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Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A professor of psychiatry and human behavior offers up a positive, humorous marriage guide for husbands that plays to their strengths. Dr. Scott Haltzman, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University, has devised a proven method for improving relationships, based on a man’s special and unique skills, strengths, powers--as a responsible and motivated worker, manager, leader, problem-solver, partner, husband, and...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Whether you're an individual woman looking for help or a reader looking for the truth about the thousands of women who are battered by the men they live with, Next Time, She'll Be Dead is the one book you should read." -Gloria Steinem At least 1 in 4 women will be abused during her lifetime-that is 25% of our mothers, daughters, sisters, partners, and friends. Thousands will be killed. As author Ann Jones observes, despite its devastation battering...
Author
Publisher
The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When Sarah Crawford Brighton turns forty, she buys a horse and heads west with her veterinarian. A year later and a thousand miles from her Carolina home, she still isn't sure why. Neither is Jack Brighton, her husband. Nor is the Crawford family.
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English
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The bestselling author of Sacred Marriage offers hope to women who want to strengthen and transform their marriages into the profoundly deep relationships God intended. Women: you're not alone in your marriage. You never have been, and you never will be. While it may not always feel like it, God wants you to have a relationally healthy, emotionally engaged, and spiritually mature husband. In Loving Him Well-- previously titled Sacred Influence-- Gary...
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Language
English
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""I am a well-loved wife." Is this something your wife would say? Here's your guide to making those words a reality in your marriage. What do women want? This question has stumped the greatest male minds for centuries. Of course, if you're married, a much better question is, "What does your wife want?" As Darrin and Amie Patrick reveal in this profoundly practical and transformational book, God designed your wife to want-to need-to be loved. And that...
Author
Publisher
Diversion Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"An intensely readable novel of the complexity of family ties ... Dot Jackson is a true Southern voice, a master storyteller and an Appalachian treasure" (Dori Sanders, author of Clover and Her Own Place ). Early one morning in 1929, Mary Seneca Steele spontaneously packs a suitcase, gathers up her son and daughter, and steals away in her abusive and dissolute husband's brand new Auburn Phaeton automobile leaving her privileged life in Charleston...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
From "the leading novelist of his generation" (the Daily Telegraph)-a story about marriage, family, and 1 man's 2nd chance At age 47, former playwright Frank Attercliffe lives with 2 of his 5 children in a 4-bedroom apartment on Walton Lane on the outskirts of an English suburb. For the past 3 years, his wife, Sheila, has been living with Maurice, a car dealer who owns a Rolls-Royce, a Bentley, and a Jaguar-a man rumored to have killed 3 people in...
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English
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"While Quinn writes with spirit on weighty subjects like domestic abuse, polygamy and religious cults, her primary and most poignant theme seems to be female friendship." -- New York Times Book Review "An absolutely thrilling novel. I devoured it over a weekend, unable to put it down. It's a clever and completely original take on a domestic thriller." --Alex Michaelides, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Silent Patient Blake's dead. They...
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Presents
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Behind the imposing walls of the castle, free-spirited Bethany Vassal discovered that her whirlwind marriage to Prince Leo Di Marco was nothing like the fairy tale she'd imagined. Before long, the forgotten princess ran away, hoping the man she fell in love with would one day see sense and come and find her ... Marrying Bethany is the only reckless thing Leo has ever done, and now he is paying the price. The time has come for him to produce a royal...
10) The color purple
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Tells the story of two African-American sisters: Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a child-wife living in the south, in the medium of their letters to each other and in Celie's case, the desperate letters she begins, "Dear God."
11) Enamored
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Diego Laremos had never forgotten the last night he'd spent with Melissa Sterling five years before. She'd fled their home after a bitter dispute, hoping to escape their unhappy marriage. He hadn't forgiven her for leaving, though he'd hated himself even more for driving her away. Seeing Melissa again had renewed his hope for a possible future together ... Melissa had felt the same way, but she'd lied to Diego in the past. Now she had to prove to...
12) Dreamcatcher
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperPaperbacks
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
An abused wife retreats into her dreams for love just as a detective finds himself falling for her in this gripping paranormal romance. For powerful emotion and unforgettable romance, New York Times -bestselling author Sharon Sala can’t be beat. This beautifully repackaged classic is sure to delight her long-time fans and attract new ones! Unable to free herself from her husband’s obsession, beautiful Amanda Potter retreats into her own dream...
13) Palindrome
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English
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Palindrome When both your past and future spell fear. Award-winning author Stuart Woods has crafted a masterful novel no reader will soon forget. For years, Liz Barwick has been battered by her brutal husband, a famous pro football player. This time it takes an emergency room to keep her from death. Now the beautiful and talented photographer retreats to an island paradise off Georgia's coast to find solitude -- and herself. As she becomes increasingly...
14) The Second Wife
Author
Publisher
Bloodhound Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The honeymoon is over-and his nightmare has begun-in this twisted thriller by the author of The Husband Trap . . .
After his wife's suicide, Scott manages to find love again with Casey. For their first anniversary, she has a surprise for him-but it's not a good one . . .
Casey has been collecting photos and videos of Scott that would place his teaching career in serious jeopardy. Holding that over his head, she intends to make him suffer....
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Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
David Tully hunts for a burglar's killer in order to save his wife It's been 3 days since David Tully has seen his wife, and there's a homicide cop waiting at his front door. Someone has been murdered, but it's not Ruth Tully. The dead man is Crandall Cox. The name is unfamiliar, but he was killed with Tully's gun. At the time of the murder, Tully was hard at work at the state capital. His alibi may be airtight, but his wife's is not. There's a warrant...
Author
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"The lives and adventures of seven intrepid women are revealed in "this gem of a book... as captivating as the northern landscape itself"( Portland Book Review ). Polar explorers were the superstars of the "heroic age" of exploration, a period spanning the Victorian and Edwardian eras. In Polar Wives, Kari Herbert reveals the unpredictable, often heartbreaking lives of seven remarkable women whose husbands became world-famous for their Arctic and...
17) The good earth
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
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The story of a Chinese peasant and his passionate, dogged accumulation of land during famine, drought, and revolution.
18) East Lynne
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A married aristocratic woman succumbs to desire in this nineteenth-century English novel. Lady Isabel Vane married for all the wrong reasons--only to one day find her lawyer husband neglecting her for another woman. Seething with jealousy, she leaves behind her husband and their child for the flirtatious Francis Levison. It's a risk she takes willingly, but it comes with a heavy price that will lead her to the depths of despair and a quest for redemption....
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A story of love and romance between two lost people in 1950s Britain, from the author of The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner Every morning Pam decides to leave George. Somehow she never quite gets around to it. She's flirted with suicide too, but she doesn't see the point. A woman would have to be mad to kill herself for the sake of George. He's a brute, vain and selfish, with a cruel sense of humor and absolutely no regard for his wife....
20) Wander: A Novel
Author
Publisher
Red Hen Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"From the beginning, a sense of foreboding jumps from the pages of Wander . . a quick read filled with intrigue and suspense." -- The Denver Post Winner of the Nancy Pearl Book Award for Best Book of Fiction (Literary/Mainstream) from the Pacific Northwest Writers Association Set in the 1980s in the rural community of Bidarkee Bay, Alaska, a fictional area the size of a small state with a population of barely 20,000, Wander is the story of Patrice...
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