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Carly and Rob are a perfect couple. They share happy lives with their children and close friends Craig and Jenny. They're lucky. But beneath the surface, no relationship is simple: can another woman's husband and another man's wife ever be just good friends?
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The Oregon experiment : a novel
Performing field research in his job as a university professor, Oregon newcomer Scanlon Pratt becomes involved with an anarchist and a local secessionist movement, affiliations that are compromised by divided loyalties and the birth of his first child.
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Toward a More Perfect Union
Toward a More Perfect Union is an extraordinary book of
husband-and-wife letters written during the Civil War, selected
from the Frederic E. Lockley Collection at the Huntington Library
in San Marino, California. Appearing here are 162 letters exchanged
between Frederic Lockley and his wife Elizabeth, chosen from 405
letters preserved in the collection. The survival of such two-way
exchanges is rare. Few soldiers in the field had the opportunity to
save letters from home. The Lockleys' selected letters narrate a
chronological three-year story, from 1862 to 1865. When Frederic
enlisted at thirty-seven, he and Elizabeth promised each other they
would write twice a week and, for the most part, they did. These
are not average letters. A published author, Frederic was
remarkably insightful and articulate and Elizabeth was literate and
expressive as well. Although primarily a love story set during the
Civil War, Toward a More Perfect Union also offers ample
military material, some not well represented elsewhere in Civil War
literature. Frederic wrote of life in garrison duty in defense of
Washington, manning the siege lines at Petersburg, and guarding
Union parolees and Confederate prisoners of war. But his letters
also show strong ties to home and his need for those ties in order
to maintain his own mental and emotional equilibrium in the face of
the horrors of war. Elizabeth's letters reflect an urban setting
and the perspective of a young, recently married woman who spent
much of her time parenting three young children from Frederic's
first marriage. In fact, children and parenting assume a theme in
Fred and Lizzie's correspondence almost as constant and
consequential as the war itself. Providing background and framework
for these exceptional letters, editor Charles E. Rankin's
introduction and contextualization create a continuous narrative
that allows readers to follow these correspondents through a time
critical to their marriage and to our nation's history.
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Couple Observational Coding Systems
A companion volume to Family Observational Coding Systems, this book moves from the triad to the dyad and provides a showcase for significant developments in the coding of intimate couple interactions. The hope is that this book will contribute to the broadening and deepening of the field by disseminating information both about the coding systems that have been developed, as well as the conceptual and methodological issues involved in couple observational research. The first three chapters present overviews of conceptual and methodological issues in the study of couple processes. The remaining chapters describe contributions to the field by 16 teams of researchers. Each chapter provides information about the conceptual underpinnings and structure of the coding system developed by the authors and evidence for its psychometric properties. Couple Observational Coding Systems will be of interest to researchers studying couple interactions as well as clinicians who work with couples.
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Francisco de Osuna’s \Norte de los estados\ in Modernized Spanish
Best known for his works on the mystical practice of meditative recollection, Franciscan friar Francisco de Osuna published his candid manual for lay life, Norte de los estados (North Star) in 1531 before leaving Spain to reside in Antwerp. True to its title, the book was intended as a North Star that would dependably guide readers through the stages of youth, marriage, and widowhood. Although the historical literature on these themes is dominated by the works of his humanist contemporaries, Erasmus of Rotterdam and Juan Luis Vives, Osuna’s close attention to women’s experiences and his critical awareness of social class are distinctive. This first modern edition in Spanish restores Osuna’s reformist voice and expansive vision to the animated conversations on marriage and family in which he engaged. His detailed attention to practical questions and his intense spiritualization of spousal love make it an invaluable resource for understanding conjugal relationships in the popular imagination of the early modern world.
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Something in the water : a novel
Erin is a documentary filmmaker on the brink of a professional breakthrough, Mark a handsome investment banker with big plans. Passionately in love, they embark on a dream honeymoon to the tropical island of Bora Bora, where they enjoy the sun, the sand, and each other. Then, while scuba diving in the crystal blue sea, they find something in the water.
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Blessed Are the Peacemakers
An uncommon and intimate account of the lives of two
conscientious objectors In the summer of 2013,
Suzanne Kesler Rumsey discovered hundreds of letters exchanged
between her late grandparents, Miriam and Benjamin Kesler. The
letters, written between 1941 and 1946, were filled with typical
wartime sentiments: love and longing, anguish at being apart,
uncertainty about the war and the country’s future, and
attempts at humor to keep their spirits up. What is unusual about
their story is that Ben Kesler was not writing from a theater of
war. Instead, Ben, a member of the Dunkard Brethren Church, was a
conscientious objector. He, along with about 12,000 other men,
opted to join the Civilian Public Service (CPS) and contribute to
“work of national importance” at one of the 218 CPS
camps around the country. In
Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Small Histories during World War
II, Letter Writing, and Family History Methodology , Rumsey
has mined not only her grandparents’ letters but also
archival research on CPS camps and historical data from several
Mennonite and Brethren archives to recapture the narrative of
Ben’s service at two different camps and of Miriam’s
struggle to support herself and her husband financially at the
young age of seventeen. Ben and Miriam’s life during the
war was extraordinarily ordinary, spanning six years of
unrecognized and humble work for their country. Ben was not
compensated for his work in the camps, and Miriam stayed home and
worked as a day laborer, as a live-in maid, as a farmhand, and in
the family butcher shop in order to earn enough money to support
them both. Small histories like that of her grandparents, Rumsey
argues, provide a unique perspective on significant political and
historical moments.
Blessed Are the Peacemakers also explores the rhetorical
functions of letter writing as well as the methodology of family
history writing. Ben and Miriam’s letters provide an apt
backdrop to examine the genre, a relatively understudied mode of
literacy. Rumsey situates the young couple’s correspondence
within
ars dictaminis , the art of letter writing, granting new
insights into the genre and how personal accounts shape our
understanding of historical events.
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