Shoulda Woulda Coulda

Shoulda Woulda Coulda

Author: La Jill Hunt

Publisher: Kensington Books

Published: 2008-12-23

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9781601621443

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Working hard to care for his kids, Craig Coleman is determined to live a drama-free life until he encounters his brother's ex, while Paige Michaels comes to grips with her husband's betrayal and prepares to leave her seemingly perfect life behind. Reprint.


Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda

Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda

Author: Arthur Freeman

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 1990-08-17

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0060973358

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Who of us can claim never to have made a mistake, missed a goal, regretted a choice, or suffered because of another's action? For those who suffer from a constant sense of regret about the past, who feel their present lives have been immutably shaped by actions they could or should or would have taken but didn't, real help is at hand. In clear, uncomplicated language, Dr. Arthur Freeman, a leading exponent of cognitive therapy, and his colleague Rose DeWolf, a skillful translator of the cognitive method, describe the techniques and provide exercises that will enable readers to actually "unblock" the past. The authors demonstrate that wouldo/coulda/shoulda thinking can be unlearned and that this process can be accomplished in a relatively short period of time.


Woulda. Coulda. Shoulda.

Woulda. Coulda. Shoulda.

Author: Jennifer Hurvitz

Publisher:

Published: 2019-02-14

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9781733615822

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Imagine if there were a "secret recipe" to a successful and everlasting marriage, would you want it? Of course you would! And who better to stir it up than a woman who figured it all out just a bit too late ... after she signed her divorce papers. Jennifer Hurvitz, author of the best-selling book, One Happy Divorce: Hold the Bulls#!t, offers a no-B.S. look at what the divorce process really looks like for those contemplating a separation or divorce, or those already going through one. Take a deep breath and read as Jennifer shares her insight into what the "greener grass" honestly looks like. Jen hopes to change some minds ... and save a few marriages.


Voltaire in Love

Voltaire in Love

Author: Nancy Mitford

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Published: 2012-11-06

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1590175786

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The inimitable Nancy Mitford’s account of Voltaire’s fifteen-year relationship with the Marquise du Châtelet—the renowned mathematician who introduced Isaac Newton’s revolutionary new physics to France—is a spirited romp in the company of two extraordinary individuals as well as an erudite and gossipy guide to French high society during the Enlightenment. Mitford’s story is as delicious as it is complicated. The marquise was in love with another mathematician, Maupertuis, while she had an unexpected rival for Voltaire’s affections in the future Frederick the Great of Prussia (and later in the philosophe’s own niece). There was, at least, no jealous husband to contend with: the Marquis du Châtelet, Mitford assures us, behaved perfectly. The beau monde of Paris was, however, distraught at the idea of the lovers’ brilliant conversation going to waste on the windswept hills of Champagne, site of the Château de Cirey, where experimental laboratories, a darkroom, and a library of more than twenty-one thousand volumes enabled them to pursue their amours philosophiques. From time to time the threat of impending arrest would send Voltaire scurrying across the border into Holland, but his irrepressible charm—and the interventions of powerful friends—always made it possible for him resume his studies with the cherished marquise.


Highly Irregular

Highly Irregular

Author: Arika Okrent

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2021-06-03

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0197539424

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Maybe you've been speaking English all your life, or maybe you learned it later on. But whether you use it just well enough to get your daily business done, or you're an expert with a red pen who never omits a comma or misplaces a modifier, you must have noticed that there are some things about this language that are just weird. Perhaps you're reading a book and stop to puzzle over absurd spelling rules (Why are there so many ways to say '-gh'?), or you hear someone talking and get stuck on an expression (Why do we say "How dare you" but not "How try you"?), or your kid quizzes you on homework (Why is it "eleven and twelve" instead of "oneteen and twoteen"?). Suddenly you ask yourself, "Wait, why do we do it this way?" You think about it, try to explain it, and keep running into walls. It doesn't conform to logic. It doesn't work the way you'd expect it to. There doesn't seem to be any rule at all. There might not be a logical explanation, but there will be an explanation, and this book is here to help. In Highly Irregular, Arika Okrent answers these questions and many more. Along the way she tells the story of the many influences--from invading French armies to stubborn Flemish printers--that made our language the way it is today. Both an entertaining send-up of linguistic oddities and a deeply researched history of English, Highly Irregular is essential reading for anyone who has paused to wonder about our marvelous mess of a language.


