The Power Couple

The Power Couple
Author: Alex Berenson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2021-02-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 198210371X

From #1 New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award winner Alex Berenson comes a supercharged thriller about marriage and the dangerous secrets spouses keep. Rebecca and Brian Unsworth appear to have it all. A nice house in the suburbs of Washington, DC. Two well-behaved, healthy teenage children. Important government jobs—Rebecca working in counterterrorism for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Brian serving as a coder for the National Security Agency. Their lives stand to improve even more as Brian, in his off-hours, has just developed and sold a highly profitable app. However, the Unsworths’ marriage isn’t as perfect as it seems. After two decades together, they’ve drifted apart, talking little and having sex even less. Seeking to revive their strained relationship, they decide for their twentieth wedding anniversary to take their two kids, Kira and Tony, on a European getaway. They have a blast…until one night in Barcelona when Kira doesn’t come home from a dance club. She’s gone. Abducted. Over the course of a single weekend, the Unsworths will do everything possible to find her—as Kira herself discovers just how far she’ll go to break free of the trap that’s been set for her. And even as Rebecca and Brian come together for Kira, they realize their marriage is more tenuous than they realized. The Power Couple is both a fast-paced, globe-trotting espionage novel full of surprising twists and a nuanced look at modern marriage—the challenges of balancing career, parenthood, sex, and love.


Power Couple Habits

Power Couple Habits
Author: Scott Noorda
Publisher:
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2019-09-17
Genre:
ISBN: 9781733299909

Are you looking for a way to transform your health and upgrade your performance at work and at home?Do you need to boost your energy or brainpower to become your best self?¿This action-inspiring book will show you where to start with sustainable habits that will recharge your health, your career, and your marriage.¿In Power Couple Habits you will find:¿ Our top 5 ways to upgrade your nutrition, sleep, stress, purpose, and relationship. ¿ The 2 secrets to making healthy changes easier and more sustainable.¿ How a circadian reset can help you lose weight, sleep better, and have more energy.¿ Real-life stories of individuals and couples who have overcome obstacles to achieve incredible goals in physical, mental, and spiritual health.¿ Practical tips based on cutting-edge medical research.Genes only contribute to 10% of your risk for chronic disease. The other 90% is based on your lifestyle and environment-making healthy habits absolutely critical if you want to live your best life right now and into retirement.In his private lifestyle-based family medicine practice, Dr. Scott Noorda started to see a clear pattern in patients with the best outcomes. Couples who worked to become healthier together were far more successful than patients who tried on their own. Dr. Scott Noorda and Amy Noorda share success habits that they have observed in high-achieving couples all over the country and teach you the easiest way to make healthy choices sustainable.Dr. Noorda's writing is informed by his extensive training in neuroscience, nutrition, and functional medicine, as well as his experience working with patients sidetracked by chronic health issues. This book is full of real-life examples of individuals overcoming obstacles by changing their habits and it tackles self-improvement from a family-based, Christian perspective.


Superman/Wonder Woman Vol. 1: Power Couple

Superman/Wonder Woman Vol. 1: Power Couple
Author: Charles Soule
Publisher: DC Comics
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2014-09-23
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 140125358X

Everyone knows Superman and Wonder Woman have joined forces to stop evil, but what will happen when their enemies - not to mention the general public - discover that the two of the strongest beings on Earth are partnering up in more ways than one? How long can the world’s most powerful couple keep their relationship a secret, while also facing down the deadliest villains in the universe: Doomsday, Apollo and Zod?In SUPERMAN/WONDER WOMAN VOL. 1: POWER COUPLE (collects issues #1-7), rising star writer Charles Soule (RED LANTERNS) and sensational artist Tony S. Daniel (JUSTICE LEAGUE) launch an all-new ongoing series chronicling the epic adventures of two of the greatest super heroes of all time!


