Tom Barbash

Stay Up With Me by Tom Barbash, short stories based on life. New with markings. Hardcover book. Fiction. Based on stories about life, loneliness and unhappiness. This book has 13 short stories and 209 pages. Some minor markings and shelf wear. Book is 9.25”x6.25”. See all photos. Retails for $23.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Rhode Island

Short Stories

The stories in Tom Barbash's wondrous and evocative collection explore the myriad ways we try to connect with one another and with the sometimes cruel world around us. The newly single mother in "The Break" interferes in her son's love life over his Christmas vacation from college. The anxious young man in "Balloon Night" persists in hosting his and his wife's annual watch-the-Macy's-Thanksgiving-Day-Parade-floats-be-inflated party while trying to keep the myth of his marriage equally afloat. "Somebody's Son" tells the story of a young man guiltily conning an elderly couple out of their home in the Adirondacks, and the narrator in "The Women" watches his widowed father become the toast of Manhattan's midlife dating scene, as he struggles to find his own footing in life. The characters in Stay Up with Me find new truths when the old ones have given out or shifted course. In the tradition of classic story writers like John Cheever and Tobias Wolff, Barbash laces his narratives with sharp humor, psychological acuity, and pathos, creating deeply resonant and engaging stories that pierce the heart and linger in the imagination.

Stay up with Me

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Joost Elffers

Gary Goldschneider

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Georgia

The Secret Language of Relationships

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Within one year, Danny lost everyone. His husband, his parents, and his birth mother. No way was he ready to jump into another relationship, but he longed for a friend, and Andrew appeared at just the right time. Then his dead husband’s brother shows up and demands the estate, saying, “you ain’t family.”

As a teen, Andrew spent several years on the streets, homeless and hungry. If it weren’t for his best friend Amber, he wouldn’t have made it. When Amber got pregnant, he helped her through the birth and care for a newborn baby boy. Then she died. He placed the baby in foster care, cleaned up his life, finished his education, and looked for the happiness and security he missed as a teen.

Phil’s bad luck was always the fault of everyone else. He was determined to get his dead brother’s estate from Danny in any way he could. Then he discovered his old street buddy Andrew was part of the picture.

How could Danny and Andrew thwart Phil’s plans and keep themselves safe, especially with two little boys in the picture?



Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Texas

Another chance at love and family. But someone stands in the way

Signed! - Second Chances

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Colleen Hoover

A Novel

Instant New York Times Bestseller Combining a captivating romance with a cast of all-too-human characters, Colleen Hoover's It Ends With Us is an unforgettable tale of love that comes at the ultimate price. Lily hasn't always had it easy, but that's never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She's come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up--she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. So when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily's life suddenly seems almost too good to be true. Ryle is assertive, stubborn, maybe even a little arrogant. He's also sensitive, brilliant, and has a total soft spot for Lily. And the way he looks in scrubs certainly doesn't hurt. Lily can't get him out of her head. But Ryle's complete aversion to relationships is disturbing. Even as Lily finds herself becoming the exception to his "no dating" rule, she can't help but wonder what made him that way in the first place. As questions about her new relationship overwhelm her, so do thoughts of Atlas Corrigan--her first love and a link to the past she left behind. He was her kindred spirit, her protector. When Atlas suddenly reappears, everything Lily has built with Ryle is threatened.

It Ends with Us

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Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

Florida

Life and a dismal last name are the only two things Beyah Grim's parents ever gave her. After carving her path all on her own, Beyah is well on her way to bigger and better things, thanks to no one but herself. With only two short months separating her from the future she's built and the past she desperately wants to leave behind, an unexpected death leaves Beyah with no place to go during the interim. Forced to reach out to her last resort, Beyah has to spend the remainder of her summer on a peninsula in Texas with a father she barely knows. Beyah's plan is to keep her head down and let the summer slip by seamlessly, but her new neighbor Samson throws a wrench in that plan. Samson and Beyah have nothing in common on the surface. She comes from a life of poverty and neglect; he comes from a family of wealth and privilege. But one thing they do have in common is that they're both drawn to sad things. Which means they're drawn to each other. With an almost immediate connection too intense for them to continue denying, Beyah and Samson agree to stay in the shallow end of a summer fling. What Beyah doesn't realize is that a rip current is coming, and it's about to drag her heart out to sea. "This book deserves a whole galaxy of stars, but alas, five is all I can give." -Shades of Rebecca

Heart Bones

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All discs have been tested and play well. Light scratches on discs, especially on disc 6, but they do not affect the functionality.

