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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024
Description
"Having arrived at a certain age (her prime), Ann Leary casts a wry backward glance at a life spent trying -- and often failing -- to be nice. With wit and surprising candor, Leary recounts the bedlam of home bat invasions, an obsession with online personality tests, and the mortification of taking ballroom dance lessons with her actor husband. She describes hilarious red-carpet fiascos and other observations from the sidelines of fame, while also...
Author
Publisher
The Mountaineers Books
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First edition
Description
When her husband, Porter, quits his job to hike the 2,663-mile Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada, Gail Storey refuses to let him go alone. Gail, fifty-six at the time, was not a hiker and was terrified of leaving behind their comfortable Houston home for life on the trail. In the end, the trip tested and deepened their relationship, with each walking into the question Who am I?
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Laurie Notaro has proved everyone wrong: she didn’t end up in rehab, prison, or cremated at a tender age. She just went gray. At past fifty, every hair’s root is a symbol of knowledge (she knows how to use a landline), experience (she rode in a car with no seat belts), and superpowers (a gray-haired lady can get away with anything). Though navigating midlife is initially upsetting—the cracking noises coming from her new old body, receiving...
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