Stuck on Recovery Page cannot restart

I've got a problematic iMac running mavericks.  I tried to do a disk repair in Recovery Mode which didn't work (said it needed a disk repair but could not repair and that I should backup everything).  So then I tried to quit out of recovery and restart by choosing the Mac OS HD...it won't restart...it just keeps giving me the Recovery options front page.  What should I do?

So, all attempts to boot result in the machine booting into recovery mode. If so, Reset the NVRAM/PRAM and Reset the SMC, then try again.  If still no go, all I can suggest is to visit an Apple repair station.

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