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  Wifey

  by Judy Blume

  With more than four million copies sold, Wifey is Judy Blume's hilarious, moving tale of a woman who trades in her conventional wifely duties for her wildest fantasies-and learns a lot about life along the way. Sandy Pressman is a nice suburban wife whose boredom is getting the best of her. She could be making friends at the club, like her husband keeps encouraging her to do. Or working on her golf... (more)
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  The Stepford Wives

  by Ira Levin

  The internationally bestselling novel by the author of A Kiss Before Dying, The Boys from Brazil, and Rosemary's Baby With an Introduction by Peter Straub For Joanna, her husband, Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost too good to be true. It is. For behind the town's idyllic facade lies a terrible secret -- a secret so shattering that no one who encounters it will ever be... (more)
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  Happy Housewives

  I Was a Whining, Miserable, Desperate Housewife--But I Finally Snapped Out of It...You Can, Too!

  by Darla Shine

  Darla shine asks desperate housewives everywhere: What have you got to complain about? Here's a modern-day guide to keeping house, raising kids, and loving life. After leaving her glamorous, high-profile job when her son was born, Darla Shine quickly learned what it's like to be home with a baby. It was absolutely the hardest job she'd ever had -- but it was by far the best choice she could have made. At... (more)
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  Never make the same mistake twice : lessons on love and life from a real housewife

  by Nene Leakes

  Nene Leakes is an active member of Atlanta society. She resides in the upscale Sugarloaf area of Atlanta with her husband Gregg, a successful real estate investor and business consultant, and their two sons, 18-year-old Brice and nine-year-old Brentt. Nene donates her time to various foundations and is the founder of The Twisted Hearts Foundation, which brings awareness to domestic violence against women. Never... (more)
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  An Edwardian housewife's companion : a guide for the perfect home

  by Reuben Davison

  'La Belle Epoch' - Edward VII's reign from 1901 to 1910 - is often seen as a time of endless summers and large country house parties. It was, but only if you were rich, life was very different at the other end of the social scale. The motor car was becoming a 'must have' for the upwardly mobile, aviation was gaining momentum and electricity was becoming more common in Britain's homes. It was also a time of great... (more)
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  A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s

  by Stephanie Coontz

  In 1963, Betty Friedan unleashed a storm of controversy with her bestselling book, The Feminine Mystique . Hundreds of women wrote to her to say that the book had transformed, even saved, their lives. Nearly half a century later, many women still recall where they were when they first read it. In A Strange Stirring , historian Stephanie Coontz examines the dawn of the 1960s, when the sexual revolution had barely... (more)
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  The Naked Truth: The Real Story Behind the Real Housewife of New Jersey--In Her Own Words

  by Danielle Staub

  Meet the Real Danielle…You’ve seen her on The Real Housewives of New Jersey, turning heads, raising eyebrows, and igniting feuds with her feisty suburban neighbors. Now, the always fascinating Danielle Staub gets real about her scandalous past in the year’s most explosive tell-all memoir. . . .When she signed on to appear in a reality TV show, Danielle had no idea what she was getting herself into. Hoping for a... (more)
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  Life Is Not a Reality Show: Keeping It Real ... Kyle Style!

  by Kyle Richards

  Behold: the world’s first ever how-to-be-fabulous guide. Golden advice on living a life of guilt-free glitz and glamor, with no-frills wisdom straight from the horse’s mouth—the girl’s girl-turned-celebrity-turned-author, Kyle Richards, breakout star of Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills . In Life Is Not a Reality Show , Richards reveals everything she’s learned about succeeding without getting stuck... (more)
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  Fifty Secrets a Woman Needs to Know before Dating

  by Surpaul Cottrell

  Have you been in a relationship where you put the needs of the man before yours-only to discover he's been stepping out with your best friend, enemy, or a family member? Are you gullible, believing everything your man says? Are you still in your relationship because you are comfortable? In Fifty Secrets a Woman Needs to Know before Dating , author Surpaul Cottrell provides advice for how to deal with this world... (more)
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  The Real Housewives of Hell

