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Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Ann has a ring on her finger, but for twelve years her husband has been in a coma following a tragic accident. Hope for a new life with a new neighbor has her questioning the dividing lines between love and loyalty, adultery and loneliness
62) Lady Chatterley
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
When her paralyzed husband urges the repressed Lady Chatterley to find fulfillment and an heir for his fortune in the arms of another man, she embarks on a journey that changes her forever.
Author
Series
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
A novel on the harsh life in the Appalachian Mountains at the turn of the century. The heroine is Julie Harmon whose work load includes hauling water, butchering a hog, rendering lard, plucking a turkey, baking and preserving--all described in detail.
64) Home at last
Author
Series
Matanuska series volume 3
Publisher
Broadman & Holman
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
One of America's most acclaimed writers returns to the land on which he has staked a literary claim to paint an indelible portrait of a family in a time of unprecedented change. In a compelling weaving of fact and fiction, Robert Morgan introduces a family's captivating story, set during World War II and the Great Depression. Driven by the uncertainties of the future, the family struggles to define itself against the vivid Appalachian landscape. The...
67) River's edge
Author
Series
Cape Refuge series volume 3
Language
English
Description
A small-town scandal quickly turns into a national media event. Is the murderer one of the obvious suspects . . . or someone they have no reason to doubt?
Ben Jackson is going head to head with Jonathan Cleary in Cape Refuge's mayoral race—and he's even expected to win—when his wife Lisa turns up missing the day before the major debate. Suddenly the town is in turmoil as proof of an alleged affair surfaces, indicating
...68) Leap of faith
Author
Language
English
Description
Marie-Ange Hawkins was torn away from her beloved French chateau after her parents died and spent the rest of her childhood on a lonely Iowa farm. She married the chateau's new owner, Comte Bernard de Beauchamp, and begins raising a family, but her life takes an ominous turn.
69) The corrections
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Corrections is a grandly entertaining novel for the new century — a comic, tragic masterpiece about a family breaking down in an age of easy fixes. After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson's disease, and their children have long since flown the family nest to the catastrophes of their own lives. The oldest, Gary, a once-stable...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
How did marriage, considered a religious duty in medieval Europe, become a venue for personal fulfillment in contemporary America? How did the notion of romantic love, a novelty in the Middle Ages, become a prerequisite for marriage today? And, if the original purpose of marriage was procreation, what exactly is the purpose of marriage for women now?
Combining "a scholar's rigor and a storyteller's craft"(San Jose Mercury News), distinguished cultural...
73) Pretty baby
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
She sees the teenage girl on the train platform, standing in the pouring rain, clutching an infant in her arms. She boards a train and is whisked away. But she can't get the girl out of her head... Heidi Wood has always been a charitable woman: she works for a nonprofit, takes in stray cats. Still, her husband and daughter are horrified when Heidi returns home one day with a young woman named Willow and her four-month-old baby in tow. Disheveled and...
74) True enough
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
From the author of The Object of My Affection comes a warm and witty family drama about love and lust, trust and betrayal, commitment and denial.
Jane Cody keeps lists. After all, how else would she keep track of her life-her job producing a Boston TV show; her amiable but frankly dull second husband; and her precocious six-year-old son who "doesn't do small talk" but loves to bake. And as if that weren't enough she has an acid-tongued mother-in-law...
75) Sweet boundless
Author
Series
Diamond of the Rockies volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Newly married Carina DiGratia Shephard longs to make a home for herself and her husband, Quillan, in the rugged mining town of Crystal, Colorado. Quillan, however, has turned away to confront the haunting pain of his troubled childhood. Out of her loneliness, Carina opens a restaurant, and through its success soon attains the independence and identity she has long sought. When Carina is attacked in retaliation for her kindness to the destitute families...
76) Lady of light
Author
Series
Brides of Culdee Creek volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Infused with the same warmth and excitement of the two previous books in her popular Brides of Culdee Creek series, Kathleen Morgan's third book tells Evan MacKay and Claire Sutherland's story. Heartbroken at losing his first love to another man, Evan leaves Culdee Creek in hopes of forgetting her. When his searching heart brings him to his ancestral home of Scotland, he encounters a beautiful young woman who begins to fill the empty corners of his...
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