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1) Absolution
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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In Saigon in 1963, two young American wives form a wary alliance. Tricia is a starry-eyed newlywed, married to a rising oil engineer "on loan" to US Navy Intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a talented hostess and determined altruist, on a mission to relieve the "wretchedness" she sees all around her. When Tricia miscarries, Charlene sweeps her into a cabal of well-dressed do-gooder American wives. Armed with...
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English
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Meet military spouse, soccer mom, professional organizer, and savvy sleuth, Ellie Avery!
Moving four times in five years has honed Air Force wife Ellie Avery's packing and unpacking skills. But moving with a newborn daughter and husband Mitch in tow, during a heat wave, is enough to make her turn to chocolate for comfort. And when Ellie finds a local environmentalist dead on the side of the road, her instincts tell her this was no accident …
Ellie...
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English
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In Saudi Arabia, two American missionaries are targeted by the infamous religious police-Muttawa. The man is tortured and killed; his wife arrested on trumped-up charges before being deported to the United States. Compelled by the injustice of her plight, young attorney Brad Carlson files an unprecedented civil rights suit against Saudi Arabia and the ruthless head of the Muttawa. But the suit unleashes powerful forces that will stop at nothing to...
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English
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As Christy blows out the 26 candles on her birthday cake, she closes her eyes and makes a wish. Could this be the year that she and Todd finally have a baby? They know that everything will change once they have a child. Are they ready for all the adjustments a new little one would bring? Christy isn't sure. But as her closest friends announce they are expecting, Christy's heart carries an ache for a child of her own. On their way home from Sierra's...
14) Total Control
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English
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When her husband mysteriously disappears in a plane crash into the Virginia countryside, a devastated wife must sort out truth from lies in this page-turning New York Times bestseller.
Sidney Archer has it all: a husband she loves, a job at which she excels, and a cherished young daughter. Then, as a plane plummets into the Virginia countryside, everything changes. And suddenly there is no one whom Sidney Archer can trust.
Jason...
Sidney Archer has it all: a husband she loves, a job at which she excels, and a cherished young daughter. Then, as a plane plummets into the Virginia countryside, everything changes. And suddenly there is no one whom Sidney Archer can trust.
Jason...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Anne and Marco Conti seem to have it all--a loving relationship, a wonderful home, and their beautiful baby Cora. But one night when they are at a dinner party next door, a terrible crime is committed. Suspicion immediately focuses on the parents--but the truth is a much more complicated story. Inside the curtained house, an unsettling account of what actually happened unfolds. Detective Rasbach knows that the panicked couple is hiding something....
17) Absolution
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Tricia is a newlywed, married to an attorney on loan to navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three. In Saigon in 1963, the two women form an alliance as they balance the era's mandate to be 'helpmeets' to their husbands with their own impulse to 'do good' for the people of Vietnam. Sixty years later, Charlene's altruistic machinations, discovering how their lives as women on the periphery have been shaped by the...
Author
Series
A Mischief Bay novel bk. 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
Three women in fairly happy marriages, question the sacrifices they make, the choices to support their spouses, to take control of their own needs, and settle for the humdrum lifestyle they are accustomed to. Together they bond and make the changes in their lives that afford everyone some happiness and empowerment.
Author
Series
A Molly Murphy mystery bk. 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
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