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1) The husbands
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Nora Spangler is a successful attorney but when it comes to domestic life, she packs the lunches, schedules the doctor appointments, knows where the extra paper towel rolls are, and designs and orders the holiday cards. Her husband works hard, too... but why does it seem like she is always working so much harder? When the Spanglers go house hunting in Dynasty Ranch, an exclusive suburban neighborhood, Nora meets a group of high-powered women-a tech...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"A delicious twist on a Gothic classic, Rachel Hawkins's The Wife Upstairs pairs Southern charm with atmospheric domestic suspense, perfect for fans of B.A. Paris and Megan Miranda. Meet Jane. Newly arrived to Birmingham, Alabama, Jane is a broke dog-walker in Thornfield Estates--a gated community full of McMansions, shiny SUVs, and bored housewives. The kind of place where no one will notice if Jane lifts the discarded tchotchkes and jewelry off...
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Language
English
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Some people stay all summer long on the idyllic island of Belle Isle, North Carolina. Some people come only for the weekends-and it's something they look forward to all week long. When Riley Griggs is waiting for her husband to arrive at the ferry one Friday afternoon, she is instead served with papers informing her that her island home is being foreclosed. To make matters worse, her husband is nowhere to be found. She turns to her island friends...
4) The wives
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Language
English
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Summer Thrillers
Read Alikes for HBO's "The Undoing"
Read-Alikes for Dream Girl
Summer Thrillers
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Thursday's husband, Seth, has two other wives. She's never met them, and she doesn't know anything about them. She agreed to this unusual arrangement because she's so crazy about him. But one day, she finds something. Something that tells a very different and horrifying story about the man she married. What follows is one of the most twisted, shocking thrillers you'll ever read. You'll have to grab a copy to find out why.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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Knives Out Readalikes
NYT - Combined Hardcover & Paperback Fiction
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Read Alikes for HBO's "The Undoing"
NYT - Combined Hardcover & Paperback Fiction
Obama's Reading Lists
Read Alikes for HBO's "The Undoing"
Description
When a woman goes missing on her fifth wedding anniversary, her diary reveals hidden turmoil in her marriage, while her husband, desperate to clear himself of suspicion, realizes that something more disturbing than murder may have occurred.
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Series
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English
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"“Readers won’t want to leave the heartwarming stories of Honeymoon Harbor, and its characters’ second chances at life and love.” —Publishers Weekly Quinn Mannion never believed in destiny until she came to Honeymoon Harbor. The eldest of five siblings, Quinn has always found success—head altar boy, valedictorian of Honeymoon High, big-city lawyer. Until he gave it all up. Walking away from his lucrative career and returning to Honeymoon...
8) Don't tell
Author
Publisher
Warner
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
After staging her own death in order to escape her abusive husband, Mary Grace Winters and her son search for refuge in a small town, but when her husband discovers she is alive, Mary must decide whether she wants to sacrifice the new life she has built and run or stay and face her worst fears.
9) A day to die
Publisher
Vertical
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A team of off-book law enforcement officers band together to tackle the city's biggest criminal and save the wife of one of their own.
10) Wildwood magic
Author
Publisher
Redhook
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A woman escapes her abusive husband and finds shelter in an enchanted orchard in this spellbinding novel of magic, resilience, and self-discovery from the author of Wildwood Whispers. Here be witches and wayward girls… In a town nestled in the Appalachian Mountains, Rachel Smith has found a new life tending a lush apple orchard. She’s safe within its grove. If her dreams are haunted by memories of her violent husband, that pain is soothed by...
11) Mrs. Parkington
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009], 1944
Language
English
Description
This epic portrait of the rise and crash of an American dynasty founded on easy money spans the six decades from the 1870s to the 1930s. Greer Garson portrays a fiery young girl from the sticks who becomes the ultra-rich family matriarch, with Walter Pidgeon as her charming, good-hearted scoundrel of a husband, and Agnes Moorehead as the tycoon's ex-mistress.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of Emma Donoghue's Room and S.J. Watson's Before I Go to Sleep, a haunting literary debut about a woman who begins having visions that make her question everything she knows. Marta and Hector have been married for a long time. Through the good and bad; through raising a son and sending him off to life after university. So long, in fact, that Marta finds it difficult to remember her life before Hector. He has always taken care of...
13) The gallows land
Author
Publisher
Chivers Press
Pub. Date
c1983
Language
English
Description
Following the death of his young wife, Roy Boone wanders aimlessly in the arid Southwest, desperate for water. Instead he finds a heap of trouble-when he meets a pretty young woman whose face bears the signs of an abusive husband.
15) Taken 3
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Ex-covert operative Bryan Mills, whose long awaited reconciliation with his ex-wife is tragically cut short when she is brutally murdered, must use his 'particular set of skills' to track down the real killers, exact his unique brand of justice, and protect the only thing that matters to him now: his daughter.
16) Thunder and rain
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Language
English
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Description
Modern cowboy Tyler Steele must raise his son, Brodie, save his ranch, and rebuild his life after his wife leaves him for being emotionally distant. Samantha and her daughter, Hope, are on the run from an abusive ex who has the resources and the determination to hunt them down. Tyler knows he can help-- but letting them into his life may cost more than he's willing to pay. He ultimately learns that being a man means confronting your true weaknesses....
18) White bodies
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"This chilling psychological suspense novel--think Strangers on a Train for the modern age--explores the dark side of love and the unbreakable ties that bind two sisters together. Felix and Tilda seem like the perfect couple: young and in love, a financier and a beautiful up-and-coming starlet. But behind their flawless facade, not everything is as it seems. Callie, Tilda's unassuming twin, has watched her sister visibly shrink under Felix's domineering...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A wickedly dark debut thriller about three women who've all been involved with the same man and realize the one thing they have in common is that they all want revenge against him... Divorces are often messy, and Imogen's is no exception. Phillip Rochester is controlling, abusive, and determined to make things as difficult as possible. When he shows up without warning demanding that Imogen move out of their house by the end of the month or he'll...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
After her husband goes missing, Sue Buttons, an under-appreciated suburban wife, gets a taste of being a local celebrity as she embarks on a city-wide search in Yuba County to find him. To prolong her newfound fame, she stumbles into hilarious hijinks as her world turns upside down, dodging a wanna-be mobster, a relentless local policewoman, her half-sister a local news reporter desperate for a story, and her husband's dead-beat brother, who all set...
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