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Author
Language
English
Description
Once again Sue Miller takes us deep into the private lives of women with this mesmerizing portrait of two marriages exposed in all their shame and imperfection, and in their obdurate, unyielding love.
Meri is newly married, pregnant, and standing on the cusp of her life as a wife and mother, recognizing with some terror the gap between reality and expectation. Delia Naughton–wife of the two-term liberal senator Tom Naughton–is...
Meri is newly married, pregnant, and standing on the cusp of her life as a wife and mother, recognizing with some terror the gap between reality and expectation. Delia Naughton–wife of the two-term liberal senator Tom Naughton–is...
3) This boy
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Paul Walden is not an alpha lobster, the hypermasculine crustacean king who intimidates the other male lobsters, beds all the lady lobsters, and 'wins' at life. At least not according to the ego-bursting feedback he's given in his freshman seminar. But Paul finds a funny, faithful friend in Roby Smalls, and maybe--oh god, please--he's beginning to catch the interest of smart, beautiful Natalia Gutierrez. Cruising through high school as a sauced-out,...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Mark Firth is a home builder in Howland, Massachusetts in the early 2000s who, after being swindled by a finanical advisor, feels opportunity passing him by. In the paranoid days after 9/11, a New York money manager, Philip Hadi, moves his family to Howland and hires Mark to turn his his house into a 'secure location.' When Howland's first selectman passes away suddenly, Hadi runs for office, and begins subtly transforming the town in his image....
Author
Publisher
Penguin Clásicos
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
Madame Bovary escandalizó a sus lectores cuando se publicó por primera vez en 1857. Y la historia en sí permanece tan fresca hoy como cuando se escribió por primera vez, una obra que sigue siendo insuperable en su revelación del carácter y la sociedad. Cuenta la trágica historia de la romántica pero cabeza hueca Emma Rouault.Cuando Emma se casa con Charles Bovary, imagina que pasará a la vida de lujo y pasión que lee en novelas sentimentales...