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2017.
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The Moores are Missing: In a placid suburban town, the Moores, a perfect family, suddenly vanish without a trace. The Housewife: Former chief of detectives Maggie Denning is adjusting to a quiet new life in the suburbs, staying home with baby twins. One morning she sees a limo dropping off a glamorous woman at a nearby home. When she discovers that the same woman has been murdered, she starts asking questions around the neighborhood. Absolute Zero:...
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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"Two women are watching each other... Phoebe Miller isn't sure when the rusty car started showing up in the cul-de-sac she calls home, or why its driver would be spying on her. What could be interesting about an unhappy housewife who drowns her sorrows in ice cream and wine and barely leaves her house? When a new family moves in across the street--the exuberant Vicki, who just might become the gossipy best friend Phoebe's always wanted, and her handsome...
68) The lunchbox
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects Ila, a neglected housewife, to Saajan ... , a lonely man on the verge of retirement"--Container.
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"In the early 1900s, housewife Hulda Klager reads a book that changes her life forever, leading her to develop over 200 new varieties of lilacs that she gives away or sells to individuals as a way of sharing beauty. Her commitment to creation--struggling against flooding rivers and the vagaries of hybrid plants--while living through family losses and challenges is a story of perseverance and generosity that culminates when, in a time of great need,...
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Friday afternoon club volume 1
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
The Friday Afternoon Club helps their friend Lucy restore a pre-Civil War mansion she has inherited from her deceased aunt and soon discover a secret diary that reveals the suspenseful and mysterious history of Lucy's ancestors.
74) Brief encounter
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson star as middle-class suburbanites whose casual friendship evolves into a passionate yearning for each other. But as their affections grow stronger, they must face a difficult decision that will affect both of their lives forever.
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
A dual narrative in which a woman finds a cookbook buried in the basement of her new home and becomes captivated with the cookbook's previous owner, a 1950s housewife. Dissatisfied with her own life, she becomes absorbed in learning the story--and the secrets--of the last woman who lived in her house.
Alice Hale left a career in publicity to become a writer and follow her husband to the New York suburbs. Unaccustomed to filling her days alone in...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"HOME - more than a house it's a place for rest, restoration, and relationship. For families with children, 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...
78) Anesthesia
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
While on his way home one evening, Walter Zarrow, a popular Columbia University philosophy professor, is violently attacked on the street. Flashing back one week to the beginning of a domino effect of events that led up to this seemingly senseless assault, the film traces hidden connections between an apparently disparate group of people.
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Pub. Date
2009
Description
When Trish Cunningham, finds the body of pharmacist Jim Bob Jenkins behind the two-percent milk, she knows she' having a bad day. Worse, she's a suspect. Sleuthing to exonerate herself from murder charges, she shakes up a murderer who has nothing to lose by killing any one in the way - including Trish.
80) Premonition
Pub. Date
c2007
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.