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Mrs. Craddock (1902) is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. Controversial for its portrayal of infidelity and marriage across social classes, Mrs. Craddock was instrumental in establishing Maugham's reputation as a leading author of the late Victorian era. Due to its content, the novel appeared exclusively in Bowdlerized form until Maugham saw it republished in 1938. Bertha Ley has always been independent. Orphaned at a young age, she comes into a sizable...
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Journalist Kerstin Ostheim and freelance photographer P.J. Banner have been together six months after meeting on a dating website. As their wedding fast approaches, they question their compatibility while investigating mysterious horse killings taking place in Ogweyo's Cove, the Pacific tourist haven where they live.
In the meantime, Schuld Ostheim, Kerstin's transgender daughter from her first marriage, is preparing for an art exhibit after being...
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Once an aspiring writer, Olga traded literary ambition for marriage and motherhood; when Mario dumps her after 15 years, she is utterly unprepared. Though she tells herself that she is a competent woman, nothing like the poverella (poor abandoned wife) that mothers whispered about in her childhood, Olga falls completely apart. Routine chores overwhelm her; she neglects her appearance and forgets her manners; she throws herself at the older musician...
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On the verge of making their engagement official, Zach and Claudia must face down their greatest adversaries – his family.
Zach and Claudia have always believed their love for each other could overcome any obstacle, but when Zach's teenage children come for a summer visit, an unforeseen challenge threatens to destroy their love and everything they have planned for their future.
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Tina Edwards loved her childhood and creating fairy houses, a passion shared with her father, a world-renowned architect. But at nine years old, she found him dead at his desk and is haunted by this memory. Tina's mother abruptly moved away leaving Tina with feelings of abandonment and suspicion. Raised by her loving, wheelchair-bound Aunt Liddy, her father's sister, 33 year old Tina has become a miniature room artist and cherishes the control she...
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This story is about an immigrant from Holland to South Africa in the 1970s and the relationship between the young wife and mother and her husband, who is a seaman. Every chapter is full of engaging, chatty dialogue between her, her two toddlers, and the people she interacts with while starting her own leather craft business from home.From being a desperately unhappy housewife who finds her true calling after healing her psychic wounds, this spiritual...
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Construction engineer Bartley Alexander is a troubled, middle-aged man torn between Winifred, his American wife - a cold woman with clearly defined standards - and Hilda Burgoyne - an alluring mistress in London who has helped him recapture his youth and sense of freedom. Alexander's relationship with Hilda gnaws away at his sense of propriety and honor and eventually proves disastrous. (He is with Hilda when a messenger, unable to find him, fails...
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Kar-Ben Read-Aloud eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to bring eBooks to life! Uh oh! Curious Sammy Spider slips from his web and accidentally accompanies the Shapiro family to a wedding. Sammy watches the Jewish ceremony as the bride and groom stand under the beautiful chuppah, hears the seven wedding blessings, and-phew!-narrowly escapes as the groom's foot breaks the wedding glass. What an adventure!
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Welcome to the idyllic country retreat of Christmas Steepleton, and let Jane Lovering whisk you away with the most heart-warming, romantic and comforting read of the year.
Leaving London and her ex-husband Luc behind, Katie and her 14-year-old daughter Poppy move into their very own, very ramshackle cottage near the village of Christmas Steepleton on the Dorset coast.
Harvest Cottage has been unloved for many years, so the job of bringing it back...
10) In Her Shadow
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Hannah Brown thought she had put the past behind her. But now it's coming to find her...
Hannah never dreamed she'd have a best friend like Ellen Brecht. Ellen is everything Hannah wants to be - beautiful, daring, glamorous and poweful. Growing up together in windswept Cornwall, life seems perfect. But their idyllic childhood is shattered by obsession, betrayal and, ultimately, a terrible tragedy.
Hannah has tried for twenty years to
...11) Many Marriages
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Many Marriages (1923) is a novel by Sherwood Anderson. Inspired by his own decision to abandon his family and career in order to establish himself as a professional writer, Anderson explores the guilts, routines, desires, and disappointments driving the lives of many Americans in the early-twentieth century. Although he is, known today for his story collection Winesburg, Ohio, a pioneering work of Modernist fiction admired for its plainspoken language...
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★★★★★ "…heartwarming… great story to read if you have or have ever had a heart."- Jessyca Garcia (Readers Favorite) A Feline Holiday Surprise Fred finds himself alone at Christmas time again until a stray cat, cold and hungry, enters his life. Fred soon finds his life turned around by this gift of a Christmas cat. A gift he needs to end his solitary life and get back to living. Get Yours Today. ★★★★★ "It's an enjoyable read,...
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In the Year of Jubilee (1894) is a novel by George Gissing. Inspired by his own struggles as a working writer and unhappily married man, Gissing crafts a tale of romance and ambition that measures the dreams of one woman against the realities of an unjust society. In the Year of Jubilee poses important questions about convention in Victorian England while proving surprisingly relevant for our own times. Nancy Lord is a young, well-educated woman raised...
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What happens when two revolutionaries are left with nothing to believe in, not even each other?
Never Did the Fire unfolds in the humdrum of everyday working class existence, making the afterlife of an agitator that of anyone living next door. For one old couple, brought together years ago in an underground cell, the revolution has ended in a small apartment, a grinding job caring for the bodies of the unwell well-to-do,
...15) The Emma Effect
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The central figure in the story is a young man named Mitch Lavin. He was raised by his great-aunt when his parents were killed when he was six years old. At seventeen years of age, Mitch gets a full scholarship to Widmark College, where he plays center midfielder on the school's soccer team. In his senior year, two beautiful coeds so severely mistreat him that he flees the school to take a job with Mining Consortium International (MCI) as an overseas...
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KoKo Puede Ayudar Para Que los Ninos • aprendan o que significa el divorcio • enfrenten los cambios en su vida cotidiana • hablan acerca de sus sentimientos • reconozcan que sus sentimiento son naturales • queden asegurados que sus padres aun los amany que los seguiran cuidando y proteiendo • entiendan que el divorcio no es por su culpa KoKo Bear Can Help Children • learn what divorce means • deal with changes in their everyday lives...
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Lucy is a unique ladybug who provides support and guidance to children in need. Jacob is a young boy who is trying to understand that his parents are no longer going to be living together. He has many concerns about what his life will be like when they move into two different homes. Join Lucy Ladybug as she takes Jacob on a magical picture journey of the past, present, and future where he gains a new perspective on his family.
18) LeAnnabeth
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This is a drama romance novel with a little touch of tragedy at the end, a profound story about a girl who had lose everything but she was able to find her happiness once again and her one true love. She was a beautiful woman, a realistic woman, she had a big dream that one day she will become a famous designer, but her life was far from perfection. LeAnnabeth's life was never easy; she came from a broken family, her mother left her when she was a...
19) Esta casa vacía
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El autor explora en esta novela el mundo de la familia, el matrimonio, el adulterio y el resquebrajamiento de las relaciones entre padres e hijos. Giovanni Perleche, el personaje principal, es un antihéroe que camina en una Lima agitada, movido por la necesidad de conseguir dinero para sostener a un hijo que sufre de una extraña enfermedad. En ese camino se le rebelará su propia personalidad en la que la decadencia personal, el uso de drogas...
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As Miriam Martin stood at her father's graveside, she recalled the complex story of her parents' marriage. Her mother's family migrated from the Mid-West in 1887 on the expanded line of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroad from Kansas City to San Diego. Miriam's grandfather was looking to find the "golden fruits, the gardens of this sunset land." It was there in San Diego County, on a windy summer day on the beach, that her mother, Suzanna,...
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