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1) Stay close
Author
Description
A bored suburban wife, a documentary photographer-turned-paparazzo, and a detective who cannot let go of a cold case hide secrets from their loved ones only to have the past return in dangerous ways.
2) Cruel intent
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Series
Description
When her contractor's unfaithful wife is brutally murdered, former TV anchorwoman Ali Reynolds sets out to prove the husband's innocence in spite of skepticism on the part of Ali's detective boyfriend, a situation that strains their relationship and catches the attention of the real killer.
3) Polyester
Series
Criterion collection volume 995
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Description
Follows the life of an overweight middle-class suburban housewife as she sees her world crumble when she discovers that her husband cheats on her, her daughter is pregnant and getting an abortion, and her delinquent son is the serial foot stomper who terrorizes local women.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
451 pages ; 24 cm
Description
'Name: Stella Sweeney. Height: average. Recent life events: dramatic.' One day, sitting in traffic, married Dublin mum Stella Sweeney attempts a good deed. The resulting car crash changes her life. For she meets a man who wants her telephone number (for the insurance, it turns out). That's okay. She doesn't really like him much anyway (his Range Rover totally banjaxed her car). But in this meeting is born the seed of something which will take Stella...
Publisher
AMC Studios
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (354 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Allison McRoberts is the prototypical sitcom wife married to Kevin, her self-centered husband. When she learns that the perfect future she envisioned is impossible, she teams up with her neighbor Patty as she attempts to escape her confines and take control of her life."--container.
Publisher
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (1 hr., 39 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the true story of Evelyn Ryan. Offers a revealing study of the housewife's plight during the Eisenhower era, along with an inspiring tale of tenacity and survival against formidable odds. Evelyn is a cheerfully strong-willed mother of ten who compensates for the failings of her alcoholic husband by becoming the most successful "contester" in the country. Between the mid-1950s and the early '60s, Evelyn submitted cleverly worded poems, jingles,...
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On the day John F. Kennedy is inaugurated, Claire, a young wife and mother obsessed with the glamour of Jackie, struggles over the decision of whether to stay in a loveless but secure marriage or to follow the man she loves and whose baby she may be carrying. Decades earlier in 1919, Vivien Lowe, an obituary writer, is searching for her lover who disappeared in the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. By telling the stories of the dead, Vivien...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
viii, 292 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"In the spring of 2006, a new kind of show premiered on Bravo: The Real Housewives of Orange County. Its stars were tanned, taut, and bedazzled; their homes were echoey California villas; and their drama was gossip-fueled, wine-drenched, and absolutely exquisite. Fifteen seasons on, RHOC is an institution, along with The Real Housewives of New York, Atlanta, New Jersey, Miami, Potomac, and more. Over the years these ladies have done a lot more than...
10) Punchline
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A struggling stand-up comedian mentors a housewife who aspires to become a comedienne.
11) Flying at night
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
viii, 325 pages ; 24 cm
Description
An emotionally charged novel about family -- the slow accumulation of wrongs that drive us apart and the unlikely paths that lead us home again. Piper Hart has poured all her energy into raising her son, Fred, while her often-absent husband, Isaac, has poured all his energy into a career defending the wrongly accused. She's always told herself her son is perfectly normal, but somewhere deep inside her rests a tiny suspicion that all is not well. Her...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr. 43 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"A housebound trophy housewife steps in to manage the umbrella factory run by her tyrannical husband after the workers go on strike. To everyone's surprise, Suzanne proves herself a competent and assertive woman of action."--Container.
13) Far from heaven
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (107 min.) : digital, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In suburban Connecticut, Cathy Whitaker is the perfect 1950s housewife, living the perfect 1950s life: healthy kids, successful husband, social prominence. Then one night, she stumbles in on her husband Frank kissing another man, and her tidy world starts spinning out of control. In her confusion and grief, she finds consolation in the friendship of their black gardener, Raymond - a socially taboo relationship that leads to the further disintegration...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Frank and April Wheeler live a life that appears to be perfect. They live in the Connecticut suburbs with two young children. Frank commutes to New York City where he works in an office job that he hates and has yet to figure out what his passion in life is. April is a housewife who forgoes her dream of being an actress. They are not happy. One day, April suggests that they move to Paris as a means to rejuvenate their life. Initially skeptical, Frank...
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