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1) Until August
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"Sitting alone beside the languorous blue waters of the lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach contemplates the men at the hotel bar. She has been happily married for twenty-seven years and has no reason to escape the life she has made with her husband and children. And yet, every August, she travels by ferry here to the island where her mother is buried, and for one night takes a new lover. Across sultry Caribbean evenings full of salsa and boleros, lotharios...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 10
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Featuring a new introduction, this critically acclaimed novel tells the story of India and its people through the eyes of one woman and her experiences in one peasant family in a primitive Indian village. Married as a child bride to a tenant farmer she had never seen, she worked side by side in the field with her husband to wrest a living from the land that was ravaged by droughts, monsoons, and insects. With remarkable fortitude and courage, she...
3) Undertow
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Carmen is happily married to Tom, although she knows she'll always live in the shadow of another woman--Zena, the mistress who ended his first marriage, who drowned in the sea late one night.
5) She was
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"[S]pellbinding...evokes pathos without being sentimental...It's a story set in the turbulent, emotional times of the Vietnam war. The beliefs of sons and daughters are set against the values of their own parents as American living rooms became increasingly hostile places. [P]owerful...harrowing." - Kash's Book Corner on SHE WAS
"Hallowell's text... is razor sharp.... And few writers could match her depiction of Adam's battle with multiple sclerosis....SHE...
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"A woman disappears, leaving behind an incendiary diary chronicling a journey of sexual awakening. To all who knew her, she was the good wife: happy, devoted, content. But the diary reveals a secret self, one who's discovered that her new marriage contains mysteries of its own. She has discovered a forgotten Elizabethan manuscript that dares to speak of what women truly desire, and inspired by its revelations, she tastes for the first time the intoxicating...
8) Ragged lady
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Howells spent several years in Italy, including a stint as United States consul in Venice. He used Italy as the backdrop in several works, including his novel Ragged Lady, the story of a young woman from New England who travels to Venice to meet her future husband.
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"Jiselle, a young flight attendant has just settled into a fairy tale life with her new husband and stepchildren. But as a mysterious new illness spreads rapidly throughout the country, she begins to realize that her marriage, her stepchildren, and their perfect world are all in terrible danger."--
It was a fairy tale come true when Mark-- handsome pilot, widower, tragic father of three-- chose Jiselle to be his wife. But with Mark almost always...
11) Double Take
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Entreated by her estranged twin sister, Lana, to impersonate her for two days in order to save her life, Kait learns that Lana has many dangerous secrets and enemies, including a mysteriously seductive husband.
12) Madame Bovary
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An ordinary woman's unfulfilled dreams of romantic love lead her to a series of desperate acts, including adultery, in a classic novel set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century bourgeois France.
13) Commitments
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Manhattan writer Sabrina Stone feels an intense connection with investigative reporter Derek McGill and suppresses it in the name of her marriage--but, eighteen months later, in the midst of a divorce, Sabrina is again drawn to Derek, and feels the need to save him from a murder rap.
14) Young wives
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Three thirty-something wives, Angela, Michelle, and Jada, band together to transform themselves from victims to victors when their lives and marriages are destroyed by their duplicitous husbands.
17) Home repair
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Abandoned by her husband in the middle of a garage sale, a woman finds herself coping alone with the challenges of raising two growing children and caring for her aging mother, a situation throughout which she finds unexpected community support that both complicates and enriches her life.
18) The fountain
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Twenty years ago he'd disappeared without a word, leaving her alone on their wedding day...
Now Will Combray has returned, older, but still handsome and unpredictable, throwing Casey Becket's ordered life into chaos. After his cruel and mysterious disappearance, Casey had turned to her best friend, Michael, the man who knew her as no one else.
Michael had promised to take care of Casey and give her a happy life, and he has kept his word. But now,...
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"The odd thing about Walter Schoen, German born but now running a butcher shop in Detroit, he's a dead ringer for Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS and the Gestapo. They even share the same birthday. Honey Deal, Walter's American wife, doesn't know that Walter is a member of a spy ring that sends U.S. war production data to Germany and gives shelter to escaped German prisoners of war. But she's tired of telling him jokes he doesn't understand-it's...
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How did marriage, considered a religious duty in medieval Europe, become a venue for personal fulfillment in contemporary America? How did the notion of romantic love, a novelty in the Middle Ages, become a prerequisite for marriage today? And, if the original purpose of marriage was procreation, what exactly is the purpose of marriage for women now?
Combining "a scholar's rigor and a storyteller's craft"(San Jose Mercury News), distinguished cultural...
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