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"Judy never intended to start wearing the dog. But when she stumbled across her son Teddy's old baby sling during a halfhearted basement cleaning, something in her snapped. So: the dog went into the sling, Judy felt connected to another living being, and she's repeated the process every day since. Life hasn't gone according to Judy's plan. Her career as a children's book author offered a glimpse of success before taking an embarrassing nose dive....
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Ecco
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
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Middle Age portrays a uniquely contemporary phenomenon: the propensity of the affluent middle-aged in America to reinvent themselves romantically when the energies of youth have faded or they have become disillusioned. The setting is Salthill-on-Hudson, NY, a wealthy community where "everyone is middle-aged"--but looks much younger. In this intensely social environment, Adam Berendt, a charismatic and mysterious sculptor, dies unexpectedly, plunging...
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Sweet Magnolias volume 3
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English
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Helen has always been a driven goal-setter, and achieved all she set out to do. Except for her current challenge--at 42, she finds herself suddenly ready to start a family, yet with no one to start a family with.
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Twelve
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Patty Marx employs the weapon she wields best--razor-sharp humor--to tackle what is perhaps the most difficult facet of aging-the decline of the mind. From losing her keys to forgetting her sister-in-law's name, Marx has done it all, and somehow prevailed with friendships intact. Unrelentingly funny and unexpectedly candid, Let's Be Less Stupid speaks to women and men of a certain age, but it will make you laugh at any age. Filled with anecdotes about...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
Description
Draws on cutting-edge scientific studies to discuss the U-shaped trajectory of happiness, which declines from the optimism of youth before surging upward again after age fifty, and offers ways to endure the slump during midlife.
8) Like always
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Publisher
Waterbrook Press
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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When forty-five-year-old Merit Sullivan discovers that she is pregnant, and devastating news forces a big decision, Merit and her husband Will must reexamine their faith and their devotion to each other.
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Tin House Books
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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As a young girl, Katya Geller learned from her mother that math was the answer to everything. Now, at forty, she finds this wisdom tested: she has lost the love of her life, she is in the middle of a divorce, and has just found out that her mother is dying. Half-mad with grief, Katya turns to the unfinished notes for her mother's last textbook, hoping to find guidance in mathematical concepts. With humor, intelligence, and unfailing honesty, Katya...
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Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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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.
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After going viral "reading" the chaotic political news, having one-too-many awkward social encounters, and coming to terms with his intersecting identities, R. Eric Thomas is ready to live his best life. Or, if not, at least his best-ish life. Now, in this collection of insightful and hilarious essays, Eric finds himselfdoing things completely out of character, starting with moving back to his perpetually misunderstood hometown of Baltimore. They...
13) The guts
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Viking
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"Jimmy Rabbitte is back. The man who invented the Commitments back in the 1980s is now 47, with a loving wife, 4 kids and bowel cancer. He isn't dying, he thinks, but he might be. Jimmy still loves his music, and he still loves to hustle--his new thing is finding old bands and then finding the people who loved them enough to pay money online for their resurrected singles and albums. On his path through Dublin, between chemo and work he meets two of...
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Publisher
Three Women Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When lonely corporate wife Joanna Harrison runs away to Pawleys Island, she has no idea what will happen next. Unsure, she takes a job as a live-in companion to Grace Finelli, an elderly woman with a secret and one last dream: to live by the ocean. As Joanna becomes friendly with a shrimp boat captain, and then joins the local loggerhead turtle project, she is drawn into island life and begins to see a new future for herself. But back in New Jersey...
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Hachette Go
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"With couples divorcing at higher rates than any generation before, and longer lifespans leaving people unwilling to settle for an unsatisfying partner, it's more important than ever to refocus and strengthen your relationship. The only question is: how? In AARP Love and Meaning after 50, husband-wife psychologist team Julia Mayer and Barry Jacobs -- with 50+ years of experience between them -- identify the 10 most common challenges to sustain loving...
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Rosetta Books
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
Description
In the blockbuster autobiography A Child Called "It," Dave Pelzer shared the story of his childhood--one of the most dramatic and extreme stories of child abuse ever prosecuted in the state of California. As a child, Pelzer was beaten, starved, and abused both emotionally and physically by his alcoholic and mentally unstable mother. As a man, Pelzer went on to have love, happiness, a fulfilling career, and his own family. To many, Pelzer seemed to...
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HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"Internationally recognized coach and New York Times bestselling author Cheryl Richardson has toured the world empowering others to make lasting change. But when Richardson's own life no longer worked as it once had, a persistent, inner voice offered unmistakable guidance: it was time to reevaluate her life to uncover what really mattered. Waking Up in Winter is the candid and revelatory account of how at midlife, Richardson found renewed contentment...
20) Us
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PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
During a dream vacation in Europe, a man tries to save his marriage with his wife who wants a divorce, and restore his relationship with his son who will be leaving for university.
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