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English
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Madame Bovary, often ranked among the greatest novels of all time, is considered Gustave Flaubert’s masterpiece, with authors from Henry James to Proust to Nabokov heaping it with praise.
The novel tells the story of Madame Bovary, a commoner wife of a country doctor, and her attempts to escape the drudgery
...4) Third degree
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Laurel Shields' seemingly perfect marriage to her husband, Warren, comes crashing down when Warren discovers Laurel's infidelity and holds her at gunpoint, demanding to know who her lover is and whether or not he is the father of their two children and the baby she is carrying.
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English
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Tom Richards, a prominent film director finds his real life intertwining with his latest cinematic effort as he gets caught up in an adulterous affair with his leading star, discovers his wife is an illicit relationship, and learns that their daughter has run away from home.
9) Waiting
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Lin Kong struggles to balance his life between the two women he loves and the country that is trying to rule his life.
12) Little children
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Language
English
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With hits like Election and Joe College to his credit, author Tom Perrotta has established himself as a master of satire. Unhappily married Sarah passes her days at the local playground with her three-year-old daughter. When happily unemployed Todd (also married) and Sarah meet, their attraction is immediate. They begin a passionate affair just as their suburban utopia is rattled by the arrival of registered sex offender Ronald James McGorvey. With...
13) The heights
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Young marrieds Tim and Kate Welch, trying to raise their two sons on Tim's salary as a history teacher at the Montague Academy in Brooklyn Heights, face a crisis when Kate is offered a high paying job that brings her back in touch with an old flame, and Tim, taking his turn as a stay-to-home parent, is introduced to fascinating new neighbor Anna Brody.
14) The big picture
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Ben Bradford's seemingly storybook life has been broken apart at the seams when an encounter with his wife's lover ends in murder forcing Ben to go underground, adopt a new identity, and start a new life.
16) The golden bowl
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English
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Presents the complete text of the 1904 novel in which a father and his daughter marry at the same time after which her husband and his wife, known to one another before the weddings, begin an affair; and includes a critical introduction, a chronology, and a preface by the author.
17) The voyage
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
David Lyon, a married Canadian diplomat with two children, falls in love with Francesca, a Guyanese woman. She later disappears, and the news spreads that she had an affair with David, who is about to be elevated to the position of foreign minister.
18) The photograph
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English
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Searching through a little-used cupboard at home, TV historian Glyn Peters chances upon a photograph he has never seen. Taken in high summer, many years before, it shows his wife, Kath, holding hands with another man. Glyn's mind fills with questions. Who was the man? Who took the photograph? Where was it taken? When? Worst of all: had Kath planned for him to find out all along? The Photography is a literary, psychologically complex novel of suspense...
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