18 books like Committed
Your brother's blood
Rising from the dead to join the ranks of "Walkin'" zombies, a war veteran from a post-apocalyptic world of the distant future seeks to rejoin his faith-driven family while struggling with living people who refuse to accept the undead.
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Creative Divorce; A New Opportunity for Personal Growth
Divorce therapist Mel Krantzler approaches the subject of divorce from a unique perspective and offers an optimistic outlook and hopeful opportunities for personal growth to those struggling to recognize and renew their individuality.
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Margaret Ogilvy, and others
"On the day I was born we bought six hair-bottomed chairs, and in our little
house it was an event, the first great victory in a woman's long campaign; how
they had been laboured for, the pound- note and the thirty threepenny-bits they
cost, what anxiety there was about the purchase, the show they made in
possession of the west room, my father's unnatural coolness when he brought them
in…
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The faraway nearby
A companion to "A Field Guide for Getting Lost" explores the ways that people construct lives from stories and connect to each other through empathy, narrative, and imagination, sharing anecdotes about historical figures and members of the author's own family.
Shares: Personal Memoirs, Authors, Women, Biography & Memoir
Not quite what I was planning
A collection of six-word memoirs, contributed by both famous and obscure writers, records the human experience in works that are by turn whimsical, poignant, and bizarre, by such authors as Joyce Carol Oates and Joan Rivers.
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The Price of Salt
THE PRICE OF SALT is the famous lesbian love story by Patricia Highsmith, written under the pseudonym Claire Morgan. The author became notorious due to the story's latent lesbian content and happy ending, the latter having been unprecedented in homosexual fiction. Highsmith recalled that the novel was inspired by a mysterious woman she happened across in a shop and briefly stalked. Because of the…
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The Company She Keeps
A female Goodfellas— the true story of A supermodel turned getaway driver for the mob.All-American beauty Georgia Durante was one of the most photographed models in the country when she married mobster Joe Lamendola. It plunged her into a world she never dreamed of—and one she feared she’d never survive—as a getaway driver for the Mafia and an eyewitness to unspeakable violence, brutality, and…
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The Mr. & Mrs. Happy Handbook
Ever since Eve asked Adam, "Do I look fat in this fig leaf?" it has been apparent that husbands don't know how to relate to their wives. Men believe they understand women and vice versa, but really men know as much about women as a cocker spaniel knows about assembling a Weber grill.Welcome to The Mr. & Mrs. Happy Handbook, Steve Doocy's laugh-out-loud perspective on love, marriage, and family.…
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A Doll's House
Translation of Doll's house, English translation of Norwegian original by William Archer.
Shares: Wives, Marriage, Women
Le quinze joyes de mariage
Avec des siècles de littérature, il est inévitable que certains passent entre les mailles du filet. Nous traquons les œuvres du domaine public et les restaurons afin qu'elles ne soient pas perdues pour le monde.
Qui sommes-nous? Nous sommes Cairn Press. Notre expérience est dans le design, l'édition, la typographie et la technologie. Ces compétences alimentent notre mission de créer des livres…
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A Mother's Reckoning
On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. In a matter of minutes, they killed twelve students and a teacher and wounded twenty-four others before taking their own lives.
For the last sixteen years, Sue Klebold, Dylan's mother, has lived with the indescribable grief and shame of that day. How could her child, the promising young…
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A Winter Haunting
A once-respected college professor and novelist, Dale Stewart has sabotaged his career and his marriage -- and now darkness is closing in on him. In the last hours of Halloween he has returned to the dying town of Elm Haven, his boyhood home, where he hopes to find peace in isolation. But moving into a long-deserted farmhouse on the far outskirts of town -- the one-time residence of a strange and…
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Un autre regard #1-2
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Skylight Confessions
Writing at the height of her powers, Alice Hoffman conjures three generations of a family haunted by love. Cool, practical, and deliberate, John is dreamy Arlyn's polar opposite. Yet the two are drawn powerfully together even when it is clear they are bound to bring each other grief. Their difficult marriage leads them and their children to a house made of glass in theConnecticut…
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Une mort tres douce
La journée du mardi se passa bien. La nuit, maman fit des cauchemars. On me met dans une boîte, disait-elle à ma sœur. Je suis là, mais je suis dans la boîte. Je suis moi, et ce n'est plus moi. Des hommes emportent la boîte! Elle se débattait: Ne les laisse pas m'emporter! Longtemps Poupette a gardé la main posée sur son front: Je te promets. Ils ne te mettront pas dans la boîte. Elle a réclamé…
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Mémoires
"The name of Giacomo Casanova, Chevalier de Seingalt (1725-98), is now synonymous with amorous exploits, and there are plenty of these, vividly narrated, in his memoirs. But Casanova was not just an energetic lover. In his time he was a diplomat, businessman, trainee priest, traveler, prisoner, magician, confidence man, gambler, professional entertainer, and charlatan. He financed business…
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Physiologie du mariage
Physiologie du Mariage
Honoré de Balzac, romancier, critique littéraire, essayiste, journaliste et écrivain français (1799-1850)
A. Houssiaux, 1855
Ce livre numérique présente "Physiologie du Mariage", de Honoré de Balzac, édité en texte intégral. Une table des matières dynamique permet d'accéder directement aux différentes sections.
Essai, méditation, et récit, ce texte oscille entre l’étude de…
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Marriage in motion
A gothic novel in the grand tradition of the nineteenth century—set in '90s Belgium—by the bestselling author of I Who Have Never Known Men.An architect returning home from a business trip is stranded when his car breaks down. It is midnight. In the distance he sees a wrought-iron gate, and behind it, a beautiful, crumbling mansion that seems to belong to a different time. For a steep fee, he is…
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