#hardcover #drlaura #thepropercareandfeedingofhusbands #marriage 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

North Dakota

Transform Your Man, Your Marriage, Your Life

The perfect companion book for the woman who wants to ensure herself--and her man--that the marital happiness and satisfaction she dreams of is possible.

With The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands Dr. Laura helped hundreds of thousands of readers make good marriages even better and saved many from the brink of divorce. Now, she expands on that bestseller with more insight into the special power women have to transform their husbands, their marriages, and their lives.

Through a series of provocative chapters and Q&As, Dr. Laura guides women on how to assess what is valuable and what is vulnerable in their marriages, and encourages them to think about what is really important about being a woman, a wife, and a mother. In addition, readers will find inspirational stories and tips, thought-provoking essays, and space for entries and journals. Dr. Laura sums it up best: "Woman Power is part standard book, part journal, part workbook, and all a positive way to take the basic concepts from The Proper Care and expand and reinforce those ideas to help you transform your life, and that of your family, into the spiritually sound and satisfying experience it can be."

Woman Power

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Shaunti Feldhahn

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Delaware

What You Need to Know about the Inner Lives of Men

What's going on in a man's mind? Feldhahn's research reveals the inner lives of men and will open women's eyes to what the men in their life are really thinking and feeling.

For Women Only

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New Jersey

Love, Morgenthau, and Me

"Lucinda Franks recounts her marriage to Robert Morgenthau, Jr., a man decades her senior who subscribes to a vastly different lifestyle"--

Timeless

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#hardcover #marriage #relationships #nonfiction


North Carolina

Excellent condition.  #hardcover #nonfiction #family #marriage #relationships #janakramer 

Tennessee

Wanting to Leave, Choosing to Stay, and the Powerful Practice for Loving Faithfully

"An honest portrayal of fights and forgiveness from country music singer Jana Kramer and NFL player Mike Caussin, whose Whine Down podcast reveals the couple's fights and disagreements in real time for listeners"--

The Good Fight

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#hardcover #marriage #family #relationships #novel #fiction

Pennsylvania

A Novel

In San Francisco during the first year of Barack Obama's presidency, Lena Rusch and her husband Charlie Pepper must deal with a stillborn child, an economic crash, a ruthless business rival and the attentions of an old lover. By the best-selling author of Rise the Euphrates. 75,000 first printing.

Three Stages of Amazement

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Barbara Rainey

Susan Yates

Youre done . . . but youre not finished! And one more thing. Youre not alone. Feeling unsure? Scared? Expectant? Maybe even giddy? Is your nest empty except for a bundle of mixed emotions? As you grieve whats behind and daydream about possibilities, youll feel young again, ready for new challenges and adventures. Yet you may not know what to pursue or how to discover whats next. Many women in this season of life wonder: Who am I now? And what should I do? How will my marriage be affected? Does anyone need me? How do I relate to my children? Is it okay to feel sad? Or thrilled? Whats next? Barbara and Susan can be the friends you need to walk you through these new experiences. Theyll guide you to answers, and together youll discover a new purpose and passion for your next life adventure.

New hardcover book, but marked as in like new condition due to a couple of tiny tears and ripples on the jacket cover due to shelving. 

Maryland

Discovering New Purpose, Passion & Your Next Great Adventure

Feeling unsure? Scared? Expectant? Maybe even giddy? Is your nest empty-except for a bundle of mixed emotions? As you grieve what's behind and daydream about possibilities, you'll feel young again, ready for new challenges and adventures. Yet you may not know what to pursue or how to discover what's next.

Barbara & Susan's Guide to the Empty Nest

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Julie Powell

A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession

The popular blogger describes how in the wake of a strain on her marriage she left town to immerse herself in the art of butchery, the laborious training she received, and her journeys throughout the world in search of the butchery practices of other cultures.

Cleaving

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Richard Russo

Pulitzer-prize winning author.
A book-of-the-month club main selection ￼

The lives of Jack and Joy Griffin always seem to come back to Cape Cod, where they honeymooned, as they experience the ups and downs of life, including the deaths of Jack's parents, the marriage of their daughter, and Jack and Joy's divorce.

That Old Cape Magic

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Ed Wheat

Gaye Wheat

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God gave humankind the gift of sex. But many couples don't experience the kind of joy and fulfillment God intended. If you've ever been frustrated with a lack of intimacy in your marriage, or if you just want to know more about how you can get the most out of your relationship, Intended for Pleasure is for you. This honest and frank resource will answer your questions about sex and sexuality, improving sexual response, sex techniques for pregnancy, birth control, sex at any age, solutions for sexual problems, and much more. All of the questions you've been afraid to ask (or didn't even know to ask!) are answered right here.

