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62) Highway blue
Author
Language
English
Description
"Highway Blue tells the story of Anne-Marie and Cal: the story of their brief marriage, and also of their long estrangement. And when a violent ambush hurls the two of them cross-country on the road, it becomes the story of their search for salvation. On their ill-at-ease odyssey along the darker seams of the country--from sweaty motel rooms and darkened parking lots, encountering other whisky-soaked souls along the way--Anne-Marie sifts through the...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Introduces a series of effective tools and practical steps for couples looking to improve or preserve their relationships, explaining how to identify common problems and to develop positive ways to avoid these destructive pitfalls.
64) Desperate
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Language
English
Description
When Gage and Anna meet Lily, a pregnant, homeless teenager, it seems that fate has brought them together. Lily agrees to give the couple her baby in return for financial support, but something isn't right. Gage finds himself being sabotaged at home and work, and his attempts to uncover the truth only seem to make his life unravel faster.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"On the cusp of turning fifty, Adam Sharp likes his life. He's happy with his partner Claire, he excels in music trivia at quiz night at the local pub, he looks after his mother, and he does the occasional consulting job in IT. But he can never quite shake off his nostalgia for what might have been: his blazing affair more than twenty years ago with an intelligent and strong-willed actress named Angelina Brown who taught him for the first time what...
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Language
English
Description
Capturing "the claustrophobic eras of 1940s and 1950s America, The Atomic Weight of Love also examines the changing roles of women during the decades that followed. And in Meridian Wallace we find an unforgettable heroine whose metamorphosis shows how the women's movement opened up the world for a whole generation."--Jacket.
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English
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"Margaret Atwood puts the human heart to the ultimate test in an utterly brilliant new novel that is as visionary as The Handmaid's Tale and as richly imagined as The Blind Assassin. Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of an economic and social collapse. Job loss has forced them to live in their car, leaving them vulnerable to roving gangs. They desperately need to turn their situation around and fast. The Positron...
71) The struggle
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Series
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English
Description
Welcome back to Kentucky, where a Lancaster County Amish couple seeks a new future in the land of tomorrow. When Timothy Fisher decides to move his wife, Hannah, and their daughter to Christian County where two of his brothers reside, Hannah is reluctant to go. Then a tragic accident occurs, and Timothy and Hannah are inconsolable. Is an abrupt separation the beginning of the end of their marriage, or will they rally to seize a God-given second chance?...
72) 8 Sandpiper Way
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Series
Language
English
Description
Olivia Lockhart-Griffin Cedar Cove, Washington Dear Reader, I'm pretty shocked by something I've just heard. Emily Flemming is afraid that her husband, Dave, might be having an affair. She apparently found an earring in his pocket-and it wasn't hers. And she says he's been coming home late and acting secretive. Not only that, some jewelry was recently stolen from an old woman, and Dave (in his capacity as pastor) used to visit her a lot ... This is...
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Language
English
Description
When her father, who had been ravaged by Alzheimer's for ten years, dies, Kay and her husband, Cyril, determined to one day die with dignity, take control of their final years by making a pact to exit the world together at the age of eighty.
Over ten years, Kay Wilkinson watched as Alzheimer's steadily eroded her father into a paranoid lunatic. Both medical professionals, Kay and her husband Cyril have seen too many elderly patients in similar states...
75) After the party
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Language
English
Description
Discovering that they are drifting apart after eleven years of marriage, Jem and Ralph contemplate changes that they hope will rekindle their relationship, an effort that is complicated by Jem's feelings that she is losing herself, Ralph's loss of artistic inspiration, and the needs of their two children.
76) Before we met
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When her husband disappears during a business trip to the U.S., Hannah, who believes she has married the perfect man, begins to have doubts when his co-workers tell a different story, prompting her to dig into his life, which unexpectedly leads her to a place of violence and fear.
77) Prosper in love
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Jamie and Lynn Prosper struggle to keep their marriage together after a series of events, beginning with the return of Lynn's old college friend, has them spiraling out of control and headed for a break-up.
80) Promises
Author
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Margaret Crane is a woman others would envy, with her comfortable home, teaching career, loving husband, and three beautiful children. Nina Keller, the orphaned cousin she and her husband, Adam, had raised as their own daughter, is a promising young decorator in New York. It should be a time of challenge, of rewards, of contentment. And yet...Adam is working too late, too hard at the office. He seems distracted, worried about his job. He and Margaret...
