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HEN LIT contemporary fiction, mostly romantic, mostly for "ladies of a certain age"
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Sunset Beach by Mary Kay Andrews Drue Campbell is out of a job and down on her luck when her estranged father shows up at her mother's funeral after a twenty-year absence. Worse, he's remarried - to Drue's eighth grade frenemy, now his office manager. And they're offering her a job.
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by Elizabeth Buchan
For twenty-five years, Rose Lloyd has juggled marriage, motherhood, and career with remarkable success. But then that carefully managed life comes crashing down around her when — over the course of a few days — her marriage and her career both fall apart.
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by Kate Christensen
Manhattan therapist Josie realizes her long marriage to her professor husband Anthony is over. It's all very civilized. Meanwhile, Josie's college friend Raquel is targeted by scandal blogs after her affair with a television hunk half her age.
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by Claire Cook
divorced and dateless for two years, Sarah Hurlihy is out to change all that when she bravely answers a personals ad in a local paper. She gets the ultimate nightmarish response -- her would-be date turns out to be her widower father.
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by Fannie Flagg
As she listens to nursing home resident Ninnie Threadgoode tell stories of Whistle Stop, AL, in the 1930s, Evelyn decides to make positive life changes that lift her out of a midlife crisis.
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by Dorothea Benton Frank
A Sullivan's Island beekeeper navigates her demanding hypochondriac mother and flamboyant rival sister while immersing herself in the lives of two young neighbor boys and their widowed father.
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by Patricia Gaffney
Not only men have midlife crises. Meet Dash Bateman. She is a free-spirited photographer who recently lost her mother and sent her daughter off to college. After a trivial fight with her history-professor husband, Andrew, over a puppy, Dash takes the dog and leaves.
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by Olivia Goldsmith
Phyllis Geronomus is a wisecracking 69-year-old widow who decides to leave Florida and return to Manhattan to help her grown children make something of their lives. The trouble is that her kids greet her arrival as they would a plague of locusts.
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by Cynthia Hartwick
The mostly-married, mostly-middle-aged members of the Mostly Methodist Club were used to swapping recipes, not stock tips. They'd taken few risks in their lives, and had even fewer adventures. But when a pink-haired young rebel named Skye found her way into the group, things changed
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by Christina Kelly
Moving to a gated community in Savannah, Catherine watches her retirement dreams shatter in the wake of her husband's wandering eye before forging a friendship with a widower and discovering uncomfortable secrets about her new home.
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by Cassandra King
It's not easy being the Queen of Broken Hearts. Clare knows this as she's just assumed the mantle as a therapist specialising in helping women mend their broken hearts. And while she has no problem helping the hundreds of people seeking her advice, healing her own heart is another matter entirely.
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by Marina Lewycka
When their recently widowed father announces that he plans to remarry, sisters Vera and Nadezhda realize that they must put aside a lifetime of bitter rivalry in order to save him. The new woman in his life is Valentina, a voluptuous gold-digger from Ukraine, fifty years his junior, with fabulous breasts and a proclivity for green satin underwear and boil-in-the-bag cuisine.
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Losing me
by Sue Margolis
After losing her job, Barbara, who had been financially supporting her grown children and caring for her elderly mother, is forced to face her vulnerabilities, until a young boy comes into her life and gives her perspective
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by Deborah Moggach
Now over 70, Buffy has grown tired of life in London. So when he inherits a bed-and-breakfast in the quiet Welsh town of Knockton, Buffy picks up and moves, determined to keep it going.
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by Jeanne Ray
A deliciously funny and wickedly sexy novel of love found (finally!) and love threatened (inevitably) by the families who claim to love us best.
also available in alternate format(s)
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by Ann B. Ross
When Wesley Lloyd Springer passed away, he left his proper Southern wife two legacies. The first, as befits a gentleman of means, is the whole of his sizeable estate. The second - well, that was a little bit more a surprise. also available in alternate format(s)
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by Louise Shaffer
Thirty years ago, the leading ladies of Charles Valley, GA - all named Margaret - did something terribly wrong for a very good reason. Now their secret is about to pop out.
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by Haywood Smith
We didn't start out as Red Hats. We started out in the late '60s as mademoiselles, self-proclaimed creme de la creme of Atlanta's "best" high schools, full of ourselves and drunk with the power of our blooming sexuality and good looks.
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by Nancy Thayer
Faye, Marilyn, Alice, and Shirley -- four middle-aged women with skills, smarts, determination, and secrets who are all feeling over the hill and out of life -- get together to form the Hot Flash Club, where they band together to help each other and themselves get the most out of life.
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Main Branch Richmond Public Library 101 E. Franklin St. Richmond, VA 23219 (804)646-7223
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