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2) The wedding
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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After thirty years, Wilson Lewis is forced to face a painful truth. His wife, Jane, has fallen out of love with him, and it is entirely his fault. Despite the shining example of his in-laws, Noah and Allie Calhoun, and their fifty-year love affair, Wilson is unable to express his true feelings. He has spent too little time at home and too much at the office. Now his daughter is about to marry, and his wife is thinking about leaving him. But if Wilson...
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English
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"All of us want to be fully accepted in our relationships, yet it can be difficult to fully accept our partners for who they are. This insightful guide for couples is based on a simple concept: Act out of kindness, love, and acceptance, and you will open your relationship for the creation of greater kindness, love, and acceptance. With strategies drawn from acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), a powerful therapeutic approach, this book will...
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English
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"Here are complete toasts for the best man -- frequently updated with new speeches. From traditional to unusual to pleasantly quirky, the speeches come with simple tips, explaining structure and tone. This is a short, to-the-point tool designed to unstick the brain and get ideas flowing."--
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English
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Discover the 8 Most Common Ways Love Stumbles and What to Do About Them!
Falling in love is easy. Staying deeply committed to your relationship, even when love stumbles, is the greater challenge. Eight major stumbling blocks can cause even the most passionate couples to drift apart-and chances are, if you're in a committed relationship, you've brushed up against at least a few of these. When Love Stumbles offers a plan for reversing problematic relationship...
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Publisher
Stop the Presses LLC
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (160 pages)
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English
Description
Rethinking the entire legal process of marriage, which is built upon bad laws and old traditions, this revolutionary plan makes a series of simple, yet logical, adjustments to the order and manner in which things are currently done. By shining a brilliant light upon the factors that have caused marriage to fail and divorce rates to skyrocket, the resulting process takes on the power to dramatically increase the satisfaction level within a marriage...
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Pub. Date
2014.
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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English
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In Getting the Love You Want, Dr. Harville Hendrix presents the relationship skills that have helped hundreds of thousands of couples replace confrontation and criticism with a process of mutual support that facilitates healing and growth. This extraordinary practical guide describes the revolutionary technique of Imago Relationship Therapy, which combines a number of disciplines--including the behavioral sciences, depth psychology, social learning...
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English
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To begin with, Kirk and Ruth, recently married, were blissfully happy and in due course a son, Bill, was born. But thereafter all did not go well. Returning from a long and fruitless visit to Columbia, Kirk finds that Ruth is firmly under the thumb of Aunt Lora, whose views on the care of children do not accord with Kirk's natural fatherly instincts. This is one reason for the coolness between Kirk and Ruth. How this situation is happily resolved...
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English
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Universally acclaimed by the country's most prominent relationship experts, this warm, optimistic, and practical guide gives couples surprising tools to improve their marriages. After 20 years of working with couples in workshop settings, Susan Page offers insights into the differences between thriving couples and those who focus more on their problems. When she interviewed happy couples to discover what they all have in common, the answers surprised...
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English
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"Weddings from the Heart offers five complete new ceremonies, the texts of traditional Christian and civil ceremonies, and hundreds of vows, consecrations, and blessings. Includes more than fifty heartwarming, philosophical, and poetic readings on love from a wide range of writers and poets such as Pablo Neruda, Rainer Maria Rilke, Shakespeare, and Elizabeth Barret Browning."--
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Publisher
Lexington Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (266 pages)
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English
Description
"The diverse expert contributors to this volume from the fields of politics and law use moral argumentation with respect to same-sex marriage, gay rights in general, and California's Prop 8. The arguments are advanced in terms of the nation's foundational political and legal principles, extending ethical argumentation to important contemporary public policy areas such as marriage, the separation of church and state, and the rearing of children. Several...
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Heart of Life volume 3
Publisher
Booktrope
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (154 pages)
Language
English
Description
"Relationships challenge us to free ourselves from old ways of thinking that no longer serve us, to be aware of our blind spots and to develop our unique personal power. It is in our intimate relationships that we wake up and discover who we are. The Heart of Relationships is a collection of 105 aphorisms on love, marriage and intimacy. You can think of them as signposts along the way. This book explores intriguing ideas about the way we search for...
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New Harbinger Publications
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 online resource (200 p.)
Language
English
Description
"What the heck is my partner thinking?" is a common refrain in romantic relationships, and with good reason. Every person is wired for love differently, with different habits, needs, and reactions to conflict. The good news is that most people's minds work in predictable ways and respond well to security, attachment, and rituals, making it possible to actually neurologically prime the brain for greater love and fewer conflicts. Wired for Love is...
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Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (224 pages)
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English
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"Where Can You Turn...?...when the bills are due, the kids are acting out, loneliness and doubt are creeping into your quiet hours--and you're handling it all alone? If your partner is in the military, these challenges may be the greatest that your relationship will ever face. Now is the time you need answers, resources, and understanding. This is the book that will give them to you. Military wife and U.S. Army veteran Shellie Vandevoorde has penned...
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New Harbinger Publications
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 online resource (184 p.)
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English
Description
"The Emotional Affair is the only book on the market for couples seeking to cope with and recover from one partner's emotional affair. Although emotional affairs often do not include physical intimacy, they can take away from the relationship by encouraging one partner to get his or her emotional needs met elsewhere, and by bringing secrecy and deception into the relationship, which damages trust just as surely as if the partner had slept with the...
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Publisher
Wolfgang Riebe
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Are you a romantic? Would you like to be one? Do you find it difficult coming up with original 'love quotes' for your partner? Here is a book containing a collection of 365 different ways to say "I Love You". Imagine being able to tell your partner that you love them in a different way, every day, for an entire year! The book contains a collection of 365 sayings and quotations by unknown authors that you can use as is, or tweak to suit your specific...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, the #1 New York Times bestseller A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love. "Just as good, if not better, than Khaled Hosseini's best-selling first book, The Kite Runner."-NewsweekKhaled Hosseini returns with...
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Leena Darling
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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English
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Michael and Jenna's Christian Domestic Discipline Marriage features all the stories in the Christian Domestic Discipline Marriage series: Jenna's Punishment Spanking (Christian Domestic Discipline Marriage #1) - During a disagreement, Jenna storms out of the house without telling her husband where she's going. Michael is worried sick over his wife's whereabouts, and he's determined to put a stop to her irresponsible behavior. He's a Christian man...
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Leena Darling
Pub. Date
2013.
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1 online resource
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English
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Michael forbids Jenna from dining at one of her favorite restaurants due to a string of muggings in the area. She promises to obey, but one night her friends talk her into having dinner there. She thinks she's gotten away with it, but the restaurant calls to say she left her bank card on the table, and her husband intercepts the phone call. Michael confronts Jenna while she's taking a bath and decides to punish her on the spot. Will Jenna be able...
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