Catalog Search Results
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The ultimate skincare and makeup guide for women over 45, I am beauty is a groundbreaking celebration of beauty through the ages. Through step-by-step tutorials, interviews with skincare experts, and one-on-one conversations and makeovers with 16 incredible women, Riku tells you everything you need to know about maintaining your glow and living your most joyful, beautiful life"--
Author
Series
Class Mom volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In the eagerly anticipated follow-up to Laurie Gelman's "irreverent and hilarious" (The New York Post) hit Class Mom, brash, lovable Jen Dixon is back with a new class and her work cut out for her If you've ever been a room parent or school volunteer, Jen Dixon is your hero. She says what every class mom is really thinking, whether in her notoriously frank emails or standup-worthy interactions with the micromanaging PTA President and the gamut of...
Author
Series
Class Mom volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Jen Dixon is not your typical Kansas City kindergarten class mom -- or mom in general. Jen already has two college-age daughters by two different musicians, and it's her second time around the class-mom block with five-year-old Max -- this time with a husband and father by her side. Though her best friend and PTA president sees her as the "wisest" candidate for the job (or oldest), some of the other parents disagree.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"People are drawn to libraries for all kinds of reasons. Most come for the books themselves, of course; some come to borrow companionship. For head librarian Kit, the public library in Riverton, New Hampshire, offers what she craves most: peace. Here, no one expects Kit to talk about the calamitous events that catapulted her out of what she thought was a settled, suburban life. She can simply submerge herself in her beloved books and try to forget...
Author
Language
English
Description
BONUS: This edition contains a The Four Ms. Bradwells discussion guide and excerpts from Meg Waite Clayton's The Wednesday Sisters, The Language of Light, and The Wednesday Daughters.
Mia, Laney, Betts, and Ginger have reunited to celebrate Betts’s appointment to the Supreme Court. But when Senate hearings uncover a deeply buried skeleton in the friends’ collective closet, they retreat to a summer house on...
Mia, Laney, Betts, and Ginger have reunited to celebrate Betts’s appointment to the Supreme Court. But when Senate hearings uncover a deeply buried skeleton in the friends’ collective closet, they retreat to a summer house on...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The time is ripe for a book that lifts negative connotations around the experience of peri-menopause/menopause and Dr Mansberg is perfectly placed to do just that. A practicing GP and mother who has just turned 50 herself, Ginni has written a solution-focused book for understanding, embracing and (even) enjoying this stage in a woman's life. She outlines medical science, explaining what happens at a cellular level in the body once key hormones begin...
31) Tempting fate
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
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...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Noreen takes a buyout and gets dumped by a boyfriend in one fell swoop, she finds herself with nothing but time to notice everything that's missing in her life. Tess is the teacher next door who thought she'd be spending the summer with her college-bound daughter, but now that daughter isn't speaking to her. The Wildwater Walking Club is complete when they meet Rosie, the dutiful daughter who moved her family onto her parent's farm after her...
Author
Language
English
Formats
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A poignant and powerful new memoir-in-essays that tackles the big questions of life, death, and existential fear with humor and hope"--
A lifelong worrier, Philpott also learned to look on the bright side, too, believing that as long as she cared enough, she could keep her loved ones safe. In the aftermath of a crisis that darkened her signature sunny spirit, she wondered: How do any of us keep going when we can't know for sure what's coming next?...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Told with Beth Harbison's wit and warmth, If I Could Turn Back Time is the fantasy of every woman who has ever thought, "If I could go back in time, knowing what I know now, I'd do things so differently..." Thirty-seven year old Ramie Phillips has led a very successful life. She made her fortune and now she hob nobs with the very rich and occasionally the semi-famous, and she enjoys luxuries she only dreamed of as a middle-class kid growing up in...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In a gesture of support and affection for a long-time neighbor who has fallen ill, women in a suburban development tie white ribbons to trees in front of their houses and embark on a powerful journey of transformation. Paisley Lamm has always been the neighborhood star, an effervescent beauty whose charm draws all of them in. As they grapple with her illness, they begin to see the issues in their own lives with new perspective: a marriage put on hold...
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Set in Western Australia, Dirt music tells the story of Luther Fox, a broken man who makes his living as an illegal fisherman. His life has become a "project of forgetting." Not until he meets Georgie Jutland, the wife of White Point's most prosperous fisherman, does Fox begin to dream again and hear the "dirt music"--Music you can play on a verandah or porch without electricity.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request