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Thousands of women have stepped inside Becker’s Bridal in Fowler, Michigan, to try on their dream dresses in the Magic Room, a special space with soft lighting, a circular pedestal, and mirrors that carry a bride’s reflections into infinity. The women bring with them their most precious expectations about romance, love, fidelity, permanence, and tradition. Each bride who passes through has a story to tell - one that carried her there, to that dress, that room, that moment.

A compulsively listenable behind-the-scenes memoir that takes listeners inside the weddings section of The New York Times - the good, bad, and just plain weird - through the eyes of a young reporter just as she's falling in love herself.

Whether you've been married for forty years or four, your marriage relationship probably needs some sort of reset! Somewhere along the way, you've lost connection, or you've had a disruption of power. What if you could reset or rebuild your marriage and return it to the manufacturer's intent? You can! Marriage Reset: Pressing Reset On Your Relationship asks you to reset your understanding of what it means to have a Christian Marriage.

This is an audiobook about marriage. It is for happy marriages, marriages that have lost their fizzle, and painful marriages on the verge of divorce. Whatever your situation, the application of this audiobook will lead to a richer, more satisfying marriage. That is because God created the original marriage of Adam and Eve in a Genesis two paradise. He united them with lofty expectations.

When we love, we can see the Self of all in the faces of those we love. We can remove the limitations of our own egotism. Those who accept this challenge can achieve profound levels of wisdom, serenity, joy, and gratitude. The path of spirituality develops as you learn to love and continually expand that capacity to love from your spouse and family to your community, to your nation, and eventually the entire world. This inspiring book on relationships will help you understand the dynamic interplay between loving relationships and the path of spirituality.

Of all the questions that have been asked, "What is love?" has to be one of the most important. Among other things in his new book, Dr. Michael Eaton answers this critical question for the crucible of his own painful experiences. Here is a man who has been flung out of the frying pan, emerged from the fire, and lives today to offer deep insight into the many complexities of love, not the least of which is its five-fold nature. Eaton relies not only on the scalped of his own pain but also on scripture to dissect the universal phenomenon of love, and he has put his finger on the crux of the ...

Do you feel like the flames have cooled down a bit, and life has just become so busy with work and kids? If this sounds like you, you've come to a good place. When you finish this audiobook, you will have five simple yet amazingly powerful Love Rituals in your hands so you can make your marriage and relationship more kind, thoughtful, exciting, and fun while staying close and connecting in a meaningful way - every day.

IN THE NAME OF LOVE is a coming-out romance novel between a baseball player named Steve and a theater star named Aaron. An LGBTQ romance novel. The two meet up after years apart and rekindle their friendship. Now, with love in the air, their relationship grows more complex. Steve realizes that what he feels for Aaron is something very special. But does Aaron feel the same way about Steve? Graduation day is approaching and Steve avoids the jocks, but they’re not backing off. Now, Steve must decide if he will stand up for himself and for Aaron. But will he risk everything and come out? What...

What is a dream but a fight against the odds? A struggle to rise above the ordinary and express a creativity that encapsulates the soul. When love is shared, that emotion becomes a dual consciousness. As a small child, Seth Ward had seen a valley filled with wild strawberry plants and imagined that one day he would own that land and cultivate those plants. Growing to adulthood and facing the harsh reality of raising two small children in Bloody Kansas of the 1850's, however, life was reduced to dreary survival and dreams were tucked away into the recesses of yesteryear.When love and ...

International best-selling author, Dr. Duyilemi Akindele Felix offers wisdom that can transform a boring romantic relationship to an exciting one. And help you fall in love again. No doubt, many great relationships are failing and falling today not necessarily due to incompatibility but ignorance of certain fundamental principles that make exceptionally great relationship work. What happens when people get married is largely a reflection of the happenings during their time of dating. The good news is, if you don’t like the way your relationship is at the moment or you like to improve on ...

This lighthearted month-by-month instruction manual on the care and nurture of a pregnant wife - the main role of expectant dads - will handle all the important milestones and topics: what not to say during the three phases of labor, what to buy, how many and when, maintaining work-life balance, and maintaining work-life-wife balance.

