The Marriage Club

The Marriage Club
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Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
Total Pages : 217
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781742285405
ISBN-13 : 1742285406
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis The Marriage Club by : Kate Legge

On Monday, Leith Kremmer's book-club friends meet in her lounge room, catch up on each other's lives, and indulge in her elegant champagne supper. Upstairs, Leith's husband George practises his golf swing. The next morning Leith is dead, under suspicious circumstances. One week later, George, a family-court judge, has delved into his marriage - including Leith's long-held secrets, and his own - in a desperate attempt to comprehend her death. And Leith's friends, in examining their own marriages, have emerged far from unscathed. Was Leith the charming ally they thought they knew? And do they really know their own partners? The Marriage Club takes place over the course of one tumultuous week. As everyone begins to tease out the truth, they are finally able to let down their guards and be their real selves. If only they could have done so earlier . . . 'A novel of secrets and lies, [where] illusions are shattered in the most fascinating way.' Sunday Telegraph

The Marrying Game

The Marrying Game
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Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Total Pages : 384
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0312310447
ISBN-13 : 9780312310448
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis The Marrying Game by : Kate Saunders

Like Louisa May Alcott's classic Little Women, The Marrying Game opens on Christmas Eve, with four sisters at home worrying about money. The setting is present-day England, and the girls' father, an eccentric aristocrat, has just died, leaving the Hasty family so impoverished that they are about to lose their splendid but crumbling house. So the two oldest sisters--Rufa, tall, elegant, and too serious for her own good; and Nancy, a gorgeous, irreverent redhead who relishes her work as a part-time barmaid in the local pub--decide that the way to redeem the family fortunes is to marry money. Surely it can't be that hard to find two very rich men and make the men fall in love with them. Thus begins a gloriously modern story that makes us genuinely care about the whole Hasty family. As Rufa and Nancy set out to blaze a trail through London society, they find that nothing in The Marrying Game turns out quite the way they've planned.

Spinster

Spinster
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Publisher : Crown
Total Pages : 354
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780385347143
ISBN-13 : 0385347146
Rating : 4/5 (43 Downloads)

Synopsis Spinster by : Kate Bolick

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book “Whom to marry, and when will it happen—these two questions define every woman’s existence.” So begins Spinster, a revelatory and slyly erudite look at the pleasures and possibilities of remaining single. Using her own experiences as a starting point, journalist and cultural critic Kate Bolick invites us into her carefully considered, passionately lived life, weaving together the past and present to examine why­ she—along with over 100 million American women, whose ranks keep growing—remains unmarried. This unprecedented demographic shift, Bolick explains, is the logical outcome of hundreds of years of change that has neither been fully understood, nor appreciated. Spinster introduces a cast of pioneering women from the last century whose genius, tenacity, and flair for drama have emboldened Bolick to fashion her life on her own terms: columnist Neith Boyce, essayist Maeve Brennan, social visionary Charlotte Perkins Gilman, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, and novelist Edith Wharton. By animating their unconventional ideas and choices, Bolick shows us that contemporary debates about settling down, and having it all, are timeless—the crucible upon which all thoughtful women have tried for centuries to forge a good life. Intellectually substantial and deeply personal, Spinster is both an unreservedly inquisitive memoir and a broader cultural exploration that asks us to acknowledge the opportunities within ourselves to live authentically. Bolick offers us a way back into our own lives—a chance to see those splendid years when we were young and unencumbered, or middle-aged and finally left to our own devices, for what they really are: unbounded and our own to savor.

The Proud Wife

The Proud Wife
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Publisher : Harlequin
Total Pages : 185
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781426889141
ISBN-13 : 1426889143
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis The Proud Wife by : Kate Walker

Marina thought her dreams had come true when her husband placed a wedding band on her finger. But their marriage was not the fairy tale she'd hoped for, and eventually Marina walked away, her heart broken. Two years later Pietro D'Inzeo no longer haunts Marina's dreams. She knows the time has come to move on, and even a summons to join him in Sicily won't deter her…. However, with his wife standing before him, about to sign on the dotted line of their divorce papers, Pietro wonders why he ever let her go.

