Aging category: 2173 books

Detoured by personal loss but not defeated, new park ranger Billie Jackson begins a serendipitous journey with fellow travelers on her path to recovering joy. Like a magical potion, the park itself and its unconventional patrons defuse Billies cynicism and create too much light for dark thoughts to...

Remembering: Joan Williams’ Uncollected Pieces illustrates again that rediscovering an admired author—especially through his or her later works—is every bit as engaging as discovering a new literary voice.   Joan Williams, an accomplished and prize-winning southern novelist, published a number...

Summary of The First Phone Call From Heaven by Mitch Albom | Includes Analysis   Preview: The First Phone Call from Heaven by Mitch Albom is a mystery set on Lake Michigan in the small town of Coldwater. Tess Rafferty receives a phone call. She is unable to get to the phone in...

This is a beautiful love story, an offbeat romance between Kshiti and Akash. Kshiti describes the waves of River Ganga like the melody of music or love; she compares it with the kind of love Krishna had felt for Radha while on the banks of river Yamuna. He played love tunes on his flute. The love...

Where do we find the relationships that matter in our second adulthood? Susanne Braun Levine, author of Inventing the Rest of Our Lives, anwers these questions with charming wit, experience, and intrigue in How We Love Now, with a new introduction by the author. Today, women in their fifties,...

Can an unkept promise with your son and his questions take you on a roller coaster, fun filled, yet a deep hitting ride? Rajeev is a typical husband, father and son in his personal life. In his professional life he is a typical office goer, a mediocre performer, working hard yet not moving...

Das Ende des Sommers stimmt, ebenso wie das Altern des Menschen, melancholisch. Trotzdem zeigen die in diesem Band versammelten Gedichte, dass die Verabschiedung der blühenden Natur auch ihre guten Seiten und ihre Schönheit hat. Freuen Sie sich also auf die schönsten deutschen Herbstgedichte -...

Even When She Forgot My Name serves to inspire and educate caregivers of all kinds, giving them strength and hope as they attend to aged relatives and friends. Together with a few scattered illustrations, certain pages of the book are imaginatively interspersed with a typeface that delineates the patient’s state of mind.

The tenth anniversary edition of William Martin’s free-verse interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, written expressly for those coming into the fullness of their wisdom Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching, one of the world’s most widely read books of wisdom, reminds its readers that the sage has been...

When Susan Paget was 47 years old, she realized that even though she was reasonably healthy, had a happy family life and a career as a television producer - something wasn't right. Unable to sleep, having panic attacks and all around feeling lousy, her own doctors weren't able to get to the bottom...

A contemporary look at the misconceptions that have grown around people of mature years. In today's societies youth is venerated while reaching your senior years is viewed as going past your 'use by' or 'best before' dates. Not so. You do not have to believe that growing into your senior years means that the best years of your life are behind you.

The upheavals of modern times can render human relationships difficult under the best of circumstances, and sometimes it takes the ironies inherent in those upheavals to strengthen the most intimate of human ties. In his heartfelt memoir, Mustin lays bare the hopes and fears, the joys and tragedies,...

Around the time a woman reaches 45, there is one enemy with the power to threaten her confidence, steal her beauty, make her feel invisible, and turn even the pleasures of life against her. That enemy is Time. Most women feel that an essential part of them dies when their youth is gone, yet the reality...

From a New York Times**–bestselling author comes this “book to share with every woman in your family” honoring the wisdom and spirit of older women (Evelyn “Champagne” King).** These women have lived decades raising children, caring for husbands, and creating nests out of which children...