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The hidden storyteller / by Robotham, Mandy,author.;
Hamburg, 1946. The war is over, and Germany in ruins. Posted to an Allied-run Hamburg, reporter Georgie Young returns to the country she fled seven years prior - at the onset of the conflict - to find it unrecognisable. Amidst the stark horrors of a bombed-out city crumbling under the weight of millions of displaced souls, she discovers pockets of warmth: a violinist playing amidst the wreckage, couples dancing in the streets, and a nation trying to make amends. Joining forces with local detective Harri Schroder to catch a killer targeting women on the city's streets, curiosity draws Georgie deep into the dark underbelly, and she soon discovers that darkest secrets of war did not die with Hitler.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Murder; Secrecy; Women journalists; Women;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Mrs. Morris and the venomous valentine / by Wilton, Traci,author.;
A full house is nothing new to Charlene and her ghostly friend, Dr. Jack Strathmore, but this Valentine's Day, their Salem, Massachusetts inn isn't filled with romantic couples. Instead, every room is booked by formerly famous photographer, Dane Stallone, for a Cupid-themed calendar he hopes will jumpstart his sagging career. Though Charlene's hands are full with a dozen gorgeous models, Dane is the only diva ... pitching fits, making unreasonable demands, and generally being a mood killer ... until a real killer strikes and puts the whole shoot on ice. With more suspects than a jumbo box of chocolates, Charlene, Jack, and Detective Sam Holden race to find the one person filled with murderous intent.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Cozy mysteries.; Paranormal fiction.; Novels.; Bed and breakfast accommodations; Ghosts; Models (Persons); Murder; Photographers; Valentine's Day;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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About us / by Moriarty, Sinéad,author.;
Three women are at a crossroads - can they save their relationships or should they find happiness alone? Alice and Niall - They used to be lovers, best friends and parents, in that order. But they're no longer on the same page about sex and it's killing them ... Ann and Ken - Ann thought when she and Ken retired, it would be their second spring. However, instead of feeling desired, she feels abandoned ... Orla and Paul - Orla is falling in love with Paul but though she's only twenty-five, she thinks she can't ever be intimate with anyone ... Three couples find themselves telling a stranger about the most intimate part of their lives - the hopes, the disappointments, the unspoken expectations, the awkward realisations - and coming to some surprising and life-changing decisions.
Subjects: Chick lit.; Man-woman relationships; Therapeutics;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Hope Springs [videorecording] / by Black, Todd.; Carell, Steve,1963-; Casady, Guymon.; Frankel, David,1960-; Jones, Tommy Lee,1946-; Smart, Jean.; Streep, Meryl.; Taylor, Vanessa.; Columbia Pictures.; Mandate Pictures (Firm); Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm);
Edited by Steven Weisberg ; director of photography, Florian Ballhaus ; music supervisor, Julia Michels.Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, Jean Smart, Steve Carell.Kay and Arnold are a middle-aged couple who have been married for 30 years and now are sleeping in separate rooms and barely interact in any meaningful loving way. Finally, Kay has had enough and finds a book by Dr. Feld which inspires her to sign them up for the doctor's intense week-long marriage counseling session. What follows is an insightful experience as Dr. Feld manages to help the couple understand how they have emotionally drifted apart and what they can do to reignite their passion.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, NTSC, region 1, anamorphic widescreen presentation (2.40), Dolby digital 5.1.
Subjects: Comedy films.; Feature films.; Man-woman relationships; Marriage counseling; Marriage; Married people; Middle-aged persons; Romantic comedy films.;
© c2012., Sony Pictures Home Entertainment,
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I'll come to you : a novel / by Kauffman, Rebecca,author.;
"A modern and classic story of family, I'll Come to You chronicles intersecting lives over the course of one year -- 1995 -- anchored by the anticipation and arrival of a child. With empathy, insight, and humor, Rebecca Kauffman explores overlapping narratives involving a couple whose struggle to become pregnant has both softened and hardened them, a woman whose husband of forty years has left her for reasons he's unwilling to share and the man who is now disastrously attempting to woo her, a couple in denial about a looming health crisis, and their son who is fumbling toward middle age and can't stop lying. Ultimately, these storylines crescendo and converge into a dramatic and harrowing turn of events. With heart, wit, and courage, and through pain, these characters traverse territory that both challenges and defines the bonds of family"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Families; Interpersonal relations; Life change events; Nineteen ninety-five, A.D.;
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The land in winter / by Miller, Andrew,1961-author.;
December 1962, the West Country. Local doctor Eric Parry, mulling secrets, sets out on his rounds, while his pregnant wife sleeps on in the warmth of their cottage. Across the field, funny, troubled Rita Simmons is also asleep, her head full of images of a past life her husband prefers to ignore. He's been up for hours, tending to the needs of the small dairy farm where he hoped to create a new version of himself, a project that's already faltering. There is affection -- if not always love -- in both homes. But when the ordinary cold of an English December gives way to violent blizzards -- a true winter, the harshest in living memory -- the two couples find their lives beginning to unravel. Where do you hide when you can't leave home? And where, in a frozen world, can you run to?
