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Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
One of the stars of "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" reveals the truth about her tumultuous past, including her abusive childhood, career as a model in Miami, time in prison, and controversial ex-husband.
103) Between strangers
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Natalia is a photojournalist whose powerful image of a young girl has just been printed in a magazine. Catherine is a concert cellist whose wife-abusing father has just been released from jail. Olivia is a housewife who has devoted her life to caring for her wheelchair-boung husband. Each of these women have visions of the same small girl at moments when they are each forced to confront their pain and each finds a way back to salvation through living...
104) Out of bondage
Author
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
A SCREEN LEGEND'S RAW ACCOUNT OF NEW BEGINNINGS AFTER LEAVING THE PORN INDUSTRY, WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE FEMINIST ICON GLORIA STEINEM.
Portrayed by today's biggest movie stars, Linda Lovelace was just twenty-three when she became the queen of porn in the blockbuster movie Deep Throat. Her bestselling memoir Ordeal laid bare the nightmare of terror, rape and perversity she suffered during the making of the film. Now she tells the harrowing and...
105) Punchline
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Lilah Krytsick, a New Jersey housewife and mother who desperately wants to make it big as a comedienne meets Steven Gold, a self-centered Lenny Bruce-type who's been stealing the spotlight with his irrepressible, natural comedic talent. Drawn to one another, Steven helps the stumbling Lilah turn her routine from flat to funny, while Lilah helps Steven keep his anguished life together.
106) The kitchen
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
[English/French/Spanish version].
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.
107) The summer kitchen
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When Nora Banks goes to answer the doorbell very early one November 1st, she thinks it must be a group of teen pranksters still out trick-or-treating. But it's no prank-it's the Feds, who have come to arrest her husband Evan for a white collar crime. Nora's enviable, privileged life in the eighteenth-century house she'd quit her job to renovate to museum-quality perfection, is upended in an instant.
The Bedford wives close ranks against Nora and...
111) 37
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
On the eve of her thirty-seventh birthday, Fran Clark finds herself in a role she would never have envisioned: that of a surprisingly desperate housewife. As Fran halfheartedly attempts to relaunch her once-vibrant career as a voiceover artist and obsesses over keeping up with the ruthless mothers' scene at her children's school, she begins to realize that her thirty-seventh year isn't going to resemble the midlife bliss she had imagined. Instead,...
112) Tumhari Sulu
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
Hindi
Description
A Mumbai housewife's routine life changes when she unexpectedly lands the exciting job of night RJ (radio jockey) at a leading radio station
113) Love me as I am
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The model, actress, black pop culture icon, and "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star--in this engaging, entertaining, and empowering memoir--shares her life, from her childhood to her rise to success, and the lessons she learned along the way to become the woman she is today.
114) When you disappeared
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Catherine's cosy life as a housewife and mum-of-three is quickly thrown into disarray when husband Simon disappears without explanation. She is convinced he hasn't left by choice as confusion and spiraling debts threaten to tear her family apart. Meanwhile Simon has begun a carefree new life travelling the world. And he's determined not to disclose his past to all he meets, even if it means resorting to extreme and violent measures. But why did he...
115) Polyester
Series
Criterion collection volume 995
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Language
English
Description
For his first studio picture, John Waters took advantage of his biggest budget yet to allow his muse Divine to sink his teeth into a role unlike any he had played before: Baltimore housewife Francine Fishpaw. Blessed with a keen sense of smell and cursed with a philandering pornographer husband, a parasitic mother, and a pair of delinquent children, the long-suffering Francine turns to the bottle as her life falls apart, until deliverance appears...
116) Don't worry darling
Pub. Date
c2022.
Language
English
Description
A 1950s housewife living with her husband in an idealistic experimental community begins to worry that his glamorous company may be hiding troubling secrets.
117) Being Mrs. Alcott
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A Cape Cod housewife deals secretly with an illness and confronts losing the home that has been the cornerstone of her family life."--Provided by the publisher.
118) The burning plain
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An ordinary housewife finds herself haunted by visions of a mushroom cloud and abruptly leaves her husband and son to travel alone to the city of Nagasaki, where she soon begins an affair with a young half-Russian, half-Japanese man....[This is a novel d]ealing with the travails and traumas of history, with gendered identity, with the tension between private and public selves" --front flap
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