Sex with Shakespeare

Sex with Shakespeare

Author: Jillian Keenan

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2016-04-26

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 0062378732

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A provocative, moving, kinky, and often absurdly funny memoir about Shakespeare, love, obsession, and spanking When it came to understanding love, a teenage Jillian Keenan had nothing to guide her—until a production of The Tempest sent Shakespeare’s language flowing through her blood for the first time. In Sex with Shakespeare, she tells the story of how the Bard’s plays helped her embrace her unusual sexual identity and find a love story of her own. Four hundred years after Shakespeare’s death, Keenan’s smart and passionate memoir brings new life to his work. With fourteen of his plays as a springboard, she explores the many facets of love and sexuality—from desire and communication to fetish and fantasy. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Keenan unmasks Helena as a sexual masochist—like Jillian herself. In Macbeth, she examines criminalized sexual identities and the dark side of “privacy.” The Taming of the Shrew goes inside the secret world of bondage, domination, and sadomasochism, while King Lear exposes the ill-fated king as a possible sexual predator. Moving through the canon, Keenan makes it abundantly clear that literature is a conversation. In Sex with Shakespeare, words are love. As Keenan wanders the world in search of connection, from desert dictatorships to urban islands to disputed territories, Shakespeare goes with her —and provokes complex, surprising, and wildly important conversations about sexuality, consent, and the secrets that simmer beneath our surfaces.


An Accomplished Woman

An Accomplished Woman

Author: Jude Morgan

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2009-04-14

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 9780312539665

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A sparkling tale of wit and romance, "An Accomplished Woman" is a delightful comedy of manners written by a latter-day Jane Austen.


May Cause Miracles

May Cause Miracles

Author: Gabrielle Bernstein

Publisher: Harmony

Published: 2014-01-14

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0307986950

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the motivational speaker, life-coach, and author of Spirit Junkie comes a practical and fun 40-day guidebook of subtle shifts for radical change and unlimited happiness. Are you ready to work miracles? Gabrielle Bernstein believes that simple, consistent shifts in our thinking and actions can lead to the miraculous in all aspects of our daily lives, including our relationships, finances, bodies, and self-image. In this inspiring guide, Gabrielle offers an exciting plan for releasing fear and allowing gratitude, forgiveness, and love to flow through us without fail. All of which, ultimately, will lead to breathtaking lives of abundance, acceptance, appreciation, and happiness. With May Cause Miracles, readers can expect incredible transformation in 40 powerful days: simply by adding up subtle shifts to create miraculous change. Praise for May Cause Miracles "Mistress of Miracles, Gabrielle Bernstein, offers the compelling message that anything is indeed possible with a few simple shifts that almost all of us can make. Recognizing that we are the authors of our own experience, Gabrielle leads us step by step through the thorny terrain of false beliefs, and helps us find our way home to our deepest truth so that we might manifest a life that is filled with light and love." —Katherine Woodward Thomas, bestselling author of Calling in “The One”and co-leader of the Feminine Power Global Community


A Little Folly

A Little Folly

Author: Jude Morgan

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2011-03-03

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 0755385446

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A witty and romantic novel of Regency love, family and appalling scandal, from one of our greatest historical novelists. Sir Clement Carnell was the most domineering and strait-laced of fathers, and his death has left his children Louisa and Valentine with a sense of release. While Valentine throws open the Devonshire estate of Pennacombe to their fashionable cousins from London, Louisa feels free at last to reject the man her father chose as her prospective husband - Pearce Lynley. Soon the temptations of Regency London beckon - including Lady Harriet Eversholt, beautiful, scandalous, and very married, with whom Valentine becomes dangerously involved; while Louisa finds that freedom of choice is as daunting as it is exciting. Will the opportunity to indulge, at last, in a little folly lead to fulfillment - or disaster?