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21) Separate beds
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
Tom and Annie's children have grown up, the mortgage is doable and they're about to get a kitchen makeover. Life is good--or so it seems. Beneath the veneer of professional success and domestic security, their marriage is crumbling, eaten away by years of resentment, loneliness, and misunderstandings, and they've settled into simply being two strangers living under the same roof...until the economy falls apart, and suddenly their lives are upended...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"The beloved bestselling author of Here for It presents a collection of heartening, thoughtful, and laugh-out-loud funny essays about the lifelong search for community and returning home. 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...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Do you hate the term “middle age?” So does Kristin van Ogtrop, who is still trying to come up with a less annoying way to describe those years when you find yourself both satisfied and outraged, confident and confused, full of appreciation but occasional disdain for the world around you. Like an intimate chat with your best friend, this mostly funny, sometimes sad, always affirming volume from longtime magazine journalist van Ogtrop is a celebration...
31) Wake up before your wake-up call: the five pillars for deeper love, joy, and connection in midlife
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Do you wake up most mornings and go along with the day as usual, taking for granted that things will unfold the way they always have? Do you go through your days on autopilot, with no real thought that something life-changing could happen at any moment? By the time we reach our middle years, many of us have established well-worn patterns and habits that no longer serve us -- from what we eat to how we relate to others, to how we take care of our...
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
"Contrary to the long-held belief that our brain power inevitably declines as we age, The Mature Mind argues that there are actually positive changes taking place in our minds. Drawing on a wealth of scientific research, as well as in-depth interviews with older women and men, Gene Cohen, a renowned psychiatrist and gerontologist, reveals for the first time how the mind continues to grow and flourish well into the second half of life."--BOOK JACKET....
Author
Pub. Date
[1997]
Description
"A jewel of a book by this celebrated Chicana lesbian writer chronicling 'one small human being's struggle for survival, ' her 21/2-pound premature baby boy. While the specifics belong to Moraga and her loved ones, the tale is told in common with every woman who has experienced the wonder and terror of pregnancy, the trauma of a child's near-death."--Jacket.
38) Later novels
Author
Pub. Date
c1990
Description
Here are some of the most powerful and enchanting works by this renowned Southern author, contrasting grace and old-world charm with a new generation. Includes A Lost Lady, The Professor's House, Death Comes for the Archbishop, Shadow on the Rock, Lucy Gayheart, and Cather's last and most personal novel, Sapphira and the Slave Girl.
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
One morning the owners of the Brewed Awakening coffee shop are startled to discover a frightened girl hiding in their storage room. When they learn that teenaged Rachel has run away from an abusive foster home, they decide to keep her whereabouts a secret from Sheriff Cade Sloan. Having Rachel around awakens in the women a new zest for life, particularly for widowed Mia, who finally agrees to go out with the Sheriff.
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