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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When Jack and Elizabeth meet as college students in the '90s, the two quickly join forces and hold on tight, each eager to claim a place in Chicago’s thriving underground art scene with an appreciative kindred spirit. Fast-forward twenty years to married life, and alongside the challenges of parenting, they encounter cults disguised as mindfulness support groups, polyamorous would-be suitors, Facebook wars, and something called Love Potion Number...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"When his dream of the perfect marriage, the perfect son, and the perfect life implodes, a Wall Street millionaire takes a cross-country bus trip in search of his college sweetheart and ideals of youth. Myopic, narcissistic, hilariously self-deluded and divorced from the real world as most of us know it, hedge fund manager Barry Cohen oversees
Author
Language
English
Description
"An evocative new novel from the New York Times bestselling author Kristan Higgins. Beware the wrath of a woman scorned-she just might save the world. Lillie knew the empty nest would be hard when her son left for college, but she had no idea of the full extent to which her world would come crashing down-until her husband announced out of the blue that he was in love with another woman, and he would be leaving, too. Besides the fact that this announcement...
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"There's no better time than now to remake your career and life. Neuroscience research reveals that creativity spikes in our later years--making midlife an ideal time to change professions. This breakthrough career-reinvention guide shows workers in their forties and over how to leverage this newfound potential.Boundless Potential empowers you with the knowledge, inspiration, and tools to kick-start anything from a new entrepreneurial venture to...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When Ada Calhoun found herself in the throes of a midlife crisis, she thought that she had no right to complain. She was married with children and a good career. So why did she feel miserable? And why did it seem that other Generation X women were miserable, too? Calhoun decided to find some answers. She looked into housing costs, HR trends, credit card debt averages, and divorce data. At every turn, she saw a pattern: sandwiched between the Boomers...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A humorous and insightful take on middle age and its indignities offers stories from the life of the author and her friends and family discussing the small irritations, minor humiliations, and mixed emotions of getting older.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
With the normal patterns of her life turned upside down, Sally Farber finds herself searching for the true definition of happiness in her life through her experiences of motherhood, marriage, an affair, writing, and home renovation.
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Missy Turner thinks of herself as the most ordinary woman in the world. She has a lot to be thankful for-a great kid, a loving husband, a job she enjoys and the security of living in the small town where she was born. Then one day everything gets turned upside down-she loses her job, catches her husband making out with the neighbor and is briefly taken hostage by a young man who robs the local cafe. With her world rapidly falling apart, Missy finds...
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
What if for just one year you let desire call the shots? The project was simple: An attractive, successful magazine journalist, Robin Rinaldi, would move into a San Francisco apartment, join a dating site, and get laid. Never mind that she already owned a beautiful flat a few blocks away, that she was forty-four, or that she was married to a man she'd been in love with for eighteen years. What followed--a year of sex, heartbreak, and unexpected revelation--is...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Big Little Lies meets The Witches of Eastwick--a gloriously entertaining and knife-sharp feminist revenge fantasy about three women whose midlife crisis brings unexpected new powers-putting them on a collision course with the evil that lurks in their wealthy beach town"--
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the placid plateau of mid-life. But Julia has never navigated the world with the equanimity of her current privileged class. Having nearly derailed herself several times, making desperate bids for the kind of connection that always felt inaccessible to her, she finally feels, at age fifty seven, that she has a firm handle on things. She's unprepared, though,...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
People today are trying to make their marriages work over longer lives than ever before-- but staying married isn't always easy. De Marneffe addresses key problems that challenge marriages, and explains the psychological, emotional, and relational capacities we must cultivate to overcome them as individuals and as couples.
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