Power Couple

Power Couple
Author: Patty Rice
Publisher:
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2020-06-06
Genre:
ISBN:

USA TODAY AND ESSENCE BEST-SELLING AUTHOR, Patty Rice tells a delicious, twisty story of a celebrity power couple on the brink of divorce who take a leap of faith to try to save their troubled marriage at all cost. For readers of Nora Roberts and Terry McMillan comes this emotional, gripping tale of family drama and unquenchable love. Malcolm and Paris Reese are the world's definition of a power couple with the fame, money, mansion and cars to prove it. He's a handsome, talented movie director on a fast rise to the top. She's his gorgeous trophy wife who put her goals on hold to help her husband acheive his dreams. To the public, this dynamic duo is #relationshipgoals. Privately, their marriage is on life support and dying more every day. Infidelity, mistrust, vicious arguments and the silent treatment have made their once happy home a war zone. The pressure in their failing marriage mounts when their teenage daughter, Courtney announces that she's pregnant and won't divulge the father's name. Malcolm also discovers that someone is sabotaging his new movie. But who? Meanwhile, Paris is fighting personal problems that include low self-esteem, an identity crisis from living in her husband's shadow, and trying to compete with Malcolm's glamorous, educated ex, Jade Phillips. Paris is convinced that Malcolm is having an affair and once she learns the truth, the outcome is heartbreakingly explosive. Malcolm feels he's justified for shutting down on his wife. Though he's madly in love with Paris, his heart is frozen from her past betrayal that nearly broke him. Infidelity becomes Malcom's weapon and a string of steamy affairs pushes his relationship with Paris to the brink of despair. Just when they reach the end of their rope, a unique marriage ministry challenges them to embrace God's power couple design. Doing it God's way means forgiving each other, having staying power, and walking in the power of the Holy Spirit. But will this troubled couple be able to set aside their pride and find their way back to each other and the incredible love they once shared? Or will another big secret that Paris is keeping from Malcolm rip their marriage apart forever? Power Couple is a rollercoaster ride that will make you laugh, want to scream, and reach for the tissues. It is a modern romance page turner that you won't forget.


Power Couples in Antiquity

Power Couples in Antiquity
Author: Anne Bielman Sánchez
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2019-03-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 135127242X

Everyone can name a couple made up of famous, rich, or powerful partners, who cultivate a joint media image which is stronger than either of their individual identities. Since the 1980s they have been known as "power couples". Yet while the term is recent, the concept is not. More than 2,000 years ago, Greeks and Romans became aware of the media potential of couples and used it as an instrument to reinforce political power. Notable examples are Philip II of Macedonia and Olympias, Cleopatra and Mark Antony, or the Emperor Augustus and his wife Livia. Power Couples in Antiquity brings together the reflections of ten specialists on Greek and Roman power couples from the fourth century BCE to the first century CE. It is focused on the birth and the development of the "ruling couple" in the Hellenistic Greek kingdoms and in Rome between the end of the Republic and the beginning of the Empire. By taking some emblematic cases, this book analyses the redistribution of public and private roles within these couples, examines the sentimental bonds or the relations of domination established between partners, explores how these relationships played out in private, and highlights the many common points between ancient and contemporary power couples. This book offers a fascinating insight into power dynamics in the ancient world, exploring not only the subtleties within these often complex relationships, but also their relationships with their subjects through the cultivation and manipulation of their joint public image.


Them

Them
Author: Francine Du Plessix Gray
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 545
Release: 2006-06-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1101221364

