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A humorous look at marriage by the American columnist and humourist Erma Bombeck, the author of The Grass is Greener Over the Septic Tank, Motherhood, When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It's Time to Go Home and Family: The Ties that Bind...and Gag. Her insights on marriage, metamorphoses, traditional family roles, and parent/child relationships are now only amusing, but sometimes quite poignant and serious. They also serve as a window into the...
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"April is a thoughtful but sarcastic mother of two who tries her best to be a caring, connected mom even as she rages at modern motherhood's impossible pressures, her husband's 'Dad privilege,' and her kids' incessant snack request. She wants to enjoy motherhood, but her idealist vision and lived experience are in constant conflict with one another. Is she broken--or is motherhood? Desperate for an answer, she seeks out a therapist, and lands with...
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"From their signature shows touring the country, Kristin and Danny Adams share their story and the answer to a question they're always asked: How do you keep the laughter alive? What they've learned is to take the roadblocks, or "laugh blockers" as they call them, and turn them into opportunities for growth, wisdom, and eventually, lots of laughter"--
"ANYONE can look like they have it all together in a 3-minute edited video clip. But like they've...
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Majestic Maine volume 3
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2023.
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When Aidan Strong arrives in Majestic, Maine, to give her family half of their business free and clear, Charlotte Delaney, refusing to take charity, proposes a little contest, discovering all's fair in love and war in their little seaside town.
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[2008]
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Joy is dumped by her boyfriend and her friends recommend she take a vacation to Las Vegas to get him out of her mind. After Jack gets fired by his dad from the family business, he ends up in Vegas too. After a night of drinking, the two wake up the following morning to discover they have gotten married. One of them wins a $3 million jackpot - using the quarter of the other. Both want to end the marriage and keep the money. The unhappy pair tries to...
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A newly-engaged couple invites all four of their divorced parents to brunch only to discover their mothers are ex-best friends who had an explosive falling out twenty-five years ago resulting in shenanigans that threaten the happy couple's future.
"When their newly engaged kids ask all four divorced parents to meet each other over brunch, everyone RSVPs yes--secretly hoping someone at the table will get to the bottom of the bottomless mimosas fast...
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Runaway royals (Alyssa Cole) volume 1
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"When Shanti Mohapi weds the king of Njaza, her dream of becoming a queen finally comes true. But it's nothing like she imagined. Shanti and her husband may share an immediate and powerful attraction, but her subjects see her as an outsider, and everything she was taught about being the perfect wife goes disastrously wrong. A king must rule with an iron fist, and newly crowned King Sanyu was born perfectly fitted for the gauntlet, even if he wishes...
8) Extra witchy
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Fix-it witches volume 3
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"Leanne Vanderpol loves getting married. It's staying married that she has trouble with. These days, she hooks up with whoever she wants, however she wants, and when the honeymoon glow fades, she's the first--and fastest--to hit the bricks. Trevor Montgomery is living the 'no responsibilities' dream. His college girlfriend broke up with him, fed up with his lack of ambition. Five years later, he still has no life plan, and even his own parents have...
10) Corpse bride
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[2006]
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Victor has messed up his vows during a wedding rehearsal, and is traveling through the woods, reciting his vows. He stops to rest in the woods,and while practicing he finally gets them right and ceremoniously puts the wedding ring on a finger-shaped stick in the ground. The stick turns out to be a rotted finger belonging to a murdered girl who has returned as a zombie and insists that she is now Victor's lawfully wedded wife.
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A latest collection of previously unpublished writings by the New York Times best-selling satirical author of You Can Date Boys When You're Forty reflects on his granddaughter's learning permit, the deviant behaviors of the men in his hometown and the loneliness of being a high-school nerd.
"During the course of living (mumble, mumble) years, Dave Barry has learned much of wisdom,* (*actual wisdom not guaranteed) and he is eager to pass it on--to...
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Majestic Maine volume 2
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Aspiring artist Misty Delaney is not about to let her parents' beloved caf©♭ go under. Not when she can just merge the company by entering a quick marriage of convenience with the rich son of their family's rival. But her sisters aren't having it. They all made a deal: they each get one month to find true love. She can't just fold. To make sure Misty gives finding love a chance, they post a "Marry me: Misty!" billboard outside town. Surely that'll...
14) Take my husband
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When Laurel's husband is in an accident, she feels strangely relieved. Doug's death could solve all her problems. There's just one problem: Doug is still alive. Now she must decide what to do about that.
15) Lucky Leap Day
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Hashtag holidays volume 2
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"A whirlwind trip to Ireland is supposed to end with a suitcase full of wool sweaters and souvenir pint glasses, not a husband you only just met! But after one too many whiskeys, fledgling screenwriter Cara Kennedy takes a page out of someone else's script when she gets caught up in the Irish tradition of women proposing on Leap Day. Waking the next morning with a hot guy in her bed and a tin foil ring on her finger was definitely not what she expected...and...
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He may not win Father of the Year, but Clint Edwards has won the hearts of thousands? including the New York Times, Scary Mommy and Good Morning America?thanks to his candor and irreverence when it comes to raising kids, being married and learning from his mistakes. Clint has three children: Tristan (the know it all), Norah (the snarky princess), and Aspen (the worst roommate ever). He describes parenting as "a million different gears turning in a...
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Knitting in the city volume 7
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"Being a billionaire heiress isn't all it's cracked up to be. In fact, it sucks. Determined to live a quiet life, Kat Tanner changed her identity years ago and eschewed her family's legacy. But now, Kat's silver spoon past has finally caught up with her, and so have her youthful mistakes. To avoid imminent disaster, she must marry immediately; it is essential that the person she chooses have no romantic feelings for her whatsoever and be completely...
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Maya Mirza's unlucky-in-love past seems to be turning around when she ends up in an arranged marriage to the on-paper perfect man; but as she heads to her wedding in Pakistan, she finally meets the man of her dreams, who isn't the man to whom she is arranged to be wed.
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Tricked into marrying a stranger and running a ramshackle hotel with him, Amelia agrees to stay for the summer so not to cause the economic downfall of this Greek island's quirky but well-meaning residents, but when the hotel is threatened by a developer, she finally finds something worth fighting for.
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