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Author
Publisher
Plaza & Janés
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
Jeanie tiene sesenta años, una casa bonita, su propio negocio, una hija casada y una encantadora nieta de dos años. Aunque en apariencia lleva una vida cómoda y tranquila, la verdad es que su matrimonio con George es aburrido y totalmente predecible. Hasta que un día conoce a Ray. Cada jueves, cuando acompaña a su nieta al parque, se encuentra con este atractivo abuelo que juega con su nieto. Empiezan hablando de los niños y acaban explicándose...
43) Betrayal
Author
Language
English
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When her husband is convicted of a crime he did not commit, Kate plots her revenge on the people responsible.
45) The intermission
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A happily married man is forced to confront secrets in his relationship with his wife when she requests a strict separation to evaluate if her heart is still in the marriage.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Diana Cook, born at the turn of the nineteenth century, the only daughter of Virginia gentry, agrees to marry a rich captain to save her family's land. Luckily for Diana, her union with the captain is brief and gives her a beautiful son. But after the son is grown is when the real tragedy begins.
48) The Selection
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old America Singer is living in the caste-divided nation of Illea, which formed after the war that destroyed the United States. America is chosen to compete in the Selection--a contest to see which girl can win the heart of Illea's prince--but all she really wants is a chance for a future with her secret love, Aspen, who is a caste below her"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"Dept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us all. Jenny Offill's heroine, referred to in these pages as simply "the wife," once exchanged love letters with her husband, postmarked Dept. of Speculation, their code name for all the uncertainty that inheres in life and in the strangely fluid confines...
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Language
English
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Description
"A turbulent romance meets harrowing medical mystery: the true story of the author's twenty-year marriage defined by her husband's chronic illness-and a testament to the endurance of love. Eleanor met Aaron when she was just a teenager and he was working at a local record store-older, cool, experienced, and with an electric personality. Escaping the clichaes of fleeting young love, their summer romance bloomed into a relationship that survived college...
Author
Publisher
Icon
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"After 22 years, spent across four continents, with two children - Louis and Marcel - in 1990 Anne and Paul Theroux decided to separate. For that year, Anne - later a professional relationship therapist herself - kept a diary, noting not only her day-to-day experiences as a busy freelance journalist and broadcaster, but the contrasts in her feelings between despairing grief and hope for a new future. With reflections on truth and fiction, literature...
Author
Language
English
Description
Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft...
Author
Series
Dreamland billionaires volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Declan is destined to become the next CEO of his family's media empire, but he must marry in order to inherit the business. His marriage to Iris is supposed to be fake, but falling in love changes everything.
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A bracing, hilarious manifesto for motherhood as it ought to be: spontaneous, loving, and just a little bit selfishPre-chewing toddler food. Flash cards for two-year-olds. Endless hours of school gatherings to sit through in smiling silence. How did motherhood--which even under the best circumstances comes with a million small costs and compromises--become a venue for female martyrdom, verging on a sort of socially approved mass masochism? How did...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
Los novios de la secundaria Rosie y Dominic Vega están perdidamente enamorados. Bueno, al menos solían serlo. Ahora Rosie tiene suerte de recibir un gruñido cavernícola del ex soldado cada vez que entra por la puerta. Dom es fiel y un gran proveedor, pero el hombre del que se enamoró hace diez años no se encuentra por ningún lado. Sus amigos tienen tres palabras para Rosie: campo de entrenamiento matrimonial. Para su sorpresa, Dom está totalmente...
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Language
English
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Description
The Other Einstein offers us a window into a brilliant, fascinating woman whose light was lost in Einstein's enormous shadow. It is the story of Einstein's wife, a brilliant physicist in her own right, whose contribution to the special theory of relativity is hotly debated and may have been inspired by her own profound and very personal insight. Mitza Maric has always been a little different from other girls. Most twenty-year-olds are wives by now,...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Long-married icons Marlo Thomas and Phil Donahue offer a collection of intimate conversations with famous couples about their long marriages and how they have made their partnerships last"--
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Language
English
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"Ascendant novelist J.B. Blackwood is on a cruise with her husband, Patrick, to celebrate their wedding anniversary. Patrick is older than J.B., formerly her professor, now a film director and cult figure. But now his success is starting to wane and J.B. is on the cusp of winning a major literary prize. Her art has been forever overseen by him; now it may overshadow his. For days they sail in the sun, nothing but dark water all around them. Then a...
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