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Author
Publisher
Harper, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Portia Kane is escaping her ritzy Florida life and her cheating pornographer husband, running back to South Jersey, a place that remains largely unchanged from the years of her unhappy youth. Looking to find the goodness in the world she believes still exists, Portia sets off to save herself by saving someone else-- a beloved high school English teacher who has retired after a traumatic incident. With the 'help' of a sassy nun, an ex-heroin addict,...
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Tom and Gerry, a married New York couple who are on the skids, financially and romantically. With Tom hot on her trail, Gerry takes off for Florida on a mission to solve the pair's money troubles, which she accomplishes in a highly unorthodox manner.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Rachel and her girlfriends Charlene and Monica are realizing what they want in a man is not what they're getting in their men. Every woman at church loves Rachel's husband, Deacon Clarence-- especially the preacher's flirty daughter, Chantel. As Rachel's marriage is collapsing and their love grows apart, Rachel's new boss Damion Marshall is giving her reason to leave. Charlene struggles to hold on to what's left of her marriage, as her husband Bruce...
Author
Series
Amica geniale volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning Gale
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Friends Lila and Elena are now in their twenties. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery. The two young women share a complex and evolving bond that brings them close at times, and drives them apart at others. Each vacillates between hurtful disregard and profound love for the other. With this complicated and meticulously portrayed friendship at the center of their emotional lives, the two...
Publisher
Zima Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
When their marriage becomes stale, Susana, without informing Elogio, leaves Mexico for a writer's program at the University of Iowa. In his journey to find Susana, Elogio grows from a childish boor to a person capable of a relationship.
47) Days and clouds
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2009
Language
Italiano
Description
Explores love and turmoil in a well-to-do couple's marriage following the loss of employment and income.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
From the network that brought you The Real Housewives, and inspired by the best-selling Girlfriends' Guide book series, comes Bravo's highly anticipated first scripted series. After self-help book author and guru, Abby McCarthy, publicly admits that she has separated from her husband Jake, America's once-favorite girlfriend finds her career and marriage in a free fall.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2008
Language
English
Description
Lucky and Addy Lipton plan a trip to Costa Rica in a last-ditch effort to get their marriage back on track, but while loading the bags, Lucky throws out his back. When Lucky plants himself on the couch to recuperate, Addy decides it's time for things to change, even if that means making choices that involve all the women of Parker, Pennsylvania.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Bill Blair finds the land by accident, three wooded acres in a rustic community south of San Francisco. The year is 1954, long before anyone will call this area Silicon Valley. Struck by a vision of the family he has yet to create, Bill buys the property on a whim. In Penny Greenway he finds a suitable wife, a woman whose yearning attitude toward life seems compelling and answerable, and they marry and have four children. Yet Penny is a mercurial...
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2011, ©2008
Language
English
Description
It is 1917 in the South Dakota Badlands and the summer has been hard. Rachel and Isaac DuPree had left Chicago fourteen years ago to stake their claim. Isaac, a former Buffalo Soldier, is fiercely proud: black families are rare in the West, and black ranchers even rarer. But it hasn't rained in months, the cattle are bellowing with thirst, and supplies have dwindled. Struggling to feed her family, Rachel is isolated by more than just geography. She...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
An affair. It can rob a couple of their relationship, their happiness, their very identity. Why do people cheat, even those in happy marriages? Why does an affair hurt so much? When we say infidelity, what exactly do we mean? Do our romantic expectations of marriage set us up for betrayal? Is there such a thing as an affair-proof marriage? Is it possible to love more than one person at once? Can an affair ever help a marriage? For the past ten years,...
54) Swimming lessons
Author
Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Ingrid Coleman writes letters to her husband, Gil, about the truth of their marriage, but instead of giving them to him, she hides them in the thousands of books he has collected over the years. Then she disappears from a Dorset beach, leaving behind her husband, and her two daughters, Flora and Nan. Twelve years later, Gil thinks he sees Ingrid from a bookshop window. Flora, who has never believed her mother drowned, returns home to care for her...
55) The power couple
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When their college-aged daughter is abducted on a European family vacation, Brian and Rebecca Unsworth--both U.S. intelligence staffers--race to find the kidnappers and keep their fragile marriage intact"--
56) Maldeamores
Publisher
Maya Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
Español
Description
Three separate stories about love in Puerto Rico: a man accidentally reveals his brother's extra-marital affair to his sister-in-law when he mistakes her grief over the death of her grandmother for distress about the infidelity. The next story revolves around a man whose love for a bus driver drives him to take her and the bus passengers hostage until she consents to marriage. In the final story, an elderly woman is convinced to care for her terminally-ill...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Con ingenio y humor, María Amparo Escandón sigue a la familia Alvarado mientras esta lucha con evacuaciones inminentes, secretos, engaños y traiciones, y con la decisión más difícil que deben tomar hasta el momento: permanecer unidos o quemarlo todo. L.A. está seco como un desierto, Oscar, el patriarca de la familia Alvarado, está obsesionado con el clima y solo quiere un poco de lluvia. En realidad, alberga un secreto que lo distrae de todo...
Author
Publisher
Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Los miembros de la familia Delaney se quieren con locura...es solo que a veces se asesinarían. Para todos los que los conocen, los Delaney son una familia envidiable. Incluso después de todos estos años, los padres, Stan y Joy, siguen teniendo una química evidente y continúan arrasando en las pistas de tenis. Y ahora que han vendido su exitosa academia tienen todo el tiempo del mundo para relajarse y disfrutar de la vida. Sus cuatro hijos nunca...
Author
Language
English
Description
When U.S. troops occupy Germany, friends Jakob and Emmanuelle are saved from the terrible fate of so many in the camps. With the help of sponsors, they make their way to New York. In order not to be separated, they allow their friendship to blossom into love and marriage, and start a new life on the Lower East Side, working at grueling, poorly paid jobs. Decades later, through talent, faith, fortune, and relentless hard work, Jakob has achieved success...
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