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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New Jersey

In an attempt to understand why her best friend committed suicide, eighteen-year-old Cody Reynolds retraces her dead friend's footsteps and makes some startling discoveries.

I Was Here

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#Inspirational #Love #Friendship #Relationship

Georgia

With quotes by famous people both past and present, short stories and examples of true friendship, Scripture verses and author commentary, this gift book about friendship has it all. Motivational speaker John Maxwell's enthusiasm and encouragement make you want to be a better friend and to give this colorful book to one.

The Treasure of a Friend

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Ohio

Have you ever felt you didn't trust someone but weren't sure what to do about it? Have you ever been disrespected by those close to you? Have you ever felt unsafe around certain people? Have you ever had someone close-a friend, partner, or business associate-who seems to not communicate when you need it most? If you answer yes to any of these questions, then let Gerard Brown guide you to more powerful and fulfilling personal and professional relationships. Gerard shows how the four keys of trust, safety, respect and communication are vital to any healthy connection. You will soon be armed with a superior knowledge of tools that will put you in total charge of your life and help you quickly recognize those trying to control or harm you. Through reading and learning from real-life examples, you will discover how to avoid toxic people and how to choose your friends and acquaintances wisely. Gerard approaches these delicate and complex topics with simplicity, humor, and logic. In Four: The Balance of Life, you truly will find how build healthy relationships.

Four the Balance of Life

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#hardcover #juvenilefiction #relationship 

Indiana

#hardcover #likenew #christian #cross #God #relationship #Jesus #miracles 

California

How God Uses Ordinary People to Build His Church

This title contains exotic tales from abroad about how God is miraculously building his church that encourage Christians at home to let go of their time and treasure to experience the abundant power of God.

The God Who Hung on the Cross

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#hardcover #nonfiction #romance #harvey #relationship #marriage #vice #selfhelp

Virginia

How to Find, Keep, and Understand a Man

"More relationship advice in this much anticipated follow-up to the #1 New York Times Bestseller and international sensation, Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man"--

Straight Talk, No Chaser

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#hardcover  #relationship #familydrama #whatisnormal #sons #psychologicaltrauma

Minnesota

Her successful life as an emergency-room doctor unraveling as her young son's behavior becomes increasingly problematic, Jana Thomas remembers the past she put out of her mind years earlier involving her violent younger brother and the parental role she assumed for his care. 35,000 first printing.

His Mother's Son

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#hardcover #Marriage #GaryThomas #Love #Relationship #Advice #Counseling #2BaptistChurch box 30

Texas

What If Marriage Is about More Than Just Staying Together?

Gary Thomas believes couples often settle for too little when it comes to marriage. We fail to understand how deeply God cares about our spouse. We diminish our need to not only understand what biblical love really is, but also to become a people who excel at it. We let ourselves drift apart instead of making the daily choices to grow closer together.

Whether your marriage needs a complete makeover, a touch up, or just a new purpose, A Lifelong Love promises to set your relationship on an entirely new dimension. You will never look at worship or your spouse in the same way again. You will understand how living for that day will so radically transform the decisions you make this day. And Gary will guide you through the power shifts and seasonal mine fields that blow up so many marriages so that you can grow in your love instead of in your disappointment.

Thirty years of study and two decades of working with couples has led Gary Thomas to his most significant book yet on the relationship between husband and wife. Find out for yourself what all the fuss is about--and why A Lifelong Love is sure to challenge the way the church talks about marriage.
Includes discussion and reflection questions for couples.

A Lifelong Love

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Delaware

#hardcover #fiction #ya #coryanderson #thriller #relationship #family #booktok
Retired library copy so please see photos of the cover. Pages are in perfect shape and have such pretty illustrations. This is such a great story. 

