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Before Owen Michaels disappears, he manages to smuggle a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers: Owen's sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother. As Hannah's increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered; as the FBI arrests Owen's boss; as...
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A first pregnancy is interrupted by test results at once catastrophic and uncertain. A second pregnancy ends in a fraught birth, a beloved child, the purgatory of further tests -- and questions that reverberate down the years. A couple faces the complex consequences of one of the most personal yet public, intimate yet political experiences a family can have: to have a child, and conversely, the decision not to have a child.
6) Beforelife
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What if you went to heaven and no one there believed in Earth? This is the question at the heart of Beforelife, a satirical novel that follows the post-mortem adventures of Ian Brown, a man who dies on the book's first page and finds himself in an afterlife where no one else believes in "pre-incarnation." The other residents of the afterlife have mysteriously forgotten their pre-mortem lives and think that anyone who remembers a mortal life is suffering...
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Gunslinger volume 2
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At the ripe old age of twenty-eight, desperate-to-retire gunslinger Adam Brady has exactly two rules. And one of them is never, ever get married. So he'll be danged when his dreams of permanently avoiding the bounty hunter on his tail in Desolation comes with one helluva string attached. The town has a new rule: gunslingers welcome-if they get a job...or marry.
Adam stumbles into a big town wedding and accidentally marries Nora Schumacher, a sassy-mouthed...
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Jean-Luc Persecuted follows the ill-fated life of an unhappily married man. When Jean-Luc's wife pursues an affair and leaves him with their child, Jean-Luc's behavior becomes more and more erratic. He falls to drinking, behaving recklessly, and squandering his money. The narrative follows the explosive downfall of a lone man and his unstoppable mental collapse, surrounded by villagers unable to effect real change. This novel, never before translated,...
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Why would you run scared from a happy home? You're waiting for your beloved husband to get home from work. That's the last thing you remember. You wake up in hospital, with no idea how you got there. They tell you that you were in an accident. The police suspect you were up to no good. But your husband refuses to believe it.
11) A lot of nothing
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James and Vanessa are ostensibly the perfect married couple; beautiful, successful, and smart. Their lives spiral out of control when they decide to seek justice against a neighbor they saw commit a crime on the evening news.
12) Jia ri fu qi
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"Yan's friends and colleagues have been helping him out in his love life. Since he is a workaholic, with no sense of humor, and not that handsome, he worries that women may not find him attractive. when a pretty young woman shows up in the office, again his colleagues encourage him to take action"--Provided by vendor.
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A therapist becomes obsessed with the couple she's counselling, who have come to her after suddenly and tragically losing their only daughter. Little by little, she insinuates herself into their lives without them noticing -- until she's in a position to take everything. Dark, sharp and sinister, this novel will make you question those whom you trust most, and the final twist will shock you to your core.
14) The echo wife
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"'When they said all happy families are alike, I don't think this is what they meant...' Evelyn Caldwell's husband Nathan has been having an affair - with Evelyn Caldwell. Or, to be exact, with a genetically cloned replica. After a morning that begins with a confrontation and ends with Nathan's body bleeding out on the kitchen floor, the two Caldwell wives will have to think fast-before sharing everything includes sharing a jail cell. The Echo Wife...
15) White elephant
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A crackling Christmas mystery that combines murder and blackmail at a holiday office party, in a mashup reminiscent of Big Little Lies and Clue.
There are only a few rules in a White Elephant gift exchange: 1) Everyone brings a wrapped, unmarked gift. 2) Numbers are drawn to decide who picks first. 3) Gifts don’t need to be pricey—and often they’re downright tacky.
But things are a little different in Aspen, Colorado, at the office holiday...
16) The husband
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A loving husband's worst nightmare comes true when he receives a telephone call from the man who kidnapped his wife, asking for an impossibly large ransom.
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Gunslinger volume 1
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Gray "Quick Shot" Woodson is the fastest gun west of the Mississippi. Unfortunately, he's ready to hang up his hat. Sure, being notorious has its perks. But the nomadic lifestyle - and people always tryin' to kill you - gets old real fast. Now he just wants to find a place to retire so he can spend his days the way the good Lord intended. Staring at the sunset. And napping.
When his stubborn horse drags him into a hole-in-the-wall town called Desolation,...
18) Moho
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"Novel based on divorce and relationship between husband and wife"--From Worldcat.org.
19) The hacienda
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In the overthrow of the Mexican government, Beatriz's father is executed and her home destroyed. When handsome Don Rodolfo Solórzano proposes, Beatriz ignores the rumors surrounding his first wife's sudden demise, choosing instead to seize the security his estate in the countryside provides. She will have her own home again, no matter the cost. But Hacienda San Isidro is not the sanctuary she imagined. When Rodolfo returns to work in the capital,...
20) Duo
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"Nanotech engineers Dr. Kelly Vu and Dr. David Kim are committed to only one thing more than each other: using their regenerative nanobots to save the world. And following a violent attack, those very same nanobots end up saving David and Kelly's lives...sort of. Their salvation comes with an unexpected consequence: husband and wife awaken to realize that they now share one super-powered body! The team of writer Greg Pak (Action Comics, Batman/Superman)...
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