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Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Rosemary Boxer and Laura Thyme, two middle-aged women, make a fresh start by opening a gardening business. Mysteries grow around these two gardening sleuths as they dig up trouble on the job and use investigative skills to get to the bottom of things.
2) Lazy Susan
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Susan has always been the self-centered oddball in her family who lazily skated through life with their grudging support until one day she wakes up to realize she's middle-aged with no job, no relationship, and an increasingly estranged family. She finally decides to take charge and turn things around, but never having done anything herself before, the struggle is real (and hilarious) as Susan becomes the woman she always wanted to be, all on her...
4) Broken light
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Bernie Moon's ambitions and dreams have been forgotten by everyone else - including Bernie herself. At 19 she was full of promise, but now facing 50 and going through the menopause, she's a fading light. Until the murder of a woman in a local park unlocks a series of childhood memories, and with them, a talent that she has hidden all her adult life. What happens when the frustrations and power of an older woman are finally given their chance to be...
Author
Publisher
Ladylit Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Ida Burton used to be Hollywood's sweetheart until the best roles started drying up in her forties. When Ida lands one of the leads in a big-budget lesbian rom-com, it's not only a chance at reviving her dwindling career. Maybe this movie can be an opportunity to finally burst out of the closet she's forced herself into. Faye Fleming has been at the top of her acting game and collecting awards for the past few years. When she's cast in a huge blockbuster...
Author
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
In the tradition of "The Sweet Potato Queens' Guide to Life," as well as inspirational guides like "The Power of Now," this work provides women over 40 with the tools they need to survive, thrive, and be happy in the second half of life.
Author
Series
Wildwater Walking Club volume 1
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Just put one foot in front of the other. Sounds simple, doesn't it? But when Noreen Kelly takes a buyout from her job of eighteen years and gets dumped by her boyfriend in one fell swoop, she finds it hard to know what that next step is—never mind take it. At first Noreen thinks maybe her redundancy package could be an opportunity, a chance to figure out what to do with the rest of her life while her company foots the bill. Sure, she may
...Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Storied matchmaker and Nantucket resident Dabney Kimball has her own life and match turned upside down when her true love of twenty-seven years prior returns to the island.
"48-year-old Nantucketer Dabney Kimball Beech has always had a gift for matchmaking. Some call her ability mystical, while others - like her husband, celebrated economist John Boxmiller Beech, and her daughter, Agnes, who is clearly engaged to the wrong man - call it meddlesome,...
10) Unbecoming
Author
Publisher
Aqueduct Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Cynthia, chair of the English Department at a Virginia university, finds herself gaining uncanny powers as she reaches middle age.
Publisher
Comedy Central Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
When three best friends from Los Angeles unexpectedly find themselves in Cleveland, they are thrilled to discover they're hot! Loving their new home, the women find themselves living under one roof and battling a feisty, quick-witted caretaker. Bonus features include the original full-length pilot, bloopers, behind-the-scenes, set tour, and Victoria's Japanese 'Lady Pants' commercial!
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"An authoritative guide to understanding and navigating the hormonal changes and health issues women experience in midlife and beyond, from one of the leading medical experts in the field. The physical changes that occur after women turn forty are unavoidable--and can be unnerving. Menopause affects every aspect of life--from sex and sleep to mood and mental clarity to weight and body temperature. While there are a number of resources available, many...
13) Life's a beach
Author
Language
English
Description
Life's a bit of a beach these days for Ginger Walsh, who's single at forty-one 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...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Nisha Cantor lives the globetrotting life of the seriously wealthy, until her husband announces a divorce and cuts her off. Nisha is determined to hang onto her glamorous life. But in the meantime, she must scramble to cope-she doesn't even have the shoes she was, until a moment ago, standing in.That's because Sam Kemp - in the bleakest point of her life - has accidentally taken Nisha's gym bag. But Sam hardly has time to worry about a lost gym bag-she's...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
""Margaret Anne ("Moddie") Yance had just returned to her native land in the Midwestern town of X, to mingle with the friends of her youth, to get back in touch with her roots, and to recover from a stressful decade of living in the city in a small apartment with a man she now believed to be a megalomaniac or perhaps a covert narcissist." So begins Banal Nightmare, Halle Butler's tour de force that follows Moddie as she throws herself at the mercy...
Author
Series
Blossom street novels volume 3
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Fifty-year-old Susannah Nelson returns to her childhood home and to the garden she has always loved, where she discovers that some paths were meant to be taken and others were meant to be buried forever.
Publisher
Comedy Central Home Video
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Three L.A. women find themselves sharing a home with a feisty Midwesterner while they live it up in Cleveland. Watch as they settle into their new lives, full of new men and new drama. From dating disasters to fake engagements, and a battle with Susan Lucci to a stint in prison, this season proves that true friendship and lots of laughter can get them through it all. Includes all 22 episodes, plus the blooper special, cast interviews, and much more!...
20) Tempting fate
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Gabby and Elliott have been happily married for eighteen years. They have two teenaged daughters; they have built a life together. So why does forty-three-year-old Gabby feel like she has only three more minutes left of youth? Why do her friends so desperately try to hang on to their attractiveness? And why does she ever even look at the handsome guy--ten years younger--at the other end of the bar one night? Gabby is the last person to have an affair--a...
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