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"Nora Hamilton knows the formula for love better than anyone. As a romance channel screenwriter, it's her job. But when her too-good-to work husband leaves her and their two kids, Nora turns her marriage's collapse into cash and writes the best script of her life. No one is more surprised than her when it's picked up for the big screen and set to film on location at her 100-year-old-home. When former Sexiest Man Alive Leo Vance is cast as her ne'er...
62) See now then
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182 pages ; 22 cm
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A marriage is revealed in all its joys and agonies. This piercing examination of the manifold ways in which the passing of time operates on the human consciousness unfolds gracefully, and Kincaid inhabits each of her characters as they move, in their own minds, between the present, the past, and the future -- book jacket.
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"An eighteen-year-old woman named Franca Viola made history in 1966 as one of the first '#metoo' heroines of modern times, when she refused to go along with a centuries-old forcible marriage custom in Sicily. Having endured kidnap and rape, she publicly defied the expectation that she would marry the rapist to 'restore her broken honor.' In Natalie Galli's The Girl Who Said No, Viola's remarkable story unfolds when the author arrives in Palermo to...
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272 pages ; 21 cm.
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"A vast caravan of RVs roam the United States. A girl grows a unicorn horn, complicating her small-town friendships and big city ambitions. A young lady on a spaceship bonds with her AI warden while trying to avoid an arranged marriage. In Allegra Hyde's universe nothing is as it seems, yet the challenges her characters face mirror those of our modern age. Spanning the length of our very solar system, the fifteen stories in this collection explore...
67) Loving Lord Ash
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"Kit, the Marquis of Ashton, is in a sticky wicket. He married young and for love--how naïve. He discovered his mistake the very day of his wedding, but he is saddled now with a wife he's reluctant to trust. And however much evidence he gathers against faithless Jess, he can't seem to prove her guilt to the final judge--his foolish heart. Jess knows she's bobbled her marriage, however innocently. A fairytale wedding makes no difference if she hasn't...
68) Hope springs
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1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Kay and Arnold are a middle-aged couple who have been married for 30 years and now are sleeping in separate rooms and barely interact in any meaningful loving way. Finally, Kay has had enough and finds a book by Dr. Feld which inspires her to sign them up for the doctor's intense week-long marriage counseling session. What follows is an insightful experience as Dr. Feld manages to help the couple understand how they have emotionally drifted apart...
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xiv, 312 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"Ranging from the grand palaces and opera houses of eighteenth-century Europe to the pleasure gardens and debtors' prisons of London, at the heart of this book is an unconventional love story -- of the elopement between the famous castrato Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci and his young bride Dorothea Maunsell. Set in a world of high art and celebrity, The Castrato and His Wife is the tale of a scandalous marriage that gripped Georgian society, and the hidden...
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1 videodisc (approximately 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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On the eve of her 30th birthday, Nina Davenport has become obsessed with the institution of marriage and the missing ring on her finger. In "Always a bridesmaid" Nina confronts her fears from the trenches, where she works as a wedding videographer. She cross-examines failed love interests, interrogates nervous brides and wise spinsters, and gathers advice from anyone who will listen.
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350 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"Roberta Kaplan's gripping story of her defeat of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) before the Supreme Court"--Amazon.com.
Renowned litigator Roberta Kaplan knew from the beginning that it was the perfect case to bring down the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Edie Windsor and Thea Spyer had been together as a couple, in sickness and in health, for more than forty years, enduring society's homophobia as well as Spyer's near total paralysis...
73) Ugetsu
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Criterion collection volume 309
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2 videodiscs (97 min.) : sound, black and white (disc 1) and color (disc 2) ; 4 3/4 in.
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日本語
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In sixteenth century Japan a village potter and his brother-in-law set out for the city to seek their fortunes in the spoils of war. Their neglected wives suffer the bitter consequences of their husbands' ambition as one is murdered by soldiers and the other is raped and becomes a prostitute.
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"Is finding true love a calling or a curse? Even as a child in 1910, Sara Glikman knows her gift: she is a maker of matches and a seeker of soulmates. But among the pushcart-crowded streets of New York's Lower East Side, Sara's vocation is dominated by devout older men-men who see a talented female matchmaker as a dangerous threat to their traditions and livelihood. After making matches in secret for more than a decade, Sara must fight to take her...
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"In 1944, twenty-three-year-old Tess DeMello abruptly ends her engagement to the love of her life when she marries a mysterious stranger and moves to Hickory, North Carolina, a small town struggling with racial tension and the hardships imposed by World War II. Tess's new husband, Henry Kraft, is a secretive man who often stays out all night, hides money from his new wife, and shows no interest in making love. Tess quickly realizes she's trapped in...
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3 videodiscs (468 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Swedish
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Marianne and Johan always seemed to be the perfect couple. But when Johan suddenly leaves Marianne for another woman, they are forced to confront the disintegration of their marriage. Chronicles ten years of turmoil and love that bind the couple despite their divorce and subsequent marriages. Portrays the brutal pain and uplifting peace that accompany a lifetime of loving.
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Eva is a newlywed with a successful career as a top marriage counselor, a hot husband, and the answers to everything. But when she finds out that her parents are getting a divorce, and her hubby has neglected to mention his first wife, Eva's perfect world begins to crumble. Is true love little more that a fairy tale or is marriage really just an institution for the committed?
80) Incarceron
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442 pages ; 22 cm
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To free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a young prisoner escape.
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