Cutting Edge

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Louise Redd

"Faith met Jay in college, "where it's hard to tell who's a true alcoholic and who's not." They fell in love, got married, got jobs - Jay as a smooth-talkin' disk jockey, Faith as a tutor for the University of Texas football and baseball teams. But at home, in the evenings, Faith found herself watching Jay go slack-jawed after dinner and too many gin and tonics, unable to hold up his end of a conversation, much less fulfill any of his other conjugal duties."--BOOK JACKET. "So Faith leaves her husband: "You drunk, me gone!" She drives her books, papers, and everyday wedding china to the dorms, where she takes up residence with her "student-athletes," or, as she affectionately calls them, her "thugs." But even Faith's hilariously inventive attempts to interest her boys in something other than their batting averages aren't enough to distract her from the pain of her failed marriage. She's drawn to the radio, to the late-night sound of her husband's sweet voice. When she hears that Jay has embarked on a "High on Wife Marathon" for sobriety, she rushes to his side, determined to believe, one more time, that he is sober. But Jay soon discovers something about his wife that sends him on one last deadly binge, one with consequences reaching far beyond their damaged marriage."--BOOK JACKET.

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Thomas Berger

The time is the 1930s. Buddy Sandifer, dressed in his natty white flannels, baby-blue shirt, striped tie, tan-and-white shoes, and coconut-straw hat with polka-dot band, is falling into one of his moods. Owner of a used-car lot and father of a fifteen-year-old son with a penchant for sex manuals, Buddy has decided to murder his wife and marry his mistress, Laverne, a robust blonde who cooks his favorite meal of fried pork chops, fried potatoes, and fried apples while wearing a short pink apron over black-lace step-ins and brassiere, long-gartered silk stockings, and platform shoes. The only problem is how to arrange the crime.

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Rebecca Winters

Had he betrayed her people? Courtney Blake valued her Miccosukee heritage deeply. Although she lived in Miami, she frequently visited the Everglades to see her mother's family, who still adhered to the tribe's old ways. Now Courtney was running back to the 'Glades to escape Jonas Payne--the man she loved. Jonas, working for his father's law firm, had successfully defended the tribe's land claim. But Courtney had reason to believe he'd done it only to further his family's political ambitions. He'd used the tribe, used her. Then her certainty of his guilt began to waver. Had she been wrong to accuse him of duplicity--and to question his love?

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Rhoda Lerman

In the summer of 1918, thirty-three-year-old Eleanor Roosevelt discovers a packet of love letters in her husband's chiffonier at her rented Washington home. Franklin is touring the recent battlefields of Europe and the children are staying at Hyde Park. How Eleanor changes over the course of the summer will become legendary, as she knows what she is but not what she can become.