Skye joins Scumble River's social club and ends up at a party at the home of socialites Barbie and Ken Addison. But not long after, Skye gets caught in a murder mystery when she finds the perfect couple, perfectly dead. Original.
Countless readers have been delighted by Father Andrew M. Greeley's best selling tales of Nuala Anne McGrail, a fey, Irish-speaking woman blessed with the gift of second sight, and her hapless husband and accomplice Dermot Michael Coyne. Damian "Day" O'Sullivan is a troubled young man who blames himself for a tragic vehicular homicide he may not ...
This edition of The Taming of the Shrew includes an intriguing collection of historical and cultural documents designed to give students a rich sense of the context of Shakespeare's work and times. Documents include a widely-known Renaissance homily on marriage, popular caricatures of shrewish wives and abusive husbands, and material from conduct ...
Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Albee's most provocative, daring, and controversial play since "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," "The Goat" won four major awards for best new play of the year (Tony, New York Drama Critics Circle, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle). In the play, Martin, a successful architect who has just turned fifty, ...
The acclaimed author of "Kalooki Nights" returns with this novel of love and jealousy as Jacobson turns his mordantly funny, articulate sights on a married man who is so in love with his wife that he allows her to conduct an affair with another man.
Richard and Sara Everton, a middle-aged couple devoted to each other and, perhaps, foolhardy, move from California to a small village in Mexico to reopen an abandoned copper mine. As foreigners in an alien environment, they must learn to cope with the villagers' exaggerated respect, their own disorientation, the things they discover about each ...
A mutually beneficial arrangement . . . with potential for endless passion! - Marrying her boss, prominent businessman Cormick Grayson, was a very reasonable proposition for a woman who'd been hurt in love before. It wasn't love and they were both OK with that. But the heat in Grey's eyes told Amber there was more to this passionless marriage than ...
This book of 52 devotionals is a companion to Thomas's "Sacred Marriage," which enables couples to think and act upon the premise: "What if God designed marriage to make us holy more than to make us happy?"
Gelles offers an intimate look at the Revolutionary era's most influential marriage and America's first power couple, Abigail and John Adams. 12 b&w photos.
Americans John and Florence Dowell maintain a distanced but amiable friendship with Edward and Leonora Ashburnham, a British couple they met at a spa. Dowell finds Ashburnham to be quite admirable, but as the book progresses, more and more of Ashburnham's character is revealed, causing the reader--and eventually Dowell himself--to question Dowell ...
Quentin Fears, a Bill-Gates-like computer mogul, has a whirlwind romance, culminating in marriage with a woman he meets at a party. But Madeline is rather odd. There are gaps in her memory, and although she claims to have a large prestigious family, none of them come to the wedding. And why, when Madeline walks thorough the snow, does she leave no ...
Told with Jackson's trademark passion and sensuality, "Ties That Bind" is a dramatic, moving story that examines the relationships between friends and lovers who eventually become family.
Candid, compassionate, authoritative - a rich source of insights, information, and practical guidance "The first major work on the topic." - Gay Community News "A much needed comprehensive study of what happens to husbands, wives, and children during the coming-out crisis.".; - The Reverend Jane E. Vennard, founder Task Force for Spouses of Gays ...
The unforgettable characters from "A Distant Music" and "The Wind Harp" reunite for a dramatic conclusion to The Mountain Song Legacy trilogy. When a shadow falls over the MacAuley family, newlyweds Jonathan and Maggie Stuart find their faith and newly discovered happiness tested in unforeseen ways.
Michael and Lucy Davenport meet and marry in the 1950's, and divorce in the 1970's. In between, they become disillusioned with each other, with their infidelities, with art, and with the city where they live. Finally, stuck in a country cottage, their relationship dwindles to nothing. Like many of Richard Yates's characters, Michael and Lucy are ...
With just two exceptions, these 88 poems, in the form of a narrative, are addressed to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom Ted Hughes was married. They were written over a period of more than 25 years, the first a few years after her suicide in 1963. Intimate and candid, they cover the whole period of their relationship, from the first meeting ...
In Crace's typically strange and lyrical novel, the lives of a middle-aged married couple, murdered while making love al fresco, are examined in a narrative that moves backward in time, while simultaneously the reaction of their only daughter is explored. A New York Times "Editors' Choice" for one of the best books of 2000.
When Haleys husband walks out, she loses not only her marriage but her identity. Taking her lawyers suggestion to attend the Trophy Wives Club, a Bible study group composed of women who have been dealt a raw deal, Haley begins to find self-acceptance based on who God created her to be.
This informed analysis of the dynamics of a successful relationship is instructive for choosing a compatible partner and for maintaining a long, loving relationship. It is aimed not only at couples, but at those looking to become a couple.
"Heinemann Plays" offers contemporary drama and new editions of classic plays. The series has been developed to support classroom teaching and to meet the requirements of Key Stages 3 and 4. The plays are ideal for classroom reading and performance; many have large casts and an equal mix of parts for boys and girls. Each play includes strategies ...
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