What does it mean to be a poet's wife, his muse and lover, there for the heights of inspiration and the quotidian of the day-to-day, and oftentimes, too, the drudgery of being in a supporting role to "the great man"? In this exquisite and sensitive new novel, David Park explores this complicated relationship through three luminous characters: Catherine Blake, wife of William Blake, nineteenth-century poet, painter, and engraver; Nadezhda Mandelstam,...
390) The second husband
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
When her ten-year marriage to Alistair ends with his infidelity, Kate Easton vows she will not make the same mistake twice. She will never put herself - or her two children - through a relationship again. Then Alistair announces that his new wife is pregnant and he intends to cut his financial support to Kate. To keep her home she must divide it up and make way for a lodger. Enter Davis Calder, a glamorous and charismatic tutor with a failed marriage...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Large print ed.
Language
English
Description
Kate Walbert returns with twelve deft, acutely funny, and often heartbreaking stories. Her characters question the definitions assigned to them as wives, mothers, and daughters. They seek their own way within isolated, and often isolating, circumstances and revel in everyday epiphanies and quick moments of clarity.
392) Me muero por vivir
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
"Pablo inicia un viaje alrededor del mundo para cumplir el sueño de Sofía, su esposa, quien ha sido diagnosticada con una enfermedad degenerativa y poco común: esclerosis lateral amiotrófica. Apegado a la comodidad de su vida en Colombia, tendrá que enfrentarse a los desafíos de ser un viajero independiente en su ruta por África y el sudeste asiático, mientras intenta mantener la relación con su esposa. En el recorrido irá descubriendo...
393) The homecoming
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth looks forward to the triumphant return of her husband, English explorer James Cook. But will the private life she's been leading in his absence distract her from her role in aid of her husband's ambitions?
394) The final note
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Ethan met and fell in love with Anna while studying music in Europe. He married her and fully expected to grow old with her. They were young, life was good, and their faith in and commitment to each other came easily, as evidenced by the love notes Anna periodically left between the strings of Ethan's guitar. On their wedding day, Ethan promised to write a song for Anna. Fast forward to the present day. Reality has stepped into the idyllic happily-ever-after...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Leaving fans "practically [begging] for a sequel" (Bookpage), critically acclaimed author Kristy Woodson Harvey returns with the second novel in her beloved Peachtree Bluff series, featuring a trio of sisters and their mother who discover a truth that will change not only the way they see themselves, but also how they fit together as a family. After finding out her military husband is missing in action, middle sister Sloane's world crumbles as her...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
[Navy baby:]"It was a night she'd never forget...two strangers coming together in a moment of intense desire. But now sheltered Hannah Raymond is expecting the child of a rugged naval seaman she thought she'd never see again. Riley Murdock has been searching for Hannah for months-ever since that soul-shaking night of passion. Now fate has reunited them. Determined to give his child the chance he never had, Riley marries Hannah. They've created the...
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