Ford, Arielle.
Summary: It’s one thing to fall in love and get married. It is quite another thing to have a marriage you love. This is the true purpose of Turn Your Mate Into Your Soulmate. Author of the international bestseller The Soulmate Secret, Arielle Ford unlocks the wisdom learned in her own marriage along with expertise gleaned from friends and experts such as Harville Hendrix, John Gray, Dr. Helen Fisher,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperElixir 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.7 FORFrangello, Gina
Summary: "Gina Frangello is a long-married fortysomething devoted mom when her life is turned upside down by the sudden death of her closest friend. Worn down from years of caregiving both her elderly parents and three kids, Gina starts to interrogate her own mortality and what she once longed for as a younger woman : a kind of sexual, romantic and artistic intensity radically at odds with her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRANGELLO, GINA FRADJ Envy
Summary: Gia and Raashaun Casey met when they were two teenagers living around the corner from each other in Queens. They have been together for an astounding twenty-five years and have remained together through RaaShaun's growing celebrity, a devastating cheating scandal, and the births of five children. Gia and Raashaun explore the entire chronology of their love story with vulnerability, honesty, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 920 CASMcBride, Karyl.
Summary: "Author of the bestseller Will I Ever Be Good Enough? Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers Dr. Karyl McBride draws on her expertise in treating children and partners damaged by narcissists in this practical new guide to divorce and its aftermath. With more than three decades of experience as a licensed marriage and family therapist, Dr. McBride guides you through the emotional fallout...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.89 MCBFrancis, Isabella
Summary: You’re someone who wants to make sure your child has the support, love and care they need to grow up and become a fully functional adult. You’re also someone acutely aware of the hold a narcissist can have over you. After all, you left your partner for a very good reason. Now that you’ve broken free there’s something that will have shocked you: they still have a hold over you! They’re still...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Isabella Francis 0000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 306 FRAParis, Wendy
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.8 PARChapman, Gary D.
Summary: "Separation does not necessarily mean divorce is imminent. Matter of fact, it's possible that separation may even lead to a restored, enriched, growing marriage. The outcome of this time of transition is determined solely by the individuals involved. If you're willing to make the most of that process, begin the journey with confidence as Gary walks you step-by-step towards healing and hope"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: "Instead of presenting love as an ethereal concept or a collection of cliches, Jay Shetty lays out specific, actionable steps to help you develop the skills to practice and nurture love better than ever before. He shares insights on how to win or lose together, how to define love, and why you don't break in a break-up. Inspired by Vedic wisdom and modern science, he tackles the entire...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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Summary: "The authors' decades of research have revealed that a great relationship is founded on the small stuff. The Love Prescription distills the data they have gathered over the past fifty years on more than three thousand couples (everything from their body language to the way they converse to their heart rates and stress hormone levels) into a seven-day action plan to transform your relationship"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 152.4 COTHurst, Nicholas
Summary: "How did you know you were right for each other? How did you know it was the right time to get married? What should we be doing as a couple to make sure our marriage starts out well? These questions are among many that Chelsea and Nick Hurst have received since nearly 2.4 million people followed their love story, engagement, and marriage on their YouTube channel. Now they're ready to dive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261.8 HURMuñoz, Alicia
Summary: "It's time to stop overthinking your relationship! The four-step approach in this book will help you move beyond excessive rumination, so you can rediscover joy, ease, and meaningful connection with your partner. Rumination-obsessive thinking about an idea, situation, or choice that can interfere with normal life-is a common and destructive issue that can negatively impact romantic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Harbinger Publications, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.7 MUNFranks, Lucinda
Summary: Journalist Lucinda Franks recounts her unconventional marriage to Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, Jr., a man decades her senior who subscribes to a vastly different lifestyle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 FRAMenanno, Julie
Summary: "What does a healthy realtionship look like? A good question in theory, but expert couples therapist Julie Menanno wants you to ask a slightly different one: What does a securly attached relationship feel like? The answer to this question is the ultimate goal in Secure Love, a groundbreaking guide to secure attachment in adult relationships. While attachment style has grown in popularity to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Havrilesky, Heather
Summary: "If falling in love is the peak of human experience, then marriage is the slow descent down that mountain, on a trail built from conflict, compromise, and nagging doubts. Considering the limited economic advantages to marriage, the deluge of other mate options a swipe away, and the fact that almost half of all marriages in the United States end in divorce anyway, why do so many of us still...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAVRILESKY, HEATHER HAVHampshire, Linda
Summary: "An irresistibly gifty A-to-Z book of expert answers to wedding planning questions, humorous observations, offbeat advice about wedding and marriage prep, and pure, quickfire fun for brides-to-be"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Potter Style 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 392.5 HAMMullally, Megan
Summary: At last, the full story behind the Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman's epic romance, sharing stories, portraits, and the occasional puzzle, all telling the smoldering tale that has fascinated Hollywood for over a decade.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 920 MULBradbury, Thomas N.
Summary: Builds on extensive research to demonstrate how couples can support each other's health goals without becoming saboteurs, sharing strategic advice based on in-depth analysis of the way partners affect health-care habits.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.25 BRAHutton, June
Summary: "A writing couple searches for answers when Alzheimer's causes one of them to lose the place where stories come from -- memory. At the age of fifty-three, Tony walks away from a life of journalism and into an unknown future dogged by self-doubt and financial worry. June is forty-eight years old then, a writer and a teacher, and over the following nine years she watches as her husband gradually...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dundurn 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 HUTSchefter, Adam
Summary: "On September 11, 2001, Joe Maio went to work in the north tower of the World Trade Center. He never returned, leaving behind a wife, Sharri, and 15-month old son, Devon. Five years later, Sharri remarried, and Devon welcomed a new dad into his life. For thousands, the whole country really, 9/11 is a day of grief. For Adam and Sharri Maio Schefter and their family it's not just a day of grief,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCHEFTER, ADAM SCHRubenstein, Carin.
Summary: Bringing together personal stories of everyday couples and expert social analysis, psychologist Carin Rubenstein provides readers with an intelligent and groundbreaking look into a disturbing marital trend: In two out of three marriages, women are running the show while men take it easy. As a result, more and more women are rejecting marriage as a viable social institution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Relation RubensteinSummary: For Anna Maria, a woman in her fifties, paradise lies with Jesus. She devotes her summer vacation to doing missionary work, so that Austria may be brought back to the path of virtue. On her daily pilgrimage through Vienna, she goes from door to door, carrying a foot-high statue of the Virgin Mary. When her husband, an Egyptian Muslim confined to a wheelchair, comes home after years of absence,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PARKinsella, Sophie
Summary: "After being together for ten years, Sylvie and Dan have all the trimmings of a happy life and marriage; they have a comfortable home, fulfilling jobs, beautiful twin girls, and communicate so seamlessly, they finish each other's sentences. However, a trip to the doctor projects they will live another 68 years together and panic sets in. They never expected "until death do us part" to mean...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION KINRichell, Hannah
Summary: Two summers, decades apart. Two women whose lives are forever entwined. And a house that holds the secrets that could free them both. At twenty-six, Lillian feels ancient and exhausted. Her marriage to Charles Oberon has not turned out the way she thought it would. To her it seems she is just another beautiful object captured within the walls of Cloudesley, her husband's Chilterns manor house....
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Richell 2018Sedaris, David
Summary: David Sedaris captures what is most unexpected, hilarious, and poignant about recent upheavals, and expresses the misanthropy and desire for connection that drives us all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2022