Tatiana du Plessix, the wife of a French diplomat, was a beautiful, sophisticated "white Russian" who had been the muse of the famous Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. Alexander Liberman, the ambitious son of a prominent Russian Jew, was a gifted magazine editor and aspiring artist. As part of the progressive artistic Russian émigré community living in Paris in the 1930s, the two were destined to meet. They began a passionate affair, and the year after Paris was occupied in World War II they fled to New York with Tatiana's young daughter, Francine. There they determinedly rose to the top of high society, holding court to a Who's Who list of the midcentury's intellectuals and entertainers. Flamboyant and outrageous, bold and brilliant, they were irresistible to friends like Marlene Dietrich, Salvador Dalí, and the publishing tycoon Condé Nast. But to those who knew them well they were also highly neurotic, narcissistic, and glacially self-promoting, prone to cut out of their lives, with surgical precision, close friends who were no longer of use to them. Tatiana became an icon of New York fashion, and the hats she designed for Saks Fifth Avenue were de rigueur for stylish women everywhere. Alexander Liberman, who devotedly raised Francine as his own child from the time she was nine, eventually came to preside over the entire Condé Nast empire. The glamorous life they shared was both creative and destructive and was marked by an exceptional bond forged out of their highly charged love and raging self-centeredness. Their obsessive adulation of success and elegance was elevated to a kind of worship, and the high drama that characterized their lives followed them to their deaths. Tatiana, increasingly consumed with nostalgia for a long-lost Russia, spent her last years addicted to painkillers. Shortly after her death, Alexander, then age eighty, shocked all who knew him by marrying her nurse. Them: A Portrait of Parents is a beautifully written homage to the extraordinary lives of two fascinating, irrepressible people who were larger than life emblems of a bygone age. Written with honesty and grace by the person who knew them best, this generational saga is a survivor's story. Tatiana and Alexander survived the Russian Revolution, the fall of France, and New York's factory of fame. Their daughter, Francine, survived them.


Imperfect Union

Imperfect Union
Author: Steve Inskeep
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 490
Release: 2021-01-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0735224374

Steve Inskeep tells the riveting story of John and Jessie Frémont, the husband and wife team who in the 1800s were instrumental in the westward expansion of the United States, and thus became America's first great political couple John C. Frémont, one of the United States’s leading explorers of the nineteenth century, was relatively unknown in 1842, when he commanded the first of his expeditions to the uncharted West. But in only a few years, he was one of the most acclaimed people of the age – known as a wilderness explorer, bestselling writer, gallant army officer, and latter-day conquistador, who in 1846 began the United States’s takeover of California from Mexico. He was not even 40 years old when Americans began naming mountains and towns after him. He had perfect timing, exploring the West just as it captured the nation’s attention. But the most important factor in his fame may have been the person who made it all possible: his wife, Jessie Benton Frémont. Jessie, the daughter of a United States senator who was deeply involved in the West, provided her husband with entrée to the highest levels of government and media, and his career reached new heights only a few months after their elopement. During a time when women were allowed to make few choices for themselves, Jessie – who herself aspired to roles in exploration and politics – threw her skill and passion into promoting her husband. She worked to carefully edit and publicize his accounts of his travels, attracted talented young men to his circle, and lashed out at his enemies. She became her husband’s political adviser, as well as a power player in her own right. In 1856, the famous couple strategized as John became the first-ever presidential nominee of the newly established Republican Party. With rare detail and in consummate style, Steve Inskeep tells the story of a couple whose joint ambitions and talents intertwined with those of the nascent United States itself. Taking advantage of expanding news media, aided by an increasingly literate public, the two linked their names to the three great national movements of the time—westward settlement, women’s rights, and opposition to slavery. Together, John and Jessie Frémont took parts in events that defined the country and gave rise to a new, more global America. Theirs is a surprisingly modern tale of ambition and fame; they lived in a time of social and technological disruption and divisive politics that foreshadowed our own. In Imperfect Union, as Inskeep navigates these deeply transformative years through Jessie and John’s own union, he reveals how the Frémonts’ adventures amount to nothing less than a tour of the early American soul.


Power of the Middle Ground

Power of the Middle Ground
Author: Marty Babits
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2009-12-30
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1615922822

The Power of the Middle Ground explains-as no other self-help book does-why and how the inherent difficulties entailed in the change process itself are daunting. Author Marty Babits, a seasoned couples therapist and educator, explains strategies and provides tips for grappling successfully with the challenges that change presents. This key aspect of working through relationship difficulties has, until now, been given short shrift in the popular and academic literature. Despite the central place of divorce in our culture, he teaches couples how to achieve a much greater impact in solving difficult interpersonal problems than is often thought possible. Babits helps couples envision a place that brings their potential for love and compassion alive. This place, which neither partner can dominate and in which each learns to approach problems productively, he calls the "middle ground." Through a series of exercises, he equips couples to appreciate and actualize what is positive and possible in their relationship. This encouraging, yet realistic book empowers partners to negotiate differences, emphasize the positive, see issues from each other''s point of view, defuse anger, and, as a result, rekindle warmth and love.