Kate Chase and William Sprague

Kate Chase and William Sprague
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 336
Release :
ISBN-10 : 080322947X
ISBN-13 : 9780803229471
Rating : 4/5 (7X Downloads)

Synopsis Kate Chase and William Sprague by : Peg A. Lamphier

Motherless from an early age, she became her father's official hostess during the Civil War and Reconstruction years as well as his unofficial campaign manager. As the opening of the Civil War, her husband, William Sprague, was a wealthy industrialist, the "boy governor" of Rhode Island, a dashing military figure, and an alcoholic.".

A Walk Down the Aisle

A Walk Down the Aisle
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 216
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0393324125
ISBN-13 : 9780393324129
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis A Walk Down the Aisle by : Kate Cohen

Examines wedding customs from different cultures and eras, and using ideas from figures as diverse as John Milton and Lyle Lovett, describes how and why couples wed today.

Kate

Kate
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Publisher : Hachette+ORM
Total Pages : 223
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781602862869
ISBN-13 : 1602862869
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis Kate by : Katie Nicholl

From the bestselling author of William and Harry and renowned Royal Family news correspondent Katie Nicholl, comes the first in-depth biography of Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge. Katie Nicholl, bestselling author and royal correspondent for The Mail on Sunday, gives an inside look into the life of the future Queen of England, Kate Middleton. Since becoming Duchess Catherine of Cambridge in 2011, Middleton has captivated royals fans around the world and now, Nicholl delivers the story of her early life, first romances, and love with Prince William. Nicholl will reveal new details on Middleton's initiation into royal life and, of course, her first pregnancy.

Mom... You Just Need to Get Laid: The Adventures of Dating After Divorce

Mom... You Just Need to Get Laid: The Adventures of Dating After Divorce
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Publisher : Brooklyn Writers Press
Total Pages : 306
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1952991056
ISBN-13 : 9781952991059
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis Mom... You Just Need to Get Laid: The Adventures of Dating After Divorce by : Kate Somerset

Perfect for fans of "Sex and the City", this hilarious true account of modern dating follows a two-year journey of newly single Kate Somerset in Manhattan. The book's 15 stories of men will charm, inspire, and amuse readers to #DateLikeKate. You'll meet Anderson the Actor, Cain the Canine Lover, Nick the Neighbor, Cupido the Conductor, Braeden the Banker, and 10 others! Encouraged by her teenage daughter to "get a real life" following a divorce, Kate catapults herself from a settled existence in Texas to the unknown world of New York City. Creating her own joyful playbook for dating, Kate goes online and in person to build a new life. Relatable to singles of all ages, the stories of Kate's real dating adventures will have you begging for more.

Waking Kate

Waking Kate
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Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Total Pages : 59
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781466850491
ISBN-13 : 1466850493
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis Waking Kate by : Sarah Addison Allen

From Sarah Addison Allen, the beloved author of Garden Spells, comes Waking Kate, a story about a woman who soon will face an unforeseen change in her life. One sticky summer day as Kate is waiting for her husband to come home from his bicycle shop, she spots her distinguished neighbor returning from his last day of work after eighty-six years at Atlanta's oldest men's clothing store. Over a cup of butter coffee, he tells Kate a story of love and heartbreak that makes her remember her past, question her present, and wonder what the future will bring.

Rules of Civility

Rules of Civility
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 369
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780143121169
ISBN-13 : 0143121162
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis Rules of Civility by : Amor Towles

From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and A Gentleman in Moscow, a “sharply stylish” (Boston Globe) book about a young woman in post-Depression era New York who suddenly finds herself thrust into high society—now with over one million readers worldwide On the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is in a second-rate Greenwich Village jazz bar when Tinker Grey, a handsome banker, happens to sit down at the neighboring table. This chance encounter and its startling consequences propel Katey on a year-long journey into the upper echelons of New York society—where she will have little to rely upon other than a bracing wit and her own brand of cool nerve. With its sparkling depiction of New York’s social strata, its intricate imagery and themes, and its immensely appealing characters, Rules of Civility won the hearts of readers and critics alike.