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Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A newly single dad navigating the good, the bad, and the weird of the 30-something singles scene in the whip-smart comedy. When his wife unexpectedly informs him that she wants a divorce, well-meaning but oblivious husband Otto Wall finds himself thrust back into bachelorhood. What follows is a hilarious sequence of romantic encounters, from reconnecting with a former crush to online dating, as Otto searches for a real connection amidst a string of...
22) In the blood
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A Caribbean honeymoon for Ava and her husband quickly turns into a nightmare when he is injured on an excursion. Not allowed to ride in the ambulance with her husband, Ava arrives at the hospital to find that he's vanished, and she's the prime suspect. On her own, Ava sets out to take on a vicious local gang she thinks is responsible.
23) The good girl
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002, 2011
Edition
Fullscreen and widescreen eds.
Language
English
Description
Thirty-year old Justine longs for a life more fulfilling than the one she leads with her boring husband and dead-end job. But when a passionate young co-worker catches her eye and steals her heart, Justine's good girl existence takes a turn for the worse.
24) Making the rules
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Abby, a workaholic sous chef works 60 hours a week in a busy kitchen, but after accidentally cutting her hand, she is forced to leave work for the summer. As the hottest summer in L.A. history reaches its peak, she faces an extreme challenge: doing nothing. But with the summer heat intensifying, she confronts the growing emotional gulf between herself and her husband, unsolicited advice from her prying girlfriend, and the temptation of an old flame....
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Leaving Poland for England at the end of World War II, Silvana is accompanied by eight-year-old, near-feral Aurek, with whom she shares traumatic wartime memories that set them apart from her husband, who has remade himself as an Englishman to forget thepast.
26) The kitchen
Publisher
[Warner Bros. Home Entertainment]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Single sided.
Language
English
Description
Based on the Vertigo comic book series from DC Entertainment, the mobster husbands of three 1978 Hell's Kitchen housewives are sent to prison by the FBI. Left with little but an ax to grind, the ladies take the Irish mafia's matters into their own hands, proving surprisingly adept at everything from running the rackets to taking out the competition, literally.
27) Freedom
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 36
Language
English
Description
The idyllic lives of civic-minded environmentalists Patty and Walter Berglund come into question when their son moves in with aggressive Republican neighbors, green lawyer Walter takes a job in the coal industry, and go-getter Patty becomes increasingly unstable and enraged.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
John and Laura Taylor are a young, professional couple who desperately want a baby. After exhausting all other options, they finally hire Anna, the perfect woman to be their surrogate, but as she gets further along in her pregnancy, so too does her psychotic and dangerous fixation on the husband. The couple becomes caught up in Anna's deadly game and must fight to regain control of their future before it's too late.
29) The Lying House
Author
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
There's only one way to bury a secret...
Lisa Taylor had friends, family and a job she loved back in Cleveland. But when her husband, Jeff, lands the promotion of a lifetime, she gives it all up to stand by him. Their whirlwind move to Miami feels like an adventure, their idyllic new neighborhood the perfect place to start a family. But their dreams are shattered when a stranger breaks into their house, holding a knife to Lisa's throat before Jeff...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2003], c1996
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
Mike is planning a surprise wedding anniversary party for Carol - that is until Carol's long-lost first husband, Roy, shows up to shake the family tree. When Roy whisks Carol off to Hawaii, the rest of the Brady clan take off in pursuit.
31) Before I go
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"A heartfelt novel in the bestselling tradition of P.S. I Love You about a young woman in Georgia with stage four breast cancer who undertakes a mission to find a "replacement wife" for her husband before she passes away" --
Author
Series
Kate Moore novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
"An international spy thriller about a former CIA agent who moves with her family to Luxembourg where everything is suspicious and nothing is as it seems"--
34) We, the jury
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On the day before his twenty-first wedding anniversary, David Sullinger buried an ax in his wife's skull. Now, eight jurors must retire to the deliberation room and decide whether David committed premeditated murder--or whether he was a battered spouse who killed his wife in self-defense. Told from the perspective of over a dozen participants in a murder trial, We, the Jury examines how public perception can mask the ghastliest nightmares. As the...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door, a new thriller featuring a suspicious accident, a wife who can't account for herself, and unsettling questions that threaten to tear the couple apart You're home making dinner for your husband. You expect him any second. The phone rings--it's the call you hoped you'd never get. You jump in your car and race to a neighborhood you thought you'd never visit. You peer into the dark,...
36) Big eyes
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Walter Keane became a worldwide celebrity and talk show fixture in the 1950s after he pioneered the mass production of prints of big-eyed kids, and used his marketing savvy to sell them cheaply. Unfortunately, he claimed to be the artist. That role was played by Margaret, his shy wife. The ruse broke up their marriage and led to a divorce and a dramatic courtroom battle to prove authorship of the paintings.
37) 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
Series
Language
English
Description
"Detective John Hooper, William Monk's right-hand man at the Thames River Police, has fallen in love with Celia, the cousin of the victim in their most recent murder case. Now Celia has discovered that the man her good friend plans to marry this Christmas is far from what he seems. His first marriage ended with his wife walking into the sea -- not of her own accord -- and Celia hopes Hooper can help show her friend the truth. But Celia herself has...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Douglas Sherbrooke, the Earl of Northcliffe, finds himself married to the wrong woman when he asks his cousin Tony to act as his proxy for his wedding to the beautiful Melissande Chambers, only to have Tony run off with the prospective bride and use the proxy to bind Douglas to Melissande's sister, Alexandra.
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