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"When his dream of the perfect marriage, the perfect son, and the perfect life implodes, a Wall Street millionaire takes a cross-country bus trip in search of his college sweetheart and ideals of youth. 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...
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2011.
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An emotionally & spiritually comatose suburban man decides "to hell with it all" and reverts to living as he did when he was happiest--as a carefree teenager. His desperately uptight wife and sullen daughter can only look on as he quits his corporate job to become a burger flipper, starts getting high with a strange new neighbor (whose parents are even stranger) and lusts after a pouty blonde teenager--his daughter's best friend.
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2020.
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"When Ada Calhoun found herself in the throes of a midlife crisis, she thought that she had no right to complain. She was married with children and a good career. So why did she feel miserable? And why did it seem that other Generation X women were miserable, too? Calhoun decided to find some answers. She looked into housing costs, HR trends, credit card debt averages, and divorce data. At every turn, she saw a pattern: sandwiched between the Boomers...
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Red Hat Club comes a hilarious story of marriage and love and second chances
When Elizabeth Mooney escaped the shame of her "white trash" family to marry the crown prince of her small town, Howell Whittington, she never dreamed that thirty years later, she'd end up trapped in a loveless marriage to the cruel banker who's foreclosing on all her friends. Then Howe has a stroke sitting up in church,...
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2017.
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"From the New York Times best-selling author of Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses, a ferocious, sexy, hilarious memoir about going off the rails at midlife and trying to reconcile the girl she was with the woman she has become. Claire Dederer is a happily married mother of two, ages nine and twelve, when she suddenly finds herself totally despondent and, simultaneously, suffering through a kind of erotic reawakening. This exuberant memoir...
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[2018]
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The essential first step for any midlife woman ready to reinvent her life. If you're stuck at the midlife crossroads, wondering "what's next", Midlife Magic provides a powerful first step for your midlife renewal adventure. To begin your journey, the author guides you through an easy-to-follow, self-care program in seven days. On each day, you join the author in a different locale as she travels the world on her own midlife voyage and discovers a...
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50+ hao hao volume 008
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2018.
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中文(繁體)
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Being middle aged, we often have many things we want to accomplish and people we wish to love. The author tells us how to make up lost time, how to live this period to the fullest, reach the status of freedom and fulfillment. Ultimately, the book will help readers to become the real grown ups.
── * 張曼娟首次書寫中年的覺醒.幸福的定義 * ── 超過260萬人搶讀按讚的文章; 引發4、5、6、7年級生熱烈討論的專欄。...
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"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 cult following, mocks his father's life work; his middle...
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©2012
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There's no better time than now to remake your career and life Neuroscience research reveals that creativity spikes in our later years-making midlife an ideal time to change professions. This breakthrough career-reinvention guide shows workers in their forties and over how to leverage this newfound potential. Boundless Potential empowers you with the knowledge, inspiration, and tools to kick-start anything from a new entrepreneurial venture to a new...
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[2022]
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After Nessa James's husband dies and her twin daughters leave for college, she's left all alone in a trim white house not far from the ocean. In the quiet of her late forties, the former nurse begins to hear voices. It doesn't take long for Nessa to realize that the voices calling out to her belong to the dead--a gift she's inherited from her grandmother, which comes with special responsibilities. On the cusp of 50, suave advertising director Harriett...
18) The London train
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2011.
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After the death of his mother, Paul abandons his family to live life on the edge with his daughter from a previous marriage who is pregnant and living in a run-down council flat, while Cora rebels against her marriage and society.
19) Remembrance
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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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2012.
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It is December in Belfast, Christmas is approaching and three sets of people are about to make their way to Amsterdam. Alan, a divorced university art teacher will go to Amsterdam to see Bob Dylan in concert and with the hope that the city that welcomed him as a young man will refresh those memories. What he doesn't know is that his troubled teenage son will be accompanying him. Karen, a single mother, heads to Amsterdam with her daugher's hen party,...
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