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Book one of the Women of the Canyon series. In a near-future desert community, five women aged 58 to 74 find each other at the…

Fifty-two true accounts from people who had decided their romantic chapter was closed — widowed, divorced, discouraged, or simply tired of looking. Relationship coach Nancy…

On New Year’s Eve 1984, 85-year-old Lillian Boxfish—once the highest-paid advertising woman in America as R.H. Macy’s star copywriter—sets out on a ten-mile walk across…

Antonia Vega, an immigrant writer and newly retired English professor, has barely begun to grieve her husband’s sudden death when her unpredictable sister disappears and…

When Janice Mason Steeves surveyed 138 artists aged 59 to 79 about their journeys into art, a pattern emerged: later life, far from being a…

Growing older isn’t the problem. Outdated thinking about aging is. ReSet is a practical guide for anyone in midlife and beyond who knows there must…

Social gerontologist Jeanette Leardi makes the case that later life is a time of growth, purpose, and possibility, not inevitable decline. Drawing on research, vivid…

A spicy, satirical romp about a sixty-something woman who stumbles into a digital trap and comes out the other side owning her desire and her…

In this frank, funny midlife memoir, Billie Best tells the truth about a life that looked perfect from the outside. Widowed after 32 years of…

A former state senator and late-blooming ballroom dancer makes the case for staying vibrant through partner dance — including for those living with dementia or…

A practical guide to navigating midlife and beyond through creativity and reinvention, from an author who has lived it into her seventies. Why it’s here:…

A widowed nurse-midwife rebuilds her life through a medical mission in South Sudan, delivering babies in mud-walled clinics amid civil unrest and finding purpose in…

As a young art student, Noel made a split-second choice that reshaped her life. Thirty years later, a museum secondment brings her back to London…

A poet, ‘a stranger to death,’ learns her brother is dying and confronts hidden family truths; before she can absorb his loss, her aging mother’s…

After her mother’s funeral, a widow returns to her mother’s Minnesota hometown and is drawn into an Ojibway family’s two-century dispossession from their land —…

Widowed at fifty-four and raising her neurodivergent son alone, Amy chronicles grief alongside an unexpected sensual reawakening — challenging the taboos around midlife female desire.

At sixty-five, Rebecca Knuth walks away from the security of academia to reinvent herself in London — enrolling in a writing program, training as a…

At forty-eight, after her husband comes out, a Manhattan psychologist sets out to reclaim her sexuality and shed decades of shame. A candid midlife awakening.…

After a decades-long estrangement, Carla Seaquist sets out four decades later to repair the bond with her aging mother, one kitchen-table conversation at a time.…

After nearly three decades of motherhood, columnist Rita Lussier faces a sudden empty nest — rekindling her marriage and career while caring for aging parents.…

A psychologist recounts her turbulent thirty-year marriage to a Hollywood screenwriter; when he dies, she moves into widowhood and grief. A late-life reckoning with a…

After her father’s death and divorce from her husband of two decades, Rachel leaves a thirty-year career and navigates a year of disastrous midlife dating…

A dual-timeline memoir braiding a pioneering whitewater-kayaking career with the author’s post-menopause, post-retirement plunge into first-time parenting of an at-risk young nephew.

A fiftysomething ad executive leaves San Francisco to rebuild a 300-year-old stone barn in rural Italy — and, amid a breast-cancer diagnosis, builds a joyful…

A newly divorced Midwestern school librarian travels solo through Ireland over six years, seeking healing from divorce and depression and finding self-acceptance in the second…

On the cusp of sixty, thrice-married Arden Rice must reckon with a lifetime of reckless choices when tragedy makes her guardian of her vulnerable granddaughter.…

At sixty, long-married psychotherapist Leah Fisher negotiates a year-long ‘marriage sabbatical’ of solo global travel — an alternative to gray divorce, and a reclaiming of…

At fifty-nine, after a lifetime of depression, Anne is unexpectedly lifted by a Springsteen concert. At sixty she quits teaching and books a solo twenty-six-day…

