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  • Old In Art School

    A Memoir of Starting Over

    by Nell Painter ...
    A New York Times Book Review Editor’s ChoiceA San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the YearFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle AwardThis memoir of one woman’s late-in-life career change is “a smart, funny and compelling case for going after your heart’s desires, no matter your age” (Essence)Following her retirement from Princeton University, celebrated historian Dr. Nell Ir... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • How to Be Old

    Lessons in Living Boldly from the Accidental Icon

    by Lyn Slater ...
    **One of Elle's Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2024A personal memoir in which Lyn Slater, known on Instagram as “Accidental Icon,”brings her characteristic style, optimism, forward-thinking, and rules-are-meant-to-be-broken attitude to the question of how to live boldly at any age.**When Lyn Slater started her fashion blog, Accidental Icon, at age sixty-one, she discovered that followers ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Ultimate Guide to Sex After Fifty

    How to Maintain – or Regain – a Spicy, Satisfying Sex Life

    by Joan Price ...
    The population over age 50 is larger than ever in history. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 32.1 percent of the U.S. population were age 50 and over in 2011. This demographic is also healthier, more aware, more youthful, and more vocal than any previous older generation. Thanks to ongoing medical discoveries, the sexual revolution, and the Internet, today’s seniors are also sexier than ever — ... Read more

    $16.99 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

  • Women Still at Work

    Professionals Over Sixty and On the Job

    From Betty White to Toni Morrison, we’re surrounded by examples of women working well past the traditional retirement age. In fact, the fastest growing segment of the workforce is women age sixty-five and older. Women Still at Work tells the everyday stories of hard-working women and the reasons they’re still on the job, with a focus on women in the professional workforce. The book is filled with ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Elderhood

    Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life

    Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General NonfictionA New York Times BestsellerLonglisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionWinner of the WSU AOS Bonner Book AwardWinner of the 2022 At Home With Growing Older Impact AwardAs revelatory as Atul Gawande's Being Mortal, physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson's Elderhoo... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • 30 Lessons for Living

    Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans

    **“Heartfelt and ever-endearing—equal parts information and inspiration. This is a book to keep by your bedside and return to often.”—Amy Dickinson, nationally syndicated advice columnist "Ask Amy"More than one thousand extraordinary Americans share their stories and the wisdom they have gained on living, loving, and finding happiness.**After a chance encounter with an extraordinary ninety-year ... Read more

    $9.99 USD $8.99 USD

  • The Virtues of Aging

    by Jimmy Carter ...
    Former president Jimmy Carter reflects on aging, blending memoir, anecdote, political savvy, and practical advice to truly illuminate the rich promises of growing older.“As we've grown older, the results have been surprisingly good,” writes former president Jimmy Carter in this wise, deeply personal meditation on the new experiences that come to us with age. President Carter had never enjoyed more ... Read more

    $10.99 USD $5.99 USD

  • What Makes Olga Run?

    The Mystery of the 90-Something Track Star and What She Can Teach Us About Living Longer, Happier Lives

    A fascinating look at the way we age today and the extent to which we can shape the processIn What Makes Olga Run? Bruce Grierson explores what the wild success of a ninety-four-year-old track star can tell us about how our bodies and minds age. Olga Kotelko is not your average ninety-four-year-old. She not only looks and acts like a much younger woman, she holds over twenty-three world records in ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • This Chair Rocks

    A Manifesto Against Ageism

    Author, activist, and TED speaker Ashton Applewhite has written a rousing manifesto calling for an end to discrimination and prejudice on the basis of age.In our youth obsessed culture, we’re bombarded by media images and messages about the despairs and declines of our later years. Beauty and pharmaceutical companies work overtime to convince people to purchase products that will retain their ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • At Seventy

    A Journal

    by May Sarton ...
    Winner of the American Book Award: May Sarton’s honest and engrossing journal of her seventieth year, spent living and working on the Maine coast.May Sarton’s journals are a captivating look at a rich artistic life. In this, her ode to aging, she savors the daily pleasures of tending to her garden, caring for her dogs, and entertaining guests at her beloved Maine home by the sea. Her reminiscences ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Never Say Die

    The Myth and Marketing of the New Old Age

    by Susan Jacoby ...
    Susan Jacoby, an unsparing chronicler of unreason in American culture, now offers an impassioned, tough-minded critique of the myth that a radically new old age—unmarred by physical or mental deterioration, financial problems, or intimate loneliness—awaits the huge baby boom generation. Combining historical, social, and economic analysis with personal experiences of love and loss, Jacoby turns a ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Spring Chicken

    Stay Young Forever (or Die Trying)

    by Bill Gifford ...
    From acclaimed journalist Bill Gifford comes a roaring journey into the world of anti-aging science in search of answers to a universal obsession: what can be done about getting old?Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever (or Die Trying)Spring Chicken is a full-throttle, high-energy ride through the latest research, popular mythology, and ancient wisdom on mankind's oldest obsession: How can we live ... Read more

