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Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
You'll laugh out loud as Todd shares his unique, refreshingly funny perspective and practical ideas for helping you encourage your homeschooling wife as she educates your kids. Whether you've been homeschooling for years or just getting started, Help! I'm Married to a Homeschooling Mom is required reading for every homeschooling dad! If any of that sounds familiar, you're in the right place. Todd Wilson, husband of a homeschooling mom, knows all about...
162) The seven year itch
Series
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
A plain, middle-aged married man, Richard Sherman sends his wife Helen and his young son Ricky off to vacation at the seashore in Maine during a sultry summer in New York City. They escape but he must remain behind in the heat, to make money. He sees them off at the train station, promising to eat properly, and neither smoke nor drink. He will be sensible, not play around as soon as his wife leaves like so many other men. That is until he meets his...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
This laugh-out-loud mystery set in Seattle pits Sunny Day Burnett against her millionaire neighbors, a flock of geriatric chickens, and an irascible Scottish detective. Sunny is a 30-year-old urban farmer whose husband has recently died in a car crash. Now her garden brims with organic vegetables, her fruit trees are laden with apples and pears, and her chickens are laying more eggs than she can eat. Sunny is beginning to adjust to life as a widow...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Writer Susan Tweit and her economist-turned-sculptor husband Richard Cabe had just settled into their version of a "good life" when Richard saw thousands of birds one day--harbingers of the brain cancer that would kill him two years later. This compelling and intimate memoir chronicles their journey into the end of his life, framed by their final trip together, a 4,000-mile-long delayed honeymoon road trip. As Susan and Richard navigate the unfamiliar...
167) What you did
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"A vicious assault. A devastating accusation. Who should she trust, her husband or her best friend? It was supposed to be the perfect reunion: six university friends together again after twenty years. Host Ali finally has the life she always wanted, a career she can be proud of and a wonderful family with her college boyfriend, now husband. But that night her best friend makes an accusation so shocking that nothing will ever be the same again. When...
168) Gone Girl
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne reports that his wife, Amy, has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick's portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark question. Did Nick Dunne kill his wife?
"On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne reports that his wife, Amy, has gone missing. Under...
169) A perilous pal
Author
Series
Friend for hire mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Emma Westlake, proprietor of A Friend for Hire, finds a heart-wrenching email from a prospective client in her inbox. The email is from Kim Felder, a woman struggling with empty-nest syndrome and an out of left field divorce. Determined to help get Kim in a better headspace, Emma suggests she draft a bucket list of things she has always wanted to do in life but has put off in favor of taking care of everyone else. Together, they fill that list with...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"In 1857 India, 12-year-old Meera escapes a life she has no say in--and certain death on her husband's funeral pyre--only to end up a servant to a British general in the East India Company. When a rebellion against British colonizers spreads, she must choose between relative safety in a British household or standing up for herself and her people"--
171) The cottage
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"When Kate Burke is awakened one night by a sound outside her window, her PTSD is triggered. Was it simply a deer crossing her secluded backyard? Or was it intruders? Because Kate still lives with the dreadful memories of her husband's murder during a seemingly random home invasion two years before, she knows the answer can mean the difference between life and death. But when she discovers the unsettling ways her property has been vandalized the next...
172) Surrounded by mercy
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
When an expectant mother arrives at Mercy Hospital in search of her missing husband, Evelyn and her friends agree to help her find him. Their one clue is a postcard depicting the Mercy Angel statue telling the soon-to-be mother that her FBI-agent husband was in Charleston recently. But everything changes when the baby arrives early-and the absent father is accused of embezzlement. Meanwhile, Evelyn is digging into one of the Civil War's most famous...
173) Home from the hill
Pub. Date
[2007], c1959
Description
Southern drama involving a wealthy landowner's conflicts with his wife and two sons, one of which is illegitimate.
174) The windmill
Author
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Known for her gift for reaching straight to the heart, Stephanie Gertler now tells the story of a couple whose seemingly perfect life is toppled in an instant and saved through their bold leap of faith. Olivia and Carl appear to have the perfect life: a son and a daughter, weekends on Cape Cod, and satisfying work as professors at Belvedere College in the picturesque town of Willow, Massachusetts. Until, one day, the seemingly stable, dependable Carl...
175) Shades of twilight
Author
Formats
Description
Roanna Davenport's dreams are shattered forever when her older cousin Webb leaves Davencourt following the murder of his wife Jessie, but years later her grandmother sends her to bring him home, where they face the past and the future together.
176) Picture this
Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
"Peaks Island, Maine, vibrates with its own special magic, a unique flow to life that knits together the small community that calls it home. The people, the animals, and even the houses have a charm and personality all their own. Just ask Rocky Pelligrino. Devastated by her husband Bob's sudden death, she found hope thanks to a relentlessly loyal black Lab named Cooper. Warm friends and a new job--as the island's animal control warden--have helped...
177) Finally you
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
No competition: Local architect Shayne Reynolds is an art collector, but when it comes to Carrie Lockett he's as interested in the artist as he is in her California landscapes and stunning portraits. The talented and reclusive Carrie, however, rejects his overtures, but she won't tell him why...even though he knows she returns his feelings.
All things considered: Single mom Lanni Matthiessen has worked hard to make a nice life for her daughter. She...
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Mma Ramotswe is busy investigating her latest case: a woman who is looking for her family. The problem is, the woman doesn't know her real name of whether any members of her family are now living. Meanwhile, Phuti Radiphuti has bought Mma Makutsi a glorious new bed. Unfortunately, it will inadvertently cause her several sleepless nights. And life is no less complicated at Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors, where Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni--Mma Ramotswe's estimable...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"A fresh start or a double-cross? Why is he so cold and distant? Denise wonders as Craig demeans her yet again. Is it his job? The family? Or is it me?Though she's poured her heart into her marriage, years of enduring his long hours, frequent trips, and short temper have left her with a deep sadness. Later that morning--in the middle of church--her cell phone rings. Embarrassed, she heads to the lobby, takes the call ... and is shocked by the news...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"The husband knows many things. For example, he knows how many stairs there are in his house--in case he arrives home too drunk to see them properly. In this Fireside Grown-Up Guide to the Husband, you can learn about what husbands like (making simple repairs and then droning on about what a struggle they were), what he hates (being wrong), how often he is really listening (only thirty percent of the time), and many other enlightening facts"--