Love Heartbreak Homeroom This collection of real junior high school love notes from an incorrigible recess Romeo captures the high drama, low gossip, and emotional rollercoaster ride of dozens of youthful romances. Intricately folded and secretively passed under desks in the 1970s -- to and from his best friend and his many, many girlfriends -- these notes lay bare the triumphs and tragedies of young love, from the thrilling promise of TLA (True Love Always) to the devastating letdown of let's be friends (with maybe a quick trip to Make Out City). Also included are a note-speak decoder (SSS... View More...
Over 6 millions copies of this series in print, in over 18 different languages. Uplifting and compassionate words for a range of human emotions and needs. Designed with sophisticated metallic inks in a pickupable square format. View More...
OVER 2.5 MILLION COPIES IN PRINTDiscover the secrets to new joy and sexual fulfillment in marriage that have helped millions of Christian couples maximize their intimacy.Here are the insights into your spouse's body, psychosexual makeup, and need for tender, unselfish affection that can help you discover new depths of intimacy. It's the perfect book for: Engaged couples and newlyweds who want to make lovemaking a joy from the startCouples who have been married for years and want to maintain the flame or rekindle the embersEvery husband or wife who wants to be a better loverThe Act of Marriage ... View More...
This singular guide presents the straightforward facts on affairs, as well as advice to affairees and spouses on how to cope with them.Since 60% of marriages are affected by affairs, you should know the facts: Women under 30 are as likely as men to have an affair.Love affairs are different from sex affairs.Most affairs last between and three years, but the consequences can last a lifetime.Fewer than 10% of affairees divorce their spouses then marry their lover.Over 75% of those who do divorce and marry their lover divorce again.Nearly 80% of those who divorce during an affair are sorry later.M... View More...
There is nothing quite like the pain and shock caused when a partner has been unfaithful. The hurt partner often experiences a profound loss of self-respect and falls into a depression that can last for years. For the relationship, infidelity is often a death blow. This book helps readers survive this crisis. View More...
Why is it so difficult to remain married in thetwenty-first century, and what can you do about it? We all know that half of today's marriages end in divorce, but we tend to believe that our own marriages are safe. As psychiatrist John Jacobs explains in this fresh and impassioned book, marriages today are incredibly fragile, and unless a couple understands what is making contemporary marriage so vulnerable to dissolution, the marriage is at risk.Part of the problem is that people refuse to see how social and historical forces have changed the very meaning of marriage, causing serious interpers... View More...
Learn how you can keep the promises you made on your wedding day in this contemporary curriculum that provides information on understanding each other's needs, making your marriage great for your kids, affair-proofing your marriage, blending families, and more. Includes discussion questions. View More...
Tim Clinton has seen three outcomes through his marriage counseling practice-divorce, marriage in name only, and reconciliation. Reconciliation is, by far, the most difficult option. In "Before a Bad Goodbye," he shows couples at the breaking point how to nurture forgiveness, develop mutual respect and demonstrate selfless love on a new path to reconciliation. View More...
Norman Wright's bestselling Before You Remarry has a dynamic new cover and has been updated to appeal to today's couples.Drawing from the latest findings on adjustments in second marriages, well-known marriage and family counselor H. Norman Wright shares steps couples can take to make their marriages fulfilling and successful. Before You Remarry helps readers--make sure they're ready for a new marriagediscover the essentials for successful remarriagesopenly communicate personal and family needsestablish realistic expectations for roles, responsibilities, and decision-makinghandle common proble... View More...
Albert French lights up the monstrous face of American racism in this harrowing tale of ten-year-old Billy Lee Turner, who is convicted and executed for murdering a white girl in Banes County, Mississippi, in 1937. Constructed in a series of powerfully lean vignettes, Billy is a tour de force of dramatic compression, focusing on how this outrageous event affects an entire community. The high-spirited Billy, his mysterious and passionate mother, Cinder, and his friend Gumpy are realized with depth and authority. Told in classic, unrelieved terms yet with remarkable compassion and restraint, the... View More...
As part of the HomeBuilders Couples Series, Building Your Marriage presents questions and activities that have been updated and improved to help couples open up to each other even more, resulting in meaningful, life-changing experiences. In addition, teacher and student books have been combined to make the series easy to lead and easy to use. View More...
Encompassing the necessary from first proposal to anniversary memories, this celebration of marriage offers a selection of essays, stories, and reflections for the bride and bride-to-be. View More...
Encompassing the necessary from first proposal to anniversary memories, this celebration of marriage offers a selection of essays, stories, and reflections for the bride and bride-to-be. View More...
Your wedding day is one of the most memorable of your life--especially if you're the bride. From unique proposals to hilarious and touching tales of actual ceremonies and receptions, this book will inspire anyone looking ahead to the big day. Chicken Soup for the Bride's Soul features a final section on Anniversaries will give it a long shelf life, and open the market to those remembering the joy of their wedding day in later years. It's the perfect gift for bridal showers, weddings and anniversaries. View More...
In this hip and utterly indispensable guide, two happily married husbands and regular guys reveal the secrets to getting a man down on bended knee -- his most uncomfortable position.Over the years, Richard Kirshenbaum and Daniel Rosenberg have dispensed loads of successful relationship advice to friends, colleagues, and relatives, who then pushed the ex-bachelors to share their lessons with the masses of future brides who need help taking their existing relationships to the next level. These guys have been there and know what it takes to get even the biggest commitment phobes to take the plung... View More...
Many specialists in family relations say the number-one problem in marriages today is not sex, money or children, but lack of communication between husband and wife. H. Norman Wright tackles this dilemma in the Christian book on couples communication. Presenting insightful ways to reduce marital conflict, manage anger, build one another's self-esteem and just plain listen to one another, Wright provides couples with the resources to understand each other at new and deeper levels. Ideal for married and pre-married couples, counselors, lay counselors, mentors and pastors, this classic has been f... View More...
No book can guarantee you a long and happy relationship, even if the author didn't know about your secret hygiene problem. But the cover of a book is no place to discuss that. In Dave Barry's Guide to Marriage and/or Sex, one of America's most beloved writers turns his keen, if somewhat rheumy, eye to the institution of marriage.Dating. "These are nonstereotypical times we live in, by which I mean that it is the responsibility of the woman to think up excuses that get progressively more obvious until the man figures out that the woman would rather chew on a rat pancreas."Sex. "I'm afraid that ... View More...
