triangles (interpersonal relations)

In September of 2018, one family in rural Starkfield, Massachusetts, finds the cultural, social, and political issues of the day becoming intensely personal, throwing their marriage, family life, their past, their future, and their values into doubt. Ethan Frome's wife, Zo, turns their home into a headquarters for the "Resistance" of women that has risen up against a Supreme Court nominee, while at the same time his old roommate and business partner is facing "metoo" allegations. His daughter, Alex, becomes more unruly and headstrong, and then Maddy Silver, the breezy, blue-dyed hair millennial, throws a further wrench into everything.

Twenty-something Edie has finally gotten brave and started creating the art she has always wanted to make, but that is about the only good thing going on in her life--she shares a dirty Bushwick apartment and works a grueling administration job, and her sexual choices have been sub-par at best. Then she meets Eric, a New Jersey digital archivist, whose wife invites Edie into their home as part of an open marriage with rules. Edie takes the invitation, and hesitantly becomes an ally of Eric's wife and, as the only black woman in her life, to her adopted daughter Akila. However, such arrangements often do not last or end well.

"Casey is still clutching onto something nearly all her old friends have let go of: the determination to live a creative life. When she falls for two very different men her world fractures even more. Casey's fight to fulfill her creative ambitions and balance the conflicting demands of art and life is challenged in ways that push her to the brink"--OCLC.

On the maiden voyage of the SS Princess of the Pacific, Vida Hazzard has a plan to save her reputation by wooing Fitzhugh Farrar, the heir to a vast shipping fortune, and getting him to propose. What she doesn't plan for is Fitz's best friend Sal or a hurricane that sinks the ship. Stranded on an island with Fitz and Sal, Vida must decide between the future she's always dreamed of and the one she never knew she wanted.

Seventeen-year-old Tabby went into the woods with her boyfriend, but she came out alone. Originally praised as a survivor, Tabby is now widely suspected to be her boyfriend s killer. Tabby didn t even like hiking--why would she have gone into the woods that day? Did she push her boyfriend off the cliff?.

Tale of the manners and morals of New York society in the later 1800s. Newland Archer is a young attorney, handsome and eligible. Torn between his socially acceptable fiancee and the more earthy attractions of Countess Olenska, Archer is truly on the horns of a dilemma. The plot is unobvious, delicately developed, with a fine finale that exquisitely satisfies one's sense of fitness, and as always with Edith Wharton, the drama of character is greater than that of event.

"In this . . . debut novel . . . , a young man is preparing to serve in the Israeli army while also trying to reconcile his close relationship to two Palestinian siblings with his deeply ingrained loyalties to family and country"--Provided by publisher.

"Before Quinn Ryan was in love with Jamie Rudawski, she loved Jamie Rudawski, who was her best friend. But when Jamie dumps Quinn a month before their senior year, Quinn is suddenly girlfriend-less and best friend-less. Enter a new crush: Ruby Ocampo, the gorgeous and rich lead singer of the popular band Sweets, who's just broken up with her on-again, off-again boyfriend. Quinn's always only wanted to be with Jamie, but if Jamie no longer wants to be with her, why can't Quinn go all in on Ruby? But the closer Quinn grows to Ruby, the more she misses Jamie, and the more (she thinks) Jamie misses her. Who says your first love can't be your second love, too?"--Publisher's description.

In an alternate nineteenth-century England where the lower classes emit smoke from their bodies that is believed to reflect wicked natures, three students at an elite boarding school for future leaders make discoveries that could cost them their lives.

Nico comes of age over the course of her thirteenth summer when her parents withdraw following the drowning death of her older sister, and she is left largely alone to deal with her own grief.