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Unlucky in work, love, and life, the Andreas sisters return to their childhood home. Each has a secret she's unwilling to share - each has come home to lick her own wounds. The Andreas family is an eccentric one. Books are their passion, TV something other families watched. Their father, a renowned professor of Shakespeare who communicates almost exclusively in verse, named all three girls for great Shakespearean women - Rose (Rosalind), Bean (Bianca),...
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Hot Flash Club volume 2
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When four women meet in a hot tub at a spa, they realize they share a common problem-toxic relatives-and a common solution-each other.
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The first novel by Mary Roberts Rinehart, America's queen of crime This is the story of how a middle-aged spinster lost her mind, deserted her domestic gods in the city, took a furnished house for the summer out of town, and found herself involved in one of those mysterious crimes that keep our newspapers and detective agencies happy and prosperous. So says Rachel Innes, the spinster in question and one of the most remarkable heroines in American...
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"In this book, Nora Ephron shares with us her ups and downs in I Feel Bad About My Neck, a candid, hilarious look at women who are getting older and dealing with the tribulations of maintenance, menopause, empty nests, and life itself." "The woman who brought us When Harry Met Sally ..., Sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail, and Bewitched, and the author of best sellers Heartburn, Scribble Scribble, and Crazy Salad, discusses everything - from how...
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Life's a bit of a beach these days for Ginger Walsh, who's single at 41 and living back home in the family FROG (Finished Room Over Garage). Geri, her BlackBerry-obsessed sister, is also nearly off the deep end about her pending fiftieth birthday (and might just drag Ginger with her). Toss in a dumpster-picking father, a Kama Sutra T-shirt wearing mother, a movie crew come to town with a very cute gaffer, an on-again, off-again glassblower boyfriend,...
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"When Sonny Dunes, a SoCal meteorologist whose job is all sunshine and seventy-two-degree days, is replaced by a virtual meteorologist that will never age, gain weight or renegotiate its contract, the only station willing to give the fifty-year-old another shot is the very place Sonny’s been avoiding since the day she left for college—her northern Michigan hometown. Sonny grudgingly returns to the long, cold, snowy...
7) Never change
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Resigned to her life alone, fifty-one-year-old spinster Myra Lipinsky endures her isolation by immersing herself in her career as a visiting nurse, in which role she is reunited with Chip Reardon, the onetime golden boy she adored from afar in high school, who has returned to his New England hometown to live while he deals with an incurable illness.
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"Eve Fletcher is trying to figure out what comes next. A forty-six-year-old divorcee whose beloved only child has just left for college, Eve is struggling to adjust to her empty nest when one night her phone lights up with a text message. Sent from an anonymous number, the mysterious sender tells Eve, "U R my MILF!" Over the months that follow, that message comes to obsess Eve. While leading her all-too-placid life--serving as Executive Director of...
9) Twenty
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"At age fifty-five, Meg's life is too filled with loss for her to remember what magic feels like. All she has left is a yard brimming with plants that are wilting in the scorching Iowa summer--and a bone-deep feeling that she's through with living. Meg has something else too: a bottle of mysterious pills, given to her years ago by an empathetic doctor. He promised that they would offer her dying mother a quick, painless end in exactly twenty days....
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Hot Flash Club volume 1
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Meeting at the Golden Moments spa, four women - Polly, Beth, Julia, and Carolyn - discover that they share a mutual problem with meddling, scheming, toxic in-laws, and come up with a scheme to help one another resolve their problems.
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If there's been a theme in Justine Meade's life, it's loss. The one bright spot she could always count on was her Sheltie, Mack. On a journey back to her childhood home after more than twenty years away, an agonizing error separated Justine from Mack. Seven years after their daughter was taken from them, Ed and Alice Parmalee are living separate lives together, unable to bridge the chasm left between them. When they find a little Sheltie by the...
12) Hand of evil
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A man is dragged by a speeding car along a deserted stretch of road i Phoenix. Starting with this gruesome crime, a killer begins a grisly murder spree across the Southwest. A hundred miles away, Ali Reynolds is grieving over a lost job and her deceased philandering husband. When a member of the family who gave Ali a college scholarship asks her for a meeting, Ali wonders what it can mean. Before she can satisfy her curiosity, Ali learns that a friend's...
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2021.
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"Daisy Shoemaker can't sleep. With a thriving cooking business, full schedule of volunteer work, and a beautiful home in the Philadelphia suburbs, she should be content. But her teenage daughter can be a handful, her husband can be distant, her work can feel trivial, and she has lots of acquaintances, but no real friends. Still, Daisy knows she's got it good. So why is she up all night? While Daisy tries to identify the root of her dissatisfaction,...
14) Fall From Grace
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2018.
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"Sydney Wells's perfect life with her wealthy, devoted husband vanishes when he dies suddenly in an accident. Widowed at forty-nine, she discovers he has failed to include her in his will. With Andrew's vicious daughters in control of his estate, and no home or money, Sydney finds a job in fashion, despite her own designer daughters' warnings. Naïve, out of her element, and alone in a world of shady international deals and dishonest people, she is...
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Hot Flash Club volume 3
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A gathering of the members of the Hot Flash Club at The Haven, an exclusive spa, is turned upside down when Shirley announces her new financial partnership with a much younger boyfriend.
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2020.
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"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...
17) The chaperone
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In 1922, only a few years before she will become a famous film actress and an icon for her generation, a fifteen-year-old Louise Brooks leaves Wichita for a summer in New York City and the avant-garde Denishawn school of dance. Much to her annoyance, she is accompanied by a thirty-six-year-old chaperone. Cora Carlisle is neither mother nor friend, just a respectable neighbor whom Louise's parents have hired for propriety's sake. But upstanding, traditional...
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Fifty-year-old Susannah Nelson is returning to her hometown of Colville, Washington, to live with her mother, a recent widow who is having difficulties living alone. Susannah begins to regret some decisions she made in the past, including leaving her boyfriend, Jake, when she went abroad to go to school.
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Hot Flash Club volume 4
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When a long-time spa client asks the gals of the Hot Flash Club to housesit her Nantucket hideaway for the summer, they're beyond thrilled; the cozy island enclave is the perfect place to shop, swim, chill, and plan Marilyn's upcoming wedding to Ian, her Scottish fiancé. And Marilyn desperately needs the break, since Ian's grown son has crashed at the couple's place with no departure date in sight. Soon after they arrive, the other hot flashers surrender...
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Christopher Hopkins first became known as "The Makeover Guy" during his two appearances in Oprah's over-50 makeover shows. Since then, he has dedicated his talents and passion for fashion, makeup, and hair care to this booming audience of women.
In Staging Your Comeback, Hopkins champions women over 45, teaching them how to command attention by looking and feeling great. With compassion and brutal honesty, Hopkins tackles and rectifies...
In Staging Your Comeback, Hopkins champions women over 45, teaching them how to command attention by looking and feeling great. With compassion and brutal honesty, Hopkins tackles and rectifies...