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Author : Mrs. H. Cartwright
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Platonic Marriage: a Novel written by Mrs. H. Cartwright and published by . This book was released on 1787 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H. Cartwright
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (228 download)
Download or read book The Platonic Marriage: a Novel written by H. Cartwright and published by . This book was released on 1786 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mrs. Cartwright
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (999 download)
Download or read book The Platonic Marriage written by Mrs. Cartwright and published by . This book was released on 1787 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mrs. Cartwright
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (118 download)
Download or read book The Platonic Marriage: written by Mrs. Cartwright and published by . This book was released on 1787 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anjali Bhatia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Platonic Marriage written by Anjali Bhatia and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sex is at best a consolation prize for the loss of the treasure of childhood. I consider it one of the most overrated entertainments of human civilization." Ishika, a struggling actress with a string of disastrous relationships behind her, has given up hope of ever finding true love. She disdains the idea of marriage as a life insurance policy and being seen as a sex object by the men in her life. Mohan, a modest schoolteacher nursing a heartbreak that might never go away, has closed himself to the possibility of ever finding love ever again. With love, he has also shut out the prospect of sexual intimacy for good. Being in their thirties and sharing an uneasy equation with Mumbai--the city in which they have faced their demons--Ishika and Mohan strike up an unlikely friendship where both expose their deep emotional wounds to each other. Eventually this prompts Mohan to propose a Platonic Marriage: one in which they will be heartfelt companions to each other on mental, emotional and spiritual levels--all except sexual. After several reservations, Ishika accepts Mohan's proposal. But will their marriage survive without the industrial adhesive of sexual intimacy...or is their lifelong experiment headed for a premature end? Will Ishika and Mohan succumb to the tug of desire, or does life have even bigger surprises for them than having found each other?
Author : Alice Hoffman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451693613
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
Download or read book The Marriage of Opposites written by Alice Hoffman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A luminous, Marquez-esque tale” (O, The Oprah Magazine) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Museum of Extraordinary Things: a forbidden love story set on a tropical island about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarro—the Father of Impressionism. Growing up on idyllic St. Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris. Rachel’s mother, a pillar of their small refugee community of Jews who escaped the Inquisition, has never forgiven her daughter for being a difficult girl who refuses to live by the rules. Growing up, Rachel’s salvation is their maid Adelle’s belief in her strengths, and her deep, life-long friendship with Jestine, Adelle’s daughter. But Rachel’s life is not her own. She is married off to a widower with three children to save her father’s business. When her older husband dies suddenly and his handsome, much younger nephew, Frédérick, arrives from France to settle the estate, Rachel seizes her own life story, beginning a defiant, passionate love affair that sparks a scandal that affects all of her family, including her favorite son, who will become one of the greatest artists of France. “A work of art” (Dallas Morning News), The Marriage of Opposites showcases the beloved, bestselling Alice Hoffman at the height of her considerable powers. “Her lush, seductive prose, and heart-pounding subject…make this latest skinny-dip in enchanted realism…the Platonic ideal of the beach read” (Slate.com). Once forgotten to history, the marriage of Rachel and Frédérick “will only renew your commitment to Hoffman’s astonishing storytelling” (USA TODAY).
Author : Shirley Glass
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416586407
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book NOT "Just Friends" written by Shirley Glass and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the world’s leading experts on infidelity provides a step-by-step guide through the process of infidelity—from suspicion and revelation to healing, and provides profound, practical guidance to prevent infidelity and, if it happens, recover and heal from it. You’re right to be cautious when you hear these words: “I’m telling you, we’re just friends.” Good people in good marriages are having affairs. The workplace and the Internet have become fertile breeding grounds for “friendships” that can slowly and insidiously turn into love affairs. Yet you can protect your relationship from emotional or sexual betrayal by recognizing the red flags that mark the stages of slipping into an improper, dangerous intimacy that can threaten your marriage.
