At first glance, you might think you know what’s going to happen in Gone, a literary page-turner about a middle-aged nutritionist, Eve Adams, and her husband Eric, who drives the hot babysitter home one night and doesn’t return. But novelist Cathi Hanauer avoids cliché and digs deep into the truths behind so many seemingly perfect modern marriages.
Considered one of the masterpieces of Western literature, Madame Bovary remains Flaubert's most famous work. This eBook, translated by Lydia Davis, offers a fresh approach to Emma's desires and ruin.
Meet Pat Peoples of Matthew Quick's novel-turned-hit-film, The Silver Linings Playbook. Pat's fresh out of the psych ward, armed with a new philosophy of life, and surrounded by flawed folks in this sad, funny, and unique look at relationships.
In this compact gem of a novel, O’Nan follows a couple, Marion and Art, a long-married duo at the end of their financial and emotional ropes. Art has hatched a plan in which they’ll return to Niagara Falls, sight of their honeymoon and nexus of their original married happiness, and bet their entire financial worth in an attempt to save their house, their livelihoods, and their marriage.
In this exquisite memoir, international journalist Kati Marton reveals her adventurous life, from her high-power job and intense marriages to Peter Jennings and Richard Holbrooke, to loss, and life beyond love stories. And always Paris remains a steadfast spring of solace and inspiration.
Bestselling author Elizabeth Berg has crafted another emotionally satisfying story in Range of Motion. This time a young woman is sustained by hope, faith, and a very different friendship when her beloved lies in a coma after a freak accident.
Jodi Kantor gives us an insider's look at the presidential marriage, revealing the intrinsic role Michelle Obama plays in the administration and in her husband's private life.
In this charming debut about love, grief, and renewal, Rachel Joyce takes a day's ordinary moment and transforms it into a life-changing journey for Harold Fry and those around him.
Nora Ephron was the queen of writing books and movies that captured how women truly feel, in friendships, in love, and about themselves. Here, a look at her classic novel of a broken marriage, Heartburn, in all its wit and wisdom.
This is not a novel about a wedding; it's a novel about what happens in the wake of the pursuit of imagined perfection.
On the eve of her twentieth anniversary, the author of Wife 22 shares her secrets for keeping the marriage fires burning in the twenty-first century.
Packing for summer – whether for weeks or just days, beach bound or lake bound – is all about packing as light as possible, and that goal extends to your reading material.
Freudenberger's latest isn't your typical fairy-tale of the honeymoon phase of marriage. In fact, it's world's away from that.
Oceans Eleven Comes to the YA Set: Ally Carter's Perfect Scoundrels
Some Heat Before Summer: Long Simmering Spring by Elisabeth Barrett
Mark Bittman's VB6: The Lifestyle Book Everyone's Talking About
Free Will: A Concise Study in Fact vs Illustion
A Read for Realists: Jonathan Evison's The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
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