Recovering from divorce, an executive coach accepts an invitation to Ecuador and meets a sixth-generation shaman; their relationship spans two continents and eight years, leading…

Unable to shake a midlife emptiness, Janet Wilson and her husband drive 25,000 miles across Africa; through tragedy and hardship they transform a decades-long marriage…

A psychotherapist’s memoir of a long, bruising divorce and custody battle with a wealthy ex — a high-stakes fight that surfaces old wounds and, ultimately,…

A candid, funny-but-brutal memoir-in-essays about the four years spent caring for a dying eighty-six-year-old father — refusing to romanticize caregiving or its toll on a…

Laid off from her tech job, Marianne returns to her dicey Kansas City neighborhood to find that, as a middle-aged woman, age works against her…

A childless woman in her late fifties tells the unvarnished truth of caring for her older husband as Alzheimer’s dismantles the retirement they’d planned on…

A forty-nine-year-old archaeology professor travels to Poland after her estranged father’s death and uncovers her family’s wartime history — finding, along the way, a first…

Dying of stage-four cancer and estranged from her grown daughter, Liz Millanova joins a hospital support group and forms a fierce chosen family with two…

Over a ten-year search, the author comes to know the Cuban-exile father she barely knew, alongside an adopted Cherokee-Jewish soldier father and an Iranian stepfather…

A fictionalized life of Japanese poet Yosano Akiko, who defied her era’s constraints to become a pioneering feminist and the first to render The Tale…

Hollywood director Steve McNaught retreats to his ancestral village in rural Scotland and is eyed with suspicion — not least by ex-hippy midwife Georgie. Their…

Bestselling ghostwriter Samantha Rose steps out of the shadows to unravel the mystery of her mother’s suicide. As her mother seems to return ‘from beyond’…

From a sheltered Baptist girlhood to a semester in Colombia and travels across more than forty countries, Suzanne LaVenture learns to question her inherited beliefs.…

In 1950, farm wife Irene Pickett — sick of being cast as the queen of pickling and laundry — joins three other firebrand women to…

Wealthy, newly widowed Claire is adrift; Erica, a burnt-out young outreach worker, is about to be fired. Their collision becomes a partnership to get ten…

Ted and Marina Diamond set out to build the ideal military family — disciplined, close, unbreakable — but years of upheaval, rigid rules, and quiet…

In 1964 New York, Joan Cavanaugh carries the secret of her daughter’s true paternity to her grave. Decades later in Portland, a Thanksgiving reunion collides…

Sent by a land-hungry boss to befriend ninety-two-year-old rancher Sydelle Hammer, twenty-two-year-old Bee Wells finds an unlikely, genuine friendship instead. When shady deals and a…

In 1880, immigrants flock to the fictional Isle of Touperdu — among them a New Orleans chef and Gwennoelle Duday, matriarch of a rackety family…

After decades of depression, addiction, and self-loathing, Maeve DuVally got sober and, as a public-facing communications executive at Goldman Sachs, took the hardest step of…

Princesses Neve, Della, and Bry have lived their happily-ever-after in the kingdom of Foreverness for thirty years — until the king’s sudden death sends each…

Divorced at sixty-three, Jessie Woodley inherits a Colorado cabin and a trust — but only by completing a series of cryptic tasks set by a…

When her husband of forty-three years leaves alone for a dig in Peru, sixty-four-year-old Eisel Jane McCord finally chases her own teenage bucket list —…

When a parent’s attack sends traumatized teacher Chelsea Garden fleeing home to the California foothills, her life tangles with a beleaguered principal and an old…

Muriel A. Murch recounts leaving Los Angeles with her film-editor husband for a farm in West Marin, where family life intertwines with organic farming and…

Grammy-winning vocalist Darlene Koldenhoven — the tambourine-waving nun of Sister Act and a soloist on Yanni: Live at the Acropolis — looks back on nearly…

After an impoverished Jamaican childhood, immigration at fourteen, and years of abuse, Donna Marie Hayes built a Wall Street career and an off-Broadway show —…