    $11.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • Someone for Everyone

    A heartwarming festive love story

    by Tracy Corbett ...
    Series Book 3 - Swept Away By You
    A surprise inheritance and a failing care home might hold the unlikely makings for true love…Kate’s husband has not only left her, he’s also left her tons of debt and she now risks losing her career as a lawyer if she can’t find a way to pay it back.Overnight, Calvin’s life changed when he signed for a major football team, and then again when injury forced him into early retirement. His life is ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Making of an Elder Culture

    Reflections on the Future of America's Most Audacious Generation

    The author of The Making of a Counter Culture delves into how the baby boomers can take on the unfinished business of their rebellious youth.The Summer of Love. Vietnam. Woodstock. These are the milestones of the baby boomer generation Theodore Roszak chronicled in his 1969 breakthrough book The Making of a Counter Culture. Part of an unprecedented longevity revolution, those boomers form the most ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • At Eighty-Two

    A Journal

    by May Sarton ...
    The New York Times–bestselling author of At Seventy returns with a memoir about advancing age, including her experience with a series of strokes.In this poignant and fearless account, Sarton chronicles the struggles of life at eighty-two. She juxtaposes the quotidian details of life—battling a leaky roof, sharing an afternoon nap with her cat, the joy of buying a new mattress—with lyrical musings ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ageism Unmasked

    Exploring Age Bias and How to End It

    Why do we still tolerate stereotypes and discrimination based on age?This bold account of the history and present-day realities of ageism by a nationally recognized gerontologist and speaker uncovers ageism's roots, impact, and how each of us can create a new reality of elderhood.Ageism Unmasked shifts the lens, enabling us to see that we tolerate, and sometimes actively promote, attitudes and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Brain Rules for Aging Well

    10 Principles for Staying Vital, Happy, and Sharp

    by John Medina ...
    How come I can never find my keys? Why don't I sleep as well as I used to? Why do my friends keep repeating the same stories? What can I do to keep my brain sharp? Scientists know. Brain Rules for Aging Well, by developmental molecular biologist Dr. John Medina, gives you the facts, and the prescription to age well, in his signature engaging style.With so many discoveries over the years, science ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Leisureville

    Adventures in a World Without Children

    This revealing profile “disappears down the rabbit hole [into] the largest gated retirement community in the world” and what it discovers is “fascinating” (The New York Times).When his next-door neighbors pick up and move from New England to an age-restricted “active adult” development in Florida called The Villages, Andrew D. Blechman is astonished by their stories—and determined to investigate. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How to Say It® to Seniors

    Closing the Communication Gap with Our Elders

    by David Solie ...
    A practical guide to bridging the generation gap.In How to Say It to Seniors, geriatric psychology expert David Solie offers help in removing the typical communication blocks many experience with the elderly. By sharing his insights into the later stages of life, Solie helps in understanding the unique perspective of seniors, and provides the tools to relate to them. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Place Called Canterbury

    Tales of the New Old Age in America

    An "affectionate, touchingly empathetic" (Janet Maslin, The New York Times) look at old age in America today Welcome to Canterbury Tower , an apartment building in Florida, where the residents are busy with friendships, love, sex, money, and gossip-and the average age is eightysix. Journalist Dudley Clendinen's mother moved to Canterbury in 1994, planning-like most the inhabitants-to spend her ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Eternity Soup

    Inside the Quest to End Aging

    by Greg Critser ...
    Mix the latest and most rigorous scientific research, irrepressible old-fashioned entrepreneurship, and the ancient human desire to live forever (or at least a lot longer) and the result is today’s exploding multibillion-dollar antiaging industry. Its achievements are so far mostly marginal, but its promises flow with all the allure of a twenty-first-century fountain of youth. In Eternity Soup, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The End Game

    How Inequality Shapes Our Final Years

    Winner of the Outstanding Publication Award, Section on Aging and the Life Course, American Sociological AssociationSenior citizens from all walks of life face a gauntlet of physical, psychological, and social hurdles. But do the disadvantages some people accumulate over the course of their lives make their final years especially difficult? Or does the quality of life among poor and affluent ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Happily Ever Older

    Revolutionary Approaches to Long-Term Care

    by Moira Welsh ...
    While Being Mortal (Atul Gawande) helped us understand disease and death, and Successful Aging (Daniel J. Levitin) showed us older years can be a time of joy and resilience, Happily Ever Older reveals how the right living arrangements can create a vibrancy that defies age or ability.Reporter Moira Welsh has spent years investigating retirement homes and long-term care facilities and wants to tell ... Read more

    $10.99 USD