Rose Addams is hitting her sixties, but these days it feels like they're starting to hit back... Her daughter, Morgan, has ditched her thesis program and moved back home to Vancouver, while her son Jason's partner has never...
Middle-aged women
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Author:Taylor, MargieSummary: -
Author:Rose, Connie BarnesSummary:Over the years Trish and Ray have forged a stable family life, despite a rocky beginning almost twenty years earlier — living with their friends on a communal farm that ended badly. Now they are all coming to terms with life in their...
- Author:Griffin, BettyeSummary:
Elyse, Susan, Grace and Pat are all turning 50, just like the Chicago housing project where they all grew up. As they gather for a reunion with other former residents, the women learn it's never too late to follow their hearts.
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Author:Block, Francesca Lia.Summary:Forty-year-old Weetzie Bat ends her once-passionate relationship with secret agent Max and checks into an enchanted pink hotel, where she meets an otherworldly host of fawns, angels, and mermaids.
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Author:Skogan, JoanSummary: - Author:McMurtry, LarrySummary:
Maggie runs a group that dubs voices for movies. She spends much of her time fending off her three pushy daughters, and gets her kicks with her far older Sicilian lover. Connie, on the other hand, has a taste for younger men. These two...
- Author:Holm, Stef AnnSummary:
After ending her marriage, 43-year-old Natalie Goodwin opens the floral shop of her dreams. Pouring all of her energy into her new enterprise doesn't keep her from noticing the ruggedly handsome fireman across the street, 34-year-old...
- Author:Robinson, CherylSummary:
Olena Day's first love died tragically, and her college boyfriend left her for another woman. Now a successful, independent 43-yearold, she begins a passionate relationship with Matthew, a man 18 years her junior. Can a relationship...
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Author:Crewe, LesleySummary:Linda, Bette, Gemma, and Augusta are four lifelong friends who live in Montreal. This year they're all going to turn fifty, so they decide to take a trip to New York together (courtesy of Linda's philandering husband's Visa Platinum)....
- Author:Gallico, PaulSummary:
Mrs. 'Arris goes to Paris: Mrs Harris is a London charlady. One day, she sees a Dior dress belonging to one of her clients, and falls desperately in love with it. Then a miracle occurs, and she wins a hundred pounds on the football...
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Author:Silcott, JaneSummary:Finalist, Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize (BC Book Prizes). Winner, CNFC Readers' Choice Award for "Threshold".
In this debut collection of personal essays, Silcott looks at the tangle of midlife, the long look back, the shorter...
- Author:Moran, JanSummary:
A heartwarming holiday beach special. A magical new theater production.**A USA Today bestseller.**Marina Moore's new Coral Cafe is a Summer Beach favorite of locals and visitors alike. When her sister Kai helps create a Summer...
- Author:Moran, JanSummary:
A new beach read series set in the beloved village of Summer Beach. When Marina Moore's life blows up on national television, she seeks refuge at her grandmother's beach house called the Coral Cottage. Now in her mid-forties...
- Author:Gunn, Robin JonesSummary:
Carolyn takes a break from her widowed San Francisco existence to celebrate her mother's 70th birthday in the Canary Islands. As her mother's gentle affection and the islands' soothing allure soften Carolyn's heart, a Flamenco dance...
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Author:Ray, JeanneSummary:Feeling unattractive and unappreciated as she enters her fifties, wife and mother Clover wakes up one morning and discovers that she has actually become invisible, a condition that goes unnoticed by her family.
- Author:Philpott, Mary LauraSummary:
From the bestselling author of I Miss You When I Blink and "writer of singular spark and delight" (Elizabeth Gilbert, #1 New York Times bestselling author) comes a poignant and powerful new memoir that tackles the big...
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Author:Ross, Mary KaySummary:Having lost her husband through divorce, and her daughter who has left home to go to university, Claire, at midlife, finds herself bereft; she is aging and she feels she has never really been sufficiently engaged in her own life. A...
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Author:Weinzweig, HelenSummary:A lost feminist classic — and winner of the Toronto Book Award — reissued to coincide with the 35th anniversary of publication.In her yearning, elusive search for a lover, Shirley Kaszenbowski sheds her drab “basic black” existence...
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Author:DeWoskin, RachelSummary:Samantha Baxter has a full, sane life--creative job, lovely family, and all the trappings of middle-age happiness. But when she gets a diagnosis that terrifies her, a lifetime of polite pleasing and putting others first ignites in her a...
- Author:Gray, MarieSummary:
Même les meilleures amies ne se disent pas tout (surtout côté sexe). Même les filles les plus gentilles deviennent parfois (très) méchantes. Même les épouses aimantes peuvent souhaiter une mort (vraiment) atroce à leur mari. Maryse,...
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