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Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents two holiday romance stories, including "Only Us, " in which Carina Fiore falls for her boss, veterinarian Cameron McKenzie, but doesn't know if he is worth risking her job and her friendship over.
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
[Blu-ray/DVD combo].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (1 hr., 56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 Blu-ray (1 hr., 56 min.)
Language
English
Description
Susan is living through an unfulfilling marriage when she receives a package containing a novel manuscript from her ex-husband, Edward. The novel is dedicated to her but its content is violent and devastating. Susan cannot help but reminisce over her past love story with the author. Increasingly she interprets the book as a tale of revenge, a tale that forces her to re-evaluate the choice that she has made, and reawakens a love that she feared was...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A down-on-his-luck Roman army doctor, Gaius Petreius Ruso has made the rash decision to seek his fortune in one of the inclement outposts of the Roman Empire, journeying to the far reaches of Britannia, where he rescues an injured slave girl, Tilla, from her abusive owner, an ill-advised decision that leads to nothing but trouble.
64) Lamb: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Lamb" traces the self-discovery of David Lamb, a narcissistic middle-aged man with a tendency toward dishonesty, in the weeks following the disintegration of his marriage and the death of his father. Hoping to regain some faith in his own goodness, he turns his attention to Tommie, an awkward and unpopular eleven-year-old girl. Lamb is convinced that he can help her avoid a destiny of apathy and emptiness and even comes to believe that his devotion...
65) Suddenly engaged
Author
Series
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
9 CDs (10 hr., 34 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Kyra's daughter needs a life-saving surgery, her neighbor Dax presents a practical plan: marry Kyra so his insurance will help Ruby, and then they can divorce--no strings attached, right?
66) Petulia
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An unhappily married socialite woman is trying to get through to a recently divorced doctor, who in his own words just wants to feel something.
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Arvid Jansen lost his parents and brothers in a tragic ferry accident, and now his wife, Turid, has divorced him and taken their three daughters. Arvid spends his time drinking, falling into fleeting relationships with women, and driving around in his Mazda. When his daughter Vigdis has a crisis of her own and reaches out to him, Arvid must find a way to respond to someone who still needs him. -- adapted from jacket
68) At fault
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thérèse Lafirme, a beautiful and resourceful Creole woman, is widowed at age thirty-two and left alone to run her Louisiana plantation. When Thérèse falls in love with David Hosmer, a divorced businessman, her strong moral and religious convictions make it impossible for her to accept his marriage proposal. Her determined rejection sets the two on a tumultuous path that involves Hosmer's former wife, Fanny. At Fault...
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With this furiously witty comedy of manners, Katharine Hepburn revitalized her career and cemented her status as the era's most iconic leading lady--thanks in great part to her own shrewd orchestrations. While starring in the Philip Barry stage play The Philadelphia Story, Hepburn acquired the screen rights, handpicking her friend George Cukor to direct. The intoxicating screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart pits the formidable Philadelphia socialite...
Author
Series
Two steps volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Zoe, a sometime artist, is from California. Martin, an engineer, is from Yorkshire. Both have ended up in picturesque Cluny, in central France. Both are struggling to come to terms with their recent past - for Zoe, the death of her husband; for Martin, a messy divorce. Looking to make a new start, each sets out alone to walk 2000 kilometres from Cluny to Santiago de Compostela, in northwestern Spain, in the footsteps of pilgrims who have walked the...
71) The Lola quartet
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gavin Sasaki's a promising young journalist in New York City, until he's fired in disgrace following a series of unforgivable lapses in his work. It's early 2009, and the world has gone dark very quickly: the economic collapse has turned an era that magazine headlines once heralded as the second gilded age into something that more closely resembles the Great Depression. The last thing Gavin wants to do is return to his hometown of Sebastian, Florida,...
73) Serious sweet
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
479 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Two decent, damaged people try to make moral choices in an immoral world, ready to sacrifice what?s left of themselves for honesty and for a chance at tenderness. Jon and Meg navigate the sweet and serious heart of London, passing through twenty-four hours that will change them both forever.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 353 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A prominent figure in the entertainment world who has turned to fiction in the last decade, Kevin Morris received wide literary acclaim with his story collection White Man's Problems, praised by David Carr as "remarkable" and Tom Perrotta as "revelatory." Now Morris cements his place as a bold new voice in American literature with his muscular debut novel, All Joe Knight. 1961. Outside Philadelphia, a soon-to-be father runs into a telephone pole...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Los Angeles police detective Peter Decker had grown very close to Rina Lazarus' young sons, as he had to their mother, and he looked forward to spending a day of his vacation camping with the boys. When one of the boys stumbles on two human skeletons, charred beyond recognition but identified by a forensic dentist as teenage girls, vacation time is over for Decker. The father of a teenage daughter himself, Decker throws himself into the murder case,...
78) Ordinary Springs
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Berkley trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
x, 367 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
79) The rewrite
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Screenwriter Keith Michaels was once on top of the world. Now he's divorced, broke, approaching fifty, and hasn't written a hit film in years. So when a university in the quiet town of Binghamton asks him to teach a course in screenwriting, Keith can't say no. His attitude slowly begins to change once he gets to know his students, including Holly, a single mom looking to start a new chapter in life.
Author
Publisher
Bethany House, A division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Responsible for his young daughter and two teenage sons for the summer, Dr. Ryan Tremaine wants to reconnect with his children, but after hiring Carly Mason as his daughter Penny's nanny, Ryan's attraction to Carly complicates his plan"--
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