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Synopsis | READY BY THE AUTHOR - Claudia Lambert is an elderly woman with an unusual history: her family has been studying men and their behavior for five hundred years. Karen Trevini is a school teacher struggling in her nineteen-year marriage. In Keys to the Kingdom, a chance encounter between these two women leads to an extraordinary exchange of information that transforms Karen's relationship to all men and changes her husband's life forever.

Much of the information acquired during Alison's then fifteen-year study of men, is brought to life by the novel's charming and genuine characters. This heartfelt story communicates the type of wisdom taught in Understanding Men Online.

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Keys to Kingdom (Unabridged Audiobook CD)

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Derek M. Watson

Daniel L. Tocchini

Larry Pinci

Tennessee

Building Relationships Through Keeping Promises

Discover the power of promise to create responsible and vital relationships with others. Love, intimacy, community, vulnerability, and every other valuable characteristic is possible for you by applying the principles of promise discussed here.

Killing the Victim . . . Before the Victim Kills You

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Lysa TerKeurst

California

Discover How to Move on, Make Peace with Painful Memories, and Create a Life That's Beautiful Again

New York Times bestselling author Lysa TerKeurst helps readers address how to stop suffering from what others have done to them while exploring what forgiveness is, what it isn't, and how to deal with difficult relationships. Have you ever felt stuck in a cycle of unresolved pain, playing offenses over and over in your mind? You know you can't go on living like this, but you don't know what to do next. And you just aren't sure if you'll ever get past it. Lysa TerKeurst has walked this journey, wrestling with deep hurts and struggling to move forward. And she's discovered that--to find life-giving freedom--you have to let go of bound-up resentment and resistance to forgiving people who aren't willing to make things right. With deep empathy, therapeutic insight, and rich Bible teaching coming out of 1,000 hours of study, Lysa will help you learn how to move on when the other person refuses to change and never says they're sorry; walk through a step by step process to free yourself from the hurt of your past and feel less offended today; discover what the Bible really says about forgiveness and the peace that comes from living it out right now; identify what's stealing trust and vulnerability from your relationships so you can believe there is still good ahead; and disempower the triggers hijacking your emotions by embracing the two necessary parts of forgiveness.

Forgiving What You Can't Forget

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Ashley Blooms

In her rural Appalachian holler, ten-year-old Misty's closest friends are the crawdads. Misty can speak to them, to the birds, to the creek, to everything outside, and she understands how they think. She knows that if she could just speak to her parents in the same way, she could stop all the fighting. But it's too hard. Strange things start to happen in the holler. When her friend William takes their friendship too far,Misty's need to connect is greater than ever, but it's hard to talk about what you don't understand. This is the story of one tough-as-nails girl whose choices are few but whose imagination is boundless, as her coping becomes a battle cry for everyone around her -- a beautifully honest exploration of healing and hope.