Oregon

A Novel

What Beauty There Is is Cory Anderson's stunning YA novel about brutality and beauty, and about broken people trying to survive—perfect for fans of Patrick Ness, Laura Ruby, and Meg Rosoff. To understand the truth, you have to start at the beginning. Winter in Idaho. The sky is dark. It is cold enough to crack bones. Living in harsh poverty, Jack Morton is holding his breath. He and his younger brother have nothing—except each other. And now Jack faces a stark choice: lose his brother to foster care or find the drug money that sent his father to prison. He chooses the money. Ava Bardem lives in isolation, a life of silence. For seventeen years her father, a merciless man, has controlled her fate. He has taught her to love no one. Now Victor Bardem is stalking the same money as Jack. When he picks up on Jack’s trail, Ava must make her own wrenching choice: remain silent or speak, and help the brothers survive. Choices. They come at a price.

What Beauty There Is

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#hardcover #fiction #juvenilefiction #relationship #youngadultfiction #signed #paperback #ya 

Louisiana

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

North Carolina

The Secret to Speaking Your Mate's Language

An in-depth study of the vital principles from the best-selling Cracking the Communication Code now in workbook form.

Communication between couples has been dissected in thousands of books and articles, so why does it remain the number one marriage problem? "Because," says Dr. Emerson Eggerichs, "most spouses don't know that they speak two different languages. They are sending each other messages in 'code, ' but they won't crack that code until they see that she listens to hear the language of love and he listens to hear the language of respect." Dr. Eggerichs' best-selling book, Love and Respect, launched a revolution in how couples relate to each other. Now with the Cracking the Communication Code companion workbook, the message of this hardcover trade book can be studied and applied whether for a group or for individual couples. The result will be better communication, mutual understanding, and a successful godly marriage.

Cracking the Communication Code

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Beautiful illustrations and a very sweet story of a mother's comfort and care 🥰 has a scratch on front cover, barely noticeable but see all pics! #hardcover #family #animals #kids #children #relationship #preschool #toddler  #moms #parenting

Missouri

If You Hold My Hand

#paperback #emotional #fiction #relationship #loss

South Carolina

Fans of Caroline Leavitt will relish this rich, complex novel born of the author's own loss and grief, about how one can overcome tragedy through bravery and self-discovery. Cassidy Morgan's life has always followed a carefully laid track: top education, fulfilling career, and marriage to the love of her life, Owen. The next logical step was starting a family. But when a late-term miscarriage threatens to derail everything she's worked so hard for, she finds herself questioning her identity, particularly what it means to be a mother. Unable to move past her guilt and shame, she realizes there's more to fix than a broken heart. Grief illuminates the weaknesses in her marriage and forces her to deal with her tumultuous relationship with her own mother. Cassidy hopes her work as a veterinarian specializing in equine reproduction will distract her from the pain but instead finds that one of the cases she's working on shines a spotlight on the memory of her unborn son. For once in her life, Cassidy is left untethered and wondering why she wanted to become a mother in the first place. Then the unexpected happens when Cassidy becomes pregnant again. But the joy over her baby is tempered by her fear of another loss as well as her increasingly troubled marriage. Now, she must decide whether to let her pain hold her back or trust that there's still something to live for. What We Carry is a thought-provoking response to the author's own miscarriage and lack of fiction surrounding the topic, that she and other women in her situation crave.

What We Carry

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#hardcover #personaldevelopment #relationship #gayhendricks

New York

The 5 Secrets of Growing a Vital, Conscious Relationship

In this long-awaited follow-up to their seminal Conscious Loving, Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks take on two of the most pressing problems that sap vitality and energy from our committed relationships: how to forge a closer relationship that still allows each partner full creative autonomy, and how to generate the passion and preserve the harmony essential to keeping long-term partnerships alive and blooming.

