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Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine Book Club
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Mystery
Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine Book Club
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"Nina de Gramont's The Christie Affair is a beguiling novel of star-crossed lovers, heartbreak, revenge, and murder-and a brilliant re-imagination of one of the most talked-about unsolved mysteries of the twentieth century. Every story has its secrets. Every mystery has its motives. "A long time ago, in another country, I nearly killed a woman. It's a particular feeling, the urge to murder. It takes over your body so completely, it's like a divine...
42) In secret
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Set in the lower echelons of 1860s Paris, Therese Raquin, a sexually repressed, beautiful young woman, is trapped into a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin Camille by her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin. After she meets her husband's alluring friend Laurent, she embarks on an illicit affair that leads to tragic consequences.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Updated to include the latest research on anthropology and internet-age relationships, a revised edition of a classic reference examines the brain's role in love and courtship while making recommendations for returning to traditional patterns of romance.
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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""There were so many of us, children of these double families who dreamed of the other side. That night, I fantasized about the separate spheres of our lives colliding..." Introspective and headstrong, and fueled by an intensity she can't name, Margot Louve has lived as her parents' secret. For seventeen years, her father - an influential French politician with presidential ambitions - has led a double life, his only contact with Margot and her mother...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"With mysterious serial murders putting peaceful Lexington, Alabama, on edge, Jessie and Hubert Wiggins' steadfast calm and devotion to each other reassures everyone that faith will see them through. But Jessie and Hubert have paid a terrible hidden costto maintain their devout facade and respectable standing. Nothing can allay the guilt they feel--or stop the growing distrust between them..."--
"Award-winning New York Times bestselling author Mary...
47) Virginia
Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A mentally unstable woman who has hidden a 20 year affair with a married sheriff, discovers that her son has fallen in love with the sheriff's daughter while searching for his father's identity.
50) The professional
Author
Series
Spenser novel volume 38
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth Shaw specializes in wills and trusts at the Boston law firm of Shaw & Cartwright, and over the years she's developed a friendship with wives of very wealthy men. However, these rich wives have a mutual secret: they've all had an affair with a man named Gary Eisenhower--and now he's blackmailing them for money. Shaw hires Spenser to make Eisenhower "cease and desist," so to speak, but when women start turning up dead, Spenser's assignment...
Series
Criterion collection volume 292
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A world-famous symphony conductor, consumed with the suspicion that his wife is having an affair, entertains elaborate visions of vengeance, set to three separate orchestral works.
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English
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Biographical Fiction
Historical Fiction Featuring Famous Authors
Historical Mysteries
Strong Female Characters
Historical Fiction Featuring Famous Authors
Historical Mysteries
Strong Female Characters
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"December 1926: England unleashes the largest manhunt in its history. The object of the search is not an escaped convict or a war criminal, but the missing wife of a WWI hero, up-and-coming mystery author Agatha Christie. When her car is found wrecked, empty, and abandoned near a natural spring, the country is in a frenzy. Eleven days later, Agatha reappears, claiming amnesia. She provides no answers for her disappearance. That is...until she writes...
53) Redeemed
Publisher
Pure Flix Entertainment
Pub. Date
p2013.
Language
English
Description
Paul Tyson is a loving husband, devoted father and well-respected businessman on the brink of the biggest business deal of his career. And then Julia walks in. Breathtakingly beautiful, Julia is sent to manage the high-stakes buy-out of Paul's company but the relationship goes a bit farther than intended. As the pressures of a crumbling company creep in and intense new feelings abound, wedding vows get put on the back burner and the question arises:...
54) The lovers
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mary and Michael are a long-married, dispassionate couple who are both in the midst of serious affairs. But on the brink of calling it quits, a spark between them suddenly reignites, leading them into an impulsive romance.
56) Empty vows
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Forty-something widow Jessie Tucker is beloved throughout Lexington, Alabama, for her kind heart and endless generosity. But she feels it’s past time she rewarded herself—especially when upstanding Hubert Wiggins tragically loses his wife and son. Making herself indispensable, yet discouraged by Hubert’s lack of romantic interest, Jessie cooks up a deception she knows will make pious Hubert do right by her…Hoax or not, Hubert couldn’t be...
57) A touch of class
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1973
Language
English
Description
An affair between a married man and a divorced woman is complicated when they fall in love.
59) Home sweet hell
Publisher
Stage 6 films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Don Champagne seems to have it all: a successful business, a perfect house, perfect kids and a perfect wife. Unfortunately, when his wife, Mona, learns of Don's affair with a pretty new salesgirl, this suburban wonderland spirals out of control. Don quickly realizes that Mona will stop at nothing to sustain their storybook life.
60) A time to dance
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
Description
Struggling to keep their marriage together, John and Abby Reynolds put their differences aside and their thoughts of divorce on hold when their daughter announces her plans to be married in the summer.
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