At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilianborn man of Australian citizenship who'd been living in Indonesia when they met. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, but also swore to never, ever, under any circumstances get legally married. (Both were survivors of previous bad divorces. Enough said.)
But providence intervened one day in the form of the United States government, which after unexpectedly detaining Felipe at an American border crossing gave the couple a choice: they could either get married, or Felipe would never be allowed to enter the country again. Having been effectively sentenced to wed, Gilbert tackled her fears of marriage by delving into this topic completely, trying with all her might to discover through historical research, interviews, and much personal reflection what this stubbornly enduring old institution actually is.
Told with Gilbert's trademark wit, intelligence and compassion, Committed attempts to "turn on all the lights" when it comes to matrimony, frankly examining questions of compatibility, infatuation, fidelity, family tradition, social expectations, divorce risks, and humbling responsibilities. Gilbert's memoir is ultimately a cleareyed celebration of love with all the complexity and consequence that real love, in the real world, actually entails.
"This book is in part a detective story. After 9/11 I knew, if I needed further reinforcement, that we are living in a new world....
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In his new nonfiction book, Zeitoun, New York Times bestselling author Dave Eggers tells a Hurricane Katrina story unlike any written before....
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Christopher Hitchens contains multitudes. He sees all sides of an argument. And he believes the personal is political....
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Yale professor Dr. Edward Kender's father is undergoing chemotherapy when the supply of a critical accompanying drug, Culovort, suddenly runs out. ....
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It was wonderful to be young and working on Wall Street in the 1980s never had so many 24yearolds made so much money in so little time....
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Scott Brick, Cassandra Campbell, Kim Mai Guest, Kirby Heyborne, John Lee, and Richard Matthews
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Random House Audio
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In his captivating third novel, David Mitchell erases the boundaries of language, genre, and time to offer a meditation on humanity's dangerous will to power, and where it may lead us....
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He was a toughguy Welshman softened by the affections of a breathtakingly beautiful woman; she was a modernday Cleopatra madly in love with her own Mark Antony....
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Shop Class as Soulcraft brings alive an experience that was once quite common but now seems to be receding from society the experience of making and fixing things with our hands....
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Scott Brick, Cassandra Campbell, Kim Mai Guest, Kirby Heyborne, John Lee, and Richard Matthews
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Random House Audio
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In his captivating third novel, David Mitchell erases the boundaries of language, genre, and time to offer a meditation on humanity's dangerous will to power, and where it may lead us....
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Facing down mercenaries in Africa, Jason Bourne witnesses the death of an art dealer named Tracy Atherton. Her killing dredges up snatches of Bourne's impaired memory....
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Okay, folks, do you want to turn those fat and flabby expenses into a welltoned budget? Do you want to transform your sad and skinny little bank account into a bulkedup cash machine?...
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Niffenegger weaves a captivating story in Her Fearful Symmetry about love and identity, about secrets and sisterhood, and about the tenacity of life even after death....
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In the monsoon season of 196869 at a base called Matterhorn, located in the remote mountains of Vietnam, a young and ambitious Marine lieutenant wants to command a company....
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Richard Poe, Gerard Doyle, Carol Monda, Johanna Parker, Ramon de Ocampo, Chris Sorenson, Patricia Floyd
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Recorded Books
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Let the Great World Spin follows the fortunes of a menagerie of New Yorkers through a day in 1974 the day of Philippe Petit's death defying tightrope walk between the newly built Twin Towers....
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From the bestselling author of Agent Zigzag, the thrilling true story of the greatest and most successful wartime deception ever attempted....
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On the eve of the publication of an expose on a sex trafficking organization , the two reporters responsible for the story are brutally murdered.....
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Two Pulitzer Prize winners expose the most pervasive human rights violation of our era the oppression of women in the developing world and tell us what we can do about it....
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Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity....
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"What should we have for dinner?" To one degree or another, this simple question assails any creature faced with a wide choice of things to eat....
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Why I Recommend
Audible by Alan Twigg
Audible (an Amazon.com company) is the world's leading online
audio-book provider. Audible is responsible for supplying audio
content to Apple's ITunes service. I have been listening,
enjoying and creating audio books for many years. With
the arrival of the internet and portable digital devices,
audio-books began to become availalbe for download.
Having tried most of
the other download services myself, I finally came to
the conclusion that Audible offers the best and most
reliable service. Whether you are using an IPod, IPhone,
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availalbe, Audilbe makes downloading great quality audio
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In addition to this, Audible also boasts the most comprehensive collection
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offer, you can download any audiobook of your
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certainly the title on this
page, too).
This link will take you to Audible...
All about Audiobooks and how they can make your life more
enjoyable.
Books in audio format are a fantastic alternative to reading.
Indeed, now that the digital age is upon, listening to your
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Here at Playtime Books we offer lots unabridged talking
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