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101) The lovers
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
DVD [edition]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.) sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this scalpel-sharp, deliciously grown-up comedy, a husband and wife, each embroiled in a secret, extramarital affair, are sent reeling when they suddenly fall for the least likely person imaginable – one another. Nominated for Best Screenplay at the **Film Independent Spirit Awards**. Official Selection at the **Tribeca Film Festival**. "*Just about every step of the way, the dialogue crackles and the performances are electric.*" - Richard Roeper,...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Life
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xxii, 218 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An accessible, transformative guide for couples seeking greater love, connection, and intimacy in our modern world"--
The Klemp's work as mindfulness and leadership experts often fell to the wayside when they came home in the evening, only to end up fighting about fairness in their marriage. They believed in a model where each partner contributed equally and fairness ruled, but, in reality, they were finding that balance near impossible to achieve....
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A married couple who originally agreed to not speak of their past failed relationships alternate reading from the memoirs they've written about their lives, in a novel that explores polyamory, bisexuality, aging, and love.
A daring, category-confounding, and ruthlessly funny novel from National Book Award honored author Edmund White that explores polyamory and bisexuality, ageing and love. Sicilian aristocrat and musician, Ruggero, and his younger...
104) Barbara isn't dying
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
182 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Walter Schmidt has lived his whole life within the narrow, 'comfortable' confines of traditional gender roles: he has made it to retirement without learning how to fry an egg or use a vacuum cleaner. After all, he could always count on his wife, Barbara. But when one morning she can't get up from bed anymore, everything changes. With biting humor and great warmth, Alina Bronsky writes about how Walter, nearing the end of his life, is suddenly forced...
Author
Publisher
Regal House Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In search of a new life, Reuben and Ardith Rosenfeld and their two children move from Chicago to the small town of Welton, Colorado, looking for all the hope that the burgeoning West has to offer-its abundance of jobs, space, sunshine, prosperity, and the promise of reinvention. Reuben, a former copyeditor at the Chicago Tribune, purchases the local town paper, The Welton Sentinel (staff of three). Ardith stays home and copes with the task of fixing...
107) The perfect family
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Gallery Books trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 336 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A sharp, smart, and compulsively readable new novel from the #1 international bestselling author of The Party about a picture-perfect family--all hiding dark secrets--whose lives are upended by a dangerously escalating series of pranks"--
Thomas and Viv Adler are the envy of their neighbors. One morning they wake up to find their porch pelted with eggs. It's a prank, Thomas insists; the work of a few out-of-control kids. But when a smoke bomb is...
108) Just the two of us
Author
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Forever trade edition.
Physical Desc
283 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A couple on the brink of divorce after 35 years of marriage gets a second chance to rediscover their love now that a pandemic lockdown has forced them to spend more time together"--
109) 45 years
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As Kate and Geoff prepare to celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary, their marriage is shaken when unexpected news threatens to change their lives.
110) Barefoot in the park
Language
English
Description
Based on the hit Broadway play by Neil Simon, this comedy tells the story of a conservative young lawyer and his unconventional wife. Following the excitement of the honeymoon, the realities of setting up a household begin to disrupt their harmonious relationship.
111) You hurt my feelings
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Beth, a popular writer, and her husband Don, a well-liked therapist, share the kind of relationship that truly, seriously, for the love of God cannot be real: that is, they're actually in love. Even after decades of marriage, parenting, and successful careers, their physical spark has somehow not diminished; in fact, they seem to relish the opportunity to share a single ice cream cone and drive others including their son, Charlie mad. Should it come...
112) Please give
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Kate has a lot on her mind. There's the ethics problem of buying furniture at estate sales and marking it up at her Manhattan store. There's the materialism problem of not wanting her teenage daughter to want the expensive things that she wants. There's the marriage problem of sharing a partnership in parenting, business, and life with husband Alex but sensing doubt nibbling at the foundations. And worst of all are the neighbors, cranky, old Andra...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After Alfie leaves his wife, Helena, to pursue his lost youth with a free-spirited call girl named Charmaine, Helena abandons rationality and surrenders her life to the loopy advice of a charlatan fortune teller. Meanwhile, daughter Sally develops a crush on her handsome boss, Greg, while her husband, Roy, becomes moonstruck over Dia, a mystery woman who catches his gaze through a nearby window. These four will find out how easy it is for their illusions...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages, 16 unnumbred pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Tracing the extraordinary lives and legacy of two civil rights icons, this gripping account of Medgar and Myrlie Evers is told through their relationship and the work that went into winning basic rights for black Americans, and the repercussions that still resonate today.
115) The overnight
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (78 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In an attempt to acclimate to Los Angeles, a young couple spends an increasingly bizarre evening with the parents of their son's new friend.
116) Downhill
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Barely escaping an avalanche during a family ski vacation in the Alps, a married couple is thrown into disarray as they are forced to reevaluate their lives and how they feel about each other.
117) The painted veil
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Unabridged
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (9 hrs.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
"The Painted Veil is the story of Kitty Garstin, a young socialite who amuses herself with the pursuit of various men until settling into a marriage with a physician, who takes her to Hong Kong to begin his work. Shortly after they move, Kitty meets the charming, yet distasteful, Charlie Townsend, and begins a passionate affair that lasts several years without notice from her husband. As most passionate affairs do, this one ends in a dramatic fashion,...
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