National Network for Equitable Library Service

Everything should stay as it is, or you will lose everything, and that's how it is for everyone. Today was a day for getting along, liver-healing, a cocktail party and a faster wireless connection that tolerates renovated turn-of-the-century walls and allows Candy Cane (or Coconut?) to become a part of your afternoon en suite bathroom caucus. Life is not good, but it feels good, on occasion, baby, is what you might type.

When being good isn’t enough …

Unsatisfied with the expectations of Creole society and unhappy with her family life, Edna Pontellier begins to fall in love with the dapper Robert Lebrun. Lebrun's flirtations, along with the lifestyle of renown musician Mademoiselle Reisz, rejuvenates Edna's sense of freedom and independence. However, an affair with the womanizer Alcee Arobin provides Edna with a taste of the danger that comes with living outside of social convention. Trapped between the life she is expected to live and the life she longs to lead, will Edna find happiness?

Outrageusement rétro, délicieusement kitsch et sexy à souhait! Plongez dans les années 1970 sous la plume de la reine incontestée de la littérature torride! David, un jeune quarantenaire à l’allure virile et à la popularité indéniable auprès du sexe opposé, trompe sa femme, Linda, dans les bras de la sulfureuse Claudia, une actrice prête à tout pour goûter au succès et atteindre la popularité d’une star.

Des couples riches et célèbres d’Hollywood, des aventures torrides, une obsession pour la minceur et la beauté, un meurtre passionnel… Amour et infidélité sont au rendez-vous! Cameron Paradise est jeune, musclée et magnifiquement belle, mais elle traîne un lourd passé et un ex violent. À Los Angeles, elle est entraîneuse privée en attendant d’ouvrir son propre centre sportif. Parmi ses clients se trouve Don Verona, un célèbre animateur de télévision au charme légendaire qui tente malicieusement de la séduire par tous les moyens.

A sharp and bitingly funny novel about a professor whose calm-ish midwestern life gives way to a vortex of crises-and her attempts to salvage the pieces without going to pieces herself In the space of a few torrid months on the Iowa prairie, Phillipa Maakestad-long-married theater professor and mother of an unstable daughter-grapples with a life turned upside down. After falling headlong into a passionate affair during a semester spent teaching in Ohio, Phillipa returns home to Iowa for her daughter Ginny's wedding.

With a beautiful, doting fiancée and a dream job at one of New York City’s top law firms, life is going well for ambitious but inexperienced attorney, Ryan Paullson. Handpicked by his new boss, Joseph Van Aardt, to work on the firm’s biggest case, Ryan soon finds himself out of his depth and struggling with a dangerous and irresistible attraction to the charismatic and ruthless Van Aardt—an attraction that seems mutual. Ryan and Joseph begin a secret affair as they work to build their case against controversial billionaire Jack McNeil.

The story of Nora Hammond, a woman blessed with the perfect life: a charming husband, two bright teenage children, a successful career in the family's newspaper business, and an esteemed role in the charity work of her New England town. But Nora's comfortable existence threatens to unravel when she learns of her husband's longtime affair--and when the specter of a sordid incident from her youth returns with terrifying force.

While Frieda Moore hasn't found the Good Word, she has charted a path to really good, upscale life. And she's not about to let her surgeon husband and baby son get in the way of her good time. Frieda's more sensible cousin, Hope Taylor, was sure she and her spouse, Cy, were solid-in-the-spirit. But now a long-lost love is requesting an act of Christian charity that could be a second chance at temptation.