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Language
English
Description
"Keeper and Kid is a marvel. I dare you. Open this book and try to put it down." ---Ann Hood, author of The Knitting Room
Eight years ago, James Keeper fell in love with his upstairs neighbor in Boston, a sassy pastry chef with gray eyes and a fierce attitude. They got married, found a dog, and shopped for cilantro. But conflicting schedules and a real estate deal gone bad took its toll on the twenty-somethings in love. One divorce later, the hand-me-down...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Middle-aged bachelor Senhor Jose, a low-grade clerk in the Central Registry where certificates of birth, marriage, divorce, and death are kept, discovers the incomplete record of an unknown woman and becomes obsessed with the idea of finding her and making her known.
Author
Publisher
Soft Skull Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Judy Lee's life has not turned out the way she'd imagined. She's divorced, she's broke, and her dreams of being a painter have fallen by the wayside. Her co-worker Roger might be a member of the Yakuza gang, but he's also the only person who's asked her on a date in the last year.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
When junior shipping mogul Josh Mallon comes too close to getting hitched, he and his best buddy Ace Lannigan run to the furthest point they can find on a map--Singapore. The first of the famous "Road" pictures starring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby as a team of irrepressible bachelors, the scenery includes Dorothy Lamour as the beautiful live-in housekeeper they bring home.
8) Company
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Set firmly in, and often about, New York, this movie follows five married, once married, or soon to be married couples and their mutual friend, Robert, a 35 year old bachelor who has been unable to connect in a long-term relationship. The relationships are presented in a series of vignettes, primarily through Bobby's eyes, so that we see the less than ideal aspects of commitment. Eventually, Bobby learns that while relationships aren't perfect, they...
9) Greenberg
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A New Yorker moves to Los Angeles in order to figure out his life while he housesits for his brother, and he soon sparks with his brother's assistant.
10) The change-up
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Best friends, Mitch and Dave, wish they had each other's life, until they find out the grass is not always greener on on the other side.
11) Work song
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Morrie Morgan looks for a job in Butte, Montana while on the run from Chicago gangsters, and as he tries to get the attention of Grace Faraday, an attractive widow who runs the boardinghouse where he resides, he learns that the local mining company is trying to force her off her property through dubious methods.
12) Alfie
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alfie is the ultimate Ladykiller. He is wonderfully successful with women -- and rarely gets emotionally involved with them. But in this charming comedic drama, Alfie experiences a series of reversals that threaten his carefree lifestyle: his health is put into question, his child is adopted by another man, he gets a married woman pregnant, and when he finally does decide to settle down, he is rejected for a younger man. Capturing the changing attitudes...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Bertie Wooster (a young man about town) and his butler Jeeves (the very model of the modern manservant)--return in their first new novel in nearly forty years: Jeeves and the Wedding Bells by Sebastian Faulks. P.G. Wodehouse documented the lives of the inimitable Jeeves and Wooster for nearly sixty years, from their first appearance in 1915 ("Extricating Young Gussie") to the his final completed novel (Aunts Aren't Gentlemen) in 1974. These two were...
14) About a boy
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2003, c2002
Language
English
Description
A good-looking, smooth-talking bachelor who will do anything to avoid responsibility and everything to meet attractive single women gets a lesson about life from a bright but geeky 12-year-old boy.
15) Old dogs
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The lives to two confirmed bachelors are turned upside down when, on the verge of the biggest business deal of their lives, they are saddled with the care of seven-year-old twins.
Two friends and business partners find their lives turned upside down when strange circumstances lead to them being placed in the care of 7-year-old twins.
16) The spider's web
Author
Language
English
Description
When Ned Windsong, an Arapaho, is shot to death, his fiancée Marcy becomes a suspect, and as Vicky Holden investigates, she finds that she and Father John are suddenly caught up in an intricate web of deceit.
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