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Sense and sensibility

Two 19th-century English sisters of opposite temperaments who have recently fallen upon hard financial times go through the joys and heartaches of romantic love.

Manhattan

New Yorker Isaac Davis hates his job, doesn't love his girlfriend, and his ex-wife is a lesbian who has written a book about their marriage. Then he meets and falls in lust with a beautiful woman, which starts him on a search for romance and fulfillment.

American beauty

Lester Burnham and his family seem to have the idyllic suburban life, but their world is actually spinning out of control. Lester's mid-life crisis affects everyone around him as he quits his job, develops a crush on his teenage daughter's friend and starts smoking pot with the young dope dealer next door.

When a man loves a woman

Alice and Michael's once ideal marriage has become strained by Alice's worsening alcoholism, through which trying to overcome, they find a new sense of love and devotion for each other.

Wither

After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb with men dying at age twenty-five and women dying at age twenty, girls are kidnapped and married off in order to repopulate the world.

Divine match-up

Living in Georgia with her devoutly Christian uncle and his family, glamorous Hollywood teenager Divine Matthews-Hardison learns important lessons about marriage, relationships, and responsibility.

Sister wife

Celeste, a member of The Movement, where polygamy is the norm and women are often married off to much older men, is repulsed by her community's practices and struggles to find a way to break free of their rigid rules and expectations without bringing shame to her family.

Merchant of Venice

Presents the text of Shakespeare's classic play about a creditor who demands a pound of flesh in payment for a defaulted debt and a lover who must solve a riddle to win the woman of his dreams.

Keeping corner

In India in the 1940s, thirteen-year-old Leela's happy, spoiled childhood ends when her husband since age nine, whom she barely knows, dies, leaving her a widow whose only hope of happiness could come from Mahatma Ghandi's social and political reforms.

The day the senior class got married

a novel
1983
Seventeen-year-old Lori is convinced that marrying Rick right after graduation is what she most wants in the world and that participating in the simulated marriage unit of their Consumer Economics class will only help them start their marriage on the right foot.

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