When a possible Caravaggio and its curator vanish from a San Francisco museum, cynical lawyer Zara and her scam-prone sister Lilly — two seasoned, sharp-tongued…

When her charismatic, difficult mother Jane chooses to end her life at seventy-five, Susannah Kennedy inherits forty-five years of secret diaries. Over a year of…

Opinionated Holocaust survivor Goldie Mandell, marooned in an assisted-living facility, fakes ailments to audition Jewish-doctor husbands for her brilliant PhD granddaughter — who has ideas…

Broke, eccentric, seventy-three-year-old Aurora drives to LA chasing a possible inheritance; her estranged, perfectionist forty-three-year-old daughter heads there to spy on her husband. Their quests…

During the Great Depression, young dancers Mattie and Kip tap for coins and ride the rails until betrayal and disaster separate them for a lifetime.…

Former 1980s rock hopeful Libby Conlin has long since buried her music — until her newly divorced daughter posts the old recordings online and the…

A memoir of coming of age at sixty. After three decades homesteading and teaching in Vermont, Deborah Lee Luskin is gripped by an unlikely urge…

From 1968 Greenwich Village through five decades of American upheaval, Anita Rappaport comes of age and grows old, sustained by the restorative power of female…

In 1964 Vermont, recently widowed city Democrat Rose Mayer and taciturn Republican farmer Percy Mendell clash the moment they meet — and, across the turning…

After feminist poet Marge Piercy suffers a medical emergency in 2022 and is revived, she spends the following year taking stock. Written at ninety in…

Seventy-six-year-old Linda Davidson — a widowed retired teacher in Florida — is worn down by grief and a houseful of bickering family when she meets…

Lottie Jones is seventy-five, retired, and — as far as her bingo friends know — perfectly ordinary. What they don’t know is that Lottie is…

A dual-timeline mystery moving between a 1936 archaeological dig in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings and the glamour of the 1978 Met Gala. Charlotte Cross,…

Told entirely through her letters, this acclaimed debut follows Sybil Van Antwerp — a 73-year-old retired lawyer living alone in Annapolis — as correspondence with…

Drawn from the lives of fifty women who built rewarding lives on their own terms, Dr. Susan R. Meyer’s guide distills seven key factors for…

Executive coach and life strategist Dr. Susan R. Meyer gathers the stories of thirty-eight women — from their late sixties into their nineties — who…

The Hugo Award-winning novelette that launched the Lady Astronaut series. Decades after her fame, Dr. Elma York is sixty-three and grounded on a Mars colony,…

The fourth Lady Astronaut novel returns to Elma York on the first permanent Mars base, where a covered-up disaster and the hard work of building…

Running alongside the events of The Fated Sky, this installment shifts to astronaut Nicole Wargin — former WASP pilot, governor’s wife, and reluctant spy —…

The second Lady Astronaut novel carries Elma York from the Moon colony toward the first crewed voyage to Mars, navigating the politics, racism, and personal…

In an alternate 1952, a meteorite strike devastates the U.S. East Coast and forces humanity to race for the stars before Earth becomes unlivable. Dr.…

Intimacy coach Nathalie Dewalhens names a new archetype — the Sensual Crone — for the woman whose desire didn’t vanish at menopause but grew weirder,…

The third collection from the Kensington Ladies’ Erotica Society — a group of women who have met in Berkeley for over twenty-five years to share…

Drawing on her PhD in cellular immunology, Ehrenreich argues that much of modern preventive medicine, wellness culture, and the anti-aging industry sells false control over…

The threads of the sisterhood’s magical struggle converge toward a reckoning. Book 3 of The Obsidian Sisterhood.

The Obsidian sisterhood is drawn deeper into conflict as their magical entanglements grow more dangerous. Book 2 of The Obsidian Sisterhood.

A sixty-nine-year-old former nun and two-time black belt is drawn into a web of dark magic and obligation. Book 1 of The Obsidian Sisterhood, an…

A surviving Morok and a wave of displaced gods throw Claire back into a war she thought she had won. Book 5 of The Crