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1) Stay close
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Three people--a suburban housewife, a talented documentary photographer, and a detective--living lives they never wanted, hiding secrets that even those closest to them would never suspect, will find that the past doesn't recede ... and that desperation and hunger can lurk behind even the prettiest facades.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The very first work of fiction by the best-selling, acclaimed author of City on Fire --his piercingly beautiful treasure box of a novella about two families in the suburbs, now in a newly designed edition For years, the Hungates and the Harrisons have coexisted peacefully in the same Long Island neighborhood, enjoying the pleasures and weathering the pitfalls of their suburban habitat. But when the patriarch of one family dies unexpectedly, the survivors...
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
An emotionally & spiritually comatose suburban man decides "to hell with it all" and reverts to living as he did when he was happiest--as a carefree teenager. His desperately uptight wife and sullen daughter can only look on as he quits his corporate job to become a burger flipper, starts getting high with a strange new neighbor (whose parents are even stranger) and lusts after a pouty blonde teenager--his daughter's best friend.
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"Recently divorced, Merilee Talbot Dunlap moves with her two children to the Atlanta suburb of Sweet Apple, Georgia. It's not her first time starting over, but her efforts at a new beginning aren't helped by an anonymous local blog that dishes about the scandalous events that caused her marriage to fail. Merilee finds some measure of peace in the cottage she is renting from town matriarch Sugar Prescott. Though stubborn and irascible, Sugar sees...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • Frank and April Wheeler are a bright, beautiful, talented couple in the 1950s whose perfect suburban life is about to crumble in this "moving and absorbing story” (The Atlantic Monthly) from one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century.
"The Great Gatsby of my time...one of the best books by a member of my generation." —Kurt Vonnegut, acclaimed author of Slaughterhouse-Five
Perhaps...
"The Great Gatsby of my time...one of the best books by a member of my generation." —Kurt Vonnegut, acclaimed author of Slaughterhouse-Five
Perhaps...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In a shiny new subdivision in 1970s Toronto, Marilyn greets new neighbors with fresh-baked cookies before she starts stealing from them. Stay-at-home-wife Francesca believes passion is just one yard away, only in the arms of another man. And Darren doesn't understand why his mother insists he keep his head down, even though he gets good grades like his white friends. When a series of inexplicable suicides begin to haunt their community, no one is...
Author
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Having relocated to an alienating Connecticut suburb after a mugging in her native New York City, wife and mother Kate Klein undertakes a murder investigation during her children's school hours when a local mom is killed.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Ivy and David Rose, happily married high school sweethearts and expecting their first child, are plunged into a growing web of suspicion when a young, pregnant high school classmate disappears and David's past is exposed in this tale of obsession.
9) Covet
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
What if the life you wanted, and the woman you fell in love with, belonged to someone else?
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Upon moving to a new house, young Caroline and her parents encourage wildflowers to grow and birds and animals to stay in their yard, which soon has the whole suburban street living up to its name.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
This uproarious comic novel is a must-read for lovers of classic British humor. The Diary of a Nobody follows the travails of one Charles Pooter, a middle-class clerk with high-society aspirations and outrageous delusions of grandeur. You'll laugh out loud at Pooter's pretentiousness and plenteous faux pas as he attempts to move up the treacherous ladder of social class in nineteenth-century London.
Publisher
StarVista Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The formidable Mama (from The Carol Burnett Show) put the "diss" in dysfunction, dispensing her no-nonsense discipline and unfiltered advice to the hilarious cast of characters, with frequent guest appearances by Betty White and Burnett.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
From the spin-off sketch of the Carol Burnett Show comes the story of a squabbling family in the Midwestern blue collar suburb of Raytown. The noisy bunch is headed by Mama, a buxom, opinionated, gray-haired widow with a sharp tongue.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
A divorced L.A. lawyer, Peter, thinks he has met the girl of his dreams online, until she shows up at his door and is a sassy, African American ex-con. She moves in and really begins to shake up his boring suburban lifestyle.
17) Caught
Author
Language
English
Description
Dan Mercer stands accused of being a sexual predator thanks to the ambush journalism of Wendy Tynes, a tabloid TV reporter, who must cope with her husband's death caused by a drunken driver as well as reckon with the possibility of Mercer's innocence. When Tynes finds a link between a father of one of Mercer's alleged victims and others felled by scandal, she could become a killer's next victim.
Publisher
StarVista Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Kevin experiences a lot of firsts, he gets his first pimple and his first puppy; he has his first French kiss and joins his first band; and he gets his first 'D' in math class. Paul is still as allergic as ever, but gets a boost of confidence from a date with Norma; and Jack and Karen stop fighting long enough to celebrate her eighteenth birthday, if only for a moment.
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Kevin and Winnie are starting ninth grade at different schools. Norma takes a job at Kevin's school, Jack gets a promotion, Wayne buys a car and Karen starts college. Kevin gets his first job caddying, is guilted into taking Paul's little sister to cotilion, and tries to crash a tenth-grader's slumber party (with beer). He also finds Coach Cutlip moonlighting as the mall Santa after subjecting the gym class to Death Ball and the President's All-American...
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