Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In “Madame Bovary”, Charles, an awkward country doctor courts and weds Emma, the beautiful young daughter of a patient. Emma, unsuited to the role of housewife, quickly gets restless and begins to explore her passions. This leads to infidelities which she hides from Charles and, eventually, mounting debts as she turns to merchandise for her happiness. Flaubert’s novel is cited as the first example of literary realism and has been called a “perfect”...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Stepping over the threshold seemed symbolic of a certain level of acceptance—a joining of the hopes and dreams formed within these walls to the bitter reality that those dreams were dead. They would not have a child—not ever.
For years, Matt and Maddie have held onto their hope of becoming parents. Now, suddenly faced with the reality that they will not have a child together, Matt is shocked to discover that the consequences
...Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Language
English
Formats
Description
A darkly funny and messy love story about the struggle to live happily ever after after the after, by the New York Times bestselling author of Good Grief. Elinor Mackey has always done the right thing-college, law school, career, marriage-but now everything's gone wrong. In her late thirties, Elinor has discovered that she can't have children; all the doctors can tell her is that it's because of her age. She withdraws from her podiatrist...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Linda Fallon travels to a literary festival to give a reading from her latest work, but while she is there she encounters her former lover, Thomas James, and together, the couple share memories of their past affair.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
As she emerges from the prison of a Puritan New England town, Hester Prynne defies the dark gloom much as the rose blooms against the prison door. With her illegitimate baby, Pearl, clutched in her arms and the letter A -- the mark of an adultress -- embroideredin scarlet thread on her breast, Hester holds her head high as she faces the malice and scorn of the townsfolk. Her powerful, bittersweet story is an American Classic that continues to touch...
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 37
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Hired to counter a blackmailer who has had affairs with several wealthy women, Boston private eye Spenser finds the case turning violent when the women are systematically murdered.
8) Mercy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Formats
Description
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult comes a “sensitive exploration of the balance of love” (Publishers Weekly).
Two cousins are driven to extremes by the power of love, as one helps his terminally ill wife commit suicide at her request, and the other becomes involved in a passionate affair with his wife’s new assistant. In the midst of betrayals and trials,...
Two cousins are driven to extremes by the power of love, as one helps his terminally ill wife commit suicide at her request, and the other becomes involved in a passionate affair with his wife’s new assistant. In the midst of betrayals and trials,...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 58
Language
English
Description
This timeless novel is set in the high society of 19th century Russia. The story is largely about the disloyal affair between Anna Karenina and Vronsky. Tolstoy's masterful portrayal of each character's emotions makes this story a classic for all times.
Please Note: This book is easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. The Microsoft eBook has a contents page linked to the chapter headings for easy...
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
When Lauren discovers her husband with another woman, she decides to take revenge by beating him at his own game--but her night of passion takes a dangerous turn when she witnesses an unbelievable crime. Her shocking secret threatens to tear her life apart, pitting her need to uncover the truth against her fear that the truth may be too horrible to bear. And whichever choice she makes could cost her job, her marriage, even her life.--From publisher...
12) Unlocked
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ella Reynolds, head cheerleader and part of the "in" crowd, befriends Holden Harris, an autistic boy who is bullied at school, and takes on the popular kids at school in the process, including her boyfriend, Jake.
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2003, c2002
Edition
1st American ed.
Language
English
Description
Book editor Rose Lloyd, married for twenty-five years, is shocked to lose her job and husband to her conniving assistant, and while the changes first throw her into turmoil, Rose soon discovers the advantages to starting over, and even finds love again.
15) The golden bowl
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1985
Language
English
Description
Prince Amerigo muses on his approaching marriage, and on the likely consequences of an alliance between Russian aristocracy and American money.
18) The awakening
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In the summer of her 28th year, Edna Pontellier and her children, along with the wives and families of other prospective businessmen, spend the summer in an idyllic coastal community away from their husbands and the sweltering heat of 1890s' New Orleans. Aware of deep yearnings that are unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood, Edna plunges into an illicit liaison that reawakens her long dormant desires, inflames her heart, and eventually blinds her...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"If Avery Chambers can't fix you in 10 sessions, she won't take you on as a client. Her successes are phenomenal--she helps people overcome everything from domineering parents to assault--and almost absorb the emptiness she sometimes feels since her husband's death. Marissa and Mathew Bishop seem like the golden couple--until Marissa cheats. She wants to repair things, both because she loves her husband and for the sake of their 8-year-old son. After...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request