- Catalog Home
- » My Account
- » List
Author
Series
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency volume 8
On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Mystery
M MCCALL SMITH, A.
1 available
M MCCALL SMITH, A.
1 available
eBook
Description
Precious Ramotswe's husband, J.L.B. Matekoni plans to do something special for their adopted daughter, but when his plans hit some snags he's happy to be married to resourceful and understanding Precious.
Author
Description
Handsome anesthesiologist Neel is sure he can resist his family's pleas that he marry a "good" Indian girl. With a girlfriend and a career back in San Francisco, the last thing Neel needs is an arranged marriage. But that's precisely what he gets. His bride, Leila, a thirty-year-old teacher, comes with her own complications. They struggle to reconcile their own desires with others' expectations in this story of two people, two countries, and two ways...
On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Adult AV
DVD TV SERIES GOO (SET)
1 available
DVD TV SERIES GOO (SET)
1 available
Description
Alicia Florrick and Cary join forces to launch their own law firm. As they sever ties with Lockhart/Gardner, tensions escalate and explode as the new rivals go into attack mode, battling each other both in and out of court. Alicia₂s new venture leads her to volatile showdowns, altering every major relationship she₂s cultivated. Season five witnesses Alicia₂s complete transformation from a good wife to a legal powerhouse.
On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Adult AV
DVD TV SERIES GOO (SET)
1 available
DVD TV SERIES GOO (SET)
1 available
Description
Alicia Florrick stood by her husband on his tumultuous path to the governor's office, but now she's entering the world of politics on her own terms by running for state's attorney. As Election Day approaches, Alicia must balance the demands of her firm and campaign as she supports her partner Cary during shocking developments that could end his career; and life as he knows it.
On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Adult AV
DVD TV SERIES GOO (SET)
1 available
DVD TV SERIES GOO (SET)
1 available
Description
As Alicia struggles to get her career back on track, she stumbles on a case that puts her up against Diane Lockhart and David Lee. Peter fires Eli Gold, who vows revenge. Cary discovers that his firm is getting out of touch. Peter has little time left to make a plea deal before the jury comes back with a verdict. Meanwhile, Alicia must decide whether her future is with Peter or with Jason, and she channels the ghost of Will Gardner to help make a...
On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Adult AV
DVD TV SERIES GOO (SET)
1 available
DVD TV SERIES GOO (SET)
1 available
Description
Follows a politician's wife who pursues her own career as a defense attorney after her husband is sent to jail on charges of political corruption. Alicia Florrick not only deals with her career but also with keeping her family together as she provides a stable home for her two children.
On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Adult AV
DVD TV SERIES GOO
2 available
DVD TV SERIES GOO
2 available
Description
A gripping blend of courtroom drama, politics and steamy personal relationships that stars Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Julianna Margulies as Alicia Florrick, a wife and mother who reclaims control of her personal and professional lives after her husband, Peter, is embroiled in a sex and political corruption scandal. As Alicia adapts to changes at home and at work as a defense attorney, she continues to redefine and rediscover the woman she...
On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Adult AV
DVD TV SERIES GOO (SET)
1 available
DVD TV SERIES GOO (SET)
1 available
Description
Alicia Florrick is a wife and mother who boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal lands him in jail. In Season Two, even with her husband back home and planning to run for office again, Alicia continues redefining herself and her role in her family's life.
Description
A wife and mother boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal. In Season 3, Alicia continues balancing her professional and personal lives as she strives to provide a stable home for her children in the midst of separating from her husband and contemplating finally giving in to her feelings for fellow lawyer Will Gardner.
Author
Series
Michael Kelly mysteries volume 5
Formats:
On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Mystery
M HARVEY, M.
1 available
M HARVEY, M.
1 available
On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Adult AV
AUDIO CD F HARVEY, M.
1 available
AUDIO CD F HARVEY, M.
1 available
Description
It's been two years since disgraced Illinois governor Ray Perry disappeared from a federal courthouse in Chicago moments after being sentenced to thirty-eight years in prison on corruption charges. Private investigator Michael Kelly is sitting in his office when he gets an anonymous email offering to pay him nearly a quarter million dollars if he will find Perry, no questions asked. Kelly's investigation begins with the woman Ray Perry left behind...
