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  • I'll Show Myself Out

    Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

    by Jessi Klein ...
    An instant New York Times bestseller, I'll Show Myself Out is the eagerly anticipated second essay collection from Jessi Klein, author of the acclaimed debut You’ll Grow Out of It.Longlisted for the PEN Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay“Sometimes I think about how much bad news there is to tell my kid, the endlessly long, looping CVS receipt scroll of truly terrible things that ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • The 36-Hour Day

    A Family Guide to Caring for People Who Have Alzheimer Disease and Other Dementias

    Series series A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book
    With over 3.5 million copies sold, the bestselling guide to understanding and caring for people with dementia is now completely revised and updated!For 40 years, The 36-Hour Day has been the leading work in the field for caregivers of those with dementia. Written by experts with decades of experience caring for individuals with memory loss, Alzheimer's, and other dementias, the book is widely ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Good Caregiver

    A One-of-a-Kind Compassionate Resource for Anyone Caring for an Aging Loved One

    A survival guide with an insider's perspective, for the millions of unprepared caregivers of aging loved ones.As Americans are living longer, an unprecedented number of people now require long-term care during their last years. More than 15 million adult children now care for their elderly parents, and unsuspecting caregivers are usually unprepared financially, emotionally, and practically for the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People

    Series series Global Perspectives on Aging
    Winner of the MLA Prize for Independent Scholars and the APA's Florence L. Denmark Award for Contributions to Women and AgingWhen the term “ageism” was coined in 1969, many problems of exclusion seemed resolved by government programs like Social Security and Medicare. As people live longer lives, today’s great demotions of older people cut deeper into their self-worth and human relations, beyond ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • My Formerly Hot Life

    Dispatches from Just the Other Side of Young

    When men stop making lecherous catcalls and Spanx get comfortable in your lingerie drawer, when marketers target you for Activia instead of $200 premium denim, when you have to start wearing makeup to get that “I’m not wearing any makeup” glow and are “ma’amed” outside the Deep South, it may dawn on you that somehow you have crossed an invisible line: You are not the young, relevant, in-the-mix ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Alone Together

    Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

    by Sherry Turkle ...
    A groundbreaking book by one of the most important thinkers of our time shows how technology is warping our social lives and our inner onesTechnology has become the architect of our intimacies. Online, we fall prey to the illusion of companionship, gathering thousands of Twitter and Facebook friends, and confusing tweets and wall posts with authentic communication. But this relentless connection ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Love After 50

    How to Find It, Enjoy It, and Keep It

    A comprehensive and intimate guide to finding, keeping, and enjoying love after fifty, the best kind of love there is.Studies keep showing that love after fifty is more satisfying than at any other stage in life, and it makes sense: at this stage, you are more emotionally stable and more focused on the present; you know what you absolutely have to have, but also what you can live without; ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • A Dignified Life

    The Best Friends™ Approach to Alzheimer's Care: A Guide for Care Partners

    More than 5 million Americans are currently living with Alzheimer's disease or a related form of dementia. By the year 2030, experts estimate that as many as 66 million people around the world will be faced with this life-altering disease. Unfortunately, these staggering statistics impact millions of caregivers, too. Compared with all types of caregivers, those who assist someone with dementia ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • In the Early Times

    A Life Reframed

    by Tad Friend ...
    **In this “dazzling” (John Irving) memoir, acclaimed New Yorker staff writer Tad Friend reflects on the pressures of middle age, exploring his relationship with his dying father as he raises two children of his own.“How often does a memoir build to a stomach-churning, I-can’t-breathe climax in its final pages? . . . Brilliant, intensely moving.”—William Finnegan, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Mother Lode

    Confessions of a Reluctant Caregiver

    “. . . makes you feel as though a kindred soul is speaking to you.” —Readers’ FavoriteAt the age of sixty, Gretchen Staebler promises to spend one year in her childhood home caring for her stubbornly independent ninety-six-year-old mother—sort of a middle-aged gap year. Then her mother will move to assisted living and she will return to her own independent life.It doesn’t go as planned.Rather than ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Children of the Aging Self-Absorbed

    A Guide to Coping with Difficult, Narcissistic Parents and Grandparents

    Growing up with a parent who is self-absorbed is difficult, and they may become more difficult to deal with as they age. This essential book shows how to cope with your aging parent's narcissistic behavior, and provides tips to help protect yourself and your children from their self-absorbed, destructive actions.As your self-absorbed parent grows older and becomes more dependent on you, hurtful ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Alzheimer's Disease Caregiver's Handbook

    What to Remember When They Forget

    When a loved one shows signs of dementia or Alzheimer's disease, you will face challenges for which you feel ill-equiped. Dozens of decisions will need to be made:* Can Mom live by herself safely? If not, what if she refuses to leave her home?* When do I need to take away the car keys and checkbook?* How do I deal with her obstinate refusal to take a bath or go to the doctor?* Should I correct her ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Voyager

