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The Widower's Tale: A Novel

by Julia Glass

Published: 2010-09-07

Hardcover: 416 pages

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In a historic farmhouse outside Boston, seventy-year-old Percy Darling is settling happily into retirement: reading novels, watching old movies, and swimming naked in his pond. His routines are disrupted, however, when he is persuaded to let a locally beloved preschool take over his barn. ...

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The Widows of Eastwick

by John Updike

Published: 2008-10-21

Hardcover: 320 pages

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The Widow's Son

by Bruce Steinberg

Published: 2001-10-10

Paperback: 387 pages

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The moment 12-year-old Jeremy Rosenberg witnesses his father's death, he loses the world he had assumed would last forever. With a young brother expecting "Daddy" to yet come home, a sister blaming herself, and a mother falling toward isolation, Jeremy is sent fatherless into the world just as he reaches...

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A Widow's Story: A Memoir

by Joyce Carol Oates

Published: 2012-02-07

Paperback: 432 pages

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Unlike anything Joyce Carol Oates has written before, A Widow’s Story is the universally acclaimed author’s poignant, intimate memoir about the unexpected death of Raymond Smith, her husband of forty-six years, and its wrenching, surprising aftermath. A recent recipient of National Boo...

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The Widow's War: A Novel

by Sally Cabot Gunning

Published: 2009-10-13

Kindle Edition: 336 pages

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Married for twenty years to Edward Berry, Lyddie is used to the trials of being a whaler's wife in the Cape Cod village of Satucket, Massachusetts—running their house herself during her husband's long absences at sea, living with the daily uncertainty that Edward will simply not return. ...

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The Widow's War: A Novel

by Sally Gunning

Published: 2007-02-01

Paperback: 336 pages

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Married for twenty years to Edward Berry, Lyddie is used to the trials of being a whaler's wife in the Cape Cod village of Satucket, Massachusetts?running their house herself during her husband's long absences at sea, living with the daily uncertainty that Edward will simply not return. A...

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Wife 22: A Novel

by Melanie Gideon

Published: 2012-05-29

Kindle Edition: 400 pages

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“A skillful blend of pop-culture references, acidic humor, and emotional moments. It will take its rightful place . . . alongside Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary, Anna Maxted’s Getting Over It, and Allison Pearson’s I Don’t Know How She Does It.”—Library Journal (...

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Wife for Hire

by Janet Evanovich

Published: 2007-11-01

Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages

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Wife Goes On

by Richard Law

Published: 2001-11-15

Paperback: 42 pages

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WIFE GOES ON is a humorous view of marriage. It serves as a word to the wise (single) or the lucky ones, and as a lighthearted fact sheet for the poor suckers who have already bitten the dust (married.)

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Wife No. 19 (Cosimo Classics)

by Ann Eliza Young

Published: 2010-07-01

Paperback: 630 pages

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Wife No. 19 is the story of one of Brigham Young's 55 wives, and her experiences with polygamy and the Mormon Church. Ann Eliza Young wrote her autobiography in order to inform the rest of the United States, so disengaged with the goings-on in Utah, the bondage Mormonism and polygamy held on women. She...