31) Guilty wives
Author
eBook
Description
"No husbands allowed. Only minutes after Abbie Elliot and her three best friends step off of a private helicopter, they enter the most luxurious, sumptuous, sensually pampering hotel they have ever been to. Their lavish presidential suite overlooks Monte Carlo, and they surrender: to the sun and pool, to the sashimi and sake, to the Bruno Paillard champagne. For four days they're free to live someone else's life. As the weekend moves into pulsating...
32) His only wife
Author
Series
eAudiobook
eBook
Description
"Elikem married me in absentia; he did not come to our wedding." Afi Tekple is a young seamstress whose life is narrowing rapidly. She lives in a small town in Ghana with her widowed mother, spending much of her time in her uncle Pious's house with his many wives and children. Then one day she is offered a life-changing opportunity'a proposal of marriage from the wealthy family of Elikem Ganyo, a man she doesn't truly know. She acquiesces, but soon...
Formats:
On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Adult AV
DVD ACTION HIT
1 available
DVD ACTION HIT
1 available
Description
In The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard -- bodyguard Michael Bryce, hitman Darius Kincaid and his wife Soniaare are back as the mismatched, high-octane trio -- that are once again forced together into another life-threatening mission to save Europe from a vengeful and powerful zealot.
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Nonfiction
646.782 DUN
1 available
646.782 DUN
1 available
eAudiobook
eBook
Description
"A hilariously candid account of one woman's quest to bring her post-baby marriage back from the brink, with life-changing, real-world advice., "--Amazon.com.
Author
Formats:
Description
Marta's husband "has always taken care of her, and she has always done everything she can to be a good wife--as advised by a dog-eared manual given to her by Hector's aloof mother on their wedding day. But now, something is changing. Small things seem off. A flash of movement in the corner of her eye, elapsed moments that she can't recall. Visions of a blonde girl in the darkness that only Marta can see. Perhaps she is starting to remember--or perhaps...
Author
Formats:
Description
"The Hunting Wives share more than target practice, martinis, and bad behavior in this novel of obsession, seduction, and murder. Sophie O'Neill left behind an envy-inspiring career and the stressful, competitive life of big-city Chicago to settle down with her husband and young son in a small Texas town. It seems like the perfect life with a beautiful home in an idyllic rural community. But Sophie soon realizes that life is now too quiet, and she's...
Author
Formats:
eAudiobook
eBook
Description
A Most Anticipated Novel by The Skimm * Cosmopolitan * SheReads * Frolic * PopSugar * BuzzFeed * Goodreads * E! Online * Betches * Crime Reads * Pure Wow * Book Riot * Bustle * and more!
A Book of the Month Club Selection
“Gossipy, scandalous housewives behaving badly might make this the juiciest read of the season."—Library Journal (starred review)
"Sultry, salacious and utterly...
A Book of the Month Club Selection
“Gossipy, scandalous housewives behaving badly might make this the juiciest read of the season."—Library Journal (starred review)
"Sultry, salacious and utterly...
38) The husband
Author
On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Adult AV
AUDIO CD F KOONTZ, D.
1 available
AUDIO CD F KOONTZ, D.
1 available
Description
We have your wife. You can get her back for two million cash. Landscaper Mitchell Rafferty thinks it must be some kind of joke. He was in the middle of planting impatiens in the yard of one of his clients when his cell phone rang. Now he's standing in a normal suburban neighborhood on a bright summer day, having a phone conversation out of his darkest nightmare.
Author
Formats:
Description
"Leah Stewart's brilliantly written novel Husband and Wife is a deeply human book: funny, tender, smart, self-aware. When you read it you will laugh, you will cry, you will recognize others, you will recognize yourself." - Elin Hilderbrand, author of The Castaways and Barefoot
From the highly acclaimed author of The Myth of You and Me comes a new novel about a young mother who finds her identity rocked to the core when her writer-husband reveals...
Author
On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Nonfiction
941.081 DEC
1 available
941.081 DEC
1 available
Description
"A deliciously told group biography of the young, rich, American heiresses who married impoverished, British gentry at the turn of the twentieth century -- the real women who inspired Downton Abbey. Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain. The citadel of power, privilege and breeding in which the titled, land-owning governing class had barricaded itself for so...