Author: Carrie Karasyov
Publisher: Broadway
Keywords: pact, infidelity
Number of Pages: 262
Published: 2007-06-26
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0767926900
ISBN-13: 9780767926904
An ill-conceived pact between four L.A. housewives to each indulge in a year-long extramarital affair leads to freedom, revenge, social climbing, sex, drugs, and murder in this hilarious and biting solo debut by a coauthor of The Right Address and Wolves in Chic Clothing.To address their general malaise, four privileged L.A. housewives each make a pact to have a year-long extramarital affair. Their husbands are declared off-limits and the friends agree to confide only in each other (the theory being that dalliances cause trouble in large part because word gets out). And so our ladies embark—
Author: Carrie Karasyov
Publisher: Broadway
Keywords: pact, infidelity
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2008-06-10
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0767927044
ISBN-13: 9780767927048
An ill-conceived pact between four L.A. housewives to each indulge in a year-long extramarital affair leads to freedom, revenge, social climbing, sex, drugs, and murder in this hilarious and biting solo debut by a coauthor of The Right Address and Wolves in Chic Clothing.To address their general malaise, four privileged L.A. housewives each make a pact to have a year-long extramarital affair. Their husbands are declared off-limits and the friends agree to confide only in each other (the theory being that dalliances cause trouble in large part because word gets out). And so our ladies embark—
Author: Matt Haig
Publisher: Viking Adult
Keywords: novel, pact, labrador
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2008-02-28
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 067001852X
ISBN-13: 9780670018529
The story of a family in crisis and the loyal dog that holds them together, from the witty and imaginative author of The Dead Fathers Club
Author: Monica McKayhan
Publisher: Kimani
Keywords: tru, kimani, pact
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-06-01
List price: $9.99
ISBN-10: 0373830939
ISBN-13: 9780373830930
Break up for the summer…That’s the deal Indigo Summer makes with her boyfriend, Marcus Carter. That way, they can both enjoy their vacations, no guilt, no questions asked. Not that Indigo isn’t worried when Marcus heads to Texas to spend time with his estranged mother—kissing Marcus goodbye is hard enough, and who knows who’ll be kissing him in Houston? But Indigo barely has time to think about her temporarily ex-boyfriend by the time she gets to Chicago. She’s hanging out with her cool cousin, who lives alone at seventeen and has her own life—a life Indigo though
Author: Jodi Picoult
Publisher: Avo
Keywords: story, love, pact
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2006-09-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0061150142
ISBN-13: 9780061150142
Until the phone calls came at three o’clock on a November morning, the Golds and their neighbors, the Hartes, had been inseparable. It was no surprise to anyone when their teenage children, Chris and Emily, began showing signs that their relationship was moving beyond that of lifelong friends. But now seventeen-year-old Emily is dead—shot with a gun her beloved and devoted Chris pilfered from his father’s cabinet as part of an apparent suicide pact—leaving two devastated families stranded in the dark and dense predawn, desperate for answers about an unthinkable act and the chi
Author: John Eyong Mengot
Publisher: Langaa RPCIG
Keywords: ages, pact
Number of Pages: 148
Published: 2008-12-15
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 9956558990
ISBN-13: 9789956558995
A Pact of Ages is the love story of the twin princess Omosivbhé and her lover Ofuobi rendered awry by her spirit twin sister Amakaribhé with whom they entered into a covenant to share everything before coming into the human world. The practice where slaves are groomed in the palace to accompany the king or queen to join the ancestors is the leitmotiv. The narrator tells us how these slaves are slashed or wounded with special knives and concoctions and incense rubbed on their bodies as a rite of purification before being buried alive with the dead king or queen. Will the White Man of God succ
Author: Jodi Picoult
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: story, love, pact
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2006-03-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 006085880X
ISBN-13: 9780060858803
From Jodi Picoult, one of the most powerful writers in contemporary fiction, comes a riveting, timely, heartbreaking, and terrifying novel of families in anguish -- and friendships ripped apart by inconceivable violence. Until the phone calls came at 3:00 A.M. on a November morning, the Golds and their neighbors, the Hartes, had been inseparable. It was no surprise to anyone when their teenage children, Chris and Emily, began showing signs that their relationship was moving beyond that of lifelong friends. But now seventeen-year-old Emily has been shot to death by her beloved and devoted Chris
