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341) The tree bride
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
"After the firebombing of her San Francisco house and a coincidental meeting during a routine doctor's visit, Calcutta-born Tara Chatterjee is compelled to embark on a most American of journeys, a search for her roots. Her task is to trace the story of her great-great-aunt, Tara Lata, who at the age of five was married to a tree in the Indian village of Mishtigunj. Her search takes her into the heart of her family history - and the history of her...
342) Addicted
Author
Series
Addicted novels (Zane) volume 1
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
Zoe Reynard's perfect life--marriage to her childhood sweetheart, a thriving business, and three wonderful children--begins to unravel as she begins to lose control, fails to get her husband to open up to her sexually, and embarks on three extramarital affairs.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"From Bethany Chase--whom bestselling author Emily Giffin calls "a great new voice in fiction"--comes a wise and delightfully relatable novel about a woman's journey to rebuild her life, and her heart, after a stunning betrayal. Can you ever really know the person you love? She never saw it coming. Without even a shiver of suspicion to warn her, Caroline Hammond discovers that her husband is having an affair with a man--a revelation that forces...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
©2007
Description
"Nella Larsen (1891-1964) occupies a central place in African-American and Modernist literature, and her status as a Harlem Renaissance woman writer is rivaled only by Zora Neale Hurston's. This edition of Larsen's 1929 novel is accompanied by Carla Kaplan's introduction and explanatory annotations."--BOOK JACKET.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"In Japan, a covert industry has grown up around the "wakaresaseya" (literally "breaker-upper"), a person hired by one spouse to seduce the other in order to gain the advantage in divorce proceedings. When Sato hires Kaitaro, a wakaresaseya agent, to have an affair with his wife, Rina, he assumes it will be an easy case. But Sato has never truly understood Rina or her desires and Kaitaro's job is to do exactly that--until he does it too well. While...
347) Life After Forty
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
When Christine's husband calls her during a girls' night in with her sister and asks for a divorce, she's devastated. And bewildered. Admittedly, her marriage was in a rut, but at least she had someone, and an idea of how her future would be. Now, in the run-up to her fortieth birthday, she has to start over. With the help of loyal girlfriends and her courageous decision to move to the city, she gradually starts to find her feet on the ground again...
349) The divorce colony: how women revolutionized marriage and found freedom on the American frontier
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"From a historian and senior writer and editor at Atlas Obscura, a fascinating account of the daring nineteenth-century women who moved to South Dakota to divorce their husbands and start living on their own terms"--
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
"Complete in one volume! The Prairie Trilogy is a thematically linked series of three novels by Willa Cather. - O Pioneers!: Alexandra Bergson inherits the family farm when her father passes away. She decides to make a go of it when so many other immigrant families are giving up at the turn of the twentieth century. - The Song of the Lark: Thea Kronborg is a piano teacher with a voice that came from the heavens. She seeks to use her gift, and in so...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"At the height of the Jazz Age in the 1920s, the young millionaire Jay Gatsby hosts extravagant parties at his Long Island mansion, but his true persona is an enigma to even his next-door neighbor Nick Carraway. As the story of Gatsby's past-and his obsession with the enchanting Daisy Buchanan-unfolds over the course of Pete Katz's colorful graphic adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, we are drawn into a tale rich with the universal...
353) The Scarlet Letter
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Description
A graphic novel adaptation of The scarlet letter, a tale of forbidden love, shame, and revenge.
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