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61) Bridge of sighs
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[2007]
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"Louis Charles ("Lucy") Lynch has spent all his sixty years in upstate Thomaston, New York, married to the same woman, Sarah, for forty of them, their son now a grown man. Like his late, beloved father, Lucy is an optimist, though he's had plenty of reasons not to be - chief among them his mother, still indomitably alive. Yet it was her shrewdness, combined with that Lynch optimism, mat had propelled them years ago to the right side of the tracks...
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2017.
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"A contemporary Western debut about two brothers locked in a deadly feud, a woman on horseback trailing her husband's killer, and the inescapable ties of home and family. When Silas Van Loy flees home on horseback to avoid capture for his brother's murder, he is soon followed by both the police and his brother's wife, Lena, who is intent on exacting revenge. She reluctantly lets her trusted stable assistant join her in a journey across the wilds of...
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"A novel about a woman who one day comes home to find her attic is magic and producing an endless supply of interchangeable husbands"--
"When Lauren returns home to her flat in London late one night, she is greeted at the door by her husband, Michael. There's only one problem--she's not married. She's never seen this man before in her life. But according to her friends, her much-improved decor, and the photos on her phone, they've been together for...
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2019.
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"What happens when you're really, truly done making your marriage work? You can't be married to someone without sometimes wanting to bash them over the head... As Long As We Both Shall Live is JoAnn Chaney's wicked, masterful examination of a marriage gone very wrong, a marriage with lots of secrets... "My wife! I think she's dead!" Matt frantically tells park rangers that he and his wife, Marie, were hiking when she fell off a cliff into the raging...
65) The night house
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[2021]
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Reeling from the unexpected death of her husband, Beth (Rebecca Hall) is left alone in the lakeside home he built for her. Before long, disturbing visions of a presence in the house begin to beckon her with a ghostly allure. Yearning for answers, she begins digging into her husband's belongings, only to discover strange and disturbing secrets.
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Weight loss diva Clarissa Jardin became a household name after she transformed herself from flabby to fit with an exercise program she designed. Known for her in-you-face attitude, Clarissa uses her own "before and after" pictures to lure legions of fans into buying her products. Raking in millions, she has the world in the palm of her hand--until her husband is found shot to death. Detective Dirk Coulter calls P.I. Savannah Reid to the crime scene...
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Author: Schlessinger, laura. Title: The proper care and feeding of husbands Annotation Terms of Use In her most provocative book yet, Dr. Laura urgently reminds women that to take proper care of their husbands is to ensure themselves the happiness and satisfaction they yearn for in marriage. Women want to be in love, get married, and live happily ever after. Yet disrespect for men and disregard for the value, feelings, and needs of husbands has fast...
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[2022]
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Dark Fell Barn is a "perfectly isolated" retreat, or so says its website when Jayne books a reservation for her friends. A quiet place, far removed from the rest of the world, is exactly what they need. The women arrive for a girls' night ahead of their husbands. There's ex-Army Jayne, hardened and serious, but also damaged. Ruth, the driven doctor and new mother who is battling demons of her own. Young Emily, just wed and insecure, the newest addition...
69) Till death
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[2021]
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After a romantic evening in their secluded lake house, Emma awakens handcuffed to her dead husband. Trapped and isolated in the dead of winter, she must fight off hired killers to escape her husband's twisted plan.
70) Vanished
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[1988]
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Wallace a laborer in his late forties; Dotty, an abused teenager who flaunts her sexuality; and a little girl stolen from her playpen are bound together for the next five years by Dotty's manic moods and Wallace's tragic helplessness.
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[2021]
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"Twenty-five years ago, five heroes risked their lives to defeat the bone maker Eklor—a corrupt magician who created an inhuman army using animal bones. But victory came at a tragic price. Only four of the heroes survived. Since then, Kreya, the group’s leader, has exiled herself to a remote tower and devoted herself to one purpose: resurrecting her dead husband. But such a task requires both a cache of human bones and a sacrifice—for each day...
72) Beautiful you
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Penny Harrigan is a low-level associate in a big Manhattan law firm who has an apartment in Queens and no love life at all. So it comes as a great shock when she finds herself invited to dinner by one C. Linus Maxwell, aka "Climax-Well," a software megabillionaire and lover of the most gorgeous and accomplished women on earth. After taking her to Manhattan's most exclusive restaurant, he whisks Penny off to a hotel suite in Paris, where he proceeds,...
73) Play dead
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When her husband, David Baskin, the Boston Celtics' star player, dies on their Australian honeymoon, fashion model Laura Ayars returns home to discover a half million dollars missing from his account and their house ransacked, prompting her to launch her own investigation into David's death.
75) Best day ever
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2018
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A loving husband. The perfect killer?'I wonder if Mia thinks I have a dark side. Most likely as far as she knows, I am just her dear loving husband.'Paul Strom has spent years building his perfect life: glittering career, beautiful wife, two healthy boys and a big house in the suburbs.But he also has his secrets. That's why Paul has promised his wife a romantic weekend getaway. He proclaims this day, a warm Friday in May, will be the best day ever.Paul...
76) The life-writer
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[2016]
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"After the death of her beloved husband, Katrin, a literary biographer, copes with the loss by writing his personal history. While researching the letters and journals he left behind, however, she comes to the devastating conclusion that his life before their marriage was far richer than the one they shared. To understand and recreate the period of his greatest happinessâhitch-hiking through France as a young man, madly in love with his companion,...
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"For fans of the Netflix hit series Dead to Me and bestselling domestic suspense fiction by Shari Lapena and Liane Moriarty, a novel set in suburban New Jersey about a dead husband with a serious alcohol problem, an angry, betrayed wife, and the family friends whose talent for keeping secrets might lead to everyone's undoing"--
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2022.
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"In August of 1844, aman named Leonard Reed takes violently ill at his home near Heathsville, Illinois,and four days later he is dead. The cause? Arsenic poisoning. The suspect? Hiswife, Betsey. The chief witnesses against her? A hired girl, Eveline Deal,and the local apothecary, James Logan.The evidence? Eveline claims she saw Betsey put a pinch of white powder inLeonard's coffee. Betsey Reed, a woman who dabbles in herbal healing, is known about...
80) In an evil time
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"Jack Hollis had finally steeled himself for what had to be done: When a man is threatening your daughter and grandson, when reason can't stop it, when restraining orders don't work and the police can't help, then a father's choices are limited. David Rakubian was vicious, abusive, powerful, deadly - and Angela's husband. Everyone Hollis knew, the members of his family, his friends, all wanted to help save Angela. But this was something Jack had to...