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Blizzards; Interpersonal relations; Secrecy; Spouses;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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We're all in this together ... : so make some room / by Papa, Tom,author.; Papa, Tom.Essays.Selections.;
"Stand-up is all well and good, but observational humor that's funny and warm may work best in books. And Tom Papa, whose loyal audiences are packed with "date night" couples of all ages, has perfected the form. In We're All In This Together, Papa's thirty-seven short essays tackle these universal American topics, among others: -Love for Your First Car ("To Buy or Lease") -The Truth about Personal Hygiene ("How You Know When It's Time to Go") -Date Nights ("Will You Go Out with Me?") -Unfamiliar Hotel Rooms ("Why Nothing Works") -Pets ("Cats-Ancient Menace") -Drinking ("There's no Cure for a Hangover") -Ducking your Family, even Though you Love Them ("The Lesson of Mark Twain's Cigars") Tom Papa's books make readers laugh, but--crucially--feel better about themselves while doing it."--
Subjects: Essays.; American wit and humor.; Conduct of life; Interpersonal relations;
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The weekend retreat : a novel / by Laskowski, Tara,author.;
Every year, the illustrious Van Ness siblings, heirs to a copper fortune, gather at their secluded winery estate for a joint birthday celebration. It's a tradition they've followed nearly all their lives, and now they are back with their significant others for a much-needed weekend of rest and relaxation, away from the public spotlight. With lavish comforts, gorgeous scenery, and indulgent drinking, the trip should be the perfect escape. But it soon becomes clear that even a remote idyllic getaway can't keep out the problems simmering in each of their lives. As old tensions are reignited, the three couples are pushed to the edge. Will their secrets destroy them, or will they destroy each other first? And who's been watching them from beyond the vineyard gates? When a torrential rainstorm hits, plunging them into darkness, the answers prove all too deadly.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Family secrets; Rainstorms; Rich people; Secrecy; Siblings;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Summer darlings / by Foster, Brooke Lea,author.;
Set during the splendid summer days of 1960s Martha's Vineyard, this page-turning debut novel pulls back the curtain on one mysterious and wealthy family as seen through the eyes of their nanny--a college student who, while falling in love on the elegant island, is also forced to reckon with the dark underbelly of privilege. In 1962, coed Heddy Winsome leaves her hardscrabble Irish Brooklyn neighborhood behind and ferries to glamorous Martha's Vineyard to nanny for one of the wealthiest families on the island. But as she grows enamored with the alluring and seemingly perfect young couple and chases after their two mischievous children, Heddy discovers that her academic scholarship at Wellesley has been revoked, putting her entire future at risk. Determined to find her place in the couple's wealthy social circles, Heddy nurtures a romance with the hip surfer down the beach while wondering if the better man for her might be a quiet, studious college boy instead. But no one she meets on the summer island--socialite, starlet, or housekeeper--is as picture-perfect as they seem, and she quickly learns that the right last name and a house in a tony zip-code may guarantee privilege, but that rarely equals happiness.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Nannies; Women college students; Rich people; Privilege (Social psychology); Classism;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Vanishing World A Novel [electronic resource] : by Murata, Sayaka.aut; Wu, Nancy.nrt; CloudLibrary;
From the author of the bestselling literary sensations Convenience Store Woman and Earthlings comes a surprising and highly imaginative story set in a version of Japan where sex between married couples has vanished and all children are born by artificial insemination. Sayaka Murata has proven herself to be one of the most exciting chroniclers of the strangeness of society, x-raying our contemporary world to bizarre and troubling effect. Her depictions of a happily unmarried retail worker in Convenience Store Woman and a young woman convinced she is an alien in Earthlings have endeared her to millions of listeners worldwide. Vanishing World takes Murata’s universe to a bold new level, imagining an alternative Japan where attitudes to sex and procreation are wildly different to our own. As a girl, Amane realizes with horror that her parents “copulated” in order to bring her into the world, rather than using artificial insemination, which became the norm in the mid-20th century. Amane strives to get away from what she considers an indoctrination in this strange “system” by her mother, but her infatuations with both anime characters and real people have a sexual force that is undeniable. As an adult in an appropriately sexless marriage—sex between married couples is now considered as taboo as incest—Amane and her husband Saku decide to go and live in a mysterious new town called Experiment City or Paradise-Eden, where all children are raised communally, and every person is considered a Mother to all children. Men are beginning to become pregnant using artificial wombs that sit outside of their bodies like balloons, and children are nameless, called only “Kodomo-chan.” Is this the new world that will purify Amane of her strangeness once and for all?
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Literary; Absurdist;
© 2025., Simon & Schuster,
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