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"A twisty, compelling new novel about one woman's complicated relationship with her mother-in-law that ends in death... From the moment Lucy met her husband's mother, Diana, she was kept at arm's length. Diana was exquisitely polite, and properly friendly, but Lucy knew that she was not what Diana envisioned. But who could fault Diana? She was a pillar of the community, an advocate for social justice who helped female refugees assimilate to their...
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Publication Date
2024.
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English
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In the wake of her husband Adam's death, Sarah, with a daughter and a baby on the way--and left with no money--moves in with Adam's mother, whom he always said was dead, but soon discovers why Adam lied as she becomes trapped in a house with a madwoman.
4) Safe within
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Publisher
William Morrow
Publication Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Returning to her childhood home in Lowfield, North Carolina so that her husband can live out his final days in his favorite place, Elaine Forsythe gets more than she bargains for when her husband's mother, who hasn't spoken to her in 25 years, arrives and stirs up trouble.
5) Serendipity
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English
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Todd Valmer should have known better. A farmer who's been through several disasters, he travels to Virginia to fetch his widowed mother to cook and help him around his Texas farm...or that was the plan until she keels over on the train and they get kicked off. Maggie Rose barters for a living and also makes soaps, lotions, and perfumes with a special rose recipe passed down from mother to daughter for generations. She hasn't wanted to marry...until...
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Publication Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When Rachel Meyer, a thirtysomething foodie from New York, agrees to move to Mumbai with her Indian-born husband, Dhruv, she knows some culture shock is inevitable. Blessed with a curious mind and an independent spirit, Rachel is determined to learn her way around the hot, noisy, seemingly infinite metropolis she now calls home. But Rachel's sense of adventure is sorely tested when her mother-in-law, Swati, suddenly arrives from Kolkata announcing...
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Series
Anastasia Pollack crafting mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Publication Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Conducting a senior center crafting class to earn extra money after her gambler husband passes away and leaves her with numerous debts, crafts editor Anastasia Pollack investigates the untimely murder of a creative resident with a scandalous past, a case that implicates Anastasia's cantankerous mother-in-law.
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Publication Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
In the latest thriller from New York Times bestselling author of the Good Sister, trouble with the in-laws is taken to the extreme - with deadly results. From the steamy Caribbean tropics to the penthouses of New York City, dark secrets and bitter rivalry push a new bride and her mother-in-law to the very edge in this gripping novel of seduction and murder
The oldest son of the rich and powerful Donner family, Jonathan, prefers to remain a playboy,...
9) Lifelines
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"For fans of Meg Wolitzer and Maggie Shipstead: a sweeping debut novel following an American artist who returns to Germany--where she fell in love and had a child decades earlier--to confront her past at her former mother-in-law's funeral. It's 1971 when Louise leaves Oregon for Düsseldorf, a city grappling with its nation's horrific recent history, to study art. Soon she's embroiled in a scene dramatically different from the one at home, thanks...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Publication Date
2003
Language
English
Description
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a nice Jewish widower must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen centered her classic novels of manners around "three or four families in a country village." So does Paula Marantz Cohen in her novel, a witty twist on Pride and Prejudice--except this time, the "village" is Boca Raton, Florida.
Eligible men, especially ones in possession of a good fortune and country club privileges, are scarce. When goodhearted...
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Series
Morning Shade mysteries volume 2
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English
Description
Morning Shade is another hotbed of intrigue. Stella's on the case, not too worry. Chain letters, mail fraud, the town prankster, and a house full of animals combine to make one chain of events that just might drive the Diamond women over the brink.
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Publication Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
It's 2018 in New York City, and three women all known as Mrs. Tobias--Veronika, the matriarch, her daughter-in-law Mel, and Mel's daughter-in-law Birdie--are trying to navigate personal difficulties, some of which are with one another. Veronika and Mel, despite having little in common, are both psychotherapists who are more skilled at helping other people than solving their own problems. Birdie, still dealing with the culture shock of moving to New...
13) Memorial
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Publication Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Mike is a Japanese American chef at a Mexican restaurant. Benson is a Black day care teacher. They've been together for a few years, but now they're not sure why they're still a couple. There's the sex, sure, and the meals Mike cooks for Benson, and, well, they love each other. When Mike finds out his estranged father is dying in Osaka just as his acerbic Japanese mother, Mitsuko, arrives in Houston for a visit, Mike picks up and flies across the...
14) The other woman
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English
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Thrilled to be Linda's 'adopted' daughter, Ellie begins to have doubts about marrying Dan after she gets to know his mother better.
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Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Publication Date
[2025]
Language
English
Description
"It's 1963, two years since Barbara Feldman's husband died. Raising two kids, she's finally emerging from her cocoon of grief. Not yet a butterfly, but she's anxious to spread her wings. Then one day her mother-in-law, Ruth, shows up on her doorstep with five suitcases, expecting a room of her own with a suitable mattress. Abrasive and stuck in her ways yet well meaning, Mother Ruth arrives without warning to help with the children. How can Barbara...
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Publication Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
During a cold Massachusetts winter, a tragic car accident leaves a mother childless and her daughter-in-law a widow. Naomi and Ruth are now each other's only comfort. Naomi lost her own husband eight years ago, and now she has lost her son. Carrying a deep secret in her soul, Naomi decides to return to her childhood home in coastal South Carolina. When she tells Ruth her plan, she receives an unexpected reply: "Where you go, I will go." So the two...
17) Motherthing
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Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Publication Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A darkly funny domestic horror novel about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husband and herself from the vengeful ghost of her mother-in-law. . . Abby Lamb has done it. She's found the Great Good in her husband, Ralph, and together they will start a family and put all the darkness in her childhood to rest. But then the Lambs move in with Ralph's mother, Laura, whose depression has made it impossible for her to live on her own. She's...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Publication Date
2004
Language
English
Description
We think we know the story of Eleanor Roosevelt--the shy, awkward girl who would marry Franklin Roosevelt and redefine the role of First Lady, becoming a civil rights activist and an inspiration to generations of young women. As legend has it, the bane of Eleanor's life was her demanding and domineering mother-in-law, FDR's mother Sara Delano Roosevelt. Biographers have overlooked the complexity of a relationship that had, over the years, been reinterpreted...
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Series
Bliss House novels volume 2
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Publication Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The Fall of 1957 in southern Virginia was a seemingly idyllic, even prosperous time. A young housewife, Charlotte Bliss, lives with her husband, Hasbrouck Preston "Press" Bliss and their two young children, Eva Grace and Michael, in the gorgeous Bliss family home. On the surface, theirs seems a calm, picturesque life, but soon tragedy befalls them -- a series of shocking deaths, with apparently simple explanations. But nothing is simple if Bliss...
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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...
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