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Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
" A magical novel, based on a Japanese folk tale, that imagines how the life of a broken-hearted man is transformed when he rescues an injured white crane that has landed in his backyard. George Duncan is an American living and working in London. At forty-eight, he owns a small print shop, is divorced, and lonelier than he realizes. All of the women with whom he has relationships eventually leave him for being too nice. But one night he is woken by...
Series
The king of Queens volume season 5
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Parcel deliveryman Doug Heffernan continues to juggle the intimate moments of marriage with his wife Carrie while sparring with that royal pain in the basement.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The bride wore boots: A bookish husband tries to win back the affections of his horse-breeding wife.
The lady gambles: A novice gambler bets it all and loses, and is thrust into a downward spiral from which only her devoted husband can save her.
45) South mountain
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Lila is an artist who teaches at a community college and has built a modest rural paradise in New York's Catskill Mountains with her husband, Edgar. Soon after their teen daughters head off on summer adventures and her best friend Gigi begins Chemotherapy, Edgar reveals he's started a new family with another woman.
46) We, the jury
Author
Language
English
Description
On the day before his twenty-first wedding anniversary, David Sullinger buried an ax in his wife's skull. Now, eight jurors must retire to the deliberation room and decide whether David committed premeditated murder-or whether he was a battered spouse who killed his wife in self-defense.
Told from the perspective of over a dozen participants in a murder trial, We, the Jury examines how public perception can mask the ghastliest nightmares. As the...
47) Drive my car
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
日本語
Description
Two years after his wife2s unexpected death, Yusuke Kafuku arrives in Hiroshima to direct a production of Uncle Vanya for a theater festival and, through relationships with an actor with whom he shares a tangled history and a chauffeur with whom he develops a surprising rapport, finds himself confronting emotional scars. This quietly mesmerizing tale of love, art, grief, and healing is ultimately a cathartic exploration of what it means to go on living...
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Proud first lady of a Southern Baptist megachurch, Trinitie Childs carries immense responsibility on her shoulders. After a scandal involving her husband, the church is forced to temporarily close, leaving Trinitie struggling to manage the aftermath. Now, she and her spouse must rebuild their congregation and reconcile their faith by all means necessary to make the biggest comeback that commodified religion has ever seen.
50) The time capsule
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In the near future, a jaded politician fresh off an electoral loss escapes with his controlling wife to the Southern Lake house, where he spent summers as a teen. Their vacation is disrupted by the appearance of his first love, who has just returned from a 20-year space voyage and hasn't aged a day.
51) My lovely wife
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Our love story is simple. I met a gorgeous woman. We fell in love. We had kids. We moved to the suburbs. We told each other our biggest dreams, and our darkest secrets. And then we got bored.
We look like a normal couple. We're your neighbors, the parents of your kid's friend, the acquaintances you keep meaning to get dinner with.
We all have our secrets to keeping a marriage alive.
Ours just happens to be getting away with murder.--Amazon.
52) The island
Author
Series
Coral Island volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Beatrice is going back home to Coral Island after decades away. She's starting her life over after her husband broke the news of his affair moments before their anniversary party and vow renewal. His revelation derails her. Her children have left home and she'd always imagined she and her husband would travel and grow old together. But now he's gone and she's unsure of where her life is headed. With nowhere left to turn, she goes home to Coral...
Series
The king of Queens volume season 3
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The complete third season of the comedic television series King of Queens.
54) My favorite wife
Publisher
Turner RKO
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A funny thing happens to Nick on his way to his honeymoon suite. He meets his wife. No, not his bride. He meets the wife that was lost at sea seven years ago and presumed dead.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"As the holiday season begins, Laurel McCullough could use some good news. She and her husband, Zach, have been praying for a baby that seems more and more like an impossible dream, and they've had to move in with her beloved grandmother, Helen, who's having trouble taking care of herself. But when Laurel contacts a local home-care organization for help, there are no caregivers available. Then Mrs. Miracle appears at the door. No stranger to lending...
Series
Criterion collection volume 889
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Michael Curtiz brings a master skipper's hand to the helm of this thriller, Hollywood's second crack at Ernest Hemingway's To Have And Have Not. John Garfield stars as Harry Morgan, an honest charter-boat captain who, facing hard times, take on dangerous cargo to save his boat, support his family, and preserve his dignity. Left in the lurch by a freeloading passenger, Harry starts to entertain the criminal propositions of a sleazy lawyer (Wallace...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
John and Laura Taylor are a young, professional couple who desperately want a baby. After exhausting all other options, they finally hire Anna, the perfect woman to be their surrogate, but as she gets further along in her pregnancy, so too does her psychotic and dangerous fixation on the husband. The couple becomes caught up in Anna's deadly game and must fight to regain control of their future before it's too late.
58) Before I go
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A heartfelt novel in the bestselling tradition of P.S. I Love You about a young woman in Georgia with stage four breast cancer who undertakes a mission to find a "replacement wife" for her husband before she passes away" --
60) Us
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"David Nicholls brings the wit and intelligence that graced his enormously popular New York Times bestseller, One Day, to a compellingly human, deftly funny new novel about what holds marriages and families together--and what happens, and what we learn about ourselves, when everything threatens to fall apart. Douglas Petersen may be mild-mannered, but behind his reserve lies a sense of humor that, against all odds, seduces beautiful Connie into a...
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