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Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Chronciles the emotional war between Irene America, a beautiful, introspective woman of Native American ancestry, struggling to finish her dissertation while raising three children, and her husband Gil, a painter whose reputation is built on a series of now iconic portraits of Irene.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
As three teenaged sisters struggle to cope with their father's sudden death, they find they must reexamine friendships, lifelong dreams, and their relationships with each other and their father.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Tired of binge drinking and one-nighters, Stevie Green gets sober and starts a decluttering business back home in La Jolla, California, where she connects with her estranged sister and rekindles a romance with her high school sweetheart.
6) The interim
Author
Publisher
Two Lines Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"This monumental novel about an anguished East German writer interrogates with bitter wit the detritus of late twentieth-century life: alcoholism, car culture, consumerism, God, love, statelessness, and above all else, the writer's place in a "century of lies.""--
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"For fans of the Netflix hit series Dead to Me and bestselling domestic suspense fiction by Shari Lapena and Liane Moriarty, a novel set in suburban New Jersey about a dead husband with a serious alcohol problem, an angry, betrayed wife, and the family friends whose talent for keeping secrets might lead to everyone's undoing"--
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"The classic tale of one man’s struggle with alcoholism, this revolutionary novel remains Charles Jackson’s best-known book—a daring autobiographical work that paved the way for contemporary addiction literature. It is 1936, and on the East Side of Manhattan, a would-be writer named Don Birnam decides to have a drink. And then another, and then another, until he’s in the midst of what becomes a five-day binge. The Lost Weekend moves with...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 343
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Agnes Grey, the story of a governess working for disdainful and cruel employers, is a wrenching account of the desperate straits faced by Victorian women without money or husband. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall tells a story that was shocking for its time: a woman leaves her alcoholic and abusive husband in order to protect their young son and must live in hiding to prevent the law from taking her child away from her.
Author
Publisher
The Unnamed Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Despite an embarrassing, alcoholic mother, Noomi Wadia is loathe to change her own hard-partying ways simply because it's what's expected in Kamalpur high society. As her peers begin to marry and her social obligations become more fraught, she finds herself under constant scrutiny at summer parties of the city’s upper crust. With her options in her hometown growing increasingly limited, Noomi leaves for Mumbai and quickly becomes a successful journalist....
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Drinking cost Helen her marriage and custody of her seven-year-old son, Ollie. Once an aspiring art photographer, she now makes ends meet taking portraits of school children and working for a caterer... When she meets Ava and Swift Havilland, the vulnerable Helen is instantly enchanted. Wealthy, connected philanthropists, they have their own charity devoted to rescuing dogs. Their home is filled with fabulous friends, edgy art, and dazzling parties.Then...
12) Cross my heart
Author
Series
Legacy of faith novels volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Two broken paths lead toward God's redemption in the next installment of Robin Lee Hatcher's Legacy of Faith series. Ashley Showalter and Ben Henning have so much in common. Both were raised by single moms. Both want to help where they see a need. And both work with horses in the Idaho valley. Ashley runs a horse rescue operation, while Ben has started an equine therapy barn on his great-great grandfather's farm--and both Ashley and Ben have the...
13) The bird eater
Author
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Twenty years ago, the mysterious death of his aunt left Aaron Holbrook orphaned and alone. He abandoned his rural Arkansas hometown vowing never to return, until his seven-year-old son died in an accident, plunging Aaron into a nightmare of addiction andgrief. Desperate to reclaim a piece of himself, he returns to the hills of his childhood, to Holbrook House, where he hopes to find peace among the memories of his youth. But solace doesn't come easy...
14) Letters of trust
Author
Series
Friendship letters volume 1
Publisher
Barbour Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Life is good on their Pennsylvania Amish farm for newlyweds Vic and Eleanor Lapp--until the day Vic's youngest brother drowns in their pond and Vic turns to alcohol to numb the pain. Things get so bad that Vic loses his job and their marriage is coming apart. Eleanor is desperate to help her husband and writes letters to her friend, Doretta, living in Indiana for advice. The trust Eleanor places in her friend and the gentle words she receives in...
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