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[2017]
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"Affairs, the author argues, have a lot to teach us about the human heart--what we expect, what we think we want, and what we feel entitled to. They offer a unique window into our personal and cultural attitudes about love, lust, and commitment. Through examining illicit love from multiple angles, Perel invites readers into an honest, enlightened, and entertaining exploration of modern marriage in its many variations. An affair: it can rob a couple...
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This is a story about people whose lives are changing : Nick Seymor, a southern gentleman returning home to Charleston to lead a more peaceful life and his talented, prominent New York interior decorator wife Olivia, who is not quite sure she is ready to make the change. They are moving north to south, fast pace versus slow pace, downsizing. While they are doing this they travel for the summer with some of Olivia's glitzy clients, a holiday that...
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The story follows George Bowling, a 45-year-old husband, father, and insurance salesman, who foresees World War II and attempts to recapture idyllic childhood innocence and escape his dreary life by returning to Lower Binfield, his birthplace. The novel is comical and pessimistic, with its view that speculative builders, commercialism, and capitalism are killing the best of rural England and the existence of new, external threats. (from Wikipedia)
...5) Ethan Frome
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Ethan Frome, written in 1911 by Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Edith Wharton, is set in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts. Against a backdrop of a cold, grey, bleak New England winter, a visiting engineer staying temporarily in town while working nearby, tells the story of his encounter with Ethan Frome, who is an isolated farmer trying to scrape out a living while tending to his frigid, demanding and ungrateful wife, Zeena....
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"Jake Hayes is missing. This much is certain. At first, his wife, Nina, thinks he is blowing off steam at a friend's house after their heated fight the night before. But then a day goes by. Two days. Five. And Jake is still nowhere to be found. Lily Scott, Nina's friend and coworker, thinks she may have been the last to see Jake before he went missing. After Lily confesses everything to her husband, Christian, the two decide that nobody can find out...
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"One of the most innovative authors and distinguished literary critics of the twentieth century, Virginia Woolf examines family dynamics and the tensions between men and women in her 1927 novel To the Lighthouse. A pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device, Woolf explores multiple perspectives of the members of the Ramsay family as they navigate experiences of disappointment and loss. Divided into three sections, the story...
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The bestselling novel of financial speculation in the Progressive Era from the author of McTeague. Curtis Jadwin had to compete with other suitors to secure his wife's hand in marriage, but after a year of marital bliss, he finds himself captivated by another: the high-stakes competition at the Chicago Board of Trade. At first merely dabbling in wheat speculation, Jadwin soon becomes obsessed with making deals and the roaring excitement of the trading...
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"What happens when a relationship is too good to be true... ? Life's a dream for perfect celebrity couple Jack and Cass Mandeville. With killer style, A-list day jobs, and an envious marriage, the Mandevilles have captured the hearts of the people and the affections of the press. Their lives couldn't be more picture perfect--that is, until Jack turns forty and his world turns upside down when a stunning, and strikingly intelligent, redhead named Imogen...
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Park Row Books
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2022.
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English
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Alex Kiester, a heartfelt debut that explores the complexity of a modern-day marriage when a new mother vanishes one morning. "This powerful novel takes an honest, unflinching look at the challenges of modern parenthood from both sides of a marriage." - Tracey Lange, New York Times bestselling author of We Are the Brennans Love isn’t something that happens to you; it’s something you must choose every...
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A couple's life and love are destroyed when they win the lottery in this tragic tale of turn-of-the-century San Francisco. McTeague and Trina are in love, and with the modest income from McTeague's dentistry office, their needs are few. But when Trina wins a small fortune from a lottery ticket, jealousy and distrust begin to unravel their happy home. As tension erupts between McTeague and Trina's cousin Marcus, Trina's impulse to save her winnings...
12) Devotion
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Pelican Book Group
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[2012]
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English
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From This Day Forward. Christian Music agent Kellen Rossiter has everything he ever wanted: A-list clients from coast to coast, a loving wife who honors and respects him, and a faith life that's never wavered - until now. Juliet Rossiter has the perfect life: a rewarding schedule serving the underprivileged, a husband who loves her as Christ loved the church, and a blessed future as a mother - at least that's what she thinks. For Better or Worse....
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Open Road Media
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2015.
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English
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When a husband convinces his wife to join him in a tryst with another woman, there are unintended consequences in this sharply observed erotic tale about the challenges of modern marriage As a divorce lawyer for Manhattan's elite, David Greenfield is privy to the intimate, dirty details of failed marriages. He knows he's lucky to be married to Blair-a Barnard dean and the mother of their college-age daughter, she is a woman he loves more today than...
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Harlequin
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[2017]
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English
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Will secrets tear this rancher's marriage apart -- or lead to a reunion? Only from USA TODAY bestselling author Sara Orwig! For estranged husband and wife Tom and Emily Knox, a heartbreaking loss in their past is keeping them apart in the present. They still share a ranch, but not a bed. And when the blackmailer terrorizing Royal, Texas, accuses Tom of keeping a secret family behind Emily's back, they're thrown into an even deeper tailspin. But could...
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Skyhorse Publishing
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[2018]
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English
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A road map to having a vibrant, long-term love affair.
Marriage is an exercise in busy. It's not-by any stretch of the imagination-a spontaneous experience. Unlike the dating years, when we willingly flung every responsibility to the wind to be in our lover's arms, marriage conspires to pull us earth-bound, distracting us from love with weighty responsibilities, insistent duties, and insane time pressures. We've got jobs and family obligations. We've...
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Zondervan
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[2019]
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English
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"Praying Circles Around Your Marriage draws from the life-changing principles in the bestselling book The Circle Maker to empower you to fulfill the God-given dreams for your marriage"--
What your marriage will become is determined by how you pray. This book empowers you to dream big, pray hard, and think long-- together. Marriage is your most sacred relationship on this earth, and prayer is the single most powerful way to transform it. It's time...
17) Dark Cognitions
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Every morning, psychologist Dr. Brian Manifold wakes up to a catatonic wife and the memory of an accident he'd rather forget. In order to escape the frequent panic attacks, delusions, and recurring dreams of a hideous beast, he embraces an aberrant behavior that makes coping with reality easier to handle. But when the hospital administrator worries that Brian may be a danger to his patients and to himself, and orders him to see a therapist, there's...
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May Sarton's 7th novel is about marriage, family, life's cycles, and the regeneration of love Frances and Sprig Wyeth have come to the old Wyeth house in Maine for the summer. In a house filled with lively members of her husband's extended family, Frances feels alienated from everyone, including Sprig. A night of passion breaks down the growing barriers between them, yet Frances feels it is more a "desperate moment of possession" than the true "flowing...
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Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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From a USA Today–bestselling author, a billionaire struggles with his desire for his amnesiac wife, who does not remember their estrangement.
Sasha's life changes beyond recognition after a shocking accident-her amnesia has made sure of that. She can't even remember marrying Apollo, her devastatingly handsome Greek husband! Although she does remember their intimate, searing passion . . .
Then Sasha discovers the truth behind their less-than-perfect...
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Harlequin
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[2020]
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English
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"Read this beloved classic romance by USA Today bestselling author Carole Mortimer. Divorce vs. Desire Three years ago Adam Carmichael walked out on Maggi when she needed him most. Now he's back, to pick up where they left off in their marriage -- or so he thinks! Maggi's first reaction is to finalize their divorce. But Adam refuses point-blank, Maggi is furious -- not with Adam, but with herself, because, to her dismay, part of her is relieved! Torn...
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