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41) Kairos
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"Jenny Erpenbeck (the author of Go, Went, Gone and Visitation) is an epic storyteller and arguably the most powerful voice in contemporary German literature. Erpenbeck's new novel Kairos-an unforgettably compelling masterpiece tells the story of the romance begun in East Berlin at the end of the 1980s when nineteen-year-old Katharina meets by chance a married writer in his fifties named Hans. Their passionate yet difficult long-running affair takes...
42) The harpy
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"Lucy and Jake live in a house by a field where the sun burns like a ball of fire. Lucy has set her career aside in order to devote her life to the children and to the house itself, which comforts her like an old, sly friend. But then a man calls one afternoon with a shattering message: his wife has been having an affair with Lucy's husband, Jake. The revelation marks a turning point: Lucy and Jake decide to stay together, but make an arrangement...
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"A deliciously compulsive first novel from the critically acclaimed author of the memoir Lights On, Rats Out, Private Means follows two married intellectuals who find themselves at odds with one another and dare to look elsewhere for intimacy and thrills.With their daughters fully grown and their relationship fraying, Upper West Side-based couple Alice and Peter are further agitated when Alice's beloved dog, Maebelle, goes missing. As Alice mourns...
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"They promised to tell their spouses they were leaving and then meet to begin their new life together. But he never shows up. A new twisting novel of psychological suspense from the acclaimed author of Gone Without a Trace. Coworkers Ruby and Harry are inlove--but they're married to other people. They decide to tell their spouses that their marriages are over and to start their new lives together. Ruby, who has wanted to leave her controlling husband...
46) Sweet ruin
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After leaving a prestigious career to raise her daughter, thirty-five-year-old Elayna Leopold struggles with her husband's long work hours and recovers from the depression of losing an infant son in a growing relationship with an artist neighbor.
49) Indiscreet
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Romance is in the air when a dashing diplomat is introduced to a beautiful and famous actress. The fact that he's married doesn't stop the love-struck pair from falling into a passionate affair.
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"Jack Shanley is a well-known New York artist, charming and vain, who doesn't mean to plunge his family into crisis. His wife Deb gladly left behind a difficult career as a dancer to raise the two children she adores. In the ensuing years, she has mostly avoided coming face-to-face with the weaknesses of the man she married. But then an anonymously sent package arrives in the mail: a cardboard box containing sheaves of printed emails chronicling Jack's...
52) Alibi
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A man throwing a surprise anniversary party for his wife ends up getting caught standing over the dead body of his business partner and his wife's lover.
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At fifteen, Josh Paquette and Khadijah Silverglate-Dunn catch Josh's father and Khad ijah's mother kissing in a natural foods store. As both of their families fall apart, the teenagers sign a pact never to cheat on anyone, ever. They have no problem keeping the vow-until they meet again at twentyeight, both struggling with career and identit y, and both engaged to other people.
55) Mountolive
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'Mountolive who had already found the open sesame of language ready to hand, suddenly began to feel himself really penetrating a foreign country... ' In Mountolive, the third volume in Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, the events surrounding the interwoven community of Nessim, Justine, Narouz, Pursewarden and the other major characters are given a very different perspective. The intrigues and complex relationships are seen through the political prism...
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When Liana Dector, a woman who is possibly a cold-blooded killer wanted by the police, storms into his favorite Boston tavern demanding his help, George Foss, unable to say "no" to his first love, is drawn into a world of murder, betrayal, and secrets from which there is no escape.
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Rebecca didn't know love was possible until she met Paul, a successful, charismatic, married man with a past as dark as her own. Their pain drew them together with an irresistible magnetism; they sensed that they were each other's ideal (and perhaps only) match. But twenty years later, Paul and Rebecca are drowning as the damage and secrets that ignited their love begin to consume their marriage. Paul is cheating on Rebecca, and his affair gets messy...
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