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Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Writer Joan Ashby is acclaimed for her explosively dark and singular stories. When Joan finds herself unexpectedly pregnant, she is stunned by Martin's delight, his instant betrayal of their pact that work is paramount, and they did not need children. She makes a fateful, selfless decision to embrace her unintentional family, but challenged by raising two precocious sons it is decades before she finally completes her masterpiece novel. Finally poised...
82) Pages for you
Author
Publisher
Picador USA
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Haunted by an unspoken passion, a narrator decides to write some pages comprising the beginning, the blossoming, and finally the ending of a young woman's intense love affair. "Each day a page, to show you that I am finding a story, the story of how we might have been together..."
83) Justice hall
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The two "Bedouin" guides from O Jerusalem are in England, caught in a mesh of honor and justice and the death of a young nephew.
84) Madame Bovary
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
With dreams of escaping her provincial upbringing, Emma Rouault marries local doctor Charles Bovary. But it is not long before she feels constrained and frustrated by married life. Ignoring her devoted husband and immersing herself in romantic fantasies, Emma begins a string of affairs. First, a young student, Lon, captures her imagination, but when the dashing aristocrat, Rodolphe, shows Emma the alternatives to married life, she enters into the...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In The Deep Blue Sea, Master chronicler of post-War England, Terence Davies directs Rachel Weisz as a woman whose overpowering love threatens her well-being and alienates the men in her life. In a deeply vulnerable performance, Rachel Weisz plays Hester Collyer, the wife of an upper-class judge (Simon Russell Beale) and a free spirit trapped in a passionless marriage. Her encounter with Freddie Page (Tom Hiddleston), a troubled former Royal Air Force...
86) Mrs. Dalloway
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
The captivating and romantic story based on the critically-acclaimed Virginia Woolf novel of the same name.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Shopaholic Kat discovers her husband's secret bank account and embarks on a drastic cost-cutting mission that unites her with an eccentric club of like-minded individuals, who pump their own gas and retrieve dinner from grocery-store dumpsters.
90) Lucky boy
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A wrenching emotional battle ensues between Soli, an undocumented Mexican single mother, and Kavya, an Indian-American chef who cannot have children, when Soli's infant son is placed in Kavya's care during an immigration detention."--NoveList.
91) Gone: a novel
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Celebrating the achievement of a successful career only to be abandoned by her failed sculptor husband, Eve Adams struggles to raise her children alone while balancing conflicting demands, the realities of midlife, and her evolving views on forgiveness and letting go.
92) On the rocks
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Laura thinks she's happily hitched, but when her husband Dean starts logging late hours at the office with a new co-worker, Laura begins to fear the worst. She turns to the one man she suspects may have insight: her charming, impulsive father Felix, who insists they investigate the situation. As the two begin prowling New York at night, careening from uptown parties to downtown hotspots, they discover at the heart of their journey lies their relationship....
93) Paris can wait
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The wife of a successful movie producer takes a car trip from the south of France to Paris with one of her husband's associates.
94) Heat and dust
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Heat and dust (1983): Story of a woman who goes to India to find the truth about her aunt who left her British husband for an Indian prince.
Autobiography of a princess (1975): A short feature film of memory and character exploration. An Indian princess, long divorced and living in self-exile in London, invite her father's ex-tutor, Cyril Sahib to an annual tea party, intended to celebrate a happier past, where the two watch old movie footage of...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Miriam and her chronic-gambler husband, Hugh are at the end of their marriage. Barbara, the daughter of the couple, hopes to bring her parents back together again, a prospect made more difficult when Miriams' old flame, Victor, now a millionaire, arrives in town. Hugh tries to win back his soon-to-be ex-wife, but to no avail. Ultimately, Miriam must choose between the financially solvent Victor and the impishly irresponisible Hugh.
97) Petulia
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
An unhappily married socialite woman is trying to get through to a recently divorced doctor, who in his own words just wants to feel something.
98) Félix et Meira
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"An unconventional love story between two people living vastly different lives. Meira, a young Hasidic wife and mother unhappy in her life, and Felix, an man lost in mourning the recent death of his father, unexpectedly meet in Montreal's Mile End district. What starts as an innocent friendship becomes more serious as the two find comfort and freedom in one another"--Container.
99) Burnt sienna
Author
Publisher
Warner
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
The ultimate showdown...Famous artist and ex-marine Chase Malone is asked by an emissary of mysterious businessman Derek Bellasar to paint a portrait of Bellasar's wife. He politely refuses, but when he finds his home bulldozed and his gallery sold, he has little choice but to take the job. Bellasar is one of the world's wealthiest and most dangerously twisted arms merchants. He has married a succession of beautiful women -- all of whom mysteriously...
100) Cáscara de nuez
Author
Series
Panorama de narrativas volume 943
Publisher
Anagrama
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
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