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3) Dominicana
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
"El último día de 1964, la quinceañera Ana Canción se casa con Juan Ruiz, un hombre veinte años mayor que ella, en el campo dominicano. Al día siguiente se vuelve Ana Ruiz, una esposa confinada a un apartamento de un cuarto en Washington Heights. Juan la engaña, abusa y controla, hasta le prohíbe aprender inglés. Después de un intento fallido de fuga, Ana se entera de que está embarazada. Su madre y su esposo comparan su embarazo a ganar...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"At the height of the military dictatorship in South Korea, Insuk and Sungho are arranged to be married. The couple soon moves to San Jose, California, with an infant and Sungho's overbearing mother-in-law. Adrift in a new country, Insuk grieves the loss of her past and her divided homeland, finding herself drawn into an illicit relationship that sets into motion a dramatic saga and echoes for generations to come. From the Gwangju Massacre to the...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Devastatingly handsome and insanely rich, Farrell Covington is capable of anything and impossible to resist. He's a clear-eyed romantic, an aesthete but not a snob, self-indulgent yet wildly generous. As the son of one of the country's most powerful and deeply conservative families, the world could be his. But when he falls for Nate Reminger, an aspiring writer from a nice Jewish family in Piscataway, New Jersey, the results are passionate and catastrophic....
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Dominic and Daphne have been happily married for three years. They've settled into a comfortable life, but Dominic worries they might be too comfortable. They're stuck in unsatisfying jobs, have difficult relationships with their families, and their sex life isn't exactly exciting. So on New Year's Day, he has an idea to lift them out of their funk and reignite their spark: What if they opened up their marriage? Daphne is shocked at first, but to...
12) Passion play
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Ilse Zhalina is the daughter of one of Melnek's more prominent merchants. She has lived most of her life surrounded by the trappings of wealth and privilege. But there are dark secrets, especially in the best of families. Ilse has learned that for a young woman of her beauty and social station, to be passive and silent is the way to survive.
13) Subtle bodies
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When Douglas, the ringleader of a clique of self-styled wits of "superior sensibility" dies suddenly, his four remaining friends are summoned to his luxe estate high in the Catskills to memorialize his life and mourn his passing.
14) Wildflower bride
Author
Series
Montana marriages trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to the wilds of Montana, where humor, romance, and suspense ride the range. Glowing Sun, a white woman raised by the Flathead tribe, has vague memories of her former life, including a name: Abby Lind. When she's forced to sever all links with her adopted family, Abby wonders if she'll ever find a home again. Tenderhearted Wade Sawyer, responsible for Abby's survival during the village massacre, convinces the knife-wielding woman to return...
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Set against the backdrop of seventh-century Arabia, a fictional portrait of A'isha, the child bride of the prophet Muhammad, describes how she battled religious persecution, jealousy, political rivals, and temptation to become Muhammad's trusted advisor.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In a crooked house in South London, Melissa feels increasingly that she's defined solely by motherhood, while Michael mourns the former thrill of their romance. In the suburbs, Stephanie's aspirations for bliss on the commuter belt, coupled with her white middle-class upbringing, compound Damian's itch for a bigger life catalyzed by the death of his activist father. Longtime friends from the years when passion seemed permanent, the couples have stayed...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017].
Language
English
Description
Walking barefoot on a Tahitian beach is only one of many goals on Holly Week's "life list." Getting married isn't one of them. Never mind that she's in love with the man who has lured her to the sale in the hope that she'll say yes to the dress. when her husband forgets their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, Maggie Prescott wonders if she even wants to share her lonely empty nest with him anymore. Donating her wedding gown to charity seems like the...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
"From the author of Forever, Interrupted--hailed by Sarah Jio as "moving, gorgeous, and at times heart-wrenching"--comes a breathtaking new novel about modern marriage, the depth of family ties, and the year that one remarkable heroine spends exploring both. When Lauren and Ryan's marriage reaches the breaking point, they come up with an unconventional plan. They decide to take a year off in the hopes of finding a way to fall in love again. One year...
20) A man's heart
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Hasty wedding. On the day of her closest friend's Las Vegas wedding, Clare Gilroy fears that her own walk down the aisle will never happen...until she finds herself falling for best man--and town outcast--Reed Tonasket. After a dizzying night in the glitter of Vegas, Clare wakes to find a ring on her finger and a husband by her side. A Hasty Wedding if there ever was one! Will she be repenting at leisure? Not if Reed has anything to say about it!--...
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