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81) The Eden Test
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"Adam Sternbergh brings his wit, humor, and a Hitchcockian sense of dread to What Have We Done, a chilling, surprising, and wholly entertaining portrait of a marriage on the brink. Seven Days. Seven Questions. Forever Changed. That's how The Eden Test, a week-long getaway, advertises itself for couples in trouble. And that's what Daisy, a talented actress, has signed up for, in the hopes of saving her marriage. It's a tall order, seeing as her husband...
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The place: central Florida. The situation: a sensational murder trial involving a rich, white teenage girl--a twin--on trial for the horrific murder of her toddler brother, and the sequestered jury deciding her fate. . Two of the jurors sequestered (she,Juror C-2; he, F-17), holed up at the Econo-Lodge off I-75. As the shocking and numbing details of the crime and its surrounding facts are revealed during a string of days and seemingly endless court...
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In Paris at the onset of WWII, wealthy Jewish doctor Michele marries Stanislaus, a penniless yet cunning Polish chess master. She is later hauled off to Dachau and is assumed dead after her failure to return at the war's end. But Michele is not dead after all and returns to Paris under a new identity to find Stanislaus romancing her beautiful young stepdaughter. Murderous twists and turns abound in this stylish Hitchcockian chiller.
85) The double
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"The job seems simple enough: retrieve the valuable painting--"The Double"--Grace Kinkaid's ex-boyfriend stole from her. It's the sort of thing Spero Lucas specializes in: finding what's missing, and doing it quietly. But Grace wants more. She wants Lucas to find the man who humiliated her--a violent career criminal with a small gang of brutal thugs at his beck and call. Lucas is a man who knows how to get what he wants, whether it's a thief on the...
86) The golden cage
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"An exhilarating new novel from a global superstar--a sexy, over-the-top psychological thriller that tells the story of the scorned wife of a billionaire, and her delicious plot to get her revenge and bring him to his knees" --
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When the tabloids scream the news that Tory up-and-comer and arbiter of family values Duncan Matlock has been caught in an affair with an "escort" girl, no one is more stunned than Flora, his devoted wife. As her husband and the party machinery behind him expect, Flora maintains a loyal façade. But in private, her anguish hardens into rage after erotic telephone tapes reveal the extent of her husband's duplicity. Employing strange sexual games and...
88) The betrayals
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Best friends Rosie and Lisa's families had always been inseparable. But that summer, Lisa had an affair with Rosie's husband, Nick. None of them would forget that week on the wild Norfolk seacoast. Relationships were torn apart. Friendships shattered. And childish innocence destroyed. Now, after years of silence, a letter arrives that begs for help. A letter that exposes dark secrets. Then Rosie's daughter Daisy's fragile hold on reality begins...
91) Suzanna Andler
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Accompanied by her lover, Suzanna, 40, views a Riviera beach house for her family's summer vacation. This day, this break in her routine, in this new house, will mark a turning point in her life. Based on the Marguerite Duras play of the same name, it is the portrait of a woman trapped in her marriage to a wealthy, unfaithful businessman in the 1960s. She must choose between her conventional destiny as a wife and mother, and her freedom, embodied...
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"'Are we to go on until we are old, with just these odd moments here and there and danger always so narrowly evaded? Love draining away our vitality, our hold on life, never adding anything to us.' Blindness and betrayal are Elizabeth Taylor's great subjects, and in A View of the Harbour she turns her unsparing gaze on the emotional and sexual politics of a seedy seaside town that's been left behind by modernity. Tory, recently divorced, is having...
93) Blind
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Blinded by the accident that killed his wife, novelist Bill Oakland falls for the socialite assigned to read to him as part of her community service for being associated with her husband's insider trading.
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Scorned housewife Nancy Hadley leaves her cheating husband, Roger, and invests in a racing sailboat on which to live, but when a real estate development deal involving her husband threatens the harbor and her new home, Nancy prepares for battle and makesa bet with Roger--a showdown in the Border Dash Race from Newport Harbor down to Ensenada, Mexico with the winner of the race getting everything they want from the other--which for Nancy means she...
97) Acrimony
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A faithful wife tired of standing by her devious husband is enraged when it becomes clear she has been betrayed.
98) Ryan's daughter
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An unhappily married Rosy Ryan falls in love with a British officer that she meets while tending bar in her father's pub on Ireland's Dingle peninsula.
99) A family affair
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"Anna McNichol is at the peak of her career and ready to focus on her future. But when her husband dies suddenly, Anna's carefully constructed world falls apart. The mysterious young woman at the memorial service confirms her husband had been keeping secrets, and Anna is determined to get to the truth. For once, she doesn't have the answers. Her kids are struggling with their grief, her mother's health is in decline and Anna needs closure. Faced with...
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