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321) The line of beauty
Author
Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Los Angeles in the 1960s: riots in Watts and on the Sunset Strip, wild weekends in Malibu, late nights at The Daisy discotheque, openings at the Ferus Gallery, and the convergence of pop art, rock and roll, and the New Hollywood. At the center of it all, one inspired, improbable, and highly combustible couple--Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward--lived out the emblematic love story of '60s L.A. The home these two glamorous young actors created for themselves...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
In 1920's China, women had few options. So following the death of her father, Songlian, a beautiful nineteen-year-old college student agrees to marry a wealthy nobleman. She is to be wife number four at his estate, where daily life revolves around an ancient family custom: the master raises a red lantern outside the house of the wife with whom he desires to spend the night. On the surface, there is harmony between the wives, but trapped inside their...
Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
Description
Un autor, que escribe sobre un autor que lee sobre otro autor, la sensac̤in constante de que alguien te es̀t mintiendo, pero quǐn es?. Lowen Ashleigh, autora al borde de la bancarrota, recibe un encargo que le cambiàr la vida: Jeremy, el flamante marido de Verity Crawford, una de las autoras ̀ms importantes del momento, la contrata para terminar la serie de libros en la que trabajaba su mujer antes de sufrir un grave accidente que la ha dejado...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
My favorite wife: 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 ; Mr. & Mrs. Smith: New York sophisticates David Smith and Ann Smith née Krausheimer have been lovingly and passionately married for three years, or so they believed. They are told individually that due to a technicality - an unresolved municipal and state...
326) Extract
Publisher
Miramax Films
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Joel is one step away from selling his flavor extract factory and retiring to easy street when a freak workplace accident sets in motion a series of disasters that puts his business and personal life in jeopardy
327) The sea of trees
Publisher
A24
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Powerful story of love and redemption of an American professor, Arthur, who travels to Japan. He embarks on a spiritual and life-changing journey with Takumi, whom he found lost near the base of Mount Fuji. Takumi had gotten lost after attempting to commit suicide, now they fight for their survival while they are on their journey of reflection. Arthur's will to live reconnects him to his love for his wife
328) The new couple
Author
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"The perfect marriage. The perfect house. The perfect secret... As I step through the cherry-red door of my new home, I know I should feel like the luckiest woman alive. I have a handsome husband, a beautiful daughter and now the house of my dreams. And to everyone else my life looks perfect... When the neighbours stop by to welcome us, I tell them my name is Stephanie Hamlin and, under the watchful gaze of my husband Richard, I introduce him and...
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Though Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln's backgrounds differed considerably, both were intellectuals who shared interests in literature and politics, as well as a great love for each other
Author
Publisher
Grove/Atlantic
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
After the Thin Man -- Nick and Nora investigate a love triangle gone wrong after a dead man is discovered at their door. Another Thin Man-- After a wealthy business partner of Nora's father's is murdered, Nick and Nora's investigation brings them into the killer's crosshairs
331) Gone girl
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne reports that his wife, Amy, has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick's portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark question. Did Nick Dunne kill his wife?
332) Impostor's Iure
Author
Series
Publisher
Mira Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The murder of a federal prosecutor with an art forgery in his hotel room draws FBI agents Emma Sharpe and Colin Donovan and HIT, their small, elite Boston-based team, into a high-stakes hunt for an assassin who has killed before and will kill again. The high-stakes hunt draws on Emma's expertise in art crimes and her past as a novice with a convent specializing in art conservation, on Colin's experience as a deep-cover agent, and on the strengths...
333) Lightning
Author
Publisher
Dell Pub
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
A woman whose life is threatened by breast cancer must respond to a husband incapable of providing emotional support as his career collapses
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In this chilling novel from bestselling author John Marrs, a young couple's house hides terrible secrets - and not all of them are confined to the past. Mia and Finn are busy turning a derelict house into their dream home when Mia unexpectedly falls pregnant. But just when they think the house is ready, Mia discovers a chilling message scored into a skirting board: I WILL SAVE THEM FROM THE ATTIC. Following the clue up into the eaves, the couple...
335) The secrets of us
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When her foster sister is committed to a psychiatric hospital after trying to kill her husband, Krystal, a respected lawyer, drops everything to defend her, which forces her to confront a horrible tragedy and a well-guarded lie that cemented their sisterly bond
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The year is 1921. Lesley Hamlyn and her husband, Robert, a lawyer and war veteran, are living at Cassowary House on the Straits Settlement of Penang. When "Willie" Somerset Maugham, a famed writer and old friend of Robert's, arrives for an extended visit with his secretary Gerald, the pair threatens a rift that could alter more lives than one. Maugham, one of the great novelists of his day, is beleaguered: Having long hidden his homosexuality, his...
337) Mother!
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Our presidents loom so large in history that we often forget they are human. Are You Prepared for the Storm of Love Making? is a collection of handwritten love letters that offers a surprising and intimate portrait of the men who occupied the White House. From George Washington to Barack Obama, these are not the presidents we see in history books. Instead, when they courted the women they wanted to marry, or seduced women outside of their marriage,...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
The bridges of Madison County: World-traveling National Geographic photographer Robert Kincaid is on assignment to photograph the bridges of Madison County, Iowa. He stops for directions at Francesca Johnson's farmhouse, and passion ignites. Defending your life: A man who is killed in a car accident ends up in 'Judgment City', a holding station for souls, where a person must defend themselves in a trial of their life in order to advance into Heaven....
Author
Series
Ashmore Castle volume 3
Publisher
Sphere
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"England, 1903. Giles, the Earl of Stainton, has fled from his stifling duties to resume his research in Egypt, leaving behind his wife Kitty, and his infant son. Kitty, still reeling from Giles' sudden departure, struggles to keep spirits high in the castle and establish herself as the true mistress of the house, an impossible task given how many secrets the inhabitants are hiding from her... The Earl's younger sisters, Rachel and Alice, are both...
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