  by Carol Itoh

  How to go from Millionaire’s Row to Poverty Row if you don’t work at Bravo! Life has been unfair to many Americans. We have suffered the pain of a severe economic disaster and no one feels that more the American housewife. How do you feed your family on less? How can we survive with style and grace? Who can you trust when so many in power have lied to you? You can only trust one of your own! Another housewife.... (more)
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  Goodnight Nobody

  by Jennifer Weiner

  For Kate Klein, a semi-accidental mother of three, suburbia has been full of unpleasant surprises. Her once-loving husband is hardly ever home. The supermommies on the playground routinely snub her. Her days are spent carpooling and enduring endless games of Candy Land, and at night, most of her orgasms are of the do-it-yourself variety. When a fellow mother is murdered, Kate finds that the unsolved mystery is... (more)
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  Mommy Wars: Stay-at-Home and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families

  by Leslie Morgan Steiner

  With motherhood comes one of the toughest decisions of a woman’s life: Stay at home or pursue a career? The dilemma not only divides mothers into hostile, defensive camps but pits individual mothers against themselves. Leslie Morgan Steiner has been there. As an executive at The Washington Post, a writer, and mother of three, she has lived and breathed every side of the “mommy wars.” Rather than just watch the... (more)
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  Fascinating Womanhood

  by Helen B. Andelin

  How to Make Your Marriage a Lifelong Love Affair What makes a woman fascinating to her husband? What is happiness in marriage for a woman? These are just two of the questions Helen B. Andelin answers in the bestselling classic that has already brought new happiness and life to millions of marriages. Fascinating Womanhood offers timeless wisdom, practical advice, and old-fashioned values to meet the... (more)
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  Victorian London's Middle-Class Housewife: What She Did All Day (Contributions in Women's Studies)

  by Yaffa Draznin

  Through a detailed description of the life and activities of the middle-class married woman of London between 1875 and 1900, this study reveals how housewives unwittingly became engines for change as the new century neared. In marked contrast to the stereotypical depictions of Victorian women in literature and on television Draznin reveal a woman seldom seen: the ordinary stay-at-home housewife whose activities... (more)
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  Passionate Housewives Desperate for God

  by Stacy McDonald, Jennie Chancey

  Have you struggled to reconcile God's vision of virtuous womanhood with worldly myths that marginalize and mock the role of the homemaker? Do you wrestle with cultural messages that demean the homemaker s calling and exalt instead the emotionally androgynous power-woman---the wife whose worth is measured only by the degree of her self-ambition, the shape of her body, or her money-making skills? Delightfully... (more)
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  Women Writing in India : 600 B.C. to the Present, : The Twentieth Century

  by Ke Lalita, Susie J. Tharu

  These ground-breaking collections offer 200 texts from 11 languages, never before available in English or as a collection, along with a new reading of cultural history that draws on contemporary scholarship on women and on India. This extraordinary body of literature and important documentary resource illuminates the lives of Indian women through 2,600 years of change and extends the historical understanding of... (more)
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  Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons

  by Lorna Landvik

  The women of Freesia Court are convinced that there is nothing good coffee, delectable desserts, and a strong shoulder can’t fix. Laughter is the glue that holds them together—the foundation of a book group they call AHEB (Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons), an unofficial “club” that becomes much more. It becomes a lifeline. Holding on through forty eventful years, there’s Faith, a lonely mother of twins who... (more)
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  Russell Baker, Erma Bombeck and Me

  by Margery Eliscu

  Eliscu, who lives with her family in a "very old farmhouse with the original 1850s air-conditioning" in Poland, Maine, writes "Coffee Break," a Maine Sunday Telegram humor column. With this compendium of past columns, she says, "I just wanted to show dear Russell and Erma how anybody, no matter where he or she is, can find the material for humor." The author's talents are more than average, however; in fact, she... (more)
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  Revolutionary Road

  by Richard Yates

  In the hopeful 1950s, Frank and April Wheeler appear to be a model couple: bright, beautiful, talented, with two young children and a starter home in the suburbs. Perhaps they married too young and started a family too early. Maybe Frank's job is dull. And April never saw herself as a housewife. Yet they have always lived on the assumption that greatness is only just around the corner. But now that certainty is... (more)