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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
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Struggling with the demands of her job, distant husband, spoiled daughter and Alzheimer's patient father, Allison becomes addicted to painkillers and lands in rehab, where amid fellow inpatients she confronts incompatible recovery techniques, barely trained counselors and her own denial.
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
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.
5) Cul-de-sac
Author
Language
English
Description
"Someone on this quiet cul-de-sac will be shot dead. Will it be Maggie, the perfectionist wife, or Craig, the husband who can't quite live up to her expectations? Maybe it will be Nick, an oncologist, or his wife, Dani, a successful dentist, both with secrets of their own. Or Julia, a widow, whose grandson has moved in with her, introducing unsavory habits and acquaintances into her quiet existence. Then there's Olivia and Sean. Having lost his job,...
7) Middlesex
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Formats
Description
Successful physician Duncan Avery was convicted 15 years ago of stabbing his wife Marsha to death in their suburban New Jersey home, scattering what remained of his family to the winds. His oldest son Patrick's girlfriend Lindsay Farrell is packed off to Europe to avoid the scandal, while Patrick slinks off to Rutgers in despair. Daughter Nina goes to live with her mother's elderly Aunt Mary, and Jimmy, the youngest, is left in care of the Averys'...
10) 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?
12) The husbands
Author
Language
English
Description
Nora Spangler is a successful attorney but when it comes to domestic life, she packs the lunches, schedules the doctor appointments, knows where the extra paper towel rolls are, and designs and orders the holiday cards. Her husband works hard, too ... but why does it seem like she is always working so much harder? When the Spanglers go house hunting in Dynasty Ranch, an exclusive suburban neighborhood, Nora meets a group of high-powered women-a tech...
13) The wrong stuff
Author
Series
Jane Wheel mystery volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
14) Goodnight nobody
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
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.
16) Never tell a lie
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.
17) Just one look
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When Grace Lawson picks up a newly developed set of family photographs, there is a picture that doesn't belong-a photo from at least twenty years ago with a man in it who looks strikingly like her husband, Jack. And though Jack denies it's him, he disappears that night, taking the photo with him. Now, to save her family from a fierce, silent killer who will stop at nothing to get the photo, Grace must confront the dark corners of her own tragic past....
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Living on a suburban cul-de-sac positioned between extremely wealthy and impoverished neighbors, high school student Mary Elizabeth McPherson witnesses acts of violence and compassion that reverberate throughout her community in the wake of a string of burglaries.
19) A changed man
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Holocaust survivor Meyer Maslow, the head of a human rights foundation, is baffled by the entreaties of Vincent Nolan, a young neo-Nazi who inadvertently transforms the lives of other people in his attempts to change his own life.
Author
Series
Jane Jeffry volume 13
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Hired by a rebellious group of feminists for a huge house renovation, Jane Jeffry and Shelley Nowack become increasingly alarmed when the project is overshadowed by malicious pranks, a suspicious death, and numerous secrets.
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