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Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of WilliamMorrowPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The author recounts her journey to the other side of her fairy-tale marriage to a Bulgarian novelist and their failed efforts to revitalize their relationship by moving to the south of France, where the author confronted undercurrents that had been influencing her life.
Author
Language
English
Description
"For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
363 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
An elderly Chinese man recounts his life and marriage in text and art, from meeting the woman his father had arranged for him to wed, through their time together and the twenty-two years they were kept apart while he was a prisoner, to her death.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
305 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A CIA operative and his CIA sharpshooter wife describe how they unexpectedly fell in love during a mission and the complicated challenges they faced in their shared effort to return to civilian life.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Examines the historical importance of the marriage between John Adams, the second president of the United States, and his wife Abigail, who was well known for speaking out against slavery and for women's rights.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
258 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the aftermath of the author's eight-year-old son's drowning death during a family rafting trip, describing how the tragedy threatened to isolate their surviving family members as they processed wrenching grief in their own ways.
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Threshold Editions hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
x, 479 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A study of the partnership between the thirty-seventh President and his wife argues that the couple endured political and intimate disappointments during their fifty-three-year marriage but ultimately shared genuine affection.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
240 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A journalist and essayist traces the difficult process of picking up the pieces of her life after it was shattered by the death of her husband, a Texan solider whose Apache helicopter crashed in Iraq.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In a story of an assimilated Jewish family in turbulent times, the author describes his grandparents' enduring love through the terror and separation of two world wars during which their courage, imagination, and devotion helped them to triumph over the very darkest of days.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 2011, when she was in her late fifties, author and journalist Joyce Maynard met the first true partner she had ever known. Jim wore a rakish hat over a good head of hair; he asked real questions and gave real answers; he loved to see Joyce shine, both in and out of the spotlight; and he didn't mind the mess she made in the kitchen. Before they met, both had believed they were done with marriage, and even after they married, Joyce resolved that...