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Erma Bombeck takes on the unforgiving frontier of American suburbia For years, the Bombecks have heard rumors of a magical land called Suburbia where the air is clean, the grass is trimmed, and children don't risk getting mugged on their walk to school. After watching their friends flee the city for subdivided utopias like Bonaparte's Retreat and Mortgage Mañana, Erma and her family load up their belongings and cry, Station wagons... ho!" But...
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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The Moores are missing: In a placid suburban town, the Moores, a perfect family, suddenly vanish without a trace.
The housewife: Former chief of detectives Maggie Denning is adjusting to a quiet new life in the suburbs, staying home with baby twins. One morning she sees a limo dropping off a glamorous woman at a nearby home. When she discovers that the same woman has been murdered, she starts asking questions around the neighborhood.
Absolute zero:...
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Knitting in the city (Penny Reid) volume 5
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English
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Greg Archer is desperately in love with his wife Fiona, but his job as an engineer takes him out on oil rigs and other jobs for months at a time. Fiona is a ninja mom, handling everything with seemingly no effort. But that's just the perception. Fiona is wearing out, tired of being a "single" mother to their two kids, having to make all the hard decisions. When Greg is abducted in Nigeria, Fiona calls on some old contacts and goes into action to save...
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In this follow-up to her acclaimed 2007 novel The Bastard of Istanbul, Turkish author Elif Shafak unfolds two tantalizing parallel narratives-one contemporary and the other set in the thirteenth century, when Rumi encountered his spiritual mentor, the whirling dervish known as Shams of Tabriz-that together incarnate the poet's timeless message of love. Ella Rubenstein is forty years old and unhappily married when she takes a job as a reader for a...
9) The kitchen
Publisher
[Warner Bros. Home Entertainment]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Single sided.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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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.
11) Cruel intent
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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.
12) Stay close
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English
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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.
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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An Indie Next Pick
The stunning, timely new novel from the acclaimed, internationally bestselling author of The Architect's Apprentice and The Bastard of Istanbul.
Peri, a married, wealthy, beautiful Turkish woman, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. As she wrestles to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground—an old polaroid...
The stunning, timely new novel from the acclaimed, internationally bestselling author of The Architect's Apprentice and The Bastard of Istanbul.
Peri, a married, wealthy, beautiful Turkish woman, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. As she wrestles to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground—an old polaroid...
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"Bucolic Newport Cove, where spontaneous block parties occur on balmy nights and all of the streets are named for flowers, is proud of its distinction of being named one the top twenty safest neighborhoods in the US. It's also one of the most secret-filled. Kellie Scott has just returned to work after a decade of being a stay-at-home mom. She's adjusting to high heels, scrambling to cook dinner for her family after a day at the office--and soaking...
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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
383 p. (large print) : map ; 23 cm.
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English
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A fictionalized account of the life Hulda Klager, a German immigrant and farm wife with only an eighth-grade education and a burning desire to create something beautiful, who turns her hobby into a time-consuming interest in plant hybridization that puts her at odds with her family and community.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006], c2005
Edition
Extra juicy ed.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (ca. 1035 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Out of nowhere, suburban housewife Mary Alice Young takes her own life. The focus remains on her four friends and from her heavenly perch, Mary Alice sees all and offers her own twisted take on the weekly goings-on.
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Distributed by Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 39 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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,...
18) Premonition
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A housewife's life is shattered when she finds out the her husband Jim is killed in a gruesome car accident, but when she awakes the next morning, he is still alive and well. As she keeps having dreams about his death, she must decide what to do.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Sylvia is a beautiful restaurant manager whose cool, professional demeanor masks the sexually charged storm within. When a stranger from Mexico confronts her with her mysterious past, Sylvia is launched into a journey through space and time that inextricably connects her to these disparate characters, all of whom are grappling with their own romantic destinies. Gina is a housewife trapped in a loveless marriage who finds solace and passion in an illicit...
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
The Dirty Laundry edition includes 23 episodes, plus dirty laundry revealed, behind-the-scenes at th.
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6 videodiscs (approximately 993 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
The mystery continues around Bree's new husband as he is suspected of cheating on his wife and killing a woman named Monique. The housewives get together to complete the mystery while trying to keep their already crazy individual lives sustained.
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