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"A story of patients and staff, family, and friends who are part of a heart clinic in a community caught between the old Ireland and the new. Dr. Clara Casey agrees to take on the thankless task of establishing a clinic with little funding for one year. She is able to make the clinic a success, but now Clark must decide whether or not to leave a place where lives are saved, courage is rewarded, and humor and optimism triumph over greed and self pity."--Book...
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From the outside looking in, Lauren Delaney has a life to envy - a successful career, a solid marriage to a prominent surgeon and two beautiful daughters who are off to good colleges. But on her twenty-fourth wedding anniversary Lauren makes a decision that will change everything. Lauren won't pretend things are perfect anymore. She defies the controlling husband who has privately mistreated her throughout their marriage and files for divorce. And...
3) Time Flies
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In this novel, a recently separated woman faces her highway driving phobia and takes a road trip with her best friend to their high school class reunion. Years ago, Melanie followed her husband, Kurt, from the New England beach town where their two young sons were thriving to the suburbs of Atlanta. She's carved out a life as a successful metal sculptor, but when Kurt leaves her for another woman, having the tools to cut up their marriage bed is small...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 19
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1170L
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English
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When the Countess Ellen Olenska returns from Europe, fleeing her brutish husband, her rebellious independence and passionate awareness of life stir the educated sensitivity of Newland Archer, already engaged to be married to her cousin May Welland, "that terrifying product of the social system he belonged to and believed in, the young girl who knew nothing and expected everything." As the consequent drama unfolds, Edith Wharton's sharp ironic wit...
6) Home again
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Recently separated from her husband, Alice decides to start over by moving back to her hometown of Los Angeles with her two young daughters. During a night out on her 40th birthday, Alice meets three aspiring filmmakers who happen to be in need of a place to live. Alice agrees to let the guys stay in her guest house temporarily, but the arrangement ends up unfolding in unexpected ways. Alice's unlikely new family and new romance comes to a crashing...
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English
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"Heather Willette has a good life in Concord, Massachusetts-complete with a husband who runs his own business and a son to take up his mantle one day. But now that her marriage has fizzled out and Ross, her only child, is graduating from college and getting serious with his girlfriend, Heather wonders if that life is the one she really wants. Ready to seek out her own happiness and discover herself again, Heather decides to leave her husband and rent...
9) Pretty woman
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English
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Three years after she marries womanizing gold-digger Kent Bliss, against the advice of her best friend Vickie, Rosie Gardener Bliss kicks her husband out of the house, only to discover that she has in her possession the winning ticket for a $302 million-dollar lottery, and sets out to lose weight, regain her self-esteem, reconcile with Vickie, and fall in love again.
10) Blue Jasmine
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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After everything in her life falls to pieces, including her marriage to wealthy businessman Hal, elegant New York socialite Jasmine moves into her sister Ginger's humble apartment in San Francisco to try to pull herself back together again.
"Want to see great acting, from comic to tragic and every electrifying stop in between? See Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine."--Rolling Stone.
"Allen's story of a fictitious Ruth Madoff figure works as both a what-if...
11) The deep end
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Signets Belles lettres volume AE4802
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English
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As Joanne Hunter's secure suburban world is falling apart, she receives disturbing phone calls. She can't get anyone to believe that the killer of three housewives in the community is stalking her. The voice on the phone whispers "you're next."
12) Summer Romance
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English
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"Benefits of a summer romance: It's always fun, always brief, and no one gets their heart broken. Ali Morris is a professional organizer whose own life is a mess. Her mom died two years ago, then her husband left, and she hasn't worn pants with a zipper in longer than she cares to remember. No one is more surprised than Ali when the first time she takes off her wedding ring and puts on pants with hardware--overalls count, right?--she meets someone....
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Film Movement volume year 9, film 6
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Español
Description
Karen has left her slimy but successful husband Mario after ten years of marriage. She needs a fresh start to find out who she is and who she could be, despite her husband's proclamation that she can do absolutely nothing. She walks out into Bogotá with no job, no friends, and hardly any money, but catches a break when she meets a hairdresser named Patricia at a cheap flophouse. With her younger and seemingly stronger friend by her side, Karen takes...
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Fleeing her hometown with a suitcase of stolen money after being abandoned by her husband, Catherine Madison hopes to escape her painful past by starting over in Las Vegas, where unexpected friendships encourage her to accept difficult truths.
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"Married to a man who no longer loves her, Lou realizes it's time for a change. So she moves out and moves on, with a spring in her step and an exciting new business venture in the works. In honor of her newfound freedom, Lou travels to India, where she befriends Ali, another woman traveling alone. Lou and Ali work together to put the past behind them and discover they have shockingly more in common than they had thought."--Page 4 of cover.
17) Drop dead Fred
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A young woman who has just split from her husband is advised by her mother to try to regain her balance by returning home. However, what- or who- she discovers is her childhood imaginary friend, Fred. After being locked in a box for 21 years, Fred is bursting with energy, and is just the ticket to re-energize the depressed young woman!
18) Half-blown rose
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Having grown up the privileged daughter of artists, Vincent has a life that is lovely in many ways. At forty-four, she enjoys strolling the streets of Paris and teaching at the modern art museum; she has a vibrant group of friends; and she's even caught the eye of a young, charismatic man named Loup. But Vincent is also in Paris to escape a painful betrayal: her Irish husband, Cillian, has published a bestselling book divulging secrets about his...
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Rory McGovern is entering the ostensible prime of her life when her husband, Blake, loses his dream job and announces he feels like 'taking a break' from being a husband and father. Rory was already spread thin and now, without warning, she is single-parenting two kids, juggling their science projects, flu season, and pajama days, while coming to terms with her disintegrating marriage. And without Blake, her only hope is to accept a full-time position...
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