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"In this comic novel, our hero, Midwesterner Louie Hake, tries to prop up the failing prospects of happiness in his career and marriage by setting out abroad on what he calls his Journey of a Lifetime. Louie is 43, teaches architecture at a third-rate college in Michigan, and faced with a collapsing second marriage and a potentially disastrous medical diagnosis, he decides to undertake a high-minded tour of the world's most spectacular architecture...
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Eileen nie marzyła o innym życiu. Kochający mąż, udane dzieci i piękny dom - jej miejsce na świecie. Nie chciała niczego więcej - miała wszystko. Pewnego dnia Eileen odkrywa, że nie jest jedyną kobietą w życiu swojego męża. Jej rywalka, Olivia, jest młodsza, ładniejsza i ma przed sobą wspaniałą przyszłość. Załamana Eileen nie wierzy już, że w życiu czeka ją cokolwiek dobrego. Tymczasem Olivia ma inne zmartwienia. Codziennie...
53) Intimacy
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An unmarried couple's separation is complicated by children. The father is a TV scriptwriter who has been unfaithful, the mother is in publishing and the setting is London. As he narrates their story, the man describes his mixed feelings, torn between the prospect of freedom and the loss of his sons.
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"Weaving together the true life historical expeditions of Ada Blackjack and Robert Bartlett with a contemporary fictional story, How to Survive in the North is a unique and visual narrative journey that shows the strength it takes to survive in even the harshest conditions--whether that be struggling for survival in the Arctic in the 1900s or surviving a mid-life crisis in the present day"--
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Stub Rowe’s mediocre major league baseball career ended with a ground out to the second baseman. He considered that to be the wimpiest out in baseball. He had never been a star, but he was considered steady and reliable. Some team always needed a third baseman with a little pop in his bat…until the years ran out on him. Now it was time to consider what to do with the rest of his life.
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"W życiu Miki, odnoszącej sukcesy producentki telewizyjnej, nie ma nudy. Choć ona sama marzy o odrobinie świętego spokoju. Eksmąż w kryzysie wieku średniego stale czegoś od niej chce, starszy syn przeżywa miłosne zawirowania, młodszy wchodzi w okres buntu nastolatka, a sama Mika staje się bohaterką portali plotkarskich. Uczuciowy galimatias, barwny świat show-biznesu i kłopoty pojawiające się jeden po drugim - życie Miki niepokojąco...
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Lena Spencer appears to have it all: a wealthy husband, two wonderful children, a life of luxury. In reality her husband is emotionally distant, her son has a drug habit, and her daughter is disgusted by Lena's "overbearing behavior." When Lena's husband gives her an ultimatum: "Be grateful for all I've done for you - or leave" Lena chooses the latter.
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"Marriage and midlife can be difficult. But when you add a controlling, manipulative and self- absorbed mother-in-law into the mix, things can get worse-much worse. Toxic, even. When Allison Montgomery's beloved father-in-law and long-time confidant passes away, her mother- in-law, Margaret, 'temporarily' moves in. From rearranging the furniture and taking over the kitchen, to undermining and embarrassing Allie at every turn, including funding her...
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After celebrated author Jasper Gwyn suddenly and publicly announces that he will never write another book, he embarks on a strange new career path as a "copyist, " holding thirty-day sittings in a meticulously appointed room and producing, at the end, brief but profoundly rich portraits in prose. The surprising, beautiful, and even frightening results are received with rapture by their subjects--among them Gwyn's devoted assistant, Rebecca; a beautiful...
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