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1) Let him go
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
N 1951 North Dakota, years after losing her son in a horse riding accident, Margaret Blackledge seeks to retrieve her grandson from the daughter-in-law who ran off with another man but finds her efforts challenged by her reluctant husband and the boy's stepfamily.
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Series
Publisher
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Language
English
Description
This book is the most stunning achievement of Henry James' early period- in the 1860s & 70s when he was transforming himself from a talented young American into a resident of Europe, a citizen of the world, and one of the greatest novelists of modern times. Isabel Archer, the "lady" of the title, a beautiful, intelligent, and headstrong American girl newly endowed with wealth and embarked in Europe on a treacherous journey to self-knowledge, is delineated...
Series
Publisher
Nolo
Pub. Date
2011-
Language
English
Description
"Provides a clear and concise overview of laws that affect personal relationships and families and answers everyday legal questions that nearly every family encounters at some point. This book includes a quick-reference glossary of legal terms and an appendix of detailed information for all 50 states"--Provided by publisher.
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Language
English
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"It's 1924 South Carolina and the region is still recovering from the infamous boll weevil infestation that devastated the land and the economy. Gertrude, a mother of four, must make an unconscionable decision to save her daughters from starvation or die at the hands of an abusive husband. Retta is navigating a harsh world as a first-generation freed slave, still employed by the Coles, influential plantation proprietors who once owned her family....
Author
Publisher
WND Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"The American family used to be the fundamental institution of our stable, liberty-loving, and very successful society. It is the essential building block of a free society with limited government. In the last hundred years, the American family has been attacked, debased, maligned, slandered, and vilified by every facet of society. Who Killed the American Family explains how changes in the law, in court decisions, in the culture, in education, and...
Author
Publisher
Mountain View Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Through Denise's fascinating memoir, A House with Holes, the author and therapist shares how she and her craftsman-architect husband strengthened the holes in both their home and their relationship during this wearying time. Marriage principles have been woven seamlessly into the text, demonstrating ways to maintain relationships in the midst of difficulties. Reflective questions close each chapter so that readers may ponder their own relationships...
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Stephen Vider considers how the meanings of domesticity shifted for gay men and lesbians from the late 1960s to early 1980s, from a site of supposed isolation or deviance, to a source of identity, community, and pleasure. His manuscript reveals the multiple uses, appeals, and limits of domesticity for LGBTQ people in the post-World War II period, in their efforts to make social and sexual connections, and to appeal for expanded rights and freedoms....
Author
Publisher
TotalRecall Publications
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Stacey, opts out of her life in Ottawa to escape from a verbally abusive relationship. She is convinced that getting an education will help her self-esteem and make her husband appreciate her. The plan is to disappear long enough to return to school (she left school at 17, pregnant) and get enough credits for college. Her husband (yes, he married her) is less than supportive; in fact, he is the reason she suffers from debilitating depression. Stacey...