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More than a woman / by Moran, Caitlin,1975-author.;
The author of "How to Be a Woman" presents a humorous confessional memoir that reflects on the lighter side of the patriarchy while exploring topics ranging from middle age, parenting, and marriage to feminism and existential crises.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Moran, Caitlin, 1975-; Women journalists; Journalists; Middle-aged women; Feminism.;

Enough already : learning to love the way I am today / by Bertinelli, Valerie,1960-author.;
"Valerie Bertinelli shares an inspiring blueprint that offers women in midlife support and hope. She shares personal stories that many women will relate to from her past decade: hitting her fifties, taking care of her dying mother, the evolving relationship with her husband, a career change, her relationship with food, and the battle to believe in herself as she is"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Bertinelli, Valerie, 1960-; Middle-aged women; Self-actualization (Psychology) in women.; Television personalities;

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);

Sankofa : a novel / by Onuzo, Chibundu,author.;
"When Anna, wondering who she really is, discovers that the African father she never knew is still alive, she embarks on a journey to a small nation in West Africa where she searches for her family's hidden roots"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Bambara (African people); Fathers and daughters; Identity (Psychology); Middle-aged women; Racially mixed people;

Wellness : a novel / by Hill, Nathan,1975-author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 601-608)."A witty and poignant new novel about marriage, middle age, tech-obsessed health culture, and the bonds that keep people together"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Novels.; Dysfunctional families; Interpersonal relations; Man-woman relationships; Marriage; Middle-aged persons;

Ya-Yas in bloom : a novel / by Wells, Rebecca;
Subjects: Catholic women; Female friendship; Grandmothers; Grandparent and child; Middle aged women; Mothers and daughters; Domestic fiction;
© c2005., HarperCollins,

Modern lovers / by Straub, Emma,author.;
"From the New York Times' bestselling author of The Vacationers, a smart, highly entertaining novel about a tight-knit group of friends from college--their own kids now going to college--and what it means to finally grow up well after adulthood has set in. Friends and former college bandmates Elizabeth and Andrew and Zoe have watched one another marry, buy real estate, and start businesses and families, all while trying to hold on to the identities of their youth. But nothing ages them like having to suddenly pass the torch (of sexuality, independence, and the ineffable alchemy of cool) to their own offspring. Back in the band's heyday, Elizabeth put on a snarl over her Midwestern smile, Andrew let his unwashed hair grow past his chin, and Zoe was the lesbian all the straight women wanted to sleep with. Now nearing fifty, they all live within shouting distance in the same neighborhood deep in gentrified Brooklyn, and the trappings of the adult world seem to have arrived with ease. But the summer that their children reach maturity (and start sleeping together), the fabric of the adult lives suddenly begins to unravel, and the secrets and revelations that are finally let loose--about themselves, and about the famous fourth band member who soared and fell without them--can never be reclaimed. Straub packs wisdom and insight and humor together in a satisfying book about neighbors and nosiness, ambition and pleasure, the excitement of youth, the shock of middle age, and the fact that our passions--be they food, or friendship, or music--never go away, they just evolve and grow along with us"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Interpersonal relations; Man-woman relationships; Middle-aged persons; Parent and adult child;

Autopsy of a boring wife / by Lavoie, Marie-Renée,1974-author.; translation of:Lavoie, Marie-Renée,1974-Autopsie d'une femme plate.English.; Aaronson, Arielle,translator.;
"Marie-Renée Lavoie's Autopsy of a Boring Wife tells the hysterically funny and ultimately touching tale of forty-eight-year-old Diane, a woman whose husband leaves her and is having an affair because, he says, she bores him. Diane takes the charge to heart and undertakes an often ribald, highly entertaining journey to restoring trust in herself and others that is at the same time an astute commentary on women and girls, gender differences, and the curious institution of marriage in the twenty-first century. All the details are up for scrutiny in this tender, brisk story of the path to recovery. Autopsy of a Boring Wife is a wonderfully fresh and engaging novel of the pitfalls and missteps of an apparently "boring" life that could be any of ours."--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Middle-aged women; Married women; Separation (Psychology); Female friendship; Self-actualization (Psychology); Self-realization in women;

Wilson [videorecording] / by Amara, Isabella,actor.; Dern, Laura,actor.; Harrelson, Woody,actor.; Johnson, Craig,film director.; motion picture adaptation of (work):Clowes, Daniel.Wilson.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc,film distributor.;
Woody Harrelson, Laura Dern, Isabella Amara.Woody Harrelson stars as "Wilson", a lonely, neurotic and hilariously honest middle-aged misanthrope who reunites with his estranged wife (Laura Dern) and gets a shot at happiness when he learns he has a teenage daughter he has never met. In his uniquely outrageous and slightly twisted way, he sets out to connect with her.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R; for language throughout and some sexuality.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, 2.0.
Subjects: Comedy films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Clowes, Daniel.; Fathers and daughters; Middle-aged men; Separated people;
For private home use only.

Goldenseal : a novel / by Hummel, Maria,author.;
"Downtown Los Angeles, 1990. Alone in her luxury hotel suite, the reclusive Lacey Crane receives a message: Edith is waiting for her in the lobby. Former best friends, Lacey and Edith haven't spoken to one another in over four decades. As young adults meeting at summer camp in Maine, and later making their way in the glitzy spotlight of postwar Hollywood, Edith and Lacey share a deep-rooted bond that once saved them from isolation and despair, providing comfort from the public and private traumas that they had each endured and which a newly optimistic world was eager to forget. Told through a continuous, twisting conversation that unfolds over the course of a single evening, in which each woman tells her story and reveals long-hidden secrets, the narratives of Edith and Lacey burn with atmosphere, mystery, resentment, and regret"--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Best friends; Female friendship; Friendship; Middle-aged women; Nineteen nineties; Psychic trauma; Psychology, Pathological;

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