Cain, Matt
Summary: "If Ted Ainsworth were to compare himself to one of the ice cream flavors made by his family's company, famous throughout his sleepy Lancashire hometown, it might be vanilla--sweet, inoffensive, and pleasantly predictable. At forty-three, Ted is convinced there's nothing remotely remarkable about him, except perhaps his luck in having landed handsome, charismatic Giles as a husband. Then Giles...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Scognamiglio Books, Kensington Books 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAIDibdin, Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIBMonroe, Mary
Summary: Volunteering at a soup kitchen during the Christmas season to navigate midlife doubts, Beatrice Powell finds unexpected comfort in a relationship with a homeless man, Charles Davenport, who was driven to a life on the streets after the devastating loss of his family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONRusso, Richard
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RUSLlorens, Chufo
Summary: Barcelona, 1977. En un país que se asoma a un nuevo horizonte de libertad, la vida de Mariana Casanovas se tambalea. Los tejemanejes económicos de su marido Sergio, un joven ejecutivo sin escrúpulos, laabocan a la ruina económica junto a sus cuatro hijos pequeños. Debatiéndose entre el matrimonio y su decepción ante un hombre que carece de palabra y de honor, Mariana emprende la tarea de salvar...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grijalbo 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC LLOBalasubramanyam, Rajeev
Summary: "P.R. Chandrasekhar, the celebrated professor of economics at Cambridge, is at a turning point. He has sacrificed his family for his career, but his conservative brand of economics is no longer in fashion, and yet again he has lost the Nobel Prize to a rival. His wife has left him for a free spirited West Coast psychiatrist and relocated to Boulder, Colorado. His son, a capitalist guru with a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press, an imprint of Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION BALMoore, Christopher
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MOOHill, Nathan
Summary: When Jack and Elizabeth meet as college students in the '90s, the two quickly join forces and hold on tight, each eager to claim a place in Chicagos thriving underground art scene with an appreciative kindred spirit. Fast-forward twenty years to married life, and alongside the challenges of parenting, they encounter cults disguised as mindfulness support groups, polyamorous would-be suitors,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HILHarrison, Jim
Summary: Johnny Lundgren is an unemployed foundation executive who, after surviving a midlife crisis, finally decides to get a job. He soon gets hired by a crazy but genius doctor as a trouble-shooter, where he's tasked with everything battling poachers in the haunted wilderness of northern Michigan to investigating his employer's wife and son in the seamy underside of Key West.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARHiggins, Kristan
Summary: "Lillie Silva knew life as an empty nester would be hard after her only child left for college, but when her husband abruptly dumps her for another woman just as her son leaves, her world comes crashing down. Besides the fact that this announcement is a complete surprise (to say the least), what shocks Lillie most is that she isn't ... heartbroken. She's furious. Lillie has loved her life on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HIGLeithauser, Brad
Summary: "In this comic novel, our hero, Midwesterner Louie Hake, tries to prop up the failing prospects of happiness in his career and marriage by setting out abroad on what he calls his Journey of a Lifetime. Louie is 43, teaches architecture at a third-rate college in Michigan, and faced with a collapsing second marriage and a potentially disastrous medical diagnosis, he decides to undertake a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEISmith, Haywood.
Summary: Cruel, small-town banker Howell Whittington has a stroke sitting up in church, and when he wakes up, he's transformed and wants nothing more than to be a real husband, which scares his proper, repressed wife Elizabeth to death. Setting out to right past wrongs, he blackmails the town's baddies into doing the right thing by threatening to foreclose on their mortgages. A hilarious story of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMIKennedy, Dan
Summary: When middle-aged executive Matthew finds his job, marriage, and well-being on a downward spiral, he embarks on a vision quest that has him participating in drug-running, mug-making, and extreme RVing across the globe in search of answers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Harvest 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KENMinot, Susan
Summary: "A novel about a woman swept into a love affair at mid-life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf
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Summary: Trapped in a loveless marriage, Lucas Pereyra, an unemployed writer in his forties, finds the one thing that keeps him going is the woman from Uruguay whom he met at a conference and has been longing to see ever since.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAILehrer, James.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEHHill, Nathan
Summary: "When Jack and Elizabeth meet as college students in the '90s, the two quickly join forces and hold on tight, each eager to claim a place in Chicago's thriving underground art scene with an appreciative kindred spirit. Fast-forward twenty years to married life, and alongside the challenges of parenting, they encounter cults disguised as mindfulness support groups, polyamorous would-be suitors,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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Summary: Hilly Pruitt and the other women of Florabama, Alabama, wonder what course their lives are going to take after the factory where they have worked for years closes down, leaving them all with no jobs and very little hope.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BATParsons, Kimberly King
Summary: "A young mother, in denial from the sudden loss of her sister, finds herself forced to navigate the dizzying landscapes of grief, guilt, and desire in this darkly comic, highly anticipated debut novel from Kimberly King Parsons, author of Black Light (long-listed for the National Book Award)"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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Summary: "Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the placid plateau of mid-life. But Julia has never navigated the world with the equanimity of her current privileged class. Having nearly derailed herself several times, making desperate bids for the kind of connection that always felt inaccessible to her, she finally feels, at age fifty seven, that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LOMShteyngart, Gary
Summary: Myopic, narcissistic, hilariously self-deluded and divorced from the real world as most of us know it, hedge fund manager Barry Cohen oversees $2.4 billion in assets. Deeply stressed by an SEC investigation and by his 3-year-old-son's diagnosis of autism, he flees New York on a Greyhound bus in search of a simpler, more romantic life with his old college sweetheart, whom he hasn't seen or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHTHiggins, Kristan
Summary: Lillie Silva knew life as an empty nester would be hard after her only child left for college, but when her husband abruptly dumps her for another woman just as her son leaves, her world comes crashing down. Now, alone for the first time in her life, she finds herself going a little rogue. It's the end of Lillie's life as she knew it. But sometimes the perfect next chapter surprises you, out of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC HIGHiggins, Kristan
Summary: Lillie Silva knew life as an empty nester would be hard after her only child left for college, but when her husband abruptly dumps her for another woman just as her son leaves, her world comes crashing down. Now, alone for the first time in her life, she finds herself going a little rogue. It's the end of Lillie's life as she knew it. But sometimes the perfect next chapter surprises you, out of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HIGHiggins, Kristan
Summary: "Lillie Silva knew life as an empty nester would be hard after her only child left for college, but when her husband abruptly dumps her for another woman just as her son leaves, her world comes crashing down. Besides the fact that this announcement is a complete surprise (to say the least), what shocks Lillie most is that she isn't heartbroken. She's furious. Lillie has loved her life on Cape...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022