Every Bone a Prayer

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Kiley Reid

A Best Book of the Year: The Washington Post • Chicago Tribune • NPR • Vogue • Elle • Real Simple • InStyle • Good Housekeeping • Parade • Slate • Vox • Kirkus Reviews • Library Journal • BookPage Longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize An Instant New York Times Bestseller A Reese's Book Club Pick "The most provocative page-turner of the year." --Entertainment Weekly "I urge you to read Such a Fun Age." --NPR A striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voice, Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted story about race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a surprising connection that threatens to undo them both. Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira Tucker, is confronted while watching the Chamberlains' toddler one night, walking the aisles of their local high-end supermarket. The store's security guard, seeing a young black woman out late with a white child, accuses Emira of kidnapping two-year-old Briar. A small crowd gathers, a bystander films everything, and Emira is furious and humiliated. Alix resolves to make things right. But Emira herself is aimless, broke, and wary of Alix's desire to help. At twenty-five, she is about to lose her health insurance and has no idea what to do with her life. When the video of Emira unearths someone from Alix's past, both women find themselves on a crash course that will upend everything they think they know about themselves, and each other. With empathy and piercing social commentary, Such a Fun Age explores the stickiness of transactional relationships, what it means to make someone "family," and the complicated reality of being a grown up. It is a searing debut for our times.

Such a Fun Age

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Delbert Glover

Linda L. Grenz

South Carolina

Preparations and Provisions for Life Together

The two authors of this book, Linda Grenz and Del Glover, say at the outset that they are ordinary Christians writing for ordinary Christians and ordinary congregations. So why has this book become a classic for couples about to marry, couples already married, and the congregations that support them? Because they approach the ordinary issues couples face in marriage from the life-experience perspectives of an Episcopal priest (Linda) and a former corporate executive (Del) who worked with people as they faced various family-related issues. They invite readers to use the book in ways that speak most directly to them and offer questions for the couple to discuss and others that engage a congregation. The book is interspersed with relevant quotes from scripture with probing questions for the individual to consider. Table of Contents The Sacrament of Marriage Extended Families Being with Others Living Together Fighting Fair Money Matters Sexual Intimacy The Gift of Children Yes, No, Maybe, Why Bother (Marriage Preparation, Marriage Enrichment) The Journey Ahead

The Marriage Journey

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

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The next novel of psychological suspense and obsession from the authors of the blockbuster bestseller The Wife Between Us Seeking women ages 18–32 to participate in a study on ethics and morality. Generous compensation. Anonymity guaranteed. When Jessica Farris signs up for a psychology study conducted by the mysterious Dr. Shields, she thinks all she’ll have to do is answer a few questions, collect her money, and leave. Question #1: Could you tell a lie without feeling guilt? But as the questions grow more and more intense and invasive and the sessions become outings where Jess is told what to wear and how to act, she begins to feel as though Dr. Shields may know what she’s thinking...and what she’s hiding. Question #2: Have you ever deeply hurt someone you care about? As Jess’s paranoia grows, it becomes clear that she can no longer trust what in her life is real, and what is one of Dr. Shields’ manipulative experiments. Caught in a web of deceit and jealousy, Jess quickly learns that some obsessions can be deadly. Question #3: Should a punishment always fit the crime? From the authors of the blockbuster bestseller The Wife Between Us comes an electrifying new novel about doubt, passion, and just how much you can trust someone. Praise for The Wife Between Us: "A fiendishly smart cat-and-mouse thriller" —New York Times Book Review "[A] seamless thriller that will keep readers on their toes to the very end...Readers will enjoy the dizzying back-and-forth as they attempt to figure out just who to root for and as the suspense ratchets up to one hell of a conclusion." —Booklist

An Anonymous Girl

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Terry Goodkind

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Sword of Truth (Book 3 of the Chainfire Trilogy)

With the world on the brink of total chaos and the people on the verge of savagery, Richard Rahl confronts his own guilt over the situation and struggles to deal with the loss of the one person he loves.

Confessor - SIGNED

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Ted Lowe

How Changing Your Thoughts Can Change Your Marriage

Research shows happy couples think in ways unhappy couples don't. What if you could ensure your thoughts were setting you up to love well? You can.In Us In Mind: How Changing Your Thoughts Can Change Your Marriage, you will discover through Scripture, research, and neuroscience an ironically simple way of rethinking how you see your marriage. You will focus on just five intentional thoughts which are designed to help you love well, even when it's not easy:?What do you think about yourself??What do you think about your spouse??What do you think about your spouse's emotions??What do you think about your response??What do you think is the purpose of your marriage?Be assured, this book is not a stuffy textbook; it's full of humor, real-life examples, and practical application. Whether you love marriage books or hate them, this book holds a fresh perspective on marriage for everybody, offering even the biggest skeptic a relevant takeaway. You can change your marriage by changing your thoughts. It's simpler than you think.

