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The wedding girl / by Wickham, Madeleine,1969-author.(CARDINAL)528138;
Having rashly agreed ten years earlier to a marriage of convenience with her gay friend's partner to secure his citizenship, Milly hides the truth about her married status from her wealthy and serious fiancé until four days before her wedding.
Subjects: Fiction.; Weddings; Impediments to marriage;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The wedding girl / by Wickham, Madeleine,1969-(CARDINAL)528138;
To have and to hold takes on a whole new meaning when one bride's past catches up with her and brings the present crashing down. Milly is engaged to Simon--who is wealthy, serious, and believes her to be perfect. Milly's secret history behind a previous marriage to an Oxford homosexual is locked away so securely she has almost persuaded herself that it doesn't exist--until, only four days before her elaborate wedding.
Subjects: Fiction.; Impediments to marriage; Weddings;
Available copies: 31 / Total copies: 36
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The wedding girl [sound recording] a novel / by Wickham, Madeleine,1969-; Kellgren, Katherine,narrator.;
Read by Katherine Kellgren.Having rashly agreed ten years earlier to a marriage of convenience with her gay friend's partner to secure his citizenship, Milly hides the truth about her married status from her wealthy and serious fiancé until four days before her wedding.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Impediments to marriage; Weddings;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The wedding girl [large print] / by Wickham, Madeleine,1969-(CARDINAL)528138; Kinsella, Sophie.(CARDINAL)350539;
At the age of eighteen, in that first golden Oxford summer, Milly was up for anything -- and that included marrying her American friend Allan, so he could stay in the country with his lover Rupert. It's now ten years later, and Milly has done a lot of growing up and is a much-changed person. She's engaged to Simon -- a wealthy and serious man who believes Milly is perfect in every way. Milly's secret marriage has been locked away so tightly that she has almost convinced herself it doesn't exist. But just four days before her elaborate wedding, Milly's past catches up with her, and her dreadful secret becomes the ultimate wedding crasher.
Subjects: Large print books.; Fiction.; Weddings; Impediments to marriage;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 12
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Race, marriage and the law / by Sickels, Robert J.(CARDINAL)146158;
Bibliography: pages 162-164.Court and taboo -- The miscegenation taboo -- The climate of opinion -- Miscegenation and the law before 1967 -- The Constitution undergoes a change -- The impact of Loving -- The implications of Loving.
Subjects: Miscegenation (Racist theory); Race discrimination; Impediments to marriage;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
On-line resources: Suggest title for digitization;
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Is marriage for white people? : how the African American marriage decline affects everyone / by Banks, Ralph Richard.(CARDINAL)690036;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-277) and index.The African american marriage decline -- Why don't black people marry? -- The gender gap -- The market for relationships -- Child bearing & rearing -- The relationship consequences of the marriage decline -- Marrying down -- The down vs. out choice -- The impediments to interracial relationships -- Why black women want black men -- Tired of marrying again -- The market for black women -- Why black women should cross the color line.Examines a sharp decline in marriage rates among the African-American middle class while analyzing probable causes, tracing the rise of educated and independent black women and evaluating the potential of interracial marriages.
Subjects: African American families.; African Americans; Interracial marriage; Marriage; Marriage.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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LGBT families : lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender / by Poole, Hilary W.,author.(CARDINAL)474273;
What does LGBT mean? -- Marriage equality -- Raising families -- Challenges.Discusses the many types of LGBT families and shows how being different need not be an impediment to being happy.
