The time travelers wife, by audrey niffenegger an unconventional story about a marriage, certainly, and if niffenegger had stopped with a science fiction tale of a man unstuck in time and the woman he falls in love with struggling to piece together their fractured narrative, it wouldnt have been the success it was. Search the worlds most comprehensive index of fulltext books. How the surprising science of happy couples can help. They go in great detail into each part of the human body, pointing up the contribution made to the physical aspects of marriage. Deseret books collection of marriage books has many offerings with excellent relationship advice.
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