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Midlife crisis

  • Wellness
    Author:
    Hill, Nathan
    Summary:

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - The New York Times best-selling author of The Nix is back with a poignant and witty novel about a modern marriage and the bonds that keep people...
  • The pine islands
    Author:
    Poschmann, Marion
    Summary:

    "Gilbert Silvester, eminent scholar of beard fashions in film, wakes up one day from a dream that his wife has cheated on him. Certain the dream is a message, and unable to even look at her, he flees - immediately, irrationally,...
  • The Occult Persuasion and the Anarchist's Solution
    Author:
    de Nikolits, Lisa
    Summary:

    The Occult Persuasion and the Anarchist's Solution is about a couple experiencing a mid-life crisis. The husband loses his job as editor of a financial magazine. Neither are happy with their aging bodies. He seems to have gotten by...
  • The love monster
    Author:
    Marston, Missy
    Summary:

    The Love Monster is the tall tale of one woman’s struggle with mid-life issues. The main character, Margaret H. Atwood, has psoriasis, a boring job and a bad attitude. Her cheating husband has left her. And none of her pants fit any...
  • The franchise babe
    Author:
    Jenkins, Dan
    Summary:

    Fortysomething sportswriter Jack Brannon is bored to tears with the men's tour. So he decides to check out Ginger Clayton, the hot, new franchise babe on the ladies' links. Things get interesting in a hurry, as it becomes clear somebody...
  • The Florabama ladies' auxiliary & sewing circle
    Author:
    Battle, Lois
    Summary:

    After discovering that her husband has lost all of their money and left her broke, Bonnie Duke Cullman is abandoning her comfortable life in Atlanta to teach at a community college in rural Alabama. Ruth Elkin just lost her sewing job...
  • The bourgeois empire
    Author:
    Christie, Evie
    Summary:

    Everything should stay as it is, or you will lose everything, and that's how it is for everyone. Today was a day for getting along, liver-healing, a cocktail party and a faster wireless connection that tolerates renovated turn-of-the-...
  • Out of the clear blue sky
    Author:
    Higgins, Kristan
    Summary:

    From New York Times bestselling author Kristan Higgins comes a funny and surprising new novel about losing it all--and getting back more than you ever expected. Lillie Silva knew life as an empty nester would be hard after her only...
  • Old friends
    Author:
    Everett, Felicity
    Summary:

    When two couples on the cusp of mid-life decide it is time for a collective move north, it means a fresh start for them all. But as the reality of their new living arrangements slowly sinks in, the four friends face their own mid-life...
  • Lake Success
    Author:
    Shteyngart, Gary
    Summary:

    "Stupendous...' novel that seems to have been created in real time, reflecting with perfect comedy and horrible tragedy exactly what America feels like right this minute."'Elizabeth Gilbert The bestselling author of...
  • Indian Summer
    Author:
    HOWELLS, William Dean
    Summary:

    In his novel Indian Summer, William Dean Howells presents a mellow but realistic story that has the complete feel of that delightful time of the year, although the plot actually spans several seasons. The Indian summer aspect applies to...
  • Blind in one eye
    Author:
    Ross, Mary Kay
    Summary:

    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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