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A Memoir
by Anna Quindlen
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by Kate Bolick
Published Apr 2016
Read ReviewsA bold, original, moving book that will inspire fanatical devotion and ignite debate.
by Annabelle Gurwitch
Published Feb 2015
Read ReviewsScorchingly honest, surreally and riotously funny, I See You Made an Effort is the ultimate coming-of-middle-age story and a must-read for women of all ages. Reading glasses not included.
by Lynn Darling
Published Jan 2015
Read ReviewsCombining the soul-baring insight of Wild, the profound wisdom of Shop Class as Soulcraft, and the adventurous spirit of Eat, Pray, Love: Lynn Darling's powerful, lyrical memoir of self-discovery, full of warmth and wry humor, Out of the Woods.
by Paul Auster
Published Nov 2013
Read ReviewsFacing his sixty-third winter, internationally acclaimed novelist Paul Auster sits down to write a history of his body and its sensations - both pleasurable and painful.
by Howard F. Mosher
Published Mar 2013
Read ReviewsFrom bestselling, nationally celebrated author Howard Frank Mosher, a wildly funny and deeply personal account of his three-month, 20,000-mile sojourn to discover what he loved enough to live for.
by Diana Athill
Published Dec 2009
Read ReviewsAn esteemed memoirist examines aging with the grace of Elegy for Iris and the wry irreverence of I Feel Bad About My Neck.
Revenge Of The Middle-Aged Woman
by Elizabeth Buchan
Published Jan 2004
Read ReviewsFull of humor, clever insight, and a whimsical sense of the absurd - an irresistible and finely written fantasy for anyone who ever wondered what a certain age would look like from beyond the looking-glass.
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