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Just when Glennon Doyle Melton was beginning to feel she had it all figured out -- three happy children, a doting spouse, and a writing career so successful that her first book catapulted to the top of the New York Times bestseller list -- her husband revealed his infidelity and she was forced to realize that nothing was as it seemed. A recovering alcoholic and bulimic, Glennon found that rock bottom was a familiar place. In the midst of crisis, she...
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"Gina Frangello is a long-married fortysomething devoted mom when her life is turned upside down by the sudden death of her closest friend. Worn down from years of caregiving both her elderly parents and three kids, Gina starts to interrogate her own mortality and what she once longed for as a younger woman : a kind of sexual, romantic and artistic intensity radically at odds with her comfortable but emotionally stagnant marriage. Falling into a passionate...
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Documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion. An unnamed narrator attempts to plot the emotional and physical course of her two-year-relationship with a married foreigner where every word, event, and person is connected in some way to her beloved or is of no importance. --From back cover.
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It's 1859, and Congressman Daniel Sickles and his wife Teresa are the toast of Washington society. Revelers in DC are used to seeing Teresa with Philip Barton Key, who is considered "the handsomest man in all Washington society." Then one day Daniel Sickles receives an anonymous note about his wife and Key, setting a murder into motion. Using Mrs. Sickles' writings, historian Chris DeRose tells the true story of a riveting trial that shocked nineteenth-century...
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In this unique, 360-degree look, Plump delivers a searing, confessional story about the challenges of marriage. From the view of both betrayer and betrayed, Plump looks at the ordeal of finding out about infidelity, the recovery, passion, and the daily play that can lead to fulfillment or disillusionment.
10) Jealousy
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When Catherine M. discovers a letter in their apartment that makes it clear Jacques is seriously involved with someone else, she must reconcile her need for freedom and sexual liberation with the very real heartache that his infidelity caused.
11) Year of the cock: the remarkable true account of a married man who left his wife and paid the price
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"The exhilarating chronicle of a man who promptly leaves one American Dream for another, ditching his wife and diving headfirst into the freedom of wealthy bachelorhood...only to land with a resounding thud."--Provided by the publisher.