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2) Mistress
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"Ben isn't like most people. Unable to control his racing thoughts, he's a man consumed by his obsessions: movies, motorcycles, presidential trivia-and Diana Hotchkiss, a beautiful woman Ben knows he can never have. When Diana is found dead outside her apartment, Ben's infatuation drives him on a hunt to find out what happened to the love of his life. Ben soon discovers that the woman he pined for was hiding a shocking double life. And now someone...
Publisher
Tribeca Film
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 83 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Fred arrives at the doorstep of his beautiful young mistress Velvet after four years apart, claiming to have finally left his wife. But when she rejects his attempts to rekindle their romance, his persistence evolves into obsession.
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Pub. Date
2022.
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Why would the world's most famous mystery writer disappear for eleven days? What makes a woman desperate enough to destroy another woman's marriage? How deeply can a person crave revenge? In 1925, Miss Nan O’Dea infiltrated the wealthy, rarefied world of author Agatha Christie and her husband, Archie. In every way, she became a part of their life––first, both Christies. Then, just Archie. Soon, Nan became Archie’s mistress, luring him away...
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Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover--these are the two couples whose stories are told in this masterful classic.
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Publisher
Bloodhound Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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"Sarah Morgan is a successful and powerful defense attorney in Washington D.C. As a named partner at her firm, life is going exactly how she planned. The same cannot be said for her husband, Adam. He's a struggling writer who has had little success in hiscareer and he tires of his and Sarah's relationship as she is constantly working. Out in the secluded woods, at the couple's lake house, Adam engages in a passionate affair with Kelly Summers. But...
8) Revenge
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A man mistakenly takes his mistress on his annual guys' getaway, which becomes a violent lesson for the three wealthy men.
Series
Éric Rohmer collection. Moral tales volume 6
Publisher
Fox Lorber Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A successful young executive living in the suburbs with his wife and baby finds himself attracted to, and then entangled with, another woman from his past.
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Appears on list
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"Incomparable storyteller Danielle Steel illuminates rarely glimpsed precincts of unimaginable wealth and power, where love and freedom are the most dangerous desires of all. Natasha Leonova's beauty saved her life. Discovered on a freezing Moscow street by a Russian billionaire, she has lived for seven years under his protection, immersed in rarefied luxury, while he pursues his activities in a dark world that she guesses at but never sees. Her...
11) Season of storms
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Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
504 pages : maps ; 21 cm
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"In 1921 an infamous Italian poet wrote his last and greatest play, inspired by his muse and mistress. On the eve of opening night she vanished and the play was never performed. Two generations later Alessandro D'Ascanio plans to stage his grandfather's masterpiece and offers the lead to a promising English actress with the same name as the muse. The woman is drawn to the mystery of her namesake's disappearance and to the compelling Alessandro"--Back...
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New York 1915. Marion Davies is a shy eighteen-year-old beauty dancing on the Broadway stage when she meets William Randolph Hearst and finds herself captivated by his riches, passion, and desire to make her a movie star. Following a whirlwind courtship, she learns through trial and error to live as Hearst's mistress when a divorce from his wife proves impossible. A baby girl is born in secret in 1919 and they agree to never acknowledge her publicly...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"From the Whitbread Award winning author of: A Good Man in Africa and the Costa Award winning Restless, a sweeping, electrifying new novel set at the end of the 19th century that follows the fortunes of a young Scottish musician embarking across Europe and into the tumultuous, impassioned story of his life. When Brodie Moncur is offered a job in Paris, he seizes the chance to flee Edinburgh and his tyrannical clergyman father, and begin a wildly different...
Publisher
Distributed by Kino Lorber, Inc
Pub. Date
c2011.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Filumena was working in a brothel when she first met Domenico, and she has been his mistress ever since. Upon hearing that he plans to marry a much younger woman, Filumena devises a brilliant scheme to convince him that it is her he should be marrying.
15) Gigi
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A wealthy Gaston finds out he prefers a young Parisian girl to be his wife rather than his mistress. This title has been repackaged.
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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
x, 294 pages ; 25 cm
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"In 1965, an impoverished elderly woman was found dead in Nice, France. Her death marked the end of an era; she was the last of the great courtesans. Known as La Belle Otero, she was a volcanic Spanish beauty whose patrons included Kaiser Wilhelm II,the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) and Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia. She accumulated an enormous fortune, but gambled it all away. Scarlet Women tells her story and many more, including:Marie...
17) Forever Amber
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"Abandoned, pregnant and penniless on the teeming streets of London, sixteen-year-old Amber St. Clare uses her wits, beauty, and courage to clinb to the highest position a woman could achieve in Restoration England--that of favorite mistress of the Merry Monarch, Charles II. ... But throughout her trials and escapades, she remains, in her heart, true to the one man she really loves, the one man she can never have."--p. [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
520 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Description
Once Francis and Kate were lovers before the firemaster abandoned her and the plague destroyed her family. Now they will meet again--as enemies--caught up in the maelstrom of treachery and violence surrounding Fawkes's malevolent plot. In the midst of chaos and madness, the flame of their romance will be dangerously rekindled, as their lives and the London they know are changed forever. Set in England during the early reign of James I.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
241 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Dark, witty, and suspenseful, this literary crime thriller reminiscent of The Dinner and The Silent Wife follows a famous author whose wife--the brains behind his success--meets an untimely death, leaving him to deal with the consequences. "Evil is a matter of opinion..." On the surface, Henry Hayden seems like someone you could like, or even admire. A famous bestselling author who appears a modest everyman. A loving, devoted husband even though...
Series
Criterion collection volume 487
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (13 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
Set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars of the late eighteenth century. Emma Hart is a beautiful dance hall girl who is sent by her latest lover to stay with his uncle Sir William Hamilton, the British ambassador to Naples. Sir William considers Emma a rare piece of art he must possess. Sir William introduces Emma to Naples' elite society and she soon marries him. Later, Horatio Nelson, a famous English Naval office arrives. Soon, a scandalous,...
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