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2) Familyhood
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
The comedian and actor presents his humorous observations on parenting, marriage, and midlife.
3) Easy silence
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Handles have one of those quiet, suburban marriages that has ticked along for decades without anything very momentous happening. William, a distinguished violinist and leader of the Elmtree Quartet, and Grace, a modest watercolorist, enjoy a serence, domestic routine where easy silence, an acceptance of each other's ways, is the norm. The two spend each day in their respective corners of the house--William upstairs practicing, and Grace downstairs...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The midlife crisis is the butt of so many jokes, but this long-derided life stage has an upside. What if we could reframe our thinking about the natural transition of midlife not as a crisis, but as a chrysalis-a time when something profound awakens in us, as we shed our skin, spread our wings, and pollinate our wisdom to the world? In Learning to Love Midlife, Chip Conley offers an alternative narrative to the way we commonly think of our 40s, 50s...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
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
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Maggie Dolin, forty-five years old, isn't dealing with getting older as well as she would like. But with her daughter about to leave for college, her husband acting increasingly distant, and her father--always her rock--deteriorating both physically and mentally, who can blame her?"--
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic edition.
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...
11) I guess I haven't learned that yet: discovering new ways of living when the old ways stop working
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Shauna Niequist writes about unexpected loss, change, faith, midlife, and a move to New York City with her signature depth and vulnerability. In this book, she invites us to practice curiosity and self-compassion, to become beginners again, and to rediscover resilience and courage in our own seasons of change"--
12) A man
Author
Publisher
Amazon Crossings
Pub. Date
[2020].
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Akira Kido is a divorce attorney whose own marriage is in danger of being destroyed by emotional disconnect. With a midlife crisis looming, Kido's life is upended by the reemergence of a former client, Rie Takemoto. She wants Kido to investigate a dead man--her recently deceased husband, Daisuke. Upon his death she discovered that he'd been living a lie. His name, his past, his entire identity belonged to someone else, a total stranger. The investigation...
13) A man
Author
Publisher
Amazon Crossing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Akira Kido is a divorce attorney whose own marriage is in danger of being destroyed by emotional disconnect. With a midlife crisis looming, Kido's life is upended by the reemergence of a former client, Ri�e Takemoto. She wants Kido to investigate a dead man--her recently deceased husband, Daisuk�e. Upon his death she discovered that he'd been living a lie. His name, his past, his entire identity belonged to someone else, a total stranger. The...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
P.R. Chandrasekhar, the celebrated professor of economics at Cambridge, is at a turning point. He has sacrificed his family for his career, but his conservative brand of economics is no longer in fashion, and yet again he has lost the Nobel Prize to a rival. His wife has left him for a free spirited West Coast psychiatrist and relocated to Boulder, Colorado. His son, a capitalist guru with a cult following, mocks his father's life work; his middle...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Annie Oakley's Wild West Americana and time travel come together in this genre-defying novel that explores trauma and the cost of female revenge. Ruth McClintock is obsessed with the past. For nearly a decade, she has been studying Annie Oakley, convinced that the legendary sharpshooter experienced a scarring event in adolescence that led her to fight for the right of every American woman to own and operate a gun. This fruitless search has cost Ruth...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
The co-founder of TheLi.st describes the discrimination she endured as a careerwoman without a spouse or child, tracing her midlife journey of self-discovery and how it challenged her beliefs about love, death, sex, friendship, and loneliness.
Author
Publisher
Schocken Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
"A Tel Aviv shopkeeper visits his parents' Polish birthplace in an attempt to come to terms with their complex legacy-and is completely unprepared for what he finds there. Yaakov Fine's practical wife and daughters are baffled by his decision to leave hisflourishing dress shop for a ten-day trip to his family's ancestral village in Poland. Struggling to emerge from a midlife depression, Yaakov is drawn to Szydowce, intrigued by the stories he'd heard...
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"A Midlife Meltdown...with a Side of Fries. Val’s long-suffering life as a patient daughter, dutiful wife and reliable workhorse has turned her into a snarky, miserable nag. She has the house, the husband and the career. The only thing missing is the happy. Before she’s set out to pasture, Val wants one more go around the track. Unbridled. In Italy. La dolce vita or bust. Will Val find her happy ending abroad? Or someplace she never thought to...
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