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Outtakes from a Marriage

Ann Leary · 260 pages

Julia and Joe Ferraro are living the good life in Manhattan now that Joe's finally made it; he's the star of a hit TV show and has just been nominated for a Golden Globe award. After many lean years, they've got a grand Upper West Side apartment and an Amagansett beach house, and their two kids go to elite private schools. Even better, Julia and Joe are still madly in love.Or so Julia thinks until

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Burnt Sugar

Avni Doshi · 240 pages

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Picture Perfect

Jodi Picoult · 391 pages

To the outside world, they seem to have it all. Cassie Barrett, a renowned anthropologist, and Alex Rivers, one of Hollywood's hottest actors, met on the set of a motion picture in Africa. They shared childhood tales, toasted the future, and declared their love in a fairy-tale wedding. But when they return to California, something alters the picture of their perfect marriage. A frightening pattern

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Almost Paradise

Susan Isaacs · 671 pages

Traces the lives and marriage of Nicholas Cableigh, a well-born, successful actor, and Jane, articulate, intelligent television talk show participant.

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The Starter Wife

Gigi Levangie Grazer · 407 pages

When her Hollywood studio head husband unexpectedly divorces her to marry a pop starlet, Gracie seeks refuge at a friend's Malibu mansion, witnesses the impact of the divorce on her young daughter, and interacts with a series of dysfunctional men.

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All Your Perfects

Colleen Hoover · 336 pages

"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends with Us--whose writing is "emotionally wrenching and utterly original" (Sarah Shepard, New York Times bestselling author of the Pretty Little Liars series)--delivers a tour de force novel about a troubled marriage and the one old forgotten promise that might be able to save it. Quinn and Graham's perfect love is threatened by their imperfect mar

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Watermelon

Marian Keyes · 614 pages

February the fifteenth is a very special day for me. It is the day I gave birth to my first child. It is also the day my husband left me...I can only assume the two events weren't entirely unrelated. Claire has everything she ever wanted: a husband she adores, a great apartment, a good job. Then, on the day she gives birth to their first baby, James informs her that he's leaving her. Claire is lef

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Left Neglected

Lisa Genova · 416 pages

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After You

Julie Buxbaum · 368 pages

The complexities of a friendship. The unexplored doubts of a marriage. And the redemptive power of literature...Julie Buxbaum, the acclaimed author of The Opposite of Love, delivers a haunting, gloriously written novel about love, family, and the secrets we hide from each other--and ourselves.It happened on a tree-lined street in Notting Hill to a woman who seemed to have the perfect life. Ellie L

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After I Do

Taylor Jenkins Reid · 352 pages

"From the author of Forever, Interrupted--hailed by Sarah Jio as 'moving, gorgeous, and at times heart-wrenching'--comes a breathtaking new novel about modern marriage, the depth of family ties, and the year that one remarkable heroine spends exploring both. When Lauren and Ryan's marriage reaches the breaking point, they come up with an unconventional plan. They decide to take a year off in the h

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Love the One You're With

Emily Giffin · 347 pages

A chance encounter forces one woman to question her decisions, her marriage, and herself.

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What Alice Forgot

Liane Moriarty · 557 pages

Alice Love is twenty-nine, crazy about her husband, and pregnant with her first child. So imagine her surprise when she comes to on the floor of a gym and is whisked off to the hospital to find out that she's getting divorced, has three kids, and is actually thirty-nine. Now Alice must reconstruct a lost decade -- and try to reconstruct her life. She has to figure out why her sister hardly talks t

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The Actress

Amy Sohn · 336 pages

"When Hollywood heartthrob Steven Weller pulls Maddy Freed out of obscurity for a starring part in his newest, Oscar-worthy film, she feels her career roaring onto the express track. Steven's professional attention soon turns personal as they are thrown together amid Europe's Old World charm, and Maddy allows herself to tumble headlong into a fairytale romance with the world's most eligible bachel

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Open House

Elizabeth Berg · 241 pages

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Landline

Rainbow Rowell · 310 pages

"Two days before they're supposed to visit his family in Omaha for Christmas, TV writer Georgie McCool tells her husband, Neal, that she has to stay in Los Angeles. She knows Neal will be upset -- but she doesn't expect him to pack up the kids and go without her. That night, Georgie discovers a way to communicate with Neal in the past. Is this an opportunity to fix her marriage before it starts...

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The Things We Cannot Say

Kelly Rimmer · 448 pages

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The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year

Sue Townsend · 436 pages

The day her children leave home, Eva climbs into bed and stays there. She's had enough - of her kids' carelessness, her husband's thoughtlessness and of the world's general indifference. Eva's refusal to behave like a dutiful wife and mother soon upsets everyone but she insists on staying in bed. And then the strangest things start to happen. A funny and touching novel from Britain's funniest writ

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Tribute

Nora Roberts · 464 pages

The #1 New York Times bestselling author presents her latest blockbuster novel, the story of a big-screen legend, a small-town scandal, and a young woman caught up in the secrets and shadows of both. Cilia McGowan, a former child star, has found a more satisfying life restoring homes. So she comes to Virginia's Shenandoah Valley to save the dilapidated farmhouse that once belonged to her grandm

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A Perfect Life

Danielle Steel · 368 pages

A mother and daughter confront respective challenges, cope with celebrity status and work through tragedy while maintaining an idyllic facade to the outside world.

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Adultery

Paulo Coelho · 255 pages

"A woman around her thirties begins to question the routine and predictability of her days. In everybody's eyes, she has a perfect life: a solid and stable marriage, a loving husband, sweet and well-behaved children and a job as a journalist she can't complain about. However, she can no longer bear the necessary effort to fake happiness when all she feels in life is an enormous apathy. All that ch

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The Mermaid Chair

Sue Monk Kidd · 335 pages

It's about a woman named Jessie Sullivan who has to return to her former home Egret island to take care of her mother. Within a monastery resides a chair carved with mermaids that supposedly was dedicated to a mermaid.Jessie meet a monk and falls for him although she is already married.....

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Good in Bed

Jennifer Weiner · 376 pages

For twenty-eight years, things have been tripping along nicely for Cannie Shapiro. Sure, her mother has come charging out of the closet, and her father has long since dropped out of her world. But she loves her friends, her rat terrier, Nifkin, and her job as pop culture reporter for The Philadelphia Examiner. She's even made a tenuous peace with her plus-size body. But the day she opens up a n

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Husband and Wife

Leah Stewart · 344 pages

When novelist Nathan Bennett confesses to his wife, Sarah, right before a friend's wedding that he slept with another woman (his novel is titled Infidelity), Sarah's concerns shift from whether the dress she plans to wear to the wedding makes her look fat to what she will do about her future and that of their two young children, Mattie and Binx.

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