Author : Jeevani Charika
Publisher : Hera books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1912973189
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (129 download)
Download or read book A Convenient Marriage written by Jeevani Charika and published by Hera books Ltd. This book was released on 2019-11-13 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An arranged marriage becomes inconvenient for two Sri Lankan Brits in this novel of love, family, and living your truth. Chaya is a young woman torn between her duty to family and her life in the UK. While her traditional Sri Lankan parents want her to settle down into marriage, they don’t know that Chaya, terrified of their disapproval, has turned away the one true love of her life, Noah. Gimhana is hiding his sexuality from his family. It’s easy enough to pretend he’s straight when he lives half a world away in the UK. But it’s getting harder and harder to turn down the potential brides his parents keep finding for him. When Chaya and Gimhana meet, a marriage of convenience seems like the perfect solution to their problems. Together they have everything – friendship, stability and their parents’ approval. But when both Chaya and Gimhana find themselves falling in love outside of their marriage, they’re left with an impossible decision – risk everything they’ve built together, or finally follow their heart? Will they choose love, or carry on living a lie? Perfect for fans of Amanda Prowse, Ayisha Malik, and Susan Lewis.
Author : Clayton Dunham
Publisher : Clayton Dunham
ISBN 13 : 9781598006919
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (69 download)
Download or read book Unadulterated Love written by Clayton Dunham and published by Clayton Dunham. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Years after Steve and Stacey made vows committing themselves to one another in a sexless virtual marriage, their love affair remained undiscovered. Though they frequently stole away together on secret holidays, they purposed to never let their platonic relationship interfere with their marriages. After four years they had never tasted each other's lips nor explored physical affection beyond safe boundaries. Certain their mates would feel threatened by this close extra-marital bond, secrecy became the only way Steve and Stacey could continue nurturing a relationship, which was to them as vital as oxygen. They refused to believe their secret bond constituted marital infidelity, and believed they would always resist sexual temptation. However, they would soon learn that time and circumstance serves no mortal, and often reveals the falsehoods in our rationalizations. They experience how nature conspires with love, and fate aligns with circumstance, to deprive us of choice and control. Finally, they discover there is more to marriage than being married; more to fidelity than sex; and more to a covenant than the letter of the agreement.
Author : Rafael Yglesias
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439109818
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book A Happy Marriage written by Rafael Yglesias and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-07-07 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Happy Marriage is both intimate and expansive: It is the story of Enrique Sabas and his wife, Margaret, a novel that alternates between the romantic misadventures of the first weeks of their courtship and the final months of Margaret's life as she says good-bye to her family, friends, and children -- and to Enrique. Spanning thirty years, this achingly honest story is about what it means for two people to spend a lifetime together -- and what makes a happy marriage. Yglesias's career as a novelist began in 1970 when he wrote an autobiographical novel at sixteen, hailed by critics for its stunning and revelatory depiction of adolescence. A Happy Marriage, his first work of fiction in thirteen years, was inspired by his relationship with his wife, Margaret, who died in 2004. Bold, elegiac, and emotionally suspenseful, even though we know what happens, Yglesias's beautiful novel will break every reader's heart -- while encouraging all of us with its clear-eyed evocation of the enduring value of marriage.
Author : Elisabeth Elliot
Publisher : Revell
ISBN 13 : 0800758188
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Passion and Purity written by Elisabeth Elliot and published by Revell. This book was released on 2002 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have deep feelings for this guy, but he says I'm like a sister to him. What should I do?" "Why should a man still be expected to initiate romance?" "Isn't it okay to spend time together if we're just friends?" "If I never marry, will God take that desire away?" These are some of the many questions posed in letters to Elisabeth Elliot by readers of her bestselling book Passion and Purity. In this beautifully repackaged edition of Quest for Love, she responds with sound, biblical guidance, dusting off "antiquated" concepts such as commitment, integrity, honor, and servanthood, and showing how they still apply to dating and singleness today. Intertwined are hopeful true stories of discovering love through God's direction.
Author : Margaret Stohl
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1984812025
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)
Download or read book Jo & Laurie written by Margaret Stohl and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling authors Margaret Stohl and Melissa de la Cruz bring us a romantic retelling of Little Women starring Jo March and her best friend, the boy next door, Theodore "Laurie" Laurence. 1869, Concord, Massachusetts: After the publication of her first novel, Jo March is shocked to discover her book of scribbles has become a bestseller, and her publisher and fans demand a sequel. While pressured into coming up with a story, she goes to New York with her dear friend Laurie for a week of inspiration--museums, operas, and even a once-in-a-lifetime reading by Charles Dickens himself! But Laurie has romance on his mind, and despite her growing feelings, Jo's desire to remain independent leads her to turn down his heartfelt marriage proposal and sends the poor boy off to college heartbroken. When Laurie returns to Concord with a sophisticated new girlfriend, will Jo finally communicate her true heart's desire or lose the love of her life forever?
