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When it comes to sex, dating, and relating, are we growing gardens or building towers?
The Garden of Eden provides us with a timeless vision for cultivating fruitful and healthy relationships. However, instead of growing gardens, the Tower of Babel promotes a humanistic culture that results in confusion and chaos. Babel may have been knocked down, but its lure remains, glowing as bright as our phone screens late at night.
There's no need for Christians...
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Through the filter of the human condition, Strange Bedfellows – a new anthology from Thistledown Press – examines relationships at every stage, in stories and essays filled with humour, grace, and occasionally complete irreverence. The difficulties common to romantic relationships are brought to the forefront in this collection about courtship, marriage, and love and the complications that arise when two people promise fidelity and frequently...
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"I can protect you."
But she must accept his ring!
An Allied at the Altar story: after an abusive marriage, Sofia is struggling to find acceptance in Society. So when dashing Viscount Taunton needs her investment for his business, she's surprised by his strong, supportive nature. In Conall's arms she discovers true pleasure. Yet to fully leave her past behind, Sofia must consider Conall's offer of his full protection-in the form of wedding vows!
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3884) The 25¢ Miracle
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Star light, star bright... Elvira wishes for a mother and finds instead the father she scarcely knew she had.
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The marriage revolution is at hand-it's going on right now, led by a new generation of married women who crave independence and adventure just as much as they crave commitment. With her fifteen years of experience at top women's magazines, Mandi Norwood hosts the perfect girls' night out, revealing married women's most intimate confessions from more than one hundred in-depth interviews. Sometimes hilarious, often tender, and always empowering, this...
3886) A Sister's Story
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FINALIST FOR THE 2021 STREGA PRIZE
From the internationally acclaimed author of A Girl Returned, a spellbinding story about family, memory, love, and the relationships that define us.
It's the darkest time of night. Adriana, a baby in her arms, hammers on her sister's door. Who is she running from? What uncomfortable truth is she carrying with her? Like a whirlwind, Adriana upends her sister's life bringing chaos and cataclysmic revelations.
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3887) Crash
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Just when sixteen-year-old Cameron thinks he's going to straighten out his troubled life, his parents break up and he ends up living on the street with his dog, Ozzie. He meets a girl named Mackenzie, who has been sleeping in a pup tent in the park. With her help, he tries to survive on the street and continue with school, despite the new challenges in his life.
Finding a safe place for them to crash at night is difficult, and panhandling for money...
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Natalie and Joseph Reyes continue to juggle the drama of everyone else's lives while trying to strengthen their loving marriage that only feels drained. Escaping growing problems at home with her husband, Natalie opens the door of a strange connection between her brother and her executive assistant in the workplace. Tony Taylor and Amelia Conrad contend for an open vice-president position at Millennium Fashion House. One of the required challenges...
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Many women have been there: juggling motherhood, a job, volunteer work, and chauffeuring kids to school and sports practices (a job in itself); it's enough to send anyone running for the hills. In Here's What I Need You to Know, wife and mother Shari Franklin shares her own experiences with candor, sincerity, and wit. From last-minute school projects to college applications to marriage frustrations, from insecurity to hilarity to acceptance, this...
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This exuberant guide is special among the many books on relationships because of Serge King's seasoned perspective as a master Huna shaman and alternative healer. "The problem between two people is never a 'relationship' that isn't working," he says. "It is always that one or both of them don't know how to relate in a better way. The real problem is behavioral, and it's easier to change behavior than to change an abstraction called a 'relationship....
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Bow Johnson, a doctor and the beloved mother of five hilarious children on ABC's hit comedy "black-ish" is writing a parenting book. Bow will share some of the outrageous scenarios she has faced as a mom and how she dealt with the situations and the consequences. Bow will show us that imperfect parenting can often turn out perfect children. The book will be featured prominently on the show.
3892) The Don't Before I Do
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What Are You Willing NOT to do to Get The Love of Your Life? In The Don't Before I Do, Dating and Relationship Coach Emily McKnight shares advice, encouragement and personal pitfalls she experienced during her own love journey to "I do." After 20 years of serial dating defined by lies, deceit, disrespect, and shattered hearts, Emily took her dating fate into her own hands. In the process, she discovered a new superpower that resulted in everything...
3893) The Birth Order Book
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Dr. Leman's ever popular book on birth order is ready for a new generation of readers. With insight and wit, Dr. Leman offers readers a fascinating and often funny look at how birth order affects personality, marriage and relationships, parenting style, career, and children. Whether at home or on the job, birth order powerfully influences the way people interact with others. This is a great book for anyone who wants to learn more about how they react...
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Long distance romantic relationships are becoming more popular thanks to social media. Isaac Ato Mensah, a prolific writer/journalist, uses his vulnerabilities in such a relationship to raise important cultural matters for public discourse. He enters into a real life romantic relationship with Florence, a lady he respects and loves dearly. And together they offer the reader their experiential and observational learning. Initially, the lady bid him...
3896) To Love is to Wait
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Patience Gouldsmith is embarking on the greatest journey that most young women in Regency England prepare for their entire lives: marriage. Only, she is marrying a man that she does not know. While arranged marriages are not uncommon in England society, Patience does not agree with her family's expectations. Despite her cold shoulder, there is something strange about her new husband. Why is he so kind, what is he hiding, and what does he teach her?...
3897) Ma Bole's Second Life
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Ma Bole follows the eponymous cowardly lay about as he escapes his unhappy family life by going on the run to avoid the coming Japanese invasion. A humorous-yet-stark depiction of despair in the face of war and Westernization, Xiao's novel (completed by the translator) mirrors the identity struggles of early-twentieth century China in the form of an unforgettable comic anti-hero.
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In a world of fleeting interactions and social media facades, "Winning in Daily Life: Practical Ways to Connect and Thrive" offers a refreshing roadmap to forging genuine connections, nurturing impactful relationships, and embracing your authentic self. Go beyond making friends; learn to connect with empathy, build bridges in different settings, and cultivate a growth mindset that empowers you to leave a lasting legacy. Whether you're seeking deeper...
3899) To Have and to Hold
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Madison's dad is getting remarried, but it's Maddie who has cold feet! Madison's dad has dropped some big news: He and Stephanie are getting married. In Texas. In two weeks! Maddie's head is spinning as the plans and the guest list for the big day keep growing. She's not sure how she feels about being in the wedding, much less about having a stepmother. There's a lot to stress about, like finding the perfect dress and reading a poem at the ceremony....
3900) Journaled to Death
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Journaling vlogger Mandy Meadows strives to preserve her hyper-organized life while searching for her cousin's killer in this twisty mystery: first in a brand-new series.
Divorced single mom Mandy Meadows scrapes by working as a barista and receiving payments from her cousin, Ryan, who rents her basement apartment. At night, she and her teenage daughter Vellum run a successful home business creating journaling content on their popular social media...
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