Lasting Love grew out of the Hendricks' laboratory of their 23-year marriage as well as their 10-year study of more than 2,000 long-term, committed couples. They discovered that the most common couples conflicts could be traced to at least one of five root causes:

* An imbalance between the creative energy each partner contributes to the relationship
* A lack of emotional honesty
* An unwillingness to accept responsibility for everyday issues
* Deep-seated commitment problems
* A deficiency of daily appreciations

Using these insights as a starting point, the Hendricks devised a program based on five vital actions that simultaneously lead to a deeper flow of intimacy between partners and greater creative freedom for each individual:

* Spend time expressing your own creativity rather than focusing on "fixing" your partner
* Eliminate the barrier to speaking and hearing the truth about everything
* Break the cycle of blame and criticism
* Make commitments you can really stand by
* Become a master of verbal and nonverbal appreciation

Filled with helpful real-life scenarios and straightforward advice, Lasting Love is an essential guide for anyone involved in a long-term relationship who wants it not only to last but to flourish.

Lasting Love

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#hardcover #suspensethrillers #thriller #relationship #newbook #myhusbandswife #marriage #killer #myatery 

Washington

One man's disappearance throws four women's lives into chaos--who will survive? Vicki works as an aromatherapist, healing her clients out of her home studio with her special blends of essential oils. She's just finishing a session when the police arrive on her doorstep--her ex-husband David has gone missing. Vicki insists she last saw him years ago when they divorced, but the police clearly don't believe her. And her memory's hardly reliable--what if she did have something to do with it? Meanwhile, Scarlet and her mother Zelda are down on their luck, and at eight years old, Scarlet's not old enough to know that the "game" her mother forces her to play is really just a twisted name for dealing drugs. Soon, Zelda is caught, and Scarlet is forced into years of foster care--an experience that will shape the rest of her life . . . David's new wife, Tanya, is the one who reported him missing, but what really happened on the night of David's disappearance? And how can Vicki prove her innocence, when she's not even sure of it herself? The answer lies in the connection among these four women--and the one person they can't escape.

The Dead Ex

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#hardcover #women #glamorous #relationship

From Grace Kelly's Wedding to a Women's Shelter - Searching for the Truth about My Mother

A daughter's moving search to understand her mother, Carolyn Scott--once a bridesmaid to Princess Grace and one of the first Ford models--who later in life spent years living in a homeless shelter.

Nyna Giles was picking up groceries at the supermarket one day when she looked down and saw the headline on the cover of a tabloid: "Former Bridesmaid of Princess Grace Lives in Homeless Shelter." Nyna was stunned, shocked to see her family's private ordeal made so public--the woman mentioned on that cover, Carolyn Scott Reybold, was her mother.

Nyna's childhood had been spent in doctor's offices. Too ill, she was told, to go to school like other children, she spent nearly every waking moment at her mother's side at their isolated Long Island estate or on trips into the city to see the ballet. The doctors couldn't tell her what was wrong, but as Nyna grew up, her mother, who'd always seemed fragile, became more and more distant. Now Nyna was forced to confront an agonizing realization: she barely knew the woman on the magazine in front of her.

She knew that her mother had been a model after arriving in New York in 1947, living at the Barbizon Hotel, where she'd met the young Grace Kelly and that the two had become fast friends. Nyna had seen the photos of Carolyn at Grace's wedding, wearing the yellow bridesmaid gown that had hung in her closet for years. But how had the seemingly confident, glamorous woman in those pictures become the mother she knew growing up--the mother who was now living in a shelter?

In this powerful memoir of friendship and motherhood, Nyna Giles uncovers her mother's past to answer the questions she never knew to ask.

The Bridesmaid's Daughter

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Great condition for its age! Yellowed a bit, see all pics! #fiction #hardcover #prairie #classic #sarahplainandtall #kids #children #farmlife #relationship

Sarah, Plain and Tall

#hardcover #youngadult #ya #gayleforman #contemporary #fiction #iwashere #youngadultfiction #juvenilefiction #relationship 

West Virginia

#hardcover #relationships #5lovelanguages #marriage #nonfiction #lovelanguages #relationship #teamwork 

How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate

Dr. Gary Chapman explains how people communicate love in different ways and shares the wonderful things that happen when men and women learn to speak each other's language.

