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Twenty-nine-year-old Callie Holt, with her seven-hour-old marriage already imploded, turns to her phone, sifting through the photographic evidence of the past year to pinpoint where it all went wrong, in this darkly humorous novel exploring millennial wedding culture, class and relationships told through a social media lens.
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"Robin and Ellie have been best friends since childhood.... But when Ellie asks Robin to be her maid of honor, she is reluctant. A queer academic, Robin is dubious of the elaborate wedding rituals now sweeping the nation.... But loyalty wins out, and Robin accepts. Yet, as the wedding weekend approaches, a series of ominous occurrences lead Robin to second-guess her decision. It seems that everyone in the bridal party is out to get her. Perhaps even...
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Charli and Nico's wedding blog has an uninvited guest: a commenter convinced the bride is being romanced by the brother of the groom. To save her from a terrible mistake he adopts multiple identities on multiple message boards, sharing his fears for Charli, his outrage at being thwarted, and the romance, years ago in his analog past, that first attracted his meddlesome care. Cranky, hilarious, and incisive, The More You Ignore Me takes on Internet...
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Laura and Lila were once as close as could be-college roommates at the center of a tight-knit group of friends. But the friendship has wilted a bit. Now, ten years after college, the friends-and the boyfriend they shared-have reunited for Lila's wedding at her family's seaside estate in Maine.
Laura is reserved, single, and the only Jew in the group, while the bride, Lila, is a WASP-y moneyed golden girl, and the groom, Tom, a swim team star from...
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"The river can take you home. But the river can also drag you under... 'It's something she learned years ago - the hard way - and that she knows she will never forget: even the sweetest fruit will fall and rot into the earth, eventually. No matter how deep you bury the pain, the bones of it will rise up to haunt you ... like the echoes of a summer's night, like the river flowing relentlessly on its course.' Margot Sorrell didn't want to go home. She...
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"Interrupted during his preparations for the conjugal duties of his wedding night by a mysterious glowing ball of light, Griffith Smolders jumps out the window and flees across the countryside of Victorian Ontario in 1898. With his bride hot on his heels, Grif's madcap adventures come to an end when Avice, intent on exacting her revenge, finally runs him aground."--
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Demanding that her mother, father, and brother emerge from their self-imposed isolations and gather once more for her wedding, Winter Wilcox and her fractured Jewish family must face the harms of the past and decide if they can ever reconcile in the face of humanity's uncertain future.
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On the morning of his daughter Miranda's wedding, Paul learns that the bank he manages has been robbed by the same man who robbed it twenty-five years earlier. And Miranda who is set to marry Paul's former best friend has gone missing. All of these events lead Paul to re-evaluate his life and friends.
10) Love bomb
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In quaint Haddonfield, New Jersey, Tess is about to marry Gabe in her childhood home. Her mother Helen is in a panic about the guests, who include warring exes, crying babies, jealous girlfriends, and too many psychiatrists. But the most difficult guest was never on the list at all: a woman in a wedding dress and a gas mask, armed with a rifle, a bomb trigger strapped to her arm. Who has offended this nutcase, and how? Does she seek revenge against...
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A young bride shuts herself up in a bedroom on her wedding day, refusing to get married. In this moving and humorous look at contemporary Israel and the chaotic ups and downs of love everywhere, her family gathers outside the locked door, not knowing what to do. The bride's mother has lost a younger daughter in unclear circumstances. Her grandmother is hard of hearing, yet seems to understand her better than anyone. A male cousin who likes to wear...
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