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The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives: A Novel

by Lola Shoneyin

Published: 2010-06-29

Hardcover: 288 pages

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When Baba Segi awoke with a bellyache for the sixth day in a row, he knew it was time to do something drastic about his fourth wife's childlessness. Meet Baba Segi . . . A plump, vain, and prosperous middle-aged man of robust appetites, Baba Segi is the patriarch of a large househol...

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The Secret Lives of Boys: Inside the Raw Emotional World of Male Teens

by Malina Saval

Published: 2009-04-13

Hardcover: 272 pages

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This unprecedented look into the lives and social groups of boys across America is a parent and teacher's key to understanding the hidden hopes, fears, pains, and passions of their sons and students. Male teenage cliques have come a long way since the days of the Breakfast Club and Fast ...

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The Secret Lives of Dresses

by Erin McKean

Published: 2011-02-10

Kindle Edition: 296 pages

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Dora has always taken the path of least resistance. She went to the college that offered her a scholarship, is majoring in "vagueness studies," and wears whatever shows the least dirt. She falls into a job at the college coffee shop, and a crush on her flirty boss, Gary. Just when she's ab...

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Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives

by Josie Brown

Published: 2010-06-01

Paperback: 352 pages

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The bitter divorce of "perfect couple" DeeDee and Harry Wilder, and its impact on the gated community in which they live, is seen through the eyes of a neighbor, Lyssa Harper, who doesn't realize the parallels between their marriage and her own. Touched by Harry Wilder's efforts at trial-by-error single...

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The Secret Lives of the Four Wives: A Novel

by Lola Shoneyin

Published: 2011-07-05

Paperback: 304 pages

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African-born poet Lola Shoneyin sheds a fascinating light on the little-known world of polygamy in modern-day Nigeria, in her powerful and thought-provoking debut novel, The Secret Lives of the Four Wives (previously titled The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives). Fans of The 19th Wife an...

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The Secret Lives of Wives: Women Share What It Really Takes to Stay Married

by Iris Krasnow

Published: 2011-09-29

Hardcover: 288 pages

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A bestselling, groundbreaking author investigates successful long term marriages, interviewing wives and their uncensored strategies for staying married. America's high divorce rate is well known. But little attention has been paid to the flip side: couples who creatively (sometimes cla...

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The Secret Magdalene: A Novel

by Ki Longfellow

Published: 2007-12-31

Paperback: 448 pages

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Raised like sisters, Mariamne and Salome are indulged with riches, position, and learning-a rare thing for females in Jerusalem. But Mariamne has a further gift: an illness has left her with visions; she has the power of prophecy. It is her prophesying that drives the two girls to flee to ...

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The Secret of Everything: A Novel

by Barbara O'Neal

Published: 2009-12-09

Kindle Edition: 400 pages

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In this spectacular new novel, Barbara O’Neal delivers a generous helping of the best in life–family, food, and love–in the story of a woman’s search for the one thing worth more than anything.At thirty-seven, Tessa Harlow is still working her way down her list of goals to “fall ...

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The Secret of Joy

by Melissa Senate

Published: 2009-11-17

Paperback: 352 pages

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IS THE HALF SISTER THAT REBECCA STRANDHAS NEVER MET SHORT? TALL? RICH? POOR? PRETTY?FUNNY? MARRIED? LONELY? HAPPY?...Rebecca is about to find out. The New York City paralegal thought nothing could shake her life off its fast track -- which includes her handsome lawyer boyfriend and their e...

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The Secret of Lost Things: A Novel

by Sheridan Hay

Published: 2007-03-06

Hardcover: 368 pages

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A missing manuscriptA young woman's voyage of discoveryAnd the curious bookshop where it all begins...In this charming novel about the eccentricities and passions of booksellers and collectors, a captivating young Australian woman takes a job at a vast, chaotic emporium of used and rare bo...