Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him. So it's a relief when his skill on the basketball court earns him a scholarship to college, far away from his childhood home. He soon meets Julia Padavano, a spirited and ambitious young woman who surprises William with her appreciation of his quiet steadiness. With Julia comes her family; she is inseparable from her three...
2) The wedding
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
The stunning, New York Times bestselling follow-up to The Notebook--a story of an ordinary man who goes to extraordinary lengths to win back the love of his life.
After thirty years, Wilson Lewis is forced to face a painful truth: the romance has gone out of his marriage. His wife, Jane, has fallen out of love with him, and it is entirely his fault. Despite the shining example of his in-laws, Noah and Allie Calhoun, and their fifty-year love affair,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A family's old, beloved dog takes a final road trip to help his humans find forgiveness and healing. Meg Gorton finds herself alone and lonely in Florida. Three years earlier, she had packed what she could fit into her sister's car, told her estranged husband, Gary, where he could find her, and asked him to take care of Moses, their beloved black Labrador. For years, she'd tried to talk Gary into moving away from Woodstock, Virginia. They both needed...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Colleen Hoover, #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends with Us, delivers her highly anticipated new novel All Your Perfects, a tour de force about a troubled marriage and the one old forgotten promise that might be able to save it.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Deputy Benjamin Patil finds an abandoned infant girl in a field, and when he cannot locate the mother, he and his wife Abbi consider serving as foster parents; in the aftermath of Ben's traumatic tour in Iraq, however, the couple is forced to reassess their marriage.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
You might be like Erin Smalley, struggling in her marriage and desperately needing words of encouragement. Ironically, she found new hope and direction in a conference led by... her husband's father! Applying Gary Smalley's principles, she not only experienced positive change in her marriage, but also helped launch a thriving marriage ministry to others with her husband, Greg. No matter where you are in your marriage journey-newly wed of celebrating...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The 10-Minute Relationship Workout! Peak athletic performance requires regular exercise, and a great relationship depends on regular emotional practice to stay in top form. Don't wait for a crisis to make you scramble to save your relationship. Start building emotional fitness today! Emotional Fitness for Couples is a collection of simple tips that will energize you and hone your relationship skills to championship levels-in just ten minutes a day....
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Elliott Cruz, having married single mom Karen Ames after charming her children and helping her restore her strength, finds their marriage in trouble when they begin to disagree about a business opportunity and learn that their brother-in-law is cheating on Elliott's sister.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Promising to be the debut novel of the season The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman's act of violence against her husband?and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive... Alicia Berenson's life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London's most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Seeking quiet and safety after a hard childhood, Leah marries Judah, a strong and gentle man, and for the first time in her life Leah believes she'll have peace. But the nation Judah was named for has been conquered by a cruel king, who decrees that all Jews are to conform to Syrian laws or risk death for following the laws of Moses. Judah's father resists the decree, igniting a war that will cost him his life. But before dying, he commands Judah...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Eight years have passed since the Battle of the Serpent. In the icy north, Lady Nore of the Court of Teeth has reclaimed the Ice Needle Cathedral. She has produced a monster of stick and snow who will do her bidding-- and exact her revenge. Suren, child queen of the Court of Teeth, fled to the human world and lives in the woods. When she is chased through the streets by the hag Bogdana, Suren is saved by Prince Oak, the heir to Elfhame-- and the boy...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is not a story about good versus evil. Or who was right. Or who was better. For decades, Kathleen Buhle chose to play the role of the good wife, beginning when, as a naive young woman from a working-class family on the South Side of Chicago, she met the dashing son of a senator at the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in Oregon. Within months of falling in love, Kathleen found herself pregnant and engaged, living a life beyond anything she'd ever known.
Determined...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rural Wisconsin, 1909. In the bitter cold, Ralph Truitt, a successful businessman, stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who answered his newspaper advertisement for "a reliable wife." But when Catherine Land steps off the train from Chicago, she's not the "simple, honest woman" that Ralph is expecting. She is both complex and devious, haunted by a terrible past and motivated by greed. Her plan is simple: she will win this man's devotion,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Newlyweds Celestial and Roy, the living embodiment of the New South, are settling into the routine of their life together when Roy is sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit. An insightful look into the lives of people who are bound and separated by forces beyond their control"--
Author
Publisher
Steerforth press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
An illuminating and thought-provoking examination of the uniquely American institution of marriage, from the Colonial era through the #MeToo age. Americans hold marriage in such high esteem that we push people toward it, reward them for taking part in it, and fetishize its benefits to the point that we routinely ignore or excuse bad behavior and societal ills in the name of protecting and promoting it. In eras of slavery and segregation, Blacks sometimes...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When you read this book, you will make many assumptions. You will assume you are reading about a jealous wife. You will assume she is obsessed with her replacement - a woman who is about to enter a new marriage with the man she loves. You will assume you know the anatomy of the relationships. Assume nothing. Read between the lies. Twisted and deliciously chilling, The Wife Between Us deftly explores the hidden complexities of marriage and the dangerous...
Author
Language
English
Description
Beloved New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs returns with a compulsively readable tale of an idyllic California beach town forced to reckon with scandal when a high school valedictorian's speech reveals secrets that shake the town to its core--
Every town has its secrets...
In idyllic Alara Cove, a California beach town known for its sunny charm and chill surfer vibe, it’s graduation day at the elite Thornton Academy. At Thornton, the...
Author
Series
Rosie novels (Graeme Simsion) volume 1
Language
English
Description
Don Tillman, a professor of genetics, sets up a project designed to find him the perfect wife, starting with a questionnaire that has to be adjusted a little as he goes along. Then he meets Rosie, who is everything he's not looking for in a wife, but she ends up his friend as he helps her try and find her biological father.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request