A perfect gift for newlyweds and a trusted resource for pastors and marriage counselors, this classic book has helped more than a million people understand and enjoy the gift God intended for pleasure

Texas

For over 20 years, this best-seller has helped couples build fulfilling marriages with medically accurate information and biblical wisdom on sex and relationships.

Intended for Pleasure

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8 Steps Couples Can Take to Make the Most of Their Money--And Live Richly Ever After

Middle-class couples are working harder than ever. So why are they finding it more difficult to finance their homes, send their kids to college, and save toward retirement?

Couples who are strapped for time and weighed down by costly fixed expenses need more than a personal finance pep talk: They need a plan. In The Big Payoff, CNBC correspondent Sharon Epperson lays out a nuts-and-bolts program that couples of all ages can use to realize their financial dreams. From stretching your budget and investing wisely in your home to protecting your family's money and building wealth over the years, The Big Payoff offers a concise bounty of precious information and practical steps toward financial wellness.

Epperson begins by showing couples how to communicate better about money. She helps them realize that the same qualities needed to create a lasting relationship--understanding, compromise, and patience--are vital when it comes to building a secure financial future. Every important decision couples make, whether it's buying a home, having kids, changing jobs, or preparing for retirement, will inevitably involve a discussion about money, and Epperson teaches them how to handle finances with a cool hand while keeping the marriage vibrant and healthy. In addition, she empowers couples to take money matters into their own hands and shows them that by taking control of their finances, they can stop fretting about cash and start focusing on the important things in life.

Each of the following chapters is designed to get partners talking and thinking about their financial life together. In eight easy-to-understand steps, Epperson unpacks the various options for saving money; creating emergency, retirement, and college savings plans; investing in a home; choosing the right life and health insurance; and drafting an estate plan. A wife and mother of two herself, Epperson knows a thing or two about the pitfalls of financial planning and doses her advice with plenty of humorous anecdotes, hard-earned experience, and down-to-earth language. Additionally, through helpful worksheets and exercises, The Big Payoff helps readers customize a plan that will work best for them and reap the most payback.

It's never too late or too early to start, and now is the best time to start planning. Whether you are newlyweds or fast-approaching retirement, just starting a family or soon to be empty-nesters, this book is for you. After working hard to provide for your family, the reward of discovering your financial strength will be the peace of mind to enjoy your marriage, your family, and the rest of your lives together.

The Big Payoff

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A 100-Day Guide to Lasting Relationships

Take your marriage from average to awesome in 100 days, or your money back!Create the spiritual, emotional and physical closeness that you've been hungering for! Identify the roadblocks that keep you from experiencing exciting and satisfying intimate moments with your spouse.We will even refund your money if you don't see marital improvement after this 100-day challenge.

Intimacy doesn't need to be illusive! Its time to recognize intimacy for what it is-a loving and life-long process that requires commitment and practice. Realize that God is a true romantic and He definitely is interested in this issue. From Scripture, personal experience and research, Doug Weiss offers a 100-day practical plan that will energize your relationship and create a spiritual, emotional and physical closeness that you have hungered for in your marriage. You'll identify destructive emotional roadblocks the enemy uses to keep you from experiencing wild, abandoned, intimate moments with God and your spouse. Develop a marathon mentality for your relationship and take the next 100 days to fall in love all over again.

Inside this book you'll discover:

Three stages of sexuality
How sexual history creates doubt
The importance of owning sin
Why to set boundaries in marital dating
How to discuss your sexual desires
How the internet threatens intimacy
What to do with sexual addictions
Practical steps to letting go of childhood traumas
The healthiest gift you can give to your children

 

100 Day Guide to Intimacy

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

California

Stepparenting Without Guilt is a helpful easy-to-read guide for parents and stepparents on how to deal successfully with the challenges and difficulties of stepfamily life.

*NEW* Stepparenting Without Guilt 

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Adrian Tomine

New York

A comic book based on the author's own wedding plans celebrates the absurd aspects of getting married, from taking dance lessons to managing family demands.

Scenes from an Impending Marriage

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Calvin Trillin

What a loving, deeply felt tribute to Alice. Just a little front jacket discoloration—otherwise, pristine. 

