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After Rachel Childs, a former journalist, suffers an on-air mental breakdown, she lives as a virtual shut-in. In all other respects, however, she enjoys an ideal life with an ideal husband. Until a chance encounter on a rainy afternoon causes that ideal life to fray. As does Rachel's marriage. As does Rachel herself. Sucked into a conspiracy thick with deception, violence, and possibly madness, Rachel must find the strength within herself to conquer...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"It's 1958 and Evelyn Elizabeth Grace Murphy has not left the Pinnacle Hotel in fourteen months. She suffers from agoraphobia, and what's more, it's her father's hotel, and everything she needs is there. Now she's finding trouble inside her sanctuary. At a party for artist Billie Bell, his newest work is stolen, and Evelyn's fake boyfriend (and real best friend), movie star Henry Fox, is accused of the theft. But just as Evelyn sets out to prove Henry's...
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2020.
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English
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"The author of Nine Women, One Dress delivers a charming, unforgettable novel about four women, one little lie, and the big repercussions that unite them all. It wasn't supposed to happen this way. When Eliza Hunt created The Hudson Valley Ladies' Bulletin Board fifteen years ago she was happily entrenched in her picture-perfect suburban life with her husband and twin preschoolers. Now, with an empty nest and a crippling case of agoraphobia, the once-fun...
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2013.
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English
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Mousy and shy to the point of agoraphobic, Em Moore is the writing half of a celebrity biography team. Her charismatic partner, Teddy, does the interviewing and the public schmoozing. But her dependence on Teddy runs deeper than just the job. Teddy is her bridge to the world and the main source of love in her life. So when Teddy dies in a car accident, Em is devastated, alone in a world she does not understand. The only way she can honor his memory...
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St. Martins Press
Pub. Date
2004.
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English
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Set in a Southern, city-swallowed town, The Garden Angel tells the story of two women and their unlikey friendship. Cutter Johanson is plucky and eccentric, nostalgic about her family's once glorious past. She has her hands full warding off potential buyers from the dilapidated homestead she is determined to keep. Though the neighborhood has changed, even grown shabby, Father Bob's Home for Retarded Men across the street has become a sort of extended...
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"It isn't paranoia if it's really happening ... Anna Fox lives alone -- a recluse in her New York City home, drinking too much wine, watching old movies ... and spying on her neighbors. Then the Russells move next door: a father, a mother, their teenaged son. The perfect family. But when Anna sees something she shouldn't, her world begins to crumble -- and its shocking secrets are laid bare. What is real? What is imagined? Who is in danger? Who is...
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Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2007]
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English
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Jack Madigan is, by many accounts, blessed. He can still effortlessly turn a pretty head. And thanks to his legendary rock star father, he lives an enviable existence in a once-glorious, now-crumbling Boston town house with his teenage son, Harlan. But there is one tiny drawback: Jack is an agoraphobe. As long as his dad's admittedly dwindling royalties keep rolling in, Jack's condition isn't a problem. But then the money runs out . . . and all hell...
11) Fresh air
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Lucinda Hunter has been a virtual recluse in a Connecticut farmhouse for 27 years. Katanya Taylor is a nine-year old from Harlem who is staying with a host family for two weeks and meets Lucinda while admiring her garden. Lucinda's acquaintance with Katanya prompts the older woman to reexamine her life.
13) Fragilidad
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Aguilar Chilena de Ediciones
Pub. Date
2004.
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Español
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Montserrat Lecaros lo tenía todo para ser feliz: la familia perfecta, una educación católica ejemplar. El marido ideal y dos hijos maravillosos con bellos nombres santos. ¿Por qué entonces, luego de atravesar una interminable terapia en una exclusiva clínica norteamericana, nadie la espera en el aeropuerto de su ciudad natal?
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Arundel
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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After realizing how many fellow cast and crew members of "Tristan and Isolde" have met suspicious and untimely deaths, actress Anastasia Day fights her own agoraphobia as she works to uncover the culprit behind the deadly spree. But can Anastasia stop the murderer before the upcoming re-release gala, or will the gala become everyone's final curtain?
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ONE, an imprint of Pushkin Press
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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35-year-old Miriam hasn't left her house in three years, and cannot raise her voice above a whisper. But today she has had enough, and is finally ready to rejoin the outside world. Maybe it's time to stop living in the shadow of her abusive dead mother? Meanwhile, Ralph has made the mistake of opening a closet door, only to discover with a shock that his wife Sadie doesn't love him, and never has. And so he decides to run away. Miriam and Ralph's...
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Black Rose Writing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Jesse Carter is a brilliant law school dropout who can't move on with her life after the death of her twin brother. Philip Raymond was once a high-level political consultant with a happy family. Now he lives alone in a penthouse apartment hooked on Ativan and tortured by memories of scandal. Together, Jesse and Raymond find new purpose: an exposé of the secret life of reclusive billionaire Lee Fletcher. On mega-yachts, luxury jets, and Hamptons...
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