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Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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"When his dream of the perfect marriage, the perfect son, and the perfect life implodes, a Wall Street millionaire takes a cross-country bus trip in search of his college sweetheart and ideals of youth. Myopic, narcissistic, hilariously self-deluded and divorced from the real world as most of us know it, hedge fund manager Barry Cohen oversees $2.4 billion in assets. Deeply stressed by an SEC investigation and by his 3 year-old-son's diagnosis of...
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English
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Maybe you're feeling a little stuck. Caught in a rut. You're fighting the same battles and facing the same temptations. You're wondering, is this as good as the Christian life gets? There's good news. You were made for more. You were made for Glory Days. In God's plan, in God's land, you win more often than you lose, forgive as quickly as you are offended, and give as abundantly as you receive. You may stumble, but you will not collapse. You may struggle,...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Bernadette Fox, a loving mom, becomes compelled to reconnect with her creative passions after years of sacrificing herself for her family. Bernadette's leap of faith takes her on an epic adventure that jump-starts her life and leads to her triumphant rediscovery.
Publisher
Trimark Home Video
Pub. Date
©1997
Language
English
Description
John Turturro plays an extremely uptight engineer whose entire life is punctual and routine to the point of absurdity. He finds himself struggling with the monotony of everyday life and the threat of middle age. Then a routine business trip turns into a life-altering experience when he meets some bizarre but sincere strangers: a free spirit played by Sam Rockwell, a phone sex operator (Catherine Keener), and a paranoid mechanic (Dermot Mulroney)....
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When Jack and Elizabeth meet as college students in the '90s, the two quickly join forces and hold on tight, each eager to claim a place in Chicago's thriving underground art scene with an appreciative kindred spirit. Fast-forward twenty years to married life, and alongside the challenges of parenting, they encounter cults disguised as mindfulness support groups, polyamorous would-be suitors, Facebook wars, and something called Love Potion Number...
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English
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Marine behavioral biologist Nate Quinn has spent his entire career trying to decipher the songs of the humpback whales, and one day Nate and his team are shocked by a message they see on a whale's tail and wonder if they have finally unlocked the secret of the whales' language.
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Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
Iowa farmboy Lewis Tater has a brainstorm: instead of continuing the correspondence courses that are learnin' him to write cowboy novels, he'll travel to the out-West school itself and soak up the campus atmosphere first hand. He arrives to find the school is a postal box. Write 'em, cowboy.
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English
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"An evocative new novel from the New York Times bestselling author Kristan Higgins. Beware the wrath of a woman scorned--she just might save the world. Lillie knew the empty nest would be hard when her son left for college, but she had no idea of the full extent to which her world would come crashing down--until her husband announced out of the blue that he was in love with another woman, and he would be leaving, too. Besides the fact that this announcement...
Series
Reggie Perrin volume set 1
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Reggie Perrin is a bored, frustrated middle manager who might be losing his mind. Set 1 includes the complete Series 1 and 2, each featuring sharp, satirical writing and outstanding supporting casts. Reimagining of the beloved British comedy series, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. Includes twelve episodes.
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of People I Want to Punch in the Throat comes a smart, funny, personal examination of what it's like to be at the crossroads of a woman's midlife crisis. Jen Mann had what appeared to be the perfect life: a successful career as a bestselling author and award-winning blogger, a devoted husband, teenage kids who weren't total jerks, and a badass minivan. So imagine her surprise when, at forty-seven years old,...
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Publisher
Black Rose Writing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Marriage and midlife can be difficult. But when you add a controlling, manipulative and self- absorbed mother-in-law into the mix, things can get worse-much worse. Toxic, even. When Allison Montgomery's beloved father-in-law and long-time confidant passes away, her mother- in-law, Margaret, 'temporarily' moves in. From rearranging the furniture and taking over the kitchen, to undermining and embarrassing Allie at every turn, including funding her...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"By all appearances, Hector has it all. A successful psychiatry practice, a comfortable home, and a beautiful, loving girlfriend. However, he's frustrated that he can't provide his patients with real happiness. So, he decides to travel the world in search of the elusive emotion"--Container.
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Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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"When Ada Calhoun found herself in the throes of a midlife crisis, she thought that she had no right to complain. She was married with children and a good career. So why did she feel miserable? And why did it seem that other Generation X women were miserable, too? Calhoun decided to find some answers. She looked into housing costs, HR trends, credit card debt averages, and divorce data. At every turn, she saw a pattern: sandwiched between the Boomers...
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Publisher
Grupo Nelson, una divisón de Thomas Nelson Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
"Max Lucado invites readers to leave the wilderness and discover a life defined by grace, refined by challenge, and aligned with a heavenly call. By studying the life of Joshua and the biblical book that bears his name, Lucado reveals God's promises for every step and reminds readers that God still fights for them" --
Este, bien podría ser el secreto mejor guardado en la iglesia. Max Lucado dice que muchas personas subestiman lo que les ha sucedido...
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
Europe, after the Great War. Harry Haller, solitary intellectual, is beset by reflections on his being ill suited for the world of everyday regular people, specifically for frivolous bourgeois society. All his life Harry has feared his dual nature--being both human and beast--so he has decided to die on his 50th birthday, which is soon. The mysterious Hermine, who takes him dancing, introduces him to jazz, to the beautiful and whimsical Maria, and...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
©2021 [translation]
Language
English
Description
"Lucas Pereyra, an unemployed writer in his forties, embarks on a day trip from Buenos Aires to Montevideo to pick up fifteen thousand dollars in cash. An advance due to him on his upcoming novel, the small fortune might mean the solution to his problems, most importantly the tension he has with his wife. While she spends her days at work and her nights out on the town-with a lover, perhaps, he doesn't know for sure-Lucas is stuck at home all day...
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
Anne Bancroft's cathartic lead performance anchors The Pumpkin Eater, Harold Pinter's harrowing, elliptical tale of marital dissatisfaction. Though much of the film concerns her character's fitful bouts with depression, Bancroft charges every moment she's onscreen, employing an array of subtle gestures and facial expressions to convey what her repressed character cannot. Pinter and director Jack Clayton never resort to facile satire or pat assignations...
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Language
English
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"Big Little Lies meets The Witches of Eastwick--a gloriously entertaining and knife-sharp feminist revenge fantasy about three women whose midlife crisis brings unexpected new powers--putting them on a collision course with the evil that lurks in their wealthy beach town"--
After Nessa James's husband dies and her twin daughters leave for college, she's left all alone in a trim white house not far from the ocean. In the quiet of her late forties,...
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