    Constellations of Memory

    Translated by Natasha Wimmer ...
    A startling book-length essay, at once grand and intimate, from National Book Award finalist Nona Fernández.Voyager begins with Nona Fernández accompanying her elderly mother to the doctor to seek an explanation for her frequent falls and inability to remember what preceded them. As the author stares at the image of her mother’s brain scan, it occurs to her that the electrical signals shown on the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Dignifying Dementia: A Caregiver's Struggle

    Diagnosed with dementia in 1997, my husband, Jim, lived at home during his illness and died there in January 2006. I wish this story were fiction, but it is not. Dignifying Dementia is both a love story and an attempt to reach out to others who are living through or who will live through a similar tragedy. It is written in the hope that others might benefit from what I learned as the caregiver of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why We Can't Sleep

    Women's New Midlife Crisis

    by Ada Calhoun ...
    The acclaimed author explores the hidden crises of Gen X women in this “engaging hybrid of first-person confession, reportage [and] pop culture analysis” (The New Republic).Ada Calhoun was married with children and a good career—and yet she was miserable. She thought she had no right to complain until she realized how many other Generation X women felt the same way. What could be behind this ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Leap!

    What Will We Do with the Rest of Our Lives?

    by Sara Davidson ...
    Thirty years ago, Sara Davidson wrote the phenomenal bestseller Loose Change, the definitive book about the boomer generation’s coming-of-age. Now this witty social observer has again turned her discerning eye to her contemporaries, with Leap!, a no-holds-barred, illuminating, and hopeful look at the choices and challenges we face and the roads open to us.For many years Davidson earned a living as ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Tasha

    A Son's Memoir

    by Brian Morton ...
    A Washington Post Best Nonfiction Book of the YearIn the spirit of Fierce Attachments and The End of Your Life Book Club, acclaimed novelist Brian Morton delivers a “superb” (Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air), darkly funny memoir of his mother’s vibrant life and the many ways in which their tight, tumultuous relationship was refashioned in her twilight years.Tasha Morton is a force of ... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • More Than Sympathy

    Essential Advice on Funerals, Money, Family, and Grief After the Death of a Loved One

    Making sensible decisions during a time of grief is never easy. Losing a husband, wife, father, mother, child or another near and dear person forces you to make a multitude of decisions, some large and life-changing, some small but emotionally charged. And if substantial amounts of money or conflicting wishes of friends and relatives are involved, making arrangements can become overwhelming.More ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • I Feel Bad About My Neck

    by Nora Ephron ...
    #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A candid, hilarious look at women of a certain age and dealing with the tribulations of maintenance, menopause, empty nests, and life itself.“Wickedly witty ... Crackling sharp ... Fireworks shoot out [of this collection].” —The Boston GlobeWith her disarming, intimate, completely accessible voice, and dry sense of humor, Nora Ephron chronicles her life as an obsessed cook ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Kitchen Is Closed

    And Other Benefits of Being Old

    by Sandra Butler ...
    In her eighties, Sandra Butler does not identify as elderly. Or mature. She's neither plucky nor a burden, and she's not over any hills. She's old, and she's ready to reclaim that word.In this funny and intensely personal collection of essays, Butler chronicles her experience moving from aging to old, remembering and forgetting all the wrong things, feeling frustrated with technology, keeping up ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Breathe and Grow Rich

    by Tom Goode ...
    Breathe and Grow Rich is the result of over 30 years of research and results in private practice, workshops and seminars. It is about your health, wealth and joy. It offers new ideas, approaches and techniques to enrich your life. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Life Reimagined

    The Science, Art, and Opportunity of Midlife

    A dynamic and inspiring exploration of the new science that is redrawing the future for people in their forties, fifties, and sixties for the better—and for good.There’s no such thing as an inevitable midlife crisis, Barbara Bradley Hagerty writes in this provocative, hopeful book. It’s a myth, an illusion. New scientific research explodes the fable that midlife is a time when things start to go ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • A Retirees Guide to Southeast Asia, Myanmar, Singapore, Bali and Malaysia

    The Retirees Travel Guide Series, #4

    by Gerald Hogg ...
    Series Book 4 - The Retirees Travel Guide Series
    If you have read my third book "Same Same but Different" in The Retirees Guide series, you will know that when I returned from my adventures in Cambodia, Vietnam, the Philippines and Laos (book three in the series), that I settled back in Koh Samui. A few weeks after I returned from my trip, on Valentine's Day 2017, I met and later fell in love with a beautiful Thai lady called Jin. Within a few ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Journey's End

    An Investigation of Death and Dying In Modern America

    In the tradition of Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal, this compassionate work helps individuals develop a more accepting view of dying while teaching them what to expect and how to navigate the healthcare system at the end of life.In elderhood, the health care system has a narrow view of how to provide care. It focuses on extending a patient's life at all costs, with an over-reliance on machines and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD