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"The new novel from Liane Moriarty, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Husband's Secret, Big Little Lies, and What Alice Forgot, about how sometimes we don't appreciate how extraordinary our ordinary lives are until it's too late. "What a wonderful writer--smart, wise, funny." --Anne Lamott Six responsible adults. Three cute kids. One small dog. It's just a normal weekend. What could possibly go wrong? In Truly Madly Guilty, Liane Moriarty...
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Jude the Obscure, the semi-autobiographical final novel from Thomas Hardy explores notions of surprising candor; within the eponymous protagonist lies the tragic truth of failed ambitions and relationships. In a fierce exploration of the darkness of love and the intellect, this is one of the great tragic novels of English literature.
Jude Fawley, an earnest boy from a rural English village, dreams of a life of academia despite his working-class background....
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"If Avery Chambers can't fix you in 10 sessions, she won't take you on as a client. Her successes are phenomenal--she helps people overcome everything from domineering parents to assault--and almost absorb the emptiness she sometimes feels since her husband's death. Marissa and Mathew Bishop seem like the golden couple--until Marissa cheats. She wants to repair things, both because she loves her husband and for the sake of their 8-year-old son. After...
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Ira Levinson is in trouble. Ninety-one years old and stranded and injured after a car crash, he struggles to retain consciousness until a blurry image materializes beside him: his beloved wife Ruth, who passed away nine years ago. Urging him to hang on, she forces him to remain alert by recounting the stories of their lifetime together. Ira knows that Ruth can't possibly be in the car with him, but he clings to her words and his memories, reliving...
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"A hilariously candid account of one woman's quest to bring her post-baby marriage back from the brink, with life-changing, real-world advice."--Amazon.com.
"Many expectant parents spend weeks researching the best crib or safest car seat, but spend little if any time thinking about the titanic impact the baby will have on their marriage--and the way their marriage will affect their child. Enter Jancee, her well-meaning but blithely unhelpful husband,...
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Keisha Taylor lived a quiet life with her wife, Alice, until the day that Alice disappeared. After months of searching, presuming she was dead, Keisha held a funeral, mourned, and gradually tried to get on with her life. But that was before Keisha started to see her wife, again and again, in the background of news reports from all over America. Alice isn't dead, and she is showing up at every major tragedy and accident in the country. Following a...
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New beginnings (Mary Ellis) volume 1
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Living in Harmony is the first book in bestselling author Mary Ellis's New Beginnings series. It's about fresh starts and love…and how faith in God and His perfect plan for our lives provides us with the peace and joy we desire.
Amy King-young, engaged, and Amish-faces difficult challenges in her life when she suddenly loses both of her parents in a house fire. Her fiancé, John Detweiler, persuades her and her sister Nora to leave Lancaster County...
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"Am I with the most selfish person alive?" "Am I being selfish when I do the things I want to do?" "If you loved me, you would..." The battle of what "I want" versus what "you want" is intense. Couples are in a constant tug of war, squabbling with each other with no regard for their partner's feelings, with great guilt over their own perceived selfishness, or feeling somewhere in between. And it's costing us our relationships. What About Me? will...
10) Magic: a novel
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"The White Dinner is a love poem to friendship, joy, elegance, and the monuments of Paris. And each year it is an unforgettable summer night, especially for Jean-Philippe Dumas, a longtime participant, and the three couples he's carefully selected to attend this exclusive and cherished event. Interweaving the stories of seven individuals, lives will be forever changed on the eve of one such White Dinner, a night that will lead to new friendships,...
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"Leah is changed. Months earlier, she left for a routine expedition, only this time her submarine sank to the sea floor. When she finally surfaces and returns home, her wife Miri knows that something is wrong. Barely eating and lost in her thoughts, Leah rotates between rooms in their apartment, running the taps morning and night. As Miri searches for answers, desperate to understand what happened below the water, she must face the possibility that...
12) A match of wits
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"Zayne and Agatha have always been a match in wits, but will unlikely circumstances convince them they could also be a match made in heaven as they return home to 1880s New York City?"--
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Paris is stunning in the summer, NYPD detective Jacob Kanon is on a tour of Europe's most gorgeous cities. But the sights aren't what draw him--he sees each museum, each cathedral, and each cafe through the eyes of his daughter's killer. The killing is simply marvelousKanon's daughter, Kimmy, and her boyfriend were murdered while on vacation in Rome. Since then, young couples in Paris, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, and Stockholm have been found dead. Little...
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The perfect marriage? Or the perfect lie? Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace. He has looks and wealth, she has charm and elegance. You might not want to like them, but you do. You'd like to get to know Grace better. But it's difficult, because you realise Jack and Grace are never apart. Some might call this true love. Others might ask why Grace never answers the phone. Or how she can never meet for coffee, even though she doesn't work. How...
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This encyclopedia provides authoritative, foundational, multidisciplinary knowledge about salient dynamics and features of families, marriages, and intimate relationships. It organizes the assortment of information on intimate relationships, marriages, and families that is otherwise difficult to find in one place.
16) Holly: a novel
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"When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly is reluctant to accept the case. Her own mother has just died, and Holly is supposed to be taking time off. But something in Penny Dahl's desperate voice makes it impossible for Holly to turn her down. Mere blocks from where Bonnie Dahl disappeared live Professors Rodney and Emily Harris. They are the picture of bourgeois respectability:...
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Les statistiques sont alarmantes : 67 % des couples mariés après 1990 divorceront. La plupart le feront la 4e ou 5e année de leurs mariage ; les autres attendront le départ de leurs enfants. La bonne nouvelle, c'est que de moins en moins de couples acceptent de se résigner et de se faire la guerre pendant un demi-siècle. Ce qui ne laisse qu'un maigre 20 % des couples qui, la plupart du temps, sont heureux de vivre ensemble.
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Ce que tout homme devrait savoir sur les femmes pour être heureux en amour
Dans son livre Qui sont ces couples heureux? le psychologue Yvon Dallaire trace un portrait réaliste et complet du couple heureux. Dans Qui sont ces femmes heureux? il dit ce que toute femme devrait savoir, faire et cesser de faire pour trouver l'intimité, la communication et l'engagement qu'elle désire vivre en couple. Dans ce nouveu livre, Qui sont ces hommes heureux?...
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Dr. Dwayne L. Buckingham has advanced scientific knowledge by conducting the first-ever research study that explores how Black women's childhood experiences impact their perceptions of achieving marital satisfaction. His ground-breaking research takes a look into the lives of seven married Black women who shared their heartfelt childhood and adult experiences. In this first edition of Can Black Women Achieve Marital Satisfaction; you will learn how...
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Esta obra, dirigida a psiclogos y psicoterapeutas, desarrolla en un lenguaje accesible y desde la ptica sistmica, el uso de cuentos e historias en contextos teraputicos para el trabajo con nios y sus familias. El uso de historias en la terapia es trascendental, ya que proporciona un contexto de significacin para abordar un problema especfico, donde la imaginacin, la participacin de los escuchas, la complicidad y los rituales, se convierten en un poderoso...
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