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Everything She Lost
If her abusive husband hadn't tried to kill her and her beloved dog Lucie, Helen Ward might never have left her million-dollar home and run far away. Now Helen's changed her identity and moved across the country, hopeful that she can be safe, happy, maybe even loved. And when she meets college professor Sam Tolliver, she begins to believe fairytales do come true.
Gave Her Everything She Ever Wanted
But even with love blossoming...
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IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
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On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne's fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick's clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn't doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wifes head, but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl...
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In her unsettling new domestic thriller, Paula Daly digs beneath the serene surface of the idyllic suburban Lake District community, where families strive for perfection. A tale of ambition and murder in Daly's richly imagined world, this is an absorbing page-turner about the illusions of perfection and the power games between husband and wife, parent and child.
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"Claire Cook has a perfect life. Married to the scion of a political dynasty, with a Manhattan townhouse and a staff of ten, her surroundings are elegant, her days flawlessly choreographed, and her future auspicious. But behind closed doors, nothing is quite as it seems. That perfect husband has a temper that burns as bright as his promising political career, and he's not above using his staff to track Claire's every move, making sure she's living...
6) The husband
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2006
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IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
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400 p. ; 25 cm.
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We have your wife. You can get her back for two million cash. Landscaper Mitchell Rafferty thinks it must be some kind of joke. He was in the middle of planting impatiens in the yard of one of his clients when his cell phone rang. Now he's standing in a normal suburban neighborhood on a bright summer day, having a phone conversation out of his darkest nightmare.
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"Leslie Anne Greene Carter is the last original wife among her husband's group of cronies. They've all traded in for younger... blonder... more enhanced models. But she is proud of her status and the longevity of her marriage. Sure the spark isn't quite there the way it once was. And it would be nicer if her husband paid a bit more attention to her desires but there's something to be said for a comfortable relationship. Or at least she thinks so until...
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Tabitha Girard had her heart broken years ago by Connor Ford. Their affair should have been a summer fling. But it meant everything to Tabitha. Years later, Connor comes back into Tabitha's life, older, richer, and desperately unhappy. He married for money, a wealthy, neurotic, controlling woman whom he never loved. He has always loved Tabitha. When Connor's wife Nina takes her own life, he's free. He can finally be with Tabitha. It seems to be a...
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The day Danielle Harding takes her 11-year-old son and flees from her abusive husband is the same day Kurt Harding dies. Dani believes she and her son are finally safe, but the danger has just begun. Kurt had taken something that was important to a mysterious person who wants it back and believes Dani has it. Running for their lives, Dani and her son have nowhere to turn -- until she hires Adam Buchanan of Operation Refuge and goes into hiding. But...
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[2022]
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1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Arriving home from his work at a steel fabrication plant, Levi finds his pregnant wife dead in their room. His newborn daughter Allie survives the incident; and while this should bring him some comfort, he would rather have his wife. Living in near poverty and responsible for a newborn baby and a seven-year-old Madi who, like her dad, still hasn't dealt with her mother's death, Levi can't afford to be away from work for long. And in the south, it's...
15) Bookworm
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Victoria is unhappily married to an ambitious and controlling lawyer consumed with his career. Burdened with overbearing in-laws, a boring dead-end job she can’t seem to leave, and a best friend who doesn’t seem to understand her, Victoria finds solace from the daily grind in her beloved books and the stories she makes up in her head. One day, in a favorite caf�, she notices an attractive man reading the same talked-about bestselling novel...
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Nicolo Santo Domenico's marriage to heiress Chiara is purely for convenience - until their explosively passionate wedding night! But when Chiara realises that Nico's reasons for seducing her are as cold as his heart, she flees their fledgling marriage. Months later, Nico tracks down his errant wife - only to find she's expecting! To claim his baby Nico must make Chiara his... for real!
18) Georgetown
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[2021]
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1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Ulrich Mott is an eccentric and versatile social climber with grandiose plans to affect United States foreign policy. He is encouraged and egged on in his attempts by his strategically chosen wife, the well-connected journalist Elsa Brecht. Mott has a knack for making himself indispensable and impossible to ignore, with an impeccable sense for when to flatter and how to deftly use political jargon to his advantage. The only one seemingly immune to...
20) Flight behavior
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Set in the present day in the rural community of Feathertown, Tennessee, this novel tells the story of Dellarobia Turnbow, a petite, razor-sharp 29-year-old who nurtured worldly ambitions before becoming pregnant and marrying at seventeen. Now, after more than a decade of tending to small children on a failing farm, oppressed by poverty, isolation and her husband's antagonistic family, she has mitigated her boredom by surrendering to an obsessive...
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