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Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Meet Maria, a woman dissatisfied with her marriage who, after an intense argument with her husband of twenty years, spends the night in room 212 of the hotel across the street from their home. There, she has a bird's eye view of her apartment, her husband, and her marriage. In this comic romp, she confronts her past lovers and relationships on one magical night, fantasizing about the lives she could've lived and wondering if she's made the right decisions....
22) The pretend wife
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
274 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
Feeling safe but unfulfilled in her sterile relationships with her father and husband, Gwen Merchant agrees to pose as the wife of a college boyfriend to fulfill his dying mother's last wish, an arrangement that leads to unexpected feelings and Gwen's reevaluation of everything she thought she believed.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
292 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
When Kat discovers that her husband, Griff, has been hiding a secret bank account, her joyful consumerism suddenly loses its appeal. Are their fights about money more serious than she understood? Is he, as her friends suggest, preparing for a divorce? Just in case, Kat decides it's time to start saving and she joins an eclectic but lovable group of savers called the Penny Pinchers Club who teach her that saving time with family is as important as...
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Formats
Description
"As [five] women share never-before-uttered secrets and bond over painful truths, they work on coming to terms with their husbands' addictions and developing healthy boundaries for themselves. Meanwhile, their outside lives become more and more intertwined, until, finally, a series of events forces each woman to face her own denial, betrayal, and uncertain future head-on"--Amazon.com.
25) Gone: a novel
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
352 p.
Description
Celebrating the achievement of a successful career only to be abandoned by her failed sculptor husband, Eve Adams struggles to raise her children alone while balancing conflicting demands, the realities of midlife, and her evolving views on forgiveness and letting go.
26) Anna Karenina
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Story of passion and family conflict set in 19th century upper-class Russia in which the wife of an aristocrat falls in love with a dashing calvary officer.
27) Sometimes I lie
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 25 cm
Description
-- Sometimes I Lie. Amber wakes up in a hospital. She can't move. She can't speak. She can't open her eyes. She can hear everyone around her, but they have no idea. Amber doesn't remember what happened, but she has a suspicion her husband had something to do with it. Alternating between her paralyzed present, the week before her accident, and a series of childhood diaries from twenty years ago, this brilliant psychological thriller audiobook asks:...
28) Version control
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
viii, 495 pages ; 25 cm
Description
The compelling story of a couple living in the wake of a personal tragedy. She is a star employee of an online dating company, while he is a physicist, performing experiments that, if ever successful, may have unintended consequences, altering the nature of their lives and perhaps of reality itself. Rebecca Wright has gotten her life back, finding her way out of grief and depression following a personal tragedy years ago. She spends her days working...
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Description
Inside a Benedictine monastery on Egret Island, off the South Carolina coast, is a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a saint who, legend claims, was a mermaid before her conversion. It is to Egret Island that Jessie Sullivan, a woman whose life has been constrained by circumstances, to care for her mother, who hasn't yet recovered from Jessie's father's death 33 years before. As Jessie contemplates the separation...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
340 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Harvard Law graduate Emilia Greenleaf's perfect life with her beloved husband Jack is turned upside down by her new preschool-age stepson, William, a situation that is further complicated when she loses her own newborn daughter.
36) The charmed wife
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Cinderella married the man of her dreams--the perfect ending she deserved after diligently following all the fairy-tale rules. Yet now, two children and thirteen and a half years later, things have gone badly wrong and her life is far from perfect. One night, fed up, she sneaks out of the palace to get help from the Witch who, for a price, offers love potions to disgruntled housewives. But as the old hag flings the last ingredients into the cauldron,...
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
421 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Weaving together ghost stories, myths, and song, this haunting novel follows a young bride as she leaves her life in India behind to move to Nepal with her new husband and his family, examining the loss she experiences as she gives up one home to become part of another.
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
viii, 351 pages ; 21cm
Description
"Cecilia Wilborg has it all. A loving husband, two beautiful daughters and a home in an idyllic Norwegian suburb. When the receptionist at her daughter's swim club asks her to drop off a small boy who hasn't been picked up yet, she knows it is her duty to help. When Cecilia arrives at the address she was given, the house is empty. The boy begs her to take him home with her just for the night. Cecilia reluctantly agrees but she could never guess that...
39) As I lay dying
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Formats
Description
As I Lay Dying is the harrowing, darkly comic tale of the Bundren family's trek across Mississippi to bury Addie, their wife and mother, as told by each of the family members--including Addie herself.
40) On the rocks
Publisher
Anchor Bay
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inches
Description
Laura thinks she's happily hitched, but when her husband Dean starts logging late hours at the office with a new co-worker, Laura begins to fear the worst. She turns to the one man she suspects may have insight: her charming, impulsive father Felix, who insists they investigate the situation. As the two begin prowling New York at night, careening from uptown parties to downtown hotspots, they discover at the heart of their journey lies their relationship....
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