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"Breastfeeding. The mere mention of it has many mothers wracked with anxiety (how will I manage with work, other kids, what if I don't make enough milk?) or guilt about not doing it (will I be hurting my child if I choose not to breastfeed? what will people think of me if I choose not to?). This hot-button issue is one we've talked about repeatedly in the media and in celebrity culture. Remember when Angelina Jolie posed for the cover of W nursing...
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Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2018.
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xii, 366 pages : illustration, map ; 24 cm
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A thriller that alternates between the glamorous fashion world of Paris and the rugged beauty of the Isle of Harris in the Scottish Hebrides. When a fabric entrepreneur is killed in a car explosion in Paris, Niamh, his wife and business partner, becomes the prime suspect. The Parisian police continue to hound her when she returns to Harris to bury her husband's remains. After an attempt is made on her life, Niamh has to wonder if the motive is simply...
83) Mr. Fox
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2011
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324 p. ; 21 cm.
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Fairy-tale romances end with a wedding, and the fairy tales don't get complicated. In this book, the celebrated writer Mr. Fox can't stop himself from killing off the heroines of his novels, and neither can his wife, Daphne. It's not until Mary, his muse, comes to life and transforms him from author into subject that his story begins to unfold differently.
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We set the dark on fire volume 1
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At the Medio School for Girls, distinguished young women are trained for one of two roles in their polarized society. Depending on her specialization, a graduate will one day run a husband's household or raise his children. Both paths promise a life of comfort and luxury, far from the frequent political uprisings of the lower class. Daniela Vargas is the school's top student, but her pedigree is a lie. She must keep the truth hidden or be sent back...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 25 cm
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"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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Black Cat
Pub. Date
[2014]
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viii, 371 pages ; 21 cm
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Chani and Baruch are anxious about their arranged marriage and the mysteries of the wedding night in this glimpse into the strict faith and traditions of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community seemingly out of place in a modern world.
88) Dry as rain
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Behind every broken vow lies a broken heart. A richly engaging story of betrayal and redemption, illuminating with striking emotional intensity the surprising truth of what it means to forgive.
89) Monsoon wedding
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Alliance Atlantis Communications
Pub. Date
c2002, 2001.
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1 DVD (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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You are invited to join the festivities as one colorful and eclectic family gathers from all over the world for a traditional wedding--a non-stop four-day celebration as unpredictable as the monsoon season itself. Anything goes when love, lust, hope and happiness take them by storm and bring them ever closer. With this family, when it rains, it pours.
90) Mercury
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Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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Arriving in Mercury, Pennsylvania, in 1990, gorgeous teenager and perpetual loner Marley West marries one of the Joseph brothers and tries to lead this family of roofers to stability in this hardworking, blue-collar town by helping them escape their unwieldy fathers shadow.
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2016.
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ix, 324 pages ; 24 cm
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"Engaging and groundbreaking, Splitopia challenges outdated, negative assumptions about divorce with sharp wit, searing honesty, rigorous research, and intimate interviews, and offers guidance for healthier, happier splits. When Wendy Paris announced that she and her husband were separating, friends forecast a tsunami of devastation--for both of them and their child. But as Paris would discover, divorce has improved dramatically in recent decades,...
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Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2016.
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xvii, 181 pages ; 21 cm
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"One of the biggest obstacles to a happy, strong marriage is a lack of understanding of yourself and your spouse. With Strengths Based Marriage, MarriageToday cofounder Jimmy Evans and Gallup Certified Strengths Coach Allan Kelsey give readers the tools they need to dismantle that hurdle and develop a deeper and richer relationship. Applying the revelatory concepts from the popular Clifton StrengthsFinder assessment to marriage (assessment itself...
93) Giant
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
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2 DVDs (201 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Bick Benedict, his society-gilded wife and three generations of land-rich Texas sons and daughters love, swagger, connive and clash in a monumental drama of family strife, racial bigotry and conflict between cattle barons and newly-rich oil tycoons.
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Soft Skull Press/Counterpoint
Pub. Date
c2011
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x, 367 p. ; 23 cm.
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There are some 40,000 Mormon fundamentalists in America today, all of whom cleave to the doctrine of polygamy. But outside of what we see on HBO's Big love and the occasional news story when a scandal breaks, what do we really know about their world? Polygamy is a diaspora--a hidden sprawl--and in Secrets and wives, journalist Sanjiv Bhattacharya gains unprecedented access to these communities. With charm and irreverence, he reveals a shadow country...
95) The ten-year nap
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What happens in one community when a group of educated women chooses not to work? Four friends are forced to confront the choices they've made in opting out of their careers--until a series of startling events shatters the peace and, for some of them, changes the landscape entirely.
96) The crown
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Pub. Date
2016.
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Twenty years have passed since America Singer and Prince Maxon fell in love, and their daughter is the first princess to hold a Selection of her own.
97) Clash by night
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
p2005, c1952
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1 DVD (ca. 105 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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Bitter and lonely, big city girl Mae Doyle, returns home to the sleepy fishing village of her childhood where she meets and marries Jerry, a local fisherman. Mae attempts to settle into her marriage and motherhood, but old habits die hard. Soon boredom and frustration take over and Mae finds herself entangled in an affair with a man she knows is no good--her husband's best friend.
99) Marry in scarlet
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Series
Marriage of convenience romances volume 4
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 18 cm.
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Refusing to wed, unconventional heiress Lady George Rutherford is forced into a marriage convenience with the loathsome Duke of Everingham to save herself from scandal-a union that unexpectedly leads to love.
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
270 unnumbered pages ; 25 cm
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"The Core Four have been friends since college: four men, four women, four couples. They got married around the same time, had kids around the same time, and now, fifteen years later, they've started getting divorced around the same time, too. With three of the Core Four unions crumbling to dust around them, Jessica and Mitch Butler take a long, hard look at their own marriage. Can it be saved? Or is divorce, like some fortysomething zombie virus,...
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