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It is a perfect July morning, and Elle, a fifty-year-old happily married mother of three, awakens at "The Paper Palace"-- the family summer place which she has visited every summer of her life. But this morning is different, because last night Elle and her oldest friend Jonas crept out the back door into the darkness and had sex with each other for the first time, all while their spouses chatted away inside. Now, over the next 24 hours, Elle will...
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Pub. Date
2017.
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"From New York Times bestselling author John Lescroart, a riveting standalone novel about the unexpected, shattering, and lethal consequences of a one-night stand on a seemingly happily married couple. Kate loves her life. At forty-four, she's happily married to her kind husband, Ron, blessed with two wonderful children, and has a beautiful home in San Francisco. Everything changes, however, when she and Ron attend a dinner party and meet another...
3) The freebie
Publisher
Phase 4 Films
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 DVD (77 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A happily married couple with a stalled sex life look to spice things up by agreeing to an experiment: for one night each partner can freely cheat on the other with no repercussions.
Series
Criterion collection volume 147
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
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2 DVDs (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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After moving into neighboring apartments, Chow Mo-wan and Su Li-zhen discover that their spouses are having an affair.
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
271 p. ; 22 cm.
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Shocked to discover that her husband has had affairs during their four-year marriage, Lucy is even more devastated by the news that his heart is failing and invites all the women listed in her cheating spouse's little black book for a final visit to his deathbed.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
William Wooler is a family man, on the surface. But he's been having an affair, an affair that ended horribly this afternoon at a motel up the road. So when he returns to his house, devastated and angry, to find his difficult nine-year-old daughter, Avery, unexpectedly home from school, William loses his temper. Hours later, Avery's family declares her missing. Who took Avery Wooler?
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 25 cm
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Faye has loved Jack since they were students at business school. Jack, the perpetual golden boy, grew up wealthy, unlike Faye, who has worked hard to bury a dark past. When Jack needs help launching a new company, Faye leaves school to support him, waitressing by day and working as his strategist by night. With the business soaring, Faye and Jack have a baby, and Faye finds herself at home, caring for their daughter, wealthier than she ever imagined,...
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Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
148 pages ; 22 cm
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This citation of Borges resonates with every character in Yasmina Reza's novel, except that they are never so lucky. In fact, what happens to them is the exact opposite of what they crave. The twenty short chapters that make up this unusual book deal with both marital and extramarital vicissitudes, the elusiveness of intimacy, the fear of loneliness, and the desire to be loved or at least understood just once in our lives. The mixing of tones--cruelty...
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
320 pages
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Abigail Baskin never thought she?d fall in love with a millionaire. Then she met Bruce Lamb. He?s a good guy, stable, level-headed, kind?a refreshing twist from her previous relationships. But right before the wedding, Abigail has a drunken one-night stand on her bachelorette weekend. She puts the incident?and the sexy guy who wouldn?t give her his real name?out of her mind, and now believes she wants to be with Bruce for the rest of her life. Then...
11) Separate lies
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A wealthy Englishman finds out that his spouse has been cheating on him and is drawn into a web of cover-ups and lies.
12) The professional
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 37
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Elizabeth Shaw specializes in wills and trusts at the Boston law firm of Shaw & Cartwright, and over the years she's developed a friendship with the wives of very wealthy men. However, these rich wives have a mutual secret: they've all had an affair with a man named Gary Eisenhower--and now he's blackmailing them for money. Shaw hires Spenser to make Eisenhower "cease and desist," so to speak, but when women start turning up dead, Spenser's assignment...
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Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
456 pages ; 21 cm.
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In the middle of a summer heat wave, as Naples prepares for one of its most important holy days, a renowned surgeon falls to his death from the window of his office. For Commissario Ricciardi and Brigadier Maione it is the beginning of an investigation that will bring them into contact with the most torrid, conflicting and enduring of human passions. In the world Ricciardi and Maione are about to enter, infidelity appears inextricable from the most...
14) Revenge
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A former fighter pilot is irresistably drawn to the wife of an old friend. When the husband learns of their betrayal, a terrifying cycle of retribution is set in motion.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On the eve of retirement, a judgmental middle-class snob discovers her husband has been having an affair with her best friend and is forced into exile with her bohemian sister who lives on an impoverished inner-city council estate.
16) The valet
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Pierre Levasseur is an important CEO who is photographed with his lover, Elena, a world-famous model. In an attempt to salvage his marriage, he tries to convince his wife that Elena is not his lover, but that of Franc?ois Pignon, the porter who was passing by and ended up on the photograph. To make his story believable, Levasseur convinces Pignon and Elena to move in together and to pretend to be a couple. Things get more complicated when this creates...
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""Thou and thine, Hester Prynne, belong to me." With these chilling words a husband claims his wife after a two-year absence. But the child she clutches is not his, and Hester wears a scarlet "A" upon her breast, the sign of adultery visible to all. Under an assumed name, her husband begins his vindictive search for her lover, determined to expose what Hester is equally determined to protect. Defiant and proud, Hester witnesses the degradation of...
19) Drive My Car
Series
Criterion collection volume 1136
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 179 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two years after his wife's unexpected death, Yusuke Kafuku arrives in Hiroshima to direct a production of Uncle Vanya for a theater festival and, through relationships with an actor with whom he shares a tangled history and a chauffeur with whom he develops a surprising rapport, finds himself confronting emotional scars. This quietly mesmerizing tale of love, art, grief, and healing is ultimately a cathartic exploration of what it means to go on living...
Publisher
Sundance Selects
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1950s France, Gabrielle is a passionate, free-spirited woman who is in a loveless marriage and falls for another man when she is sent away to the Alps to treat her kidney stones. Gabrielle yearns to free herself and run away with Andre.
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