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Coming Up for Air
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George Orwell,Marina MacKay |
Years in insurance and marriage to the joyless Hilda have been no more than death in life to George Bowling. This and fear of another war take his mind back to the peace of his childhood in a small c… |
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Neighbors
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Thomas Berger |
The adventures of Earl Keese, a pudgy homeowner living on a dead-end road in the country. A younger couple moves in next door and begins to harass Earl in a fashion that is by turns sinister and fetc… |
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Magnolia Wednesdays
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Wendy Wax |
From the author of The Accidental Bestseller comes a wonderfully entertaining book about what to do when life comes at you full swing. At forty-one, Vivian Armstrong Gray's life as an investigative j… |
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The man in the gray flannel suit II
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Sloan Wilson |
1963. Tom Rath, finds his dream of suburban bliss turning into a kind of genteel craziness. Tom is not alone - the rest of the world seems to be going crazy too. John Kennedy is assassinated. Tom's w… |
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Fear of frying
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Jill Churchill |
Suburban Chicago widow Jane Jeffry hates cooking, but loves food. She can't think of a worse fate than a rustic outing in a Wisconsin resort where she discovers a corpse, seemingly bludgeoned by a fr… |
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Grime and punishment
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Jill Churchill |
With three kids to raise on her own, Jane Jeffrey sometimes needs a hand with the housework. But many of her complaining neighbors believe that the "Happy Helper" cleaning lady they all share wouldn… |
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The infinite tides
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Christian Kiefer |
"Set in depleted, post-recession suburbia, with its endlessly interlocking cul-de-sacs, mega-parking lots and big box stores, The Infinite Tides tells the story of star astronaut Keith Corcoran's ret… |
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What the grown-ups were doing
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Michele Hanson |
Michele Hanson grew up an 'oddball tomboy disappointment' in a Jewish family in Ruislip during the 1950s - a Metroland of neat lawns, bridge parties and Martini socials. Yet this shopfront of respect… |
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All we ever wanted was everything
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Janelle Brown |
Over the course of an eventful summer, the three Miller women--Janice, abandoned by her wealthy husband for her tennis partner; daughter Margaret, facing bankruptcy; and teenage daughter Lizzie, deal… |
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Mama gone geek
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Lynn Brunelle |
Science is the ultimate parenting tool. After all, it's really about observing, asking questions, solving problems, making mistakes, and trying again and again and again -- just like being a mom or d… |
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The house next door
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Anne Rivers Siddons |
Their lives would never be the same.
Colquitt and Walter Kennedy enjoyed a life of lazy weekends, gathering with the neighbors on their quiet, manicured street and sipping drinks on their patios. Bu… |
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Little house in the suburbs
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Deanna Caswell |
Aims to help homeowners live self-sufficiently, including growing their own food, cooking meals from scratch, keeping animals, making homemade cleaning and skin-care products, and making homemade gif… |
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Covet
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Tracey Garvis Graves |
What if the life you wanted, and the woman you fell in love with, belonged to someone else? |
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Savage Lane
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Jason Starr |
In a suburb of New York City, Mark Berman and his wife, Deb, deal with their unhappy marriage in different ways, while their neighbor, recently-divorced Karen Daily, becomes the unwanted focus of mor… |
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The night the lights went out
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Karen White |
Moving to an Atlanta suburb after her divorce, Merilee forges tenacious bonds with a town matriarch and a wealthy supermom before terrible secrets throw the lives of all three women into turmoil.
Re… |
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Time out of joint
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Philip K. Dick |
Time Out of Joint is a dystopian novel by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in novel form in the United States in 1959. An abridged version was also serialised in the British science fi… |
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The rise and fall of the Queen of Suburbia
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Sarah May |
This is a darkly comic portrayal of marriage, relationships, neighbours and suburbia. Do you know what your neighbours get up to behind closed doors? And more to the point, do you want to know? |
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The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green
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Joshua Braff |
It's 1977. Jacob Green, a Jewish kid from suburban New Jersey, sits on the stairs during his family's housewarming party, waiting for his father, Abram--charming host, everyone's best friend, and ama… |
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Wonderboy (Red Dress Ink Novels)
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Fiona Gibson |
Ghastly new home.
Potentially adulterous husband….
Not quite the fresh start in the country she was promised.
A fixer-upper in the sticks was the last place city girl Ro Skews expected to liv… |
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Bad move
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Linwood Barclay |
In the too-quiet town of Oakwood, only the lucky die of boredom...and new homeowner Zack Walker isn't feeling lucky. Whoever said the burbs were boring will think twice after reading Linwood Barclay'… |
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