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81) Fear of frying
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sleuths Jane Jeffry and Shelley Nowack of Chicago discover the body of a car salesman, only to have it disappear. Not only that, the salesman is safe and well. But the next day the salesman is killed. What's going on?
Author
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Everybody wants to live on Hogarth Street, the pretty, tree-lined avenue with its white houses. The new family, The Wests, are a perfect fit. Katherine and Josh seem so in love and their gorgeous five-year-old twins race screeching around their beautiful emerald-green lawn. But soon people start to notice: why don't they join backyard barbecues? Why do they brush away offers to babysit? Why, when you knock at the door, do they shut you out, rather...
83) Reunion: a novel
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
271 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Five minutes before her flight is set to take off, Kate Pulaski, failed screenwriter and newly failed wife with scarcely a hundred dollars to her name, learns that her estranged father has killed himself. More shocked than saddened by the news, she gives in to her siblings' request that she join them, along with her many half-siblings and most of her father's five former wives, in Atlanta, their birthplace, for a final farewell. Reunion takes place...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
8 CDs (9.5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Successful New York City psychotherapist Eric Lavender feels confident that he's a confirmed bachelor. Then he meets sexy divorce attorney Colleen O'Brien Golden. In a whilrwind of change, Eric finds himself married and enjoying his new suburban life with Colleen and a daughter. But when he begins to probe Colleen's unspoken past, events swiftly take a shocking twist. Suddenly Eric is arrested for sexual abuse of a minor--Colleen's daughter.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Told from the dual perspective of a husband and a wife, The Swing of Things is a sexy, provocative, page-turning novel about a suburban couple who wants out of their routine--but will they take things too far? Attorney Jayne Larsen loves her stay-at-home husband. Eric is attentive and a great father to their daughter. He's also unfailingly committed to their Wednesday date nights--but things have gotten too predictable. Enter Theo and Mia Winters,...
86) The accounting
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
415 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
As a stoned teenager, Jon Willing thought he and his buddies had the perfect plan for stealing a fortune in drug money. Twenty-five years later, Jon's marriage is on the rocks, his kids are virtual strangers, and the recession has taken his job and decimated his finances. Worst of all, when he finds Augie murdered in Vegas, he knows the past has risen from its grave to grab him by the throat.The battle that ensues will send Jon skittering across a...
87) Those people
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the international bestseller Our House, a new novel of twisty domestic suspense asks, "Could you hate your neighbor enough to plot to kill him?" Lowland Way is the suburban dream. The houses are beautiful, the neighbors get along, and the kids play together on weekends. But when Darren and Jodie move into the house on the corner, they don't follow the rules. They blast music at all hours, begin an unsightly renovation, and run...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
1st U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
393 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Set in depleted, post-recession suburbia, with its endlessly interlocking cul-de-sacs, mega-parking lots and big box stores, The Infinite Tides tells the story of star astronaut Keith Corcoran's return to earth. Keith comes home from a lengthy mission aboard the International Space Station to find his wife and daughter gone, and a house completely empty of furniture, as if Odysseus had returned to Ithaca to find that everyone he knew had forgotten...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Life is hectic enough for suburban single mom Jane Jeffry this Christmas season-what with her having to survive cutthroat church bazaar politics and finish knitting the "afghan from Hell" at the same time. THe last thing the harried homemaker needs is an unwelcome visit from old acquaintance Phyllis Wagner and her ill-mannered brat of a teenage son. And the WAgner picture becomes even more complicated when a dead body is woven into the design. Solving...
90) Wayward
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A moving, funny, engrossing novel about mothers and daughters, and one woman's midlife reckoning, from the renowned author of Stone Arabia and Eat the Document. On the heels of the election of 2016, Samantha Raymond's life begins to come apart: her mother is ill, her teenage daughter is increasingly remote, and at 52, she finds herself staring into "the Mids"--that hour of supreme wakefulness between three and four in the morning in which women of...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
133 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The very first work of fiction by the best-selling, acclaimed author of City on Fire --his piercingly beautiful treasure box of a novella about two families in the suburbs, now in a newly designed edition. For years, the Hungates and the Harrisons have coexisted peacefully in the same Long Island neighborhood, enjoying the pleasures and weathering the pitfalls of their suburban habitat. But when the patriarch of one family dies unexpectedly, the survivors...
Author
Language
English
Description
"There's something sinister under the surface of the idyllic, suburban town of Wesley Falls, and it's not just the abandoned coal mine that lies beneath it. The summer of 1995 kicks off with a party in the mine where six high school students witness a horrifying crime that changes the course of their lives. The six couldn't be more different. Maddy, a devout member of the local megachurch. Kelly, the bookworm next door. James, a cynical burnout. Casey,...
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Tom Rath doesn't want anything extraordinary out of life: just a decent home, enough money to support his family, and a career that won't crush his spirit. After returning from World War II, he takes a PR job at a television network. It is inane, dehumanizing work. But when a series of personal crises force him to reexamine his priorities--and take responsibility for his past--he is finally moved to carve out an identity for himself.--From publisher...
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