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Author
Publisher
Recordeed Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Lucky and Addy Lipton are planning a trip to Paradise (Costa Rica) and hoping to get their marriage back on track. But while loading the bags, Lucky throws out his back. While a maimed Lucky roots himself to the couch, Addy makes a big decision. It's time for things to change--even if that means making drastic choices that involve all the women of Parker, Pennsylvania.
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Michael Beard, a serial adulterer with a crumbling fifth marriage and a waning career, seizes the chance to solve all his problems when he blames the accidental death of a rival scientist on his wife's lover, and steals the man's valuable research.
10) Mr. Peanut
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Two detectives are called in to investigate the mysterious death of a morbidly obese woman who her husband claims suffered suicide by anaphylactic shock, and as they work on the case, they begin to see upsetting parallels between their own marital relationships and that of the victim and her husband.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Museum curator Jim Rath, having been left by his wife because of his obsession with finding evidence of the existence of a lost race which proves the aquatic ape theory of human evolution, thinks he has found an inhabitant of the magical world, who is actually a low-level employee for the Department of Homeland Security, and becomes involved in a battle of wits with the man.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Young Greenwich Village pastry chef Greenie Duquette's strained marriage to a depressed psychiatrist is pushed to the breaking point when the governor of New Mexico offers her a job at his restaurant across the country and she accepts, taking her four-year-old son with her.
13) So much for that
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Shep Knacker, having saved for years to retire to a Tanzanian island where he could live on his nest egg for the rest of his life, is stunned when his wife Glynis announces she has a rare form of cancer and needs his insurance, and while the mounting bills cut deeply into his savings, he is buoyed by rants against the health care system by his friend Jackson who is caring for a sick child.
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