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Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Swedish
Description
The Fjllbacka Murders is based on the world of Camilla Lackberg's character, Erica Falck, a successful crime writer and mother of three. She's moved with her husband and children from the city to her hometown of Fjllbacka, a fishing village on a picturesque island off the coast of Sweden. Her return seems idyllic, but simmering beneath the village's surface lie hidden secrets, twisted desires and deceit waiting to erupt into the ultimate sin - murder.
THE...
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and...
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
"For the first time ever, Kino Lorber is proud to present the complete first full season of Zalman King's groundbreaking Red Shoe Diaries, one of Showtime's longest running and most successful original series. Each episode is based on a woman's secret diary, filled with intense passion, romantic fantasies and erotic adventures. Each of these thirteen episodes features David Duchovny (The X-Files, Californication) and a host of young actors who have...
1864) Chance Harbor
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
Catherine and Zoe are sisters, but even their mother, Eve, admits her daughters are nothing alike. Catherine is calm and responsible. Zoe is passionate and rebellious. Nobody is surprised when Zoe gets pregnant, drops out of college, and spirals into drug addiction. One night Catherine gets a call from Zoes terrified daughter, Willow, saying her mother has abandoned her in a bus station and disappeared. Eve blames herself, while Catherine, unable...
1865) Flee: Blu-Ray
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Blu-Ray widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Animated documentary about Amin Nawabi, who decides to reveal a secret from his past before marrying his husband and share his story about fleeing from Afghanistan to Denmark as a young child with his mother and siblings.
1866) A yuletide kiss
Author
Pub. Date
©2022.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
An unexpected Christmas gift: "Jenna Waverly has closed her inn, anticipating a blissfully quiet Christmas, until a snowstorm brings the first of several strangers to her property. Lucas Avonwood, as charming as he is secretive, is on a mission to track down a scoundrel, but the inn's lovely owner is giving him a more compelling reason to stay..." --back cover.
When we finally kiss good night: "When Flora Younger first met Konrad Juncker, she thought...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Russian
Description
"V detstve Lera, Inna i Anfisa druzhili, no potom ikh puti razoshlisʹ. Inna otbila u Anfisy parni︠a︡, tot stal ee muzhem i bolʹshim chelovekom -- direktorom zavoda, gde proizvodi︠a︡t sekretnye pribory. Anfise dostalasʹ nezavidnai︠a︡ rolʹ sekretarshi, no umnai︠a︡ devushka bystro nashla vozmozhnostʹ uluchshitʹ svoe polozhenie... Pravda, nenadolgo: Anfisu ubili, a vskore pogibli eshche dva sotrudnika predprii︠a︡tii︠a︡. V...
1868) Witness
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Special collector's edition.
Language
English
Description
Shortly after the death of her husband, Amish woman Rachel Lapp takes her son Samuel on a trip to Philadelphia. While in the train station washroom, Samuel sees two men savagely murder a third. Philadelphia detective John Book discovers that people within the police force were involved, and is assigned to escort Rachel and Samuel back home, protecting the boy until the trial. Book blends in with the Amish community, but the corrupt cops Book has exposed...
1869) Miranda
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Paul Marton is a Harley Street doctor who announces to his wife that he intends to take a fishing holiday alone. He sets off for Cornwall and indulges in a spot of fishing until one day he catches a beautiful mermaid! Meanwhile, his wife receives a telegram saying that her husband will be returning accompanied by a patient. Expecting an aging invalid, she is shocked on their arrival to see a beautiful young woman with her legs wrapped in cloth. Will...
1870) Annihilation: DVD
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Biologist and former soldier Lena is shocked when her missing husband comes home near death from a top-secret mission into The Shimmer, a mysterious quarantine zone from which no one has ever returned. Now, Lena and her elite team must enter a beautiful, deadly world of mutated landscapes and creatures, to discover how to stop the growing phenomenon that threatens all life on Earth.
Language
English
Description
Love at the Thanksgiving Day Parade: As Chicago gears up for its annual Thanksgiving Day parade, Emily Jones, an eager parade coordinator is shocked when Henry Williams, a wealthy new development consultant, is brought in to analyze the parade's finances. Faced with the challenge of teaching him that the parade means so much more to her than dollar signs, she suddenly finds herself reluctantly falling for him. Christmas Song: Though two schools have...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Currey explores the daily obstacles and rituals of women who are artists--painters, composers, sculptors, scientists, filmmakers, and performers. We see how these brilliant minds get to work, the choices they have to make: rebuffing convention, stealing (or secreting away) time from the pull of husbands, wives, children, obligations, in order to create their creations; the large and small (and abiding) choices these women made--and continue to make--for...
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When Mrs. Incredible discovers the mastermind behind a plot to destroy Europe is a figure from her past that she would rather keep secret from her husband, a situation that is complicated by Mr. Incredible and Frozone's efforts to train Dash.
1874) Mildred Pierce
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Mildred Pierce is a happily married woman with two kids, living in the suburbs of sunny California. She secretly takes a job as a waitress so that she can pay for piano lessons and expensive clothes for her eldest daughter, Veda. Her growing financial independence permits her to open her own restaurant, and eventually a chain of eateries. She has divorced her intolerant first husband, and married well-connected Monte in order to get Veda into high...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Willful behavior : A young woman is murdered, but Brunetti can find no sexual or financial motive. She was set to inherit a fortune from her grandmother, a woman very much alive and obsessed with clearing her husband's name from the accusation of art theft during the Mussolini years. The case draws Brunetti into a search for lost art and buried secrets from the bleakest days of modern Italian history.--Container
Blood from a stone : Fake designer...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Dinner at Eight: A Park Avenue snob gives a dinner party for a visiting English peer. Little does she realize that her shipping magnate husband is bankrupt and that her daughter is having an affair with an older man.
China seas: Rugged Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only risky cargo he carries. Both his fiery mistress and his refined fiancée...
1877) Mrs. Warren's profession
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"What is the profession that has enabled Mrs. Warren to give her daughter all the benefits of 'good society'? Vivie Warren discovers her mother's secrets and embraces her own power as a 'modern' woman"--Container.
In the bonus play, "Mrs. Landfrey and her three children return to England after 18 years abroad, where a chance encounter with their traditionalist husband and father quickly entangles them in a series of comic events"--Container.
1878) Nobody: DVD
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
"Hutch Mansell is an underestimated and overlooked dad and husband, taking life's indignities on the chin and never pushing back. A nobody. When two thieves break into his suburban home one night, Hutch declines to defend himself or his family, hoping to prevent serious violence. His teenage son, Blake, is disappointed in him and his wife, Becca, seems to pull only further away. The aftermath of the incident strikes a match to Hutch's long-simmering...
1879) Don't worry darling: DVD
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Widescreen.
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.
1880) The family that preys
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
[Full screen edition].
Language
English
Description
Wealthy socialite Charlotte Cartwright and her dear friend Alice Pratt, a working class woman of high ideals, have enjoyed a lasting friendship throughout many years. Their lives become mired in turmoil as their adult children's extramarital affairs, unethical business practices and a dark paternity secret threaten to derail family fortunes and unravel the lives of all involved. Alice's self-centered daughter, Andrea, is betraying her husband Chris...
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