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Harley and me : embracing risk on the road to a more authentic life / by Murphy, Bernadette M.(Bernadette Mary),1963-author.;
Includes bibliographical references."What happens when women in midlife step out of what's predictable? For Bernadette Murphy, learning to ride a motorcycle at forty-eight becomes the catalyst that transforms her from a settled wife and professor with three teenage children into a woman on her own. The confidence she gained from mastering a new skill and conquering her fears gave her the courage to face deeper issues in her own life and start taking risks. It is a fact that men and women alike become more risk averse in our later years--which according to psychologists and neuroscience is exactly what we should not do. And Murphy stresses that while hers is a story of transformation using a physical risk, emotional and educational risks can serve the same beneficial purpose for other women. Murphy uses her own story to explore the larger idea of how risk changes our brain chemistry, how certain personality types embrace dangerous behavior and why it energizes them, and why women's expectations change once estrogen levels drop after the childbearing years. She also explores the idea of women and risk in pop culture--why there are so few stories of the conquering heroine (instead of hero). Surely Thelma and Louise driving off the cliff should not be our only pop culture reference for women finding true freedom. With scientific research and journalistic interviews weaving through a page-turning, road trip narrative, Harley and Me is a compelling look at how one woman changed her life and found deeper meaning out on the open road"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Biographies.; Murphy, Bernadette M. (Bernadette Mary), 1963-; Middle-aged women; Middle-aged women; Middle-aged women; Women motorcyclists; Motorcycling; Risk-taking (Psychology); Authenticity (Philosophy); Self-actualization (Psychology);
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Calypso / by Sedaris, David,author.;
Personal essays share the author's adventures after buying a vacation house on the Carolina coast and his reflections on middle age and mortality.
Subjects: Essays.; Sedaris, David; Aging; Mortality; American wit and humor.; Humorists, American; Humorists, American;
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Brooke Shields is not allowed to get old : thoughts on aging as a woman / by Shields, Brooke,1965-author.; Bertsche, Rachel,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."From Brooke Shields, the icon who has inspired generations of women, comes a thoughtful, intimate, and candid exploration of the humility and power of aging"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Shields, Brooke, 1965-; Actresses; Ageism; Middle-aged women;
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Brooke Shields is not allowed to get old [sound recording] : thoughts on aging as a woman / by Shields, Brooke,1965-author ,narrator.; Bertsche, Rachel,author.; Macmillan Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by the author."From Brooke Shields, the icon who has inspired generations of women, comes a thoughtful, intimate, and candid exploration of the humility and power of aging"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Audiobooks.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Shields, Brooke, 1965-; Actresses; Ageism; Middle-aged women;
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Victorious : a novel / by Sarid, Yishay,1965-author.; Greenspan, Yardenne,translator.; translation of:Sarid, Yishay,1965-Menatzahat.English.;
"The tenacious narrator of Yishai Sarid's Victorious is Abigail, a military psychologist and single mother who has spent her career in the Israeli Army. A leading expert in the psychology of combat, Abigail helps soldiers negotiate the trauma of war while instructing commanders on best practices for killing with resilience and efficacy. As her son Shauli approaches the age for military service, Abigail becomes increasingly involved in the lives of the army's Chief of Staff and those of her patients, and the lines between her personal beliefs and her profession begin to blur. Meanwhile, Abigail's deeply moral father, a clinical psychologist himself, openly condemns her choice to aid Israel's military machine. Yet for Abigail, it's a patriotic duty. Only when gentle-hearted Shauli enlists in the elite and dangerous paratroopers unit are Abigail's own mental defenses finally breached. As he did in his acclaimed novel The Memory Monster, Yishai Sarid unmasks the contradictions at the heart of patriotism, national identity, and the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East. Victorious is a riveting, provocative inquiry into modern warfare that forces us to ask: what price are we willing to pay for victory?"--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Patriotism; Psychologists; Psychology, Military; Soldiers;
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Healthy heart, healthy brain : the proven personalized path to protect your memory, prevent heart attacks and strokes, and avoid chronic illness / by Bale, Bradley,author.; Cool, Lisa Collier,1952-author.; Doneen, Amy,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In Healthy Heart, Healthy Brain, Bale and Doneen present a unique, comprehensive program for preventing and reversing cardiovascular disease and metabolic disorders that specifically addresses the rising-and alarming-trend of middle-aged people who are increasingly susceptible to cardiovascular and neurological events, including dementia and fatal heart attacks"--
Subjects: Arteries; Arteries; Blood-vessels; Brain; Heart;
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It's never too late : make the next act of your life the best act of your life / by Gifford, Kathie Lee,1953-author.;
Includes bibliographical references.The four-time Emmy Award-winning "Today" host draws on personal experience to counsel women on how to navigate life-changing milestones while speaking out and staying true to oneself.
Subjects: Middle-aged women; Change (Psychology); Adjustment (Psychology);
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Just like you / by Hornby, Nick,author.;
What happens when the person who makes you happiest is someone you never expected? Lucy used to handle her adult romantic life according to the script she'd been handed. She met a guy just like herself: same age, same background, same hopes and dreams; they got married and started a family. Too bad he made her miserable. Now, two decades later, she's a nearly-divorced, forty-one-year-old schoolteacher with two school-aged sons, and there is no script anymore. So when she meets Joseph, she isn't exactly looking for love--she's more in the market for a babysitter. Joseph is twenty-two, living at home with his mother, and working several jobs, including the butcher counter where he and Lucy meet. It's not a match anyone one could have predicted. He's of a different class, a different culture, and a different generation. But sometimes it turns out that the person who can make you happiest is the one you least expect, though it can take some maneuvering to see it through. Just Like You is a brilliantly observed, tender, but also brutally funny new novel that gets to the heart of what it means to fall surprisingly and headlong in love with the best possible person--someone you didn't see coming.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Divorced women; Intergenerational relations; Man-woman relationships; Middle-aged mothers;
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Mia, a matter of taste / by Simon, Coco.; Wu, Chuyi.;
"Ages 8-12"--P. [4] of cover.LSC
Subjects: Middle school students; Beauty, Personal; Friendship; Clubs; Cupcakes;
© c2013., Simon & Schuster Children's Pub.,
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Big time / by Winters, Ben H.,author.;
What if time could be taken from us--the minutes, the hours, the years of our lives, extracted like organs taken for transplant? What would it mean for the world? And what would it do to the person from whom it's taken? Grace Berney is a mid-level bureaucrat in the Food and Drug Administration, a woman who once brimmed with purpose but somehow turned into a middle-aged single mom with a dull government job and a melancholy sense that life has passed her by. Until the night a strange photo comes across her desk, of a young woman in a hospital bed who has been subjected to a mysterious procedure. Against orders and against common sense, Grace sets out to bring the girl to safety, and finds herself risking her job, her future, and her life on whether she can find the missing girl before an obsessive and violent mercenary who's also looking. Big Time is a fast-paced thriller and a metaphysical mystery about the very nature of our lives.
Subjects: Science fiction.; Novels.; United States. Food and Drug Administration; Memory; Mercenary troops; Missing persons; Single mothers; Time; Women;
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