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The doctor's wife The doctor's wife Mary Elizabeth Braddon With *The Doctor's Wife*, Mary Elizabeth Braddon rewrote Flaubert's Madame Bovary, exploring the heroine's sense of entrapment and alienation in middle-class provincial life. A woman with a secret, a… OL1490113W
The box of the dead The box of the dead Beatrice MacNeil Novel centers on Ivadoile Spears, aged ninety-two, who was widowed early and has run a boarding house on Cape Breton for many years in the splendid home left to her by her doctor husband. We muse wit… OL18153975W
Fear of dying Fear of dying Jackie Lewin Grace Beckmann, the unwilling yet intrepid heroine of Jackie Lewin's acclaimed mystery series comes in for a landing at Five Star where the amateur sleuth finds herself entangled in yet another myste… OL2046647W
Third Degree Third Degree Greg Iles Pregnant with another man's child, Elizabeth Pike returns home to find her husband, already distraught over an IRS audit, with a letter from her lover and a gun in his hands. OL26482W
MAIN STREET MAIN STREET Sinclair Lewis The first of his major novels of the 1920s, Sinclair Lewis's Main Street satirizes the manners of the American Middle West. Here is the story of Carol Kennicott, who, to be accepted, must adapt to th… OL51117W
Murder at Morses Pond Murder at Morses Pond Linda Rosencrance Details the shocking true account of Dirk Greineder, a prominent doctor and well-respected member of the community, who led a double life filled with phone sex, Internet porn, and prostitutes, and wa… OL5892150W
Madame Bovary Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert Charles Bovary, médecin de campagne, veuf d'une mégère, fait lors d'une tournée la rencontre du père Rouault et de sa fille, Emma. Après leur mariage, Emma reste insatisfaite et rêve d'une nouvelle v… OL893707W