Karen Cushman's Newbery Honor-winning book tells the story of a medieval girl who works to avoid the marriage her father has arranged for her during her 14th year. Contained in this program is Catherine's diary - Catherine, called Little Bird or Birdy, daughter of Rollo and the lady Aislinn, sister to Thomas, Edward, and the abominable Robert. Against a vivid backdrop of everyday life on a medieval English manor, Catherine's earthy, spirited account of her fourteenth year is a richly entertaining story with an utterly unforgettable heroine.

From the Author of "A Marriage Knot" REVIEWS FROM THE READERS : "I couldn't put the book down." "Every character is endearing... " "a pure blend of emotions" "I finished the book In one stretch . I couldn't stop .. "just the perfect light read... Happy, funny, feel good kinda book that brings a smile on your face... A simple straight love story with a HEA" "Written in simple language it's a heartwarming story which keeps a smile pasted on readers face." "I love it when writers can infuse humour into their writing and Shobana seems to be my new find in that"**********************************...

Maggie Grant is happily married to Adam with three children, Sol, Saffron, and India -she's living a normal suburban life. Her days are spent looking after her family and helping at the local school. But her life is unexpectedly disrupted when she sees a poster about an upcoming event hosted by filmmaker Apollo Black. Maggie is convinced she recognises him and soon realises he is, in fact, Nigel Blackthorn. Curious about how this change took place, Maggie attends the lecture where he announces his new release 'Freedom Weekend.' He shows the audience a trailer, and Maggie is horrified when ...

A collection of three of Serenity Woods's standalone contemporary romances. Book 1: Kiss & Make Up Lights, camera… Action! It’s been a year since makeup artist Tabby Rogers’ life was turned upside-down. Now she’s back on track. In a month, she'll be in the UK for the career opportunity of a lifetime. One she absolutely cannot let pass her by. Until she leaves, all she has to do is fill in on a movie shoot in New Zealand and keep out of trouble. And trouble looks a lot like a devilishly hot stuntman... Eli Black has one rule: don’t date girls on set. His only goal is to get to ...

Bess is happy and in love with her new husband Edward, a recent widow. However, when she plans a big celebration for Edward's birthday, this May-December romance goes into a tailspin. She quickly realizes that joining a family isn't going to be as easy as she thought. Especially when it comes to getting along with her step-daughter, Jojo, who can't seem to come to terms with her father's new marriage, all the while battling inner-demons of her own.

A second chance to win her heart… Six years ago, Neve Clark thought she’d found in Rhett Taylor the perfect doubles partner both on and off the badminton court, but their volatile relationship ended with a betrayal she couldn’t forgive. Since then, she’s dated plenty of guys in an attempt to recreate the passion she once felt with the man who broke her heart, but to no avail. Anxious to put aside her growing despair that she’ll never find someone to replace him, she books herself on a business course in wintry Queenstown, New Zealand, with the aim of concentrating on her career as...

A broken engagement is complex. You were at the ultimate high point of love - planning your dream wedding and future - and, suddenly, the dreams disappeared. I understand you. Let's talk about it, and let's talk about how you will pick yourself right back up, piece-by-piece, and push forward, little-by-little. You will, and I will help you. And so will God, whether you know him right now, or not.

Thirty years later, something is wrong with Spence. The Great Man can’t concentrate; he falls asleep reading The New York Review of Books. With their daughter, Sarah, away at medical school, Pru must struggle on her own to care for him. One day, feeling especially isolated, Pru meets a man, and the possibility of new romance blooms. Meanwhile, Spence’s estranged son from his first marriage has come back into their lives. Arlo, a wealthy entrepreneur who invests in biotech, may be his father’s last, best hope.

After the death of his brother and the sudden end of his marriage, and after his ex-wife moved to another state leaving him alone with their two young children, Dan Glick embarked on single fatherhood in an unusual way: he took his kids on a journey around the world. The idea was to go see some of the world's rare life forms before they disappeared from the planet, and to do it before the kids themselves would grow up and chart their own paths.