Author : Geir Gulliksen
Publisher : Hogarth
ISBN 13 : 1524759694
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)
Download or read book The Story of a Marriage written by Geir Gulliksen and published by Hogarth. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dramatic portrait of the dissolution of a marriage, written with brutal and lyrical precision, and nominated for the Nordic Prize. Jon, who is losing his wife to another man, is trying to understand what happened to his Great Love, by working, painfully, to see the story from her perspective. It begins as he asks her: "Can you tell me about us?" As he looks to his past and within himself, he begins to question the conventions of masculinity and femininity, understanding himself uncommonly as a man who challenges the male role--he's deeply embedded in family life, and identifies as sensitive, vulnerable, and nurturing. And finally, in an effort to understand how his wife could fall in love with someone else, he attempts an ultimate act of empathy: to tell the story from the other man's point of view, raising crippling questions: Is it possible to have sex without violating oneself or the other? How much of what we think is love is only projection? Is it possible to truly know another person? With prose unsettling in its precision and emotional heft, The Story of a Marriage cracks wide open the familiar story of a failed love, as it turns cliched phrases over and over again until they crumble, revealing a bitter hollowness--or ringing new meanings.
Author : Kelly Flanagan
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830847693
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)
Download or read book True Companions written by Kelly Flanagan and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we cultivate the life-long relationships we are longing for, whether within marriage or friendship? Psychologist Kelly Flanagan shows how each of us can enjoy the deeply satisfying, transformational love of companionship. With self-knowledge and an understanding of our own loneliness and emotional defenses leading the way, we can make the choice to love more vulnerably.
Author : Henry Cloud
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310233305
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Boundaries in Dating Workbook written by Henry Cloud and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2000 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cloud and Townsend apply their award-winning boundaries concepts to the dating relationship. This workbook helps readers work through the principles in "Boundaries in Dating" to make the dating arena a more satisfying, productive one. Those in the dating phase can learn to enjoy its benefits to the fullest, increasing their ability to find and commit to a marriage partner.
Author : Jeffrey Eugenides
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429969180
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Marriage Plot written by Jeffrey Eugenides and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book of 2011 A Publisher's Weekly Top 10 Book of 2011 A Kirkus Reviews Top 25 Best Fiction of 2011 Title One of Library Journal's Best Books of 2011 A Salon Best Fiction of 2011 title One of The Telegraph's Best Fiction Books of the Year 2011 It's the early 1980s—the country is in a deep recession, and life after college is harder than ever. In the cafés on College Hill, the wised-up kids are inhaling Derrida and listening to Talking Heads. But Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English major, is writing her senior thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot, purveyors of the marriage plot that lies at the heart of the greatest English novels. As Madeleine tries to understand why "it became laughable to read writers like Cheever and Updike, who wrote about the suburbia Madeleine and most of her friends had grown up in, in favor of reading the Marquis de Sade, who wrote about deflowering virgins in eighteenth-century France," real life, in the form of two very different guys, intervenes. Leonard Bankhead—charismatic loner, college Darwinist, and lost Portland boy—suddenly turns up in a semiotics seminar, and soon Madeleine finds herself in a highly charged erotic and intellectual relationship with him. At the same time, her old "friend" Mitchell Grammaticus—who's been reading Christian mysticism and generally acting strange—resurfaces, obsessed with the idea that Madeleine is destined to be his mate. Over the next year, as the members of the triangle in this amazing, spellbinding novel graduate from college and enter the real world, events force them to reevaluate everything they learned in school. Leonard and Madeleine move to a biology Laboratory on Cape Cod, but can't escape the secret responsible for Leonard's seemingly inexhaustible energy and plunging moods. And Mitchell, traveling around the world to get Madeleine out of his mind, finds himself face-to-face with ultimate questions about the meaning of life, the existence of God, and the true nature of love. Are the great love stories of the nineteenth century dead? Or can there be a new story, written for today and alive to the realities of feminism, sexual freedom, prenups, and divorce? With devastating wit and an abiding understanding of and affection for his characters, Jeffrey Eugenides revives the motivating energies of the Novel, while creating a story so contemporary and fresh that it reads like the intimate journal of our own lives.
Author : Shannon Hale
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608192555
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)
Download or read book The Actor and the Housewife written by Shannon Hale and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-06-14 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This magical story explores what could happen when one woman's not-so-secret celebrity crush walks right into real life and changes everything.
