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"Fans of domestic suspense will adore Kimberly Belle." -Mary Kubica, New York Times bestselling author of The Good Girl
From the internationally bestselling author of The Marriage Lie, a riveting story of deceit and dark truths.
Humanitarian aid worker Gia Andrews chases disasters around the globe for a living. It's the perfect lifestyle to keep her far away from her own dark past.
Sixteen years ago, Gia's father was imprisoned for brutally...
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In the tapestry of human relationships, marriage stands as a masterpiece, woven with threads of love, trust, and shared dreams. Yet, amidst the complexities of modern life, the quest for an extraordinary marriage often eludes many. What then, is the elusive secret that transforms an ordinary union into an extraordinary bond that withstands the tests of time? At its core, the secret to an extraordinary marriage lies not in grand gestures or fleeting...
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The new addictive, compelling and immersive thriller from Nell Pattison, with enough dark twists to give you whiplash…Fans of Ruth Ware and Lisa Jewell will be hooked. My name is Isabella Butterworth. Your name is Isabella Butterworth. We're around the same age. We live in the same town. But your life is more exciting than mine, isn't it? Richer, dramatic, more fulfilling. Imagine if I'd never found out about you… But I have. Because someone mistook...
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Serial killer novels volume 3
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'Completely unpredictable and OMG THAT ENDING!!!!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ She thought she'd left her past behind.She was wrong… Despite a childhood in the care system, Anna Price has beaten the odds and built for herself the perfect life, complete with beautiful seaside home, devoted husband and a job she loves. Then a policeman appears at Anna's door: her estranged brother Henry is a wanted serial killer, and the police need Anna's help to catch him before...
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Beneath the surface of every marriage there are secrets. This one is deadly.
My husband is lying. The minute he came home with alcohol on his breath and unable to look me in the eyes I knew it.
We used to be in love – the intense 'I can't be without you for a second' kind. Where it hurts deep to be apart.
But now, we're the couple that keep secrets from each other.
We hide the truth.
He thought I wouldn't find out. I'm a detective –...
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"In Invisible Woman, a dangerous secret held for too long between estranged best friends rises to the surface, and a long marriage comes apart with devastating consequences. Joni Ackerman's decision to raise children, 25 years ago, came at a steep cost. She was then a pioneering filmmaker, one of the few women to break into the all-male Hollywood club of feature film directors. But she and her husband Paul had always wanted a family, and his ascending...
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PBS
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2023.
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In ocean waters lies a complex world. Acclaimed underwater filmmaker Howard Hall returns to NATURE with a never-before-seen look at how marine life co-exists in a marriage of necessity. The film shows examples of astonishing animal behavior and highlights the critical role biodiversity plays in maintaining a healthy ocean. Take a deep breath and discover the soul of the ocean.
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"Civilization has been rebuilt after an unspoken "Something that Happened" five hundred years ago. Society is now color vision--segregated, professions, marriages, and leisure activities all dictated by an individual's visual ability, and everything run by the shadowy National Color in far-off Emerald City. Out on the fringes of Red Sector West, twenty-year-old Eddie Russett is being bullied into an arranged marriage with the powerful DeMauve family,...
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Gravitas Ventures
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2023.
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Follow three strangers as they accidentally discover the solution to their problems lies in a single pregnancy test. Amy is haunted by a past breakup that has manifested into an eating disorder. Angel is caught between a loveless marriage to an American business man and a passionate affair with a Chinese writer. Nina moonlights as an escort in order to support herself.
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
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[2024]
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"Nestled in the hills of West Virginia lies White Sulphur Springs, home to the Greenbrier Resort. Long a playground for presidents and film stars, the Greenbrier has its own gravitational pull. Over ten decades, four generations of the Zelner family mustgrapple with their place in its shadow . . . and within their own family. In 1942, young mother Sylvia is desperate to escape her stifling marriage, especially when it means co-running Zelner's general...
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"Set in contemporary Nigeria, Uche Okonkwo's A Kind of Madness is a collection of ten stories concerned with literal madness but also those private feelings that, when left unspoken, can feel like a type of madness: desire, desperation, hunger, fear, sadness, shame, longing. In these stories, a young woman and her mother bask in the envy of their neighbors when the woman receives an offer of marriage from the family of a doctor living in Belgium-though...
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"As early as 1530, reports of El Dorado, a city of gold in the South American interior, beckoned to European explorers. Whether there was any truth to the stories remained to be seen, but the allure of unimaginable riches was enough to ensnare dozens of would-be heroes and glory hounds in the desperate hunt. Among them was Sir Walter Raleigh: ambitious courtier, confidant to Queen Elizabeth, and, before long, El Dorado fanatic. Entering the Elizabethan...
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Lord Hades's ruthless marriage volume 1
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Yen Press
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2023.
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'Deep below the earth lies the abode of Lord Hades, the ruthless king of the Underworld. Ruling over the realm of the dead, he swears to never fall in love... Except, well, he kind of just took an arrow to the face courtesy of the primordial god of love, Eros, so... In any case, if someone could please pull this thing out of his head anytime this week, the lord god has placed to be and people to see. He'll even make a wish come true, so step right...
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Legacy Lit
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2024.
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"The notion of "housewife" evokes strong reactions. For some, it's nostalgia for a bygone era, simpler and better times when men were breadwinners and women remained home with the kids. For others, it's a sexist, oppressive stereotype of women's work. Either way, housewife is a long outdated concept-or is it? Lisa Selin Davis, known for her smart, viral, feminist, cultural takes, argues that the "breadwinner vs. homemaker" divide is a myth. She charts...