In Calvin Trillin’s antic tales of family life, she was portrayed as the wife who had “a weird predilection for limiting our family to three meals a day” and the mother who thought that if you didn’t go to every performance of your child’s school play, “the county would come and take the child.” Now, five years after her death, her husband offers this loving portrait of Alice Trillin off the page–his loving portrait of Alice Trillin off the page–an educator who was equally at home teaching at a university or a drug treatment center, a gifted writer, a stunningly beautiful and thoroughly engaged woman who, in the words of a friend, “managed to navigate the tricky waters between living a life you could be proud of and still delighting in the many things there are to take pleasure in.” Though it deals with devastating loss, About Alice is also a love story, chronicling a romance that began at a Manhattan party when Calvin Trillin desperately tried to impress a young woman who “seemed to glow.” “You have never again been as funny as you were that night,” Alice would say, twenty or thirty years later. “You mean I peaked in December of 1963?” “I’m afraid so.” But he never quit trying to impress her. In his writing, she was sometimes his subject and always his muse. The dedication of the first book he published after her death read, “I wrote this for Alice. Actually, I wrote everything for Alice.” In that spirit, Calvin Trillin has, with About Alice, created a gift to the wife he adored and to his readers.

About Alice

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Nicholas Sparks

Connecticut

From America's favorite chronicler of love stories comes the long-awaited follow-up to his classic, "The Notebook," as Wilson Lewis struggles to find his way back into the heart of the woman he adores.

The Wedding

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#hardcover #theamateurmarriage #grandparents #fiction #marriage #annetyler

Marrying quickly during World War II after falling in love at first sight, a mismatched couple discovers that their very different personalities and approaches to life are taking a toll on their lives, their relationship, and their family, in a compelling novel spanning three generations. 300,000 first printing.

The Amateur Marriage

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Dennis Rainey

Bob DeMoss

Missouri

Loving the Love of Your Life

Deep within every marriage is a God-given desire for intimacy. By God's design, romance is supposed to be the flame in the fireplace. It includes warmth, security, and, of course, sexual intimacy.

Yet far too many Christian couples feel cheated because their marriage produces about as much spark as a book of wet matches. For them the kids, the long hours at the office, the bills, health issues, and even feelings of guilt leave them drained. Others have neglected to fan the flames of passion for so long that they have lost hope of experiencing romance. Their relationship has become as routine as it is lifeless. Some are so puzzled by the whole affair they have come to the wrong conclusion that God has withheld something good from them. In short, romance in marriage can be a challenge and a mystery.

Rekindling the Romance is organized into a collection of short, easy-to-digest, biblically based chapters. Packed with practical insight, this tastefully candid and inviting resource provides the Christian couple with the keys to unlock their relational and sexual intimacy.

Rekindling the Romance

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#hardcover #marriage #garythomas #love #christianlife #loveandmarriage 

Michigan

What If Marriage Is about More Than Just Staying Together?

Gary Thomas believes couples often settle for too little when it comes to marriage. We fail to understand how deeply God cares about our spouse. We diminish our need to not only understand what biblical love really is, but also to become a people who excel at it. We let ourselves drift apart instead of making the daily choices to grow closer together.

Whether your marriage needs a complete makeover, a touch up, or just a new purpose, A Lifelong Love promises to set your relationship on an entirely new dimension. You will never look at worship or your spouse in the same way again. You will understand how living for that day will so radically transform the decisions you make this day. And Gary will guide you through the power shifts and seasonal mine fields that blow up so many marriages so that you can grow in your love instead of in your disappointment.

Thirty years of study and two decades of working with couples has led Gary Thomas to his most significant book yet on the relationship between husband and wife. Find out for yourself what all the fuss is about--and why A Lifelong Love is sure to challenge the way the church talks about marriage.
Includes discussion and reflection questions for couples.

A Lifelong Love

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Bess Curran is shaken from her comfortable, independent, post-divorce life when her daughter becomes pregnant and plans a wedding in which she asks both parents to walk her down the aisle

Bygones

#hardcover #fiction #historicalfiction #historical #thehelp #histfic #bestseller #marriage 

The #1 New York Times bestselling novel and basis for the Academy Award-winning film—a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don’t—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who’s always taken orders quietly, but lately she’s unable to hold her bitterness back. Her friend Minny has never held her tongue but now must somehow keep secrets about her employer that leave her speechless. White socialite Skeeter just graduated college. She’s full of ambition, but without a husband, she’s considered a failure. Together, these seemingly different women join together to write a tell-all book about work as a black maid in the South, that could forever alter their destinies and the life of a small town...

The Help

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Jana Kramer

Michael Caussin

Iowa

#hardcover #nonfiction #uncommonmarriage #tonydungy #laurendungy #family #marriage #relationships 

Kansas

Learning about Lasting Love and Overcoming Life's Obstacles Together

Shares lessons the authors have learned over more than thirty years of marriage, discussing the incidents and factors that have strengthened their relationship.

Uncommon Marriage

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#hardcover #fiction #romance #emilygiffin #drama #marriage #tragedy 

Mississippi

In a dazzling, delightful new novel that's quintessential Emily Giffin, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Something Borrowed, Where We Belong, and The One & Only introduces a pair of thirty-something sisters who find themselves asking: If love, marriage, and children don't arrive in the usual order, which comes first?

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