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22) Married to distraction: restoring intimacy and strengthening your marriage in an age of interruption
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
24) Out of the rain
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Dash Davenport's feelings against marriage are further complicated by his profession as a divorce attorney and his own failed relationship. Savannah Charles believes in marriage, especially since she operates a bridal business. In Laughter in the rain, Abby Carpenter has been involved with predictable, practical Logan Fletcher for years. One day she meets the unpredictable, impractical Tate Harding. Does an everyday guy like Logan have a chance against...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Claire Cook has a perfect life. Married to the scion of a political dynasty, with a Manhattan townhouse and a staff of ten, her surroundings are elegant, her days flawlessly choreographed, and her future auspicious. But behind closed doors, nothing is quite as it seems. That perfect husband has a temper that burns as bright as his promising political career, and he's not above using his staff to track Claire's every move, making sure she's living...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"'...One of the gutsiest memoirs I've ever read. And the writing--oh my god the writing'--Entertainment Weekly; A child of the Rhodesian wars and daughter of two deeply complicated parents, Alexandra Fuller is no stranger to pain. But the disintegration of Fuller's own marriage leaves her shattered. Looking to pick up the pieces of her life, she finally confronts the tough questions about her past, about the American man she married, and about the...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
People today are trying to make their marriages work over longer lives than ever beforefor their childrens health and well-being, and for their own. Indeed, among the college-educated, divorce rates have declined. But staying married isnt always easy. In the brilliant, transformative, and optimistic The Rough Patch, clinical psychologist Daphne de Marneffe explores the extraordinary pushes and pulls of midlife marriage, where our need to develop as...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In this practical yet personal guide to love, Gurian details the benefits of creating a lifelong balance of closeness and separateness. He outlines a twelve-stage model created for his own private practice, which provides long-term goals and focal points for dialogue that can help couples work through arguments. Gurian also delves into differences in white and gray matter between the male and female brain (which may explain the varying needs for...
Author
Publisher
She Write Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Writer Susan Tweit and her economist-turned-sculptor husband Richard Cabe had just settled into their version of a "good life" when Richard saw thousands of birds one day--harbingers of the brain cancer that would kill him two years later. This compelling and intimate memoir chronicles their journey into the end of his life, framed by their final trip together, a 4,000-mile-long delayed honeymoon road trip. As Susan and Richard navigate the unfamiliar...
Author
Series
October Daye novels volume 16
Publisher
Daw Books, inc
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"October Daye is finally something she never expected to be: married. All the trials and turmoils and terrors of a hero’s life have done very little to prepare her for the expectation that she will actually share her life with someone else, the good parts and the bad ones alike, not just allow them to dabble around the edges in the things she wants to share. But with an official break from hero duties from the Queen in the Mists, and her family...
34) On a Clear Day
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
It's the ultimate personal challenge--swimming the English Channel. As Frank Redmond (Peter Mullan_ plunges headlong into his new life, his friends get swept up in his quest, filling his training with laughter and camaraderie as he prepares for the most extraordinary test of human endurance.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A story of food and love, injury and healing, Keeping the Feast is the triumphant memoir of one couple's nourishment and restoration in Italy after a period of tragedy, and the extraordinary sustaining powers of food, family, and friendship. Paula and John met in Italy, fell in love, and four years later, married in Rome. But less than a month after the wedding, tragedy struck. They had transferred from their Italian paradise to Warsaw and while reporting...
Author
Publisher
CompCare Publications
Pub. Date
1983
Language
English
Description
Personal freedom PLUS intimacy between partners -- is it a possible dream? This book is for everyone who wants the excitement of feeling "in love" along with the richness and dimension that come only with a lasting, committed relationship.