Us in Mind

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Bundle package of both books, both in excellent condition. It Ends With Us has a slight bend in the corner cover, picture attached.

It Ends with Us + Reminders of Him BUNDLE

Derrick Jaxn

great condition some highlights / underlining 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Ladies, I'm not here to tell you how many secret ways you can bend over backwards to get some man to come and validate you. You've heard enough of that. Men, I'm not here to tell you how to attract more women in an effort to chase the fulfillment your heart yearns for but you never learned how to keep. You've tried that already. It did not, and still has not worked. I'm here to tell you how to stop getting mindscrewed, toyed with, and taken for granted. It's killing your hope in love, and likely even eating away at your sense of self. You don't have to admit it to me, and you can hide it from your circle, but deep down, you know. Why am I so sure? Because I've been there before. I've been on both the receiving and giving end of heartbreak. I've been the bullshitter and the bullshitted. I, like many of you, tried everything to put myself in position where I could never get hurt, but no matter what, I failed because I was already hurting due to my lack of understanding of self-love. In this book, I take you through not only my personal process in that journey but also the lessons I learned to help me lead millions in that same journey for themselves today. I'm not telling you it's going to be easy, I'm just telling you that if you continue going in circles like you've been doing then it's by choice because I've now given you the map. The rest is on you to make the necessary steps. Just don't forget your crown

Don't Forget Your Crown: Self-Love Has Everything to Do with It

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Illinois

The search for intimacy is fundamental. It can be an exhilarating part of being human. Yet there is wide disagreement about meanings, means, and ends. The approach of this book is that modern social trends toward self-gratifiction and self-indulgence have produced a form of "intimacy" which is without foundation in reality and is supported only by a facade of illusion. The author, Dr. Victor L. Brown, Jr., brings much professional research and comment to the support of his arguments, along with many illustrative stories from his experience in counseling. Written for the layman in understandable language, this best-selling book sets forth clearly that it is in a sustained, persistent effort in marriage that true intimacy of heart, mind, and body can be achieved."

Nevada

Illusion & Reality 

Human Intimacy 

Jackie Kendall

Debby Jones

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Arkansas

Becoming God's Best While Waiting for Mr. Right

By studying the biblical character Ruth, women learn the characteristics that every woman of God should develop as well as how to become a lady of purity, faith, contentment, and patience, in order to pursue a personal and intimate relationship with Jesus. This expanded edition includes a personal journal and study guide.

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Tom Barbash

Stay up with Me

Joost Elffers; Gary Goldschneider

The Secret Language of Relationships

RB Bartels

Signed! - Second Chances

Colleen Hoover

It Ends with Us

Colleen Hoover

Heart Bones

Alison A. Armstrong

Keys to Kingdom (Unabridged Audiobook CD)

Derek M. Watson; Daniel L. Tocchini; Larry Pinci

Killing the Victim . . . Before the Victim Kills You

Lysa TerKeurst

Forgiving What You Can't Forget

Ashley Blooms

Every Bone a Prayer

Colleen Hoover

It Ends with Us

Colleen Hoover

It Ends with Us

Colleen Hoover

It Ends with Us

Colleen Hoover

It Ends with Us

Kiley Reid

Such a Fun Age

Colleen Hoover

It Ends with Us

Delbert Glover; Linda L. Grenz

The Marriage Journey

Greer Hendricks; Sarah Pekkanen

An Anonymous Girl

Terry Goodkind

Confessor - SIGNED

Ted Lowe

Us in Mind

Colleen Hoover

It Ends with Us + Reminders of Him BUNDLE

Derrick Jaxn

Don't Forget Your Crown: Self-Love Has Everything to Do with It

Kiley Reid

Such a Fun Age

Victor L. Brown Jr.

Human Intimacy

Jackie Kendall; Debby Jones

Lady in Waiting