The Five Love Languages

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#paperback #adolescence #nonfiction #relationship 

Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood

Based on William Pollack's groundbreaking research at Harvard Medical School over two decades, Real Boys explores this generation's "silent crisis": why many boys are sad, lonely, and confused although they may appear tough, cheerful, and confident. Pollack challenges conventional expectations about manhood and masculinity that encourage parents to treat boys as little men, raising them through a toughening process that drives their true emotions underground. Only when we understand what boys are really like, says Pollack, can we help them develop more self-confidence and the emotional savvy they need to deal with issues such as depression, love and sexuality, drugs and alcohol, divorce, and violence. “Just as Reviving Ophelia opened our eyes to the challenges faced by adolescent girls, Real Boys helps us hear and respond to the needs of growing boys.” —Judith Jordan, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School Featuring a new preface by the author on how parents can make a difference.

Real Boys

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#paperback #dating #courting #relationship #christian 

Say Hello to Courtship

Multnomah Publishers is partnering with ForeFront Records to bring you Joshua Harris' new book, Boy Meets Girl, packaged with an interactive music CD containing Rebecca St. James' new song Wait for Me. The CD was created using V-Flash technology, allowing you to link to an interactive website featuring both Josh and Rebecca.

Boy Meets Girl w/Rebecca St. James CD

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#paperback #nonfiction #art #sex #selfhelp #romance #newrelease #relationship 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Pennsylvania

The Five Conversations That Will Transform Your Love Life

The definitive guide to creating the sex life of your wildest dreams--just by talking about it!--from sexpert couple Vanessa and Xander Marin.

There are plenty of books about sex. But this is one of the only books that shows you how to actually talk about it. Because how are you supposed to have an extraordinary sex life if you can't even discuss it openly with your partner? Sex Talks is here to change that. Together, sex therapist Vanessa Marin and her husband, Xander, show you that the best thing you can do for your sex life doesn't even involve taking off your clothes.

Sex Talks covers the five essential conversations every couple needs to have:
1. Acknowledgement: a.k.a. "Sex is a thing, and we have it."
2. Connection: a.k.a. "What do we need to feel connected to each other?"
3. Desire: a.k.a. "What do we each need to get turned on?"
4. Pleasure: a.k.a. "What do we each need to feel good?"
5. Exploration: a.k.a. "What should we try next?"

With gripping storytelling and an intimate peek at what really goes on behind other couples' closed bedroom doors, Vanessa and Xander share their successful advice that has already helped hundreds of thousands. Sex Talks provides you with the sex education you wish you'd had, plus the tried-and-tested tools you need to create the sex life of your wildest dreams.

Sex Talks-ARC

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#paperback #relationship #obsession #destiny 

Set in rural, working-class New England, Ethan Frome is a man in a loveless marriage who faces the temptation of illicit passion with another woman. Revealed through the narrator's overnight visit with the mysterious figure, himself, Ethan Frome's story depicts the desperation of a man torn between his empty life and the promise of something new.

Gayle Forman

I Was Here

John C. Maxwell

The Treasure of a Friend

Gerard Brown

Four the Balance of Life

Gayle Forman

I Was Here

Dois I. Rosser; Ellen Santilli Vaughn

The God Who Hung on the Cross

Steve Harvey

Straight Talk, No Chaser

Cai Emmons

His Mother's Son

Gary Thomas

A Lifelong Love

Gayle Forman

I Was Here

Cory Anderson

What Beauty There Is

Gayle Forman

I Was Here

Emerson Eggerichs

Cracking the Communication Code

Jillian Harker

If You Hold My Hand

Kalyn Fogarty

What We Carry

Gay Hendricks; Kathlyn Hendricks

Lasting Love

Jane Corry

The Dead Ex

Nyna Giles; Eve Claxton

The Bridesmaid's Daughter

Patricia MacLachlan

Sarah, Plain and Tall

Gayle Forman

I Was Here

Gary Chapman

The Five Love Languages

William Pollack; Mary Pipher (Foreword by)

Real Boys

Joshua Harris

Boy Meets Girl w/Rebecca St. James CD

Vanessa Marin; Xander Marin (As told to)

Sex Talks-ARC

Edith Wharton

Ethan Frome