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Author
Series
Wednesday novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
From their first meeting during the turbulent summer of 1968, five young California mothers--Frankie, Linda, Brett, Ali, and Kath--form a sister-like bond as they confront the ups and downs of life and pursue their mutual dreams of becoming writers.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York Times Bestseller: This anthology of Erma Bombeck’s most memorable and humorous essays is a tribute to one of America’s sharpest wits.
When she began writing her regular newspaper column in 1965, Erma Bombeck’s goal was to make housewives laugh. Thirty years later, she had published more than four thousand columns, and earned countless laughs—from housewives, presidents, and everyone in between....
When she began writing her regular newspaper column in 1965, Erma Bombeck’s goal was to make housewives laugh. Thirty years later, she had published more than four thousand columns, and earned countless laughs—from housewives, presidents, and everyone in between....
3) At wit's end
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1992.
Physical Desc
223 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
4) Barbara
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (216 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
She's a no-nonsense, take-no-guff housewife, ruling her Yorkshire home with an iron fist and an acid tongue. In Barbara's chaotic world her husband routinely gets in trouble, daughter Linda has a goofball husband, then there's her lazy Romeo of a son ...
Author
Language
English
Description
Combining the incisive intimacy of Sally Rooney with the sharp wit of Helen Fielding, a compulsively readable and astonishingly relatable debut novel about marriage, motherhood, love, self and the vibrant, surprising city that is modern Tokyo. Mizuki is a Japanese housewife. She has a hardworking husband, two adorable children and a beautiful Tokyo apartment. It's everything a woman could want, yet sometimes she wonders whether it would be more fun...
6) The affair
Publisher
Distributed by Westlake Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Trapped within the modernist confines of her remote canyon home and stifling marriage to her uptight architect husband, lonely housewife Jean finds comfort in the arms of Viggo, her decidedly bohemian lover.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
238 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
An artist turned stay-at-home mom becomes convinced that she is turning into a dog and, as her symptoms intensify, struggles to keep her alter-canine-identity a secret, until she meets a group of mothers who may also be more than what they seem.
An ambitious mother puts her art career on hold to stay at home with her newborn son, but the experience does not match her imagination. Two years later she steps into the bathroom for a break from her toddler's...
8) Stay close
Author
Language
English
Description
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.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
10) Standing strong
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In her second memoir, the Real Housewife chronicles her life since her release from prison and what it's been like to weather difficult times as a single mother. Though she recounts the happy memories she's experienced over the past year, she also touches upon some of the darkest times of her life, including her parents' hospitalizations for severe medical issues in late 2016, which led to her mother's passing in March 2017.
Author
Publisher
[CreateSpace]
Pub. Date
©2017.
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"HOME - more than a house it's a place for rest, restoration, and relationship. For families with chlidren, it's a place for care, learning, and belonging. Managing a busy home has many tasks to tackle and obstacles to overcome: the laundry monster, household clutter and cleaning needs, caring for babies and little ones, menu planning and mealtime routines, town outings, bill paying - and so much more! PLAIN & SIMPLE - This sensible & straight-forward...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A candid, behind-the-scenes glimpse into the emotional, dynamic and often entertaining life of Ramona Singer, the spunky, tell-it-like-it-is reality star whose unfiltered personality viewers have adored through seven seasons of The Real Housewives of New York City. In this alternately heart-wrenching and hilarious memoir, Ramona offers readers a look at her dysfunctional childhood, her parents' abusive relationship, her inspiring journey of renewal,...
13) The kitchen
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
14) The mere wife
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the perspective of those who live in Herot Hall, the suburb is a paradise. Picket fences divide buildings--high and gabled--and the community is entirely self-sustaining. Each house has its own fireplace, each fireplace is fitted with a container of lighter fluid, and outside--in lawns and on playgrounds--wildflowers seed themselves in neat rows. But for those who live surreptitiously along Herot Hall's periphery, the subdivision is a fortress...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the day John F. Kennedy is inaugurated, Claire, a young wife and mother obsessed with the glamour of Jackie, struggles over the decision of whether to stay in a loveless but secure marriage or to follow the man she loves and whose baby she may be carrying. Decades earlier in 1919, Vivien Lowe, an obituary writer, is searching for her lover who disappeared in the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. By telling the stories of the dead, Vivien...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bourgeois housewife Ruth Whiting is paralysed by triviality, measuring out her days in coffee mornings, glasses of sherry, and bridge parties, routines that barely disturb the solitude of her existence. Her husband spends his weeknights in town, their daughter, eighteen-year-old Angela, is at Oxford and their sons are at boarding school. Then Angela accidentally falls pregnant and Ruth must keep her own past from repeating itself.
18) Serial mom
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Collector's edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Beverly Sutphin is a seemingly perfect homemaker who will stop at nothing to rid the neighborhood of anyone failing to live up to her moral code.
19) Premonition
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A housewife's life is shattered when she finds out that her husband Jim is killed in a gruesome car accident. But when she awakes the next morning, he is still alive and well. She keeps having dreams about his death, and must decide what to do.
Author
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Washington Square Press trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The page-turning new novel from the internationally bestselling author known for her "conversational writing style and a knack for making readers care about her characters" (The Washington Post) takes us into the homes of an idyllic suburban neighborhood where we discover the burning secrets hiding just below the surface. Bucolic Newport Cove, where spontaneous block parties occur on balmy nights and all of the streets are named for flowers, is proud...
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