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1) Six years
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Language
English
Description
Six years have passed since Jake watched the love of his life, Natalie, marry Todd. For six years, he hid a broken heart by focusing on his career as a college professor. But when he sees Todd's obituary in the newspaper, he can't stay away any longer. Finally, he sees Todd's wife--but it's not Natalie. Whoever the widow is, she and Todd have been married for over a decade; and with that fact, he learns that his life is based on fiction, and digging...
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Series
Language
English
Description
A man with the soul of a poet and the patience of a saint, Florentino Ariza has waited more than half a century for the beautiful and haughty Fermina Daza, who revoked her promise to be his wife and instead married the wealthy Dr. Juvenal Urbino. Florentino Ariza's unrequited love survives fifty-one years, nine months, and four days, a time filled with encounters and travels, births, deaths, and poetry. As Fermina Daza and Dr. Urbino build their life...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 291 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The summer Lisa A. Phillips turned thirty, she fell in love with someone who didn't return her feelings. She soon became obsessed. She followed him around, called him compulsively, and talked about him endlessly. One desperate morning, after she snuck into his apartment building, he picked up a baseball bat to protect himself and began to dial 911. Her unrequited love had changed her from a sane, conscientious college teacher and radio reporter into...
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Series
Language
Español
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Description
De jóvenes, Florentino Ariza y Fermina Daza se enamoran apasionadamente, pero Fermina eventualmente decide casarse con un médico rico y de muy buena familia. Florentino estáanonadado, pero es un romántico. Su carrera en los negocios florece, y aunquesostiene 622 pequeños romances, su corazón todavía pertenece a Fermina. Cuandoal fin el esposo de ella muere, Florentino acude al funeral con toda intención. A los cincuenta años, nueve meses,...
Author
Publisher
February Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xviii, 242 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents a guide to overcoming rejection and thriving in the face of unrequited love, offering advice on cultivating self-worth and loving oneself without requiring the validation of others.
Author
Publisher
Zoland Books
Pub. Date
1997.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 21-22 cm
Language
English
Description
The dean of a museum in England has been murdered and his body served as a series of dishes, ranging from roast dean to fried dean. Suspicion falls on the ethnology department whose members are rumored to have been dabbling in cannibalism. Norman de Ratour of the registrar's office investigates.
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Language
English
Description
After the death of her wealthy husband, a young widow must settle the estate with his son — the same man who once broke her heart. Caroline Dawson survived the town gossips who whispered behind her back. She survived the slow death of her husband, Roscoe Lancaster, the richest man in the county and her senior by three decades. But she feared she might not survive Rink Lancaster, her husband's son. Years before she married, when she and...
10) Secrets
Author
Language
English
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Description
Having harbored an unrequited love for a man she met in childhood, Cassandra impulsively breaks an engagement to become the now-widowed man's nanny, but realizes that her chance for winning his heart is threatened by dark secrets.
13) Cosmos
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (10 pages)
Language
Français
Description
Witold has just failed the bar exam, his partner Fuchs has just recently quit his job and now they are staying at a so-called family guesthouse. It's when they discover a bird hung in the woods near the house that they become concerned with their safety. After, they find a piece of wood just as they had found the bird. They receive another omen in the form of forewarning signs on their ceiling and in the garden. What will happen next as Witold falls...
Author
Series
How to build a girl volume 2
Language
English
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Description
"Johanna Morrigan (aka Dolly Wilde) has it all: she is nineteen, lives in her own flat in London, and writes for the coolest music magazine in Britain. Her star is rising, just not quickly enough for her liking. Then John Kite, Johanna's unrequited love, has an album go to number one. Suddenly John exists on another plane of reality: that of the Famouses, a world of rabid fans and VIP access. Johanna lacks the traditional trappings of fame (famous...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
288 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A short story collection featuring elements of magic realism while touching on the themes of love, knowledge, grief, hope, and jealousy. Teeming with uncanny characters whose lives unfold in worlds at once strikingly human and eerily original, these stories demonstrate the strength and power -- known and unknown -- of the imagination.
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Contains 26 stories of first or unrequited loves.
Twenty-six authors return to the teenage bedrooms, school hallways and collage dorms of their youth to share passionate essays of love lost and found, and lessons learned along the way.
Author
Series
Heartbreaker Bay novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
Willa Davis is wrangling puppies when Keane Winters stalks into her pet shop with frustration in his chocolate-brown eyes and a pink bedazzled cat carrier in his hand. He needs a kitty sitter, stat. But the last thing Willa needs is to rescue a guy who doesn't even remember her. Saddled with his great-aunt's feline from hell, Keane is desperate to leave her in someone else's capable hands. But in spite of the fact that he's sure he's never seen the...
19) Damnation
Publisher
Arbelos Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (122 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (12 unnumbered pages : black and white photographs ; 15 cm)
Language
Hungarian
Description
Karrer is in love with a cabaret singer and wants to spend the rest of his life with her, but the only way he can do that is to get rid of her husband by getting him involved in a smuggling scheme.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (7 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 15 cm)
Language
Français
Description
Nelly, 25, is stuck in a loveless marriage while barely making ends meet. A friend introduces her to the wealthy and much older Arnaud in order to help him write his memoirs. Thus begins a playful, tentative flirtation that is forever threatening to bloom into a romance. But instead Nelly gets involved with Arnaud's charming editor. Arnaud and Nelly get stuck in a silent dance of sideways glances and off-hand gestures, the secret choreography of unrequited...
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