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A marriage can be measured in secrets best kept, and secrets better off forgotten. Kate Johnson learns this the hard way when her charming husband shows signs of living a double life. As she uncovers evidence of affair after affair, she must decide for herself what she can and can't live with. Red flags become his red carpet as he turns his lies against her. And, if she tries to stop him, Kate risks losing her husband, her home, and her family forever.
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Middle-aged high school English teacher Holden Averett is gearing up for a well-deserved break. Finally, a relaxing summer spent napping and soaking in the West Michigan sun. Until, that is, his wife of 18 years drops a bomb on the last day of school: move out by the end of the week. Sophia wants a trial separation. She also might be in love with someone else.
Spinning from the shock and desperate to fill his unexpectedly fraught summer, Holden takes...
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Helping Howard explores the fraught lifetime marriage of a straight older man, his younger gay wife, and the daughter that survives them.
An anti-romantic romance, this book tells the tale of The Author who awakens Howard into consciousness in order to become her accomplice in figuring out what happens next. Their ongoing dialogue pushes the story forward through quarrelsome, humorous, psychological cliffhangers. Playing with, and exposing, the creative...
4) Stay North
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Marriage is tough and relationships are always complicated...
Harry and Noelle Phillips know this all too well. In order to refocus their lives together after eighteen years, the couple begins a long weekend excursion in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The trip is an attempt to put their marriage back on course.
For their Stay North they choose Grand Island, situated off Munising Harbor and due west of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. Here is where...
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Can a couple's marriage survive a life-changing loss when one of them is responsible for the tragedy?
And the Stars Kept Watch is the story of Catherine and Nathan Osgood, a young couple who has everything they desire. Nathan is married to the woman of his dreams and has a great career to match. Catherine, with her two young boys, has the family and the life she's yearned for. With a momentary lapse of judgment, Nathan causes an accident that will...
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Your relationship with your partner really started when you were in 4th grade, since all the uncomfortable, emotional reactions in you today were formed unconsciously in childhood. You are married to these old reaction patterns, but your adult self is afraid to embrace them. So you blame your spouse, boss, friends, parents, kids, and everything else for your discontent.
This is why relationships fail! I call it Half-Syndrome. You need to return to...
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Couples around the world have been waiting for this book for 25 years.
Twenty-first century couples need twenty-first century options for planning weddings and services of commitment. Step-by-step choices from "traditional" to "contemporary" enable weddings to be custom crafted.
Words For New Weddings offers easy opportunities to make your wedding personal, unique, and relevant. You get to create your "One of a Kind" event to share with family and...
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How to go gently into that good night? Is there a fifth season?
In their advanced years, Honey, Hank and Seth didn't expect to find themselves unattached through divorce, separation and death. They have little else in common except their morning ritual of taking a solitary walk along the same stretch of Florida coastline to behold the sun breaking through the horizon line with equilibrium and serenity, day after day. Each morning draws them closer...
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Zuleikha arrives in the US from Lahore, Pakistan, by marriage, having trained as a pianist without ever owning a real piano. Now she finally has one-a wedding present from her husband-but nevertheless finds it difficult to get used to her new role of a suburban middle-class housewife who has an abundance of time to play it.
Haunted by the imaginary worlds of the confiscated contraband books and movies that her father trafficked in to pay for her...
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After one heck of a first date with an ill artist, Susan was all in for a wild race against the clock.
She knew what she was getting into...sort of. Charlie was frailer than she realized and only twenty-seven. But it was clear from day one that he was in search of his own brand of perfection. She'd watch his work magically evolve while his body slipped away. She'd summon unfettered wiliness, hope, and forgiveness, while still managing to find...
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