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1) The wedding
Author
Series
Calhoun family saga volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
The long awaited follow-up to The Notebook. The story of an ordinary man who goes to extraordinary lengths to win back the love of his life.
2) Babbitt
Author
Language
English
Description
At once a conformist and a rebel, George F. Babbitt represents an ordinary man whose life turns upside down during one of the most profound sea changes in American cultural history: the mechanization and hucksterism of the Roaring Twenties.
Publisher
Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
"Life continues to throw more slings and arrows at Victor as he and Margaret move to a new house. Next door, the cheerful but terminally boring Nick Swainey seems intent on disturbing Victor's peaceful retirement, while on the other side Patrick and Pippa's lives are made a misery from the moment they first meet the Meldrews."--Container.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Explores the unique bonds of male friendship among three men experiencing the changes and challenges of mid-life. They have been best friends since college but now, in their 40s, are navigating through the second act of their lives.
Author
Series
Heaven volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Killed in a tragic accident, Eddie, an elderly man who believes that he had an uninspired life, awakens in the afterlife, where he discovers that heaven consists of having five people explain the meaning of one's life.
7) 17 again
Publisher
New Line Cinema
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A middle-aged man wakes up one day to find himself trapped in the body of the teenage athlete he used to be, and discovers that by dreaming of what he lost in life he has missed what is really important around him.
8) Lolita
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A novel that studies the moral disintegration of a man whose obsessive desire to possess his step-daughter destroys the lives of those around him
9) Husbands
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
After their friend drops dead of a heart attack, three friends leave the New York suburbs for partying and soul-searching in London.
10) A serious man
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A Midwestern physics professor faces changes in his life when his wife prepares to leave him, his job is threatened, and different advice from three rabbis leaves him still trying to find answers to his problems.
11) Lolita
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Stanley Kubrick's sixth film is a brilliant, sly adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's celebrated yet infamous 1955 novel. It chronicles a middle-aged literature professor's unusual and doomed sexual passion/obsession for a seductively precocious pubescent "nymphet" named Lolita. Thanks to the film industry's production code, the film is mostly suggestive, with numerous double entendres and metaphoric sexual situations, while the story has been transformed...
12) The waiter
Author
Publisher
Gallery/Scout Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of modern classics The Dinner and A Gentleman in Moscow comes The Waiter, in which the finely tuned balance of a grand European restaurant (that has seen better days) is irrevocably upset by an unexpected guest. In a centuries-old European restaurant called The Hills, a middle-aged waiter takes pride in the unchangeable aspects of his job: the well-worn uniform, the ragged but solid tablecloths, and the regular diners. Some are there...
13) Greenberg
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A forty-something man, single and unemployed, moves to Los Angeles to housesit for his brother and starts trying to create a new life for himself.
14) Uncut gems
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A charismatic jeweler makes a high-stakes bet that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime. In a precarious high-wire act, he must balance business, family, and adversaries on all sides in pursuit of the ultimate win.
15) The neighbor
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A middle-aged man in a stagnant marriage finds his life upended when an attractive young woman and her seemingly abusive husband move in next door.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
After the events of the eighth season finale, during which Kristin went into labor with her baby daughter and Mandy was pregnant with her first child, the series jumps ahead into the near future, when Mike and his wife, Vanessa, will contemplate their own future, including Mike's imminent retirement from his lifelong job at Outdoor Man, and who could be his successor.
17) No way Jose
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Joe Stern is a struggling musician who gets the boot by the perfect woman. Too bad he didn't realize that when they were together.
Author
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Jacob, a middle-aged architect living in Copenhagen, is in the alcohol-soaked throes of a bitter divorce when he receives an unexpected call from his great-uncle Anton, who is in his nineties and still lives with his brother Anders on their rural Jutland farm--a place Jacob hasn't visited since the summer of 1978. Anton asks Jacob to answer the question that has haunted them both for decades: What happened to Ellen? To find out, Jacob must revisit...
19) The summer guest
Author
Publisher
Dial Press
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Nearing the end of his life, financier Harry Wainwright journeys to a rustic fishing camp in Maine and leaves a profound legacy for a haunted young man, a Vietnam draft evader, and a spirited young woman who holds a key to the past.
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