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Marjorie Moore always wants more-and often feels she ends up with less. Forever searching elsewhere, she is consumed with wanting, or in her opinion, needing. Feeling trapped by her town and her family, she escapes through shopping, pill popping, and fantasizing about a possible affair with a friend from high school. Her growing credit card debt "forces" her to sell prescription drugs-which she secures at her receptionist job at the local hospital-to her dysfunctional friends. As her web of lies at home and work unravels, Margie struggles to become present in her own life.Astute and provocative, Grotheim's prose captures many of life's dichotomies-duplicity versus authenticity, recklessness versus stability, and searching versus finding-in this moving debut novel.

Bent But Not Broken is an unflinchingly honest memoir about the onset of Peyronie's disease, a painful and sexually limiting condition that is estimated to affect more than 5% of the worldwide adult male population. Don Cummings writes humorously about the emotional and collateral damage brought on by a suddenly curved penis as he struggles to maintain his sense of sex and self. He openly details the doctor visits, the excruciating treatments, and the acute anxiety over the state of his long-term relationship with a man who is supportive but often helpless in the face of nature's whims. Discordant domestic life, a harrowing kidnapping by a handsome stranger, and reminiscences of a hyper-active sexual past are woven into the single-minded quest to minimize the effects of this deforming disorder. Brace yourself for a daring, heartfelt and beautifully twisted story of love and survival.

Elliot has everything: A successful medical practice, New York City townhouse, beautiful wife and family, and a powerful, independent mistress. Ted, Elliot's close, long-time friend, relishes his booming law practice, beautiful wife, fast car, and his sexual dynamo of a mistress. Both competitive to a fault, Elliot and Ted don't realize that their long nights of erotic exploits transpire with the same woman, Lindsey. That all changes the day she is murdered. Evidence points to Elliot's culpability and Ted gallantly defends his friend in a vicious courtroom battle. But as Elliot's sordid affair airs in court and the nightly news, observers begin to suspect that he's taking the fall for someone else. Sex, murder, deception and betrayal. Will justice be served-and to whom?"A courtroom thriller depicts a friendly rivalry turned deadly.Elliot Barrett's life is an enviable one. He's a prestigious physician with a thriving practice, a well-appointed home in New York City, a devoted wife, and two loving children. He risks it all when he becomes romantically involved with Lindsey Anderson, the seductive daughter of a patient. When she turns up dead, the police immediately blame Elliot. There is incontrovertible evidence placing him in her apartment and damning if circumstantial evidence suggestive of a sexual affair. Elliot decides to deny the tryst and enlists the help of his best friend, Ted Lapoltsky, a successful lawyer, to defend him. Unbeknownst to Elliot, Ted also had an affair with Lindsey and wanted to leave his wife for her, a design she squarely rejected. Ted and Lindsey had become locked in a passionate argument about it, and when she revealed she was also seeing Elliot, Ted grabbed her in a jealous fury, causing her to hit her head and sink into unconsciousness. While Ted defends Elliot, he's careful to avoid even a hint of self-incrimination. He also revels in the opportunity to see his prudishly judgmental rival publicly disgraced.A captivating legal thriller that's impressively unpredictable."-Kirkus Reviews "Spellbinding… A tight, cinematic, onrushing narrative… The novel has the simmering heat of 9 ¿ Weeks and the excruciating, white-knuckle legal machinations of Scott Turow's best works." -M.J. Moore, Neworld Review "I loved Nemesis… The setup of the two lifelong friends is marvelous, and the trial scenes especially good. The plot moves along beautifully-full of large and small surprises-and even the minor characters are deftly drawn. Lindsey is an exquisite creation… Bravo and bravo."-Jay Neugeboren, award-winning author of The Stolen Jew and Imagining Robert

For decades starting in the 1950s, Raymond Patriarca ran the New England Mafia out of a storefront in Providence, Rhode Island. By 1980 he was seventy-two years old, and suffering from diabetes and heart disease. One night in December of that year his life intersected with that of Dr. Barbara Roberts, a thirty-six-year old single mother of three, who was the first female cardiologist to practice in Rhode Island. Asked by Raymond's family to check on him after he was arrested on capital charges, Barbara-a naive Alice in Wonderland-entered a looking-glass world populated by pitfalls, moral ambiguities and dangers for which her devout upbringing had not prepared her. How did a former Catholic schoolgirl from a working-class family become the physician and defender of one Mafioso, and the mistress of another? How did her children handle these scandalous associations and the resulting hostile publicity-and what were the reactions of their fathers? Expanding on the story first told in the popular Crimetown podcast, this memoir is a tale of motherhood, political activism, controversy, heartbreak and survival; it traces one woman's trajectory against the backdrop of America's 20th century upheavals.