Gottman, John Mordechai
Summary: With more than a million copies sold worldwide, The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work has revolutionized the way we understand, repair, and strengthen marriages. John Gottman's unprecedented study of couples over a period of years has allowed him to observe the habits that can make?and break?a marriage. Here is the culmination of that work: the seven principles that guide couples on a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2015
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Summary: In 1994, Dr. Gottman and his colleagues at the University of Washington announced that, through scientific observation and mathematical analysis, they could predict--with more than 90 percent accuracy--whether a marriage would succeed or fail. But they did not yet know how to turn a failing marriage into a successful one, so Gottman teamed up with his clinical psychologist wife to develop...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2006
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Summary: "An accessible, transformative guide for couples seeking greater love, connection, and intimacy in our modern world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Life 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.81 KLEBehrendt, Greg
Summary: Greg Behrendt and Amiira Ruotola stumbled right out of the wedding gate. Their choices in the early years, they’ll tell you, nearly bought their marriage a one-way ticket to Suckville. The New York Times bestselling authors explore all the adventures of early wedlock, from the moment one of you gets on one knee to the day when sex starts to feel like work instead of play. In this guidebook,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.8 BEHHaag, Pamela.
Summary: Combines autobiographical detail, cultural history, revelatory first-hand accounts, and research to unravel the sources of post-romantic discontent and offers inspiration for those who want more than the semi-happy status quo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.645 HAAHendrix, Harville.
Summary: Draws on extensive research, counseling workshops with couples, and the authors' own thirty-year relationship to distill basic, provocative truths about marriage and provide essential tools for making marriage more rewarding.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Archetype 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan Pub. House 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.78 PARLerner, Harriet Goldhor.
Summary: Presents advice to married couples for maintaining a healthy, respectful, sane, and satisfying relationship with the help of short, easy-to-remember rules for different subjects and situations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.872 LERGurian, Michael.
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Michael Gurian offers a groundbreaking plan for couples seeking to build a healthy relationship, work through past hurts, and create greater intimacy. Become separate from your partner yet also become closer--sounds counterintuitive, doesn't it? With twenty-five years of family and marital counseling practice, Michael Gurian shows that "intimate separateness"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 GURReal, Terrence
Summary: "You've probably heard some variation of the idea that before you can love someone else, you first have to learn to love yourself. Renowned family therapist and marriage counselor and bestselling author Terrence Real says that we've got it all wrong. In fact, the way to save your relationship is not by working on yourself, but instead by working together. Continuing to focus on yourself will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Goop Press/Rodale 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.7 REAColeman, Joshua.
Summary: Addresses common challenges facing marriages today, offering advice on how to reduce high levels of conflict, let go of marital ideals, accept changes in one's partner, and maintain domestic peace in times of crisis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.81 COLPage, Susan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.78 PAGRottschafer, Shelli
Summary: "Marriage is tough and relationships are always complicated.... Harry and Noelle Phillips know this all too well. In order to refocus their lives together after eighteen years, the couple begins a long weekend excursion in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The trip is an attempt to put their marriage back on course. For their Stay North they choose Grand Island, situated off Munising Harbor and due...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atmosphere Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROTOrlov, Melissa.
Summary: Going beyond traditional marriage counseling which can often discount the influence of ADHD, this discussion offers advice from the author's personal experience and years of research and identifies patterns of behavior that can hurt marriages--such as nagging, intimacy problems, sudden anger, and memory issues--through the use of vignettes and descriptions of actual couples and their ADHD...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Specialty Press
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Summary: Psychologist Smith advises couples how to take wedding vows, made in earnest and in innocence, to a level where they can be used to build a happy, healthy, satisfying and long-lasting marriage. This book is for couples who are planning marriage, are newly married, or who have been married for years. Dr. Smith addresses the unspoken needs, unasked questions, outrageous expectations, and hidden...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Relation SmithSchlessinger, Laura.
Summary: The long-awaited follow-up to her groundbreaking bestseller, now Dr. Laura focuses on how men and women need to understand and appreciate the uniqueness of masculinity and femininity; what the best ways to relate, caretake, and nurture each other are; and how to bring a marriage back from the brink of disaster. Jumping off her million-copy bestseller The proper care and feeding of husbands, Dr....
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 306.81 SCHSchlessinger, Laura.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Luxe 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 306.81 SCHSummary: Antoine and Helene drive to South France to return their kids from a holiday camp. The traffic is dense and the atmosphere increasingly tense. Antoine becomes increasingly drunk during stops. After a fierce discussion they split and both have to face great danger during the night.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN REDBrown, Karma.
Summary: "One minute, 26-year-old Tegan Lawson has everything she could hope for, including an adoring husband, Gabe, and a baby on the way. The next, a patch of black ice causes a devastating accident and Tegan's life is as shattered as the car they had to cut her out of. With the loss of her baby and her unbearable anger towards Gabe, who was driving that night, Tegan is drowning in grief. After a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROMcGregor, Jon
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.F. Howes 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCGRaney, Deborah.
Summary: Unearthing a lost memory may cause Bryn to lose everything she holds dear--but could it also set her free? The night the homeless shelter burned to the ground, five heroic firefighters died at the scene. Now their survivors must find a way to begin again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC RANSpring, Janis Abrahms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.736 SPRShriver, Lionel
Summary: Over ten years, Kay Wilkinson watched as Alzheimer's steadily eroded her father into a paranoid lunatic. Both medical professionals, Kay and her husband Cyril have seen too many elderly patients in similar states of decay. Although healthy and vital in their early fifties, the couple fears what may lie ahead. Determined to die with dignity, Cyril makes a modest proposal: To spare themselves and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SHRSimsion, Graeme C.
Summary: Don Tillman and Rosie Jarman are back in Australia after a decade in New York, and they're about to face their most important challenge. Their son, Hudson, is struggling at school: he's socially awkward and not fitting in. Don's spent a lifetime trying to fit in, so who better to teach Hudson the skills he needs? The Hudson Project will require the help of friends old and new, force Don to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Text Publishing 2019