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Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"From the moment Lucy met her husband's mother, Diana, she was kept at arm's length. Diana was exquisitely polite, and properly friendly, but Lucy knew that she was not what Diana envisioned. But who could fault Diana? She was a pillar of the community, an advocate for social justice who helped female refugees assimilate to their new country. Diana was happily married to Tom, and lived in wedded bliss for decades. Lucy wanted so much to please her...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of her husband Adam's death, Sarah, with a daughter and a baby on the way-and left with no money, moves in with Adam's mother, whom he always said was dead, but soon discovers why Adam lied as she becomes trapped in a house with a madwoman.
4) Safe within
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 325, 14 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Returning to her childhood home in Lowfield, North Carolina so that her husband can live out his final days in his favorite place, Elaine Forsythe gets more than she bargains for when her husband's mother, who hasn't spoken to her in 25 years, arrives and stirs up trouble.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A warm and witty multigenerational story about the deeply complicated relationships between mothers- and daughters-in-law, told through three women who marry into the same family. It's 2018 in New York City, and three women all known as Mrs. Tobias--Veronika, the matriarch, her daughter-in-law Mel, and Mel's daughter-in-law Birdie--are trying to navigate personal difficulties, some of which are with one another. Veronika and Mel, despite having little...
6) Zoo time
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In awe of his strikingly beautiful, highly strung wife and her equally volatile mother, novelist Guy Ableman finds his work persistently interrupted by their drama and dreams of squeezing out one more great book in spite of growing fears that reading is a cultural activity of the past.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Scientist Maryse Robicheaux thought that a lot of her problems had gone away with her mother-in-law's death. The woman was rude, pushy, manipulative and used her considerable wealth to run herd over the entire town of Mudbug, Louisiana. Unfortunately, death doesn't slow down Helena one bit. DEA Agent Luc LeJeune is wondering what his undercover assignment investigating the sexy scientist has gotten him into — especially as it seems someone
...Publisher
Shout! / Scream Factory
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Blu-ray.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When her Army husband is killed in combat, a pregnant woman travels to the remote Minnesota home of his family, whom she's never met, for a visit. Meeting with icy acceptance from her mother-in-law and stranded by a blizzard, she begins to discover terrifying, and deadly, secrets about her husband's family.
14) After the rice
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
252 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
15) Serendipity
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a hasty courtship, Todd and Maggie find their marriage falling apart, and when Todd's mother tries to further drive a wedge between them, Todd and Maggie must make one last effort to recapture their love.
16) The other woman
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thrilled to be Linda's 'adopted' daughter, Ellie begins to have doubts about marrying Dan after she gets to know his mother better.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Fall of 1957 in southern Virginia was a seemingly idyllic, even prosperous time. A young housewife, Charlotte Bliss, lives with her husband, Hasbrouck Preston "Press" Bliss and their two young children, Eva Grace and Michael, in the gorgeous Bliss family home. On the surface, theirs seems a calm, picturesque life, but soon tragedy befalls them -- a series of shocking deaths, with apparently simple explanations. But nothing is simple if Bliss...
18) The road home
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
395 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
19) Monster-in-law
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After years of looking for Mr. Right, Charlotte 'Charlie' Cantilini finally finds the man of her dreams, Kevin Fields, only to discover that his mother, Viola, is the woman of her most unpleasant nightmares. Viola is a recently fired news anchor who is afraid she will lose her son the way she has just lost her career, Viola becomes determined to scare off her son's new fianc b̌y becoming the world's worst mother-in-law.
20) Motherthing
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Vintage Books edition.
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A darkly funny domestic horror novel about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husband and herself from the vengeful ghost of her mother-in-law.
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