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"Anastasia and her fellow American Woman editors are steaming mad when minutes before the opening of a consumer show, they discover half their booth usurped by Bling!, their publisher's newest magazine. CEO Alfred Gruenwald is sporting new arm candy -- rapper-turned-entrepreneur and Bling! executive editor, the first-name-only Philomena. During the consumer show, Gruenwald's wife serves Philomena with an alienation of affection lawsuit, but Philomena...
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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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Ellie Haskell volume 6
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275 pages ; 17 cm.
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In a pub in England four women amusethemselves over gins, discussing ways of bumping off their mothers-in-law. The game is interrupted by a real mother-in-law murder and the ladies join forces to solve it.
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ix, 340 pages ; 25 cm
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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...
7) Memorial
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303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"A rom-com novel about two young people at a crossroads in their relationship"--
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,...
9) Cold wind
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When Earl Alden is found dead, dangling from a wind turbine, it's his wife, Missy, who is arrested. Unfortunately for Joe Pickett, Missy is his mother-in-law, a woman he dislikes heartily, and now he doesn't know what to do --especially when the early signs point to her being guilty as sin. But then things happen to make Joe wonder: Is Earl's death what it appears to be? Is Missy being set up?
11) The other woman
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389 pages ; 22 cm
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As her upcoming marriage to Dan approaches, Ellie finds herself coping with the intrusive attentions of Dan's mother, Linda, as her wedding plans are disrupted by Linda's interference and by her overpowering presence in Dan's life.
12) Motherthing
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273 pages ; 21 cm
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"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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