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1) Absolution
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
In Saigon in 1963, two young American wives form a wary alliance. Tricia is a starry-eyed newlywed, married to a rising oil engineer "on loan" to US Navy Intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a talented hostess and determined altruist, on a mission to relieve the "wretchedness" she sees all around her. When Tricia miscarries, Charlene sweeps her into a cabal of well-dressed do-gooder American wives. Armed with...
Series
Criterion collection volume 867
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"George Stevens' Woman of the Year, conceived to build on the smashing comeback Katherine Hepburn had made in The Philadelphia Story, marked the beginning of the personal and professional union between Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, who would go on to make eight more films together. This tale of two newspaper reporters, who wed and then discover that their careers aren't so compatible, forges a fresh and realistic vision of what marriage can be. The freewheeling...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"A raw and unflinching look at the objectification and misogyny of the Playboy mansion, a woman's stolen young adulthood and her journey to self-acceptance, and a rare look inside Hugh Hefner's final days. Crystal offers a vulnerable and clear-eyed look at how her experience with Hugh Hefner catalyzed her transformative journey from someone who prized external validation over all else to a person who finally recognizes her true worth. This candid...
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Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Young, rich, bedridden Barbara Stanwyck dials a telephone number one night and overhears two men plotting the murder of an unidentified woman. She becomes frantic. Her terror is intensified by mysterious calls from an old college rival and a friend of her father. With time running out, Stanwyck pieces evidence together that leads her to suspect that it is her husband who wants her murdered.
5) Priscilla
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a gentle best friend. Through Priscilla2s eyes, Sofia Coppola tells the unseen side of a great American myth in Elvis and Priscilla's long courtship and turbulent marriage, from a German army base to his dream-world estate at Graceland,...
6) Priscilla
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a gentle best friend. Through Priscilla's eyes, Sofia Coppola tells the unseen side of a great American myth in Elvis and Priscilla's long courtship and turbulent marriage, from a German army base to his dream-world estate at Graceland,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Conquer conflict and cultivate connection with your partner. Do you and your partner fight all the time? Some conflict is natural and can be a healthy aspect of any relationship. But constant conflict can put an unbearable strain on couples. When everything is a battle, it's easy to feel emotionally worn down and disconnected from your partner. That's why you need strategies to not only reduce destructive behaviors like criticizing, blaming,...
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Language
English
Description
"A couple inherits an apartment with a spine-tingling past, in a thriller by the New York Times best-selling author of Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six. Rosie and Chad Lowan are barely making ends meet in New York City when they receive life-changing news: Chad's late uncle has left them his luxury apartment at the historic Windermere in glamorous Murray Hill. With its prewar elegance and impeccably uniformed doorman, the building is the epitome of old New...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A beautiful forty-year-old French woman is pathologically obsessed with her husband, even after fifteen years together"--
At forty years old a woman has an enviable life: a successful career, stunning looks, a beautiful house in the suburbs, two healthy children, and most importantly, an ideal husband. After fifteen years together, she is still besotted with him, but is never quite sure that her passion is reciprocated. Determined to keep their...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When his new wife and her daughter disappear, widower Luke Driskell, with no trace of their whereabouts, discovers the woman he loves is not who she seems as he sets out on a cross-country pursuit of the truth, soon discovering that finding her could destroy all their lives.
11) King of greed
Author
Series
Kings of sin volume 3
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Powerful, brilliant, and ambitious, Dominic Davenport clawed his way up from nothing to become the King of Wall Street. He has everything-a beautiful home, a beautiful wife, and more money than he could spend in a lifetime. But no matter how much he accumulates, he's never satisfied. In his endless quest for more, he drives away the only person who saw him as enough. It isn't until she's gone that he realizes there may be more to life than riches...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Brian's beloved wife, Lily, disappeared without a trace seven years ago. He's never lost hope that she'd return, but as their pub and his well-being crumble in tandem, he desperately needs a sign. One doomscroll later, he finds it: a Tripadvisor review he knows in his heart was posted by his Lily. Finally, a clue. Now all he has to do is find her. As Brian crisscrosses Britain in search of Lily, the truth behind their story comes into focus. And...
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