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1) Elena
Publisher
Zeitgeist Video
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
After discovering that her husband has decided to leave his fortune to his estranged daughter, housewife Elena comes up with a desperate plan to ensure that her unemployed son and grandchildren will be financially secure in the future.
2) Polyester
Series
Criterion collection volume 995
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out poster (48 x 37 folded to 19 x 12 cm) and 1 scratch-and-sniff odorama card.
Language
English
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.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A bored New Jersey housewife who fantasizes about the ads in the personal section of the newspaper want ads shows up at a rendezvous between two lovers. She gets bumped on the head, which leads to a case of amnesia and opens the door to intrigue and love.
4) Confidence
Author
Series
Anna and Fin volume 2
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Deception. Theft. Murder. All you need is confidence.
Anna McDonald has made a terrible mistake. She has forced her blended family to vacation together. The weather is bad, her daughters are bored, and her ex-husband still insufferable. Oh, and Fin Cohen brought his latest girlfriend, too. So when news of a shocking kidnapping breaks, Anna and Fin do the responsible thing. They take off to solve the case.
Lisa Lee, a young YouTube star, has vanished...
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 34 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Readers get a new perspective of Alice in Wonderland through the diary of the White Rabbit's wife"--
Through her diary, the White Rabbit's busy wife reveals the challenges of living in Wonderland and what really happens behind the scenes of Alice's adventures.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It is the summer of 1969 and Pearl, a married woman with children, realizes that the freedom of the times is passing her by. Then a chance encounter involves her in a daring, passionate affair with a younger man.
8) Stay close
Author
Language
English
Description
Three people-- a suburban housewife, a talented documentary photographer, and a detective-- living lives they never wanted, hiding secrets that even those closest to them would never suspect, will find that the past doesn't recede ... and that desperation and hunger can lurk behind even the prettiest facades.
Author
Publisher
MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
From the perspective of those who live in Herot Hall, the suburb is a paradise. Picket fences divide buildings -- high and gabled -- and the community is entirely self-sustaining. Each house has its own fireplace, each fireplace is fitted with a container of lighter fluid, and outside -- in lawns and on playgrounds -- wildflowers seed themselves in neat rows. But for those who live surreptitiously along Herot Hall's periphery, the subdivision is a...
Author
Publisher
Biblioasis
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Peeling apples for tartes tatin, an Ohio mother wonders how to exist in a world of distraction and fake facts, besieged by a tweet-happy president and trigger-happy neighbors, all of them oblivious to what Dupont has dumped into the rivers and what's happening at the factory farm down the interstate--not to mention what was done to the land's first inhabitants. A torrent of consciousness, narrated in a single sentence by a woman whose wandering thoughts...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a dating site, singleatheart.com, bored housewives can find romance with married men looking for sex without strings. But these "married singles" are flirting with more than just their vows. At the heart of this seemingly innocent service, a vengeful computer hacker is playing games with people's lives...and deaths. Ex-television journalist Ali Reynolds just wants a break from excitement. In the midst of a remodel, the last thing she expects is...
12) Serial mom
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Director John Waters puts a twist on the everyday mediocrity of suburban life in the hilarious satire Serial Mom. See Kathleen Turner like never before as Beverly Sutphin, the seemingly perfect homemaker who will stop at nothing tho rid the neighborhood of anyone failing to live up to her moral code.
Author
Series
Vincent Calvino mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Grove/Atlantic
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
321 p. : map (on lining pages) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Vincent Calvino, a disbarred lawyer making a precarious living as a private investigator in Bangkok, is about to close the books on a major drug piracy ring, until his client dies of a heart attack, he stumbles upon the body of a massage girl, and he's forced to take on three female clients who believe their husbands are cheating on them.
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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. One he places little effort at, but he 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...
15) The most
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
135 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An expertly compressed, post-modern historical novella set over the course of a single, unseasonably warm day in November of 1957. Kathleen, a standout college tennis player, mother of two boys and wife to flagrantly handsome, aimless life insurance salesman, Virgil, decides to get into the pool in their Delaware apartment complex instead of going to church. And she won't come out. As Sputnik 2 orbits the earth carrying that poor little doomed Soviet...
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