Subjects: Sexual minorities; Sexual minority parents; Children of sexual minority parents; Gay parents; Children of gay parents; Families; LGBTQ+ people.; Sexual minorities.; LGBTQ+ parents.; Gay parents.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Jane Eyre / by Brontë, Charlotte,1816-1855.(CARDINAL)141210;
Bibliography: page ix.Jane Eyre, the plain yet spirited governess, introduced a new kind of heroine in literature—one whose virtuous integrity, sharp intellect, and tireless perseverance broke through class barriers to win equal stature with the man she loved. Orphaned and subjected to cruelty at Lowood charity school, Jane nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity. The story of how Jane becomes governess at Thornfield Hall, meets and loves Mr. Rochester, and discovers the impediment to their lawful marriage transcends melodrama to portray a woman's passionate search for a wider and richer life than that traditionally accorded to her by Victorian society. Hailed by William Makepeace Thackeray as "the masterwork of a great genius," this impassioned love story is still regarded, more than a century later, as one of the finest novels in literature.
Subjects: Fiction.;
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Unsweetined / by Sweetin, Jodie.(CARDINAL)551352; Warech, Jon.(CARDINAL)497328;
Speech impediment -- Let there be lights, camera, action -- Stuck in the middle -- When you wish you were a star -- Kiss and tell -- The last "how rude!" -- Creature of habit -- Drunk and high school -- Out of control -- Love and marriage -- A tale of two personalities -- Bottoms up -- Adopted habits -- Malibu's most undaunted -- Transition impossible -- Saving Stephanie -- Friends in low places -- Lost out there and all alone -- Vegas, baby! -- Nine months -- The pursuit of happiness -- The fight of my life -- A letter to Zoie.In the vein of Nic Sheff's "Tweak" and Tori Spelling's "sTori Telling," "UnSweetined" reveals the former "Full House" star's harrowing journey from her role as America's sweetheart on a popular television show to her struggle with substance abuse.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Sweetin, Jodie.; Child actors; Television actors and actresses;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 6
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Sex and the constitution : sex, religion, and law from America's origins to the twenty-first century / by Stone, Geoffrey R.,author.(CARDINAL)280838;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 539-638) and index."There has never been a book like Sex and the Constitution, a one-volume history that chapter after chapter overturns popular shibboleths, while dramatically narrating the epic story of how sex came to be legislated in America. Beginning his volume in the ancient and medieval worlds, Geoffrey R. Stone demonstrates how the Founding Fathers, deeply influenced by their philosophical forebears, saw traditional Christianity as an impediment to the pursuit of happiness and to the quest for human progress. Acutely aware of the need to separate politics from the divisive forces of religion, the Founding Fathers crafted a constitution that expressed the fundamental values of the Enlightenment. Although the Second Great Awakening later came to define America through the lens of evangelical Christianity, nineteenth-century Americans continued to view sex as a matter of private concern, so much so that sexual expression and information about contraception circulated freely, abortions before "quickening" remained legal, and prosecutions for sodomy were almost nonexistent. The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, however, reversed such tolerance as charismatic spiritual leaders and barnstorming politicians rejected the values of our nation's founders. Spurred on by Anthony Comstock, America's most feared enforcer of morality, new laws were enacted banning pornography, contraception, and abortion, with Comstock proposing that the word "unclean" be branded on the foreheads of homosexuals. Women increasingly lost control of their bodies, and birth control advocates, like Margaret Sanger, were imprisoned for advocating their beliefs. In this new world, abortions were for the first time relegated to dank and dangerous back rooms. The twentieth century increasingly saw the emergence of bitter divisions over issues of sexual "morality" and sexual freedom. Fiercely determined organizations and individuals on both the right and the left wrestled in the domains of politics, religion, public opinion, and the courts to win over the soul of the nation. With its stirring portrayals of Supreme Court justices, Sex and the Constitution reads like a dramatic gazette of the critical cases they decided, ranging from Griswold v. Connecticut (contraception), to Roe v. Wade (abortion), to Obergefell v. Hodges (gay marriage), with Stone providing vivid historical context to the decisions that have come to define who we are as a nation. Now, though, after the 2016 presidential election, we seem to have taken a huge step backward, with the progress of the last half century suddenly imperiled. No one can predict the extent to which constitutional decisions safeguarding our personal freedoms might soon be eroded, but Sex and the Constitution is more vital now than ever before." --
Subjects: Sex and law; Sexual rights; Sex;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6
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