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Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 778 Criterion collection ; 603 (set) Criterion collection ; 604 (In which we serve) Criterion collection ; 605 (This happy breed) Criterion collection ; 606 (Blithe spirit) Criterion collection ; 76 (Brief encounter) Criterion collection ; 995Filter By Series
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 778 Criterion collection ; 603 (set) Criterion collection ; 604 (In which we serve) Criterion collection ; 605 (This happy breed) Criterion collection ; 606 (Blithe spirit) Criterion collection ; 76 (Brief encounter) Criterion collection ; 995Summary: In which we serve (1942): A sensitive and stirring piece of propaganda telling the tale of a group of Royal Navy sailors as they battle the Germans in the Mediterranean and of the lives they left back home.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA DAVClayton, Meg Waite.
Summary: Five young California homemakers forge a bond of friendship that sustains them through the turbulent 1960s and beyond. Meeting weekly, the Wednesday Sisters share a love of writing, literary classics, and the Miss America Pageant--in a moving testament to the mysterious link between friends.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CLAJones, Joëlle
Summary: "Josie Schuller is a picture-perfect homemaker, wife, and mother-- but she's also a ruthless, efficient killer! She balances cheerful domestic bliss with coldly peformed assassinations, but when Josie finds herself in the crosshairs, her American-dream life is in danger!"--Page 4 of cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books, a division of Dark Horse Comics, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 JONMoylan, Brian (Brian James)
Summary: Offers a behind-the-scenes look at the Real Housewives franchise from the writer of Vulture's popular series recaps and provides an insider's perspective on the lavish lives of the reality television stars.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.45 MOYSummary: Allison McRoberts' life feels like a sitcom when her self-centered husband, Kevin, is around -- he never considers the consequences of his actions and most of the people in his life let him be the center of their universe. When Allison learns that the better future she envisioned is impossible, she makes a plan to take back control of her life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV KEVClayton, Meg Waite.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ClaPatterson, James
Summary: The Moores are missing: In a placid suburban town, the Moores, a perfect family, suddenly vanish without a trace.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATSummary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY POLLaban, Elizabeth
Summary: Lila Soto has a master's degree that's gathering dust, a work-obsessed husband, two kids, and lots of questions about how exactly she ended up here. In their new city of Philadelphia, Lila's husband, Sam, takes his job as a restaurant critic a little too seriously. To protect his professional credibility, he's determined to remain anonymous. Soon his preoccupation with anonymity takes over...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC LABShafak, Elif
Summary: Peri, a wealthy Turkish woman, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. Wrestling to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground-- an old polaroid of three young women and their university professor, a relic from the past. Over the evening, as Peri arrives at the party and navigates the tensions that simmer in this crossroads country...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHASummary: Julia McKenzie and Anton Rodgers return as empty nesters Hester and William Fields. Hester is ready for an exciting new life; William wants things to stay exactly as they are. Reluctantly and always hilariously, he's pulled into her self-improvement schemes, from redecorating to catering. Includes fourteen episodes from seasons three and four.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FRESummary: On the day of a huge rally celebrating Hitler's visit to Rome, which underscored the infamous alliance between the Nazis and Mussolini's fascist regime, a brief encounter between a weary housewife and a radio announcer unfolds into an intimate drama.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SPEClayton, Meg Waite.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CLAItami, Emily
Summary: 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,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ITACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ITACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ITASummary: Coal miner's daughter: The story of country singer Loretta Lynn.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "A housebound trophy housewife steps in to manage the umbrella factory run by her tyrannical husband after the workers go on strike. To everyone's surprise, Suzanne proves herself a competent and assertive woman of action."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2011
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF POTPekkanen, Sarah
Summary: "Bucolic Newport Cove, where spontaneous block parties occur on balmy nights and all of the streets are named for flowers, is proud of its distinction of being named one the top twenty safest neighborhoods in the United States. It's also one of the most secret-filled"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PEKSummary: Frank and April Wheeler live a life that appears to be perfect. They live in the Connecticut suburbs with two young children. Frank commutes to New York City where he works in an office job that he hates. One he places little effort at, but he has yet to figure out what his passion in life is. April is a housewife who forgoes her dream of being an actress. They are not happy. One day, April...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA REVBlume, Judy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Bombeck, Erma.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1973
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.54 BOMBrown, Rebecca L. (Rebecca Lynn)
Summary: "An emotionally charged novel about family -- the slow accumulation of wrongs that drive us apart and the unlikely paths that lead us home again. Piper Hart has poured all her energy into raising her son, Fred, while her often-absent husband, Isaac, has poured all his energy into a career defending the wrongly accused. She's always told herself her son is perfectly normal, but somewhere deep...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROFitzGerald, Gerry
Summary: Hoping for a chance at meaningful work away from his status-obsessed wife, New York executive Charlie visits West Virginia to oversee a mining project and finds a friendship with Natty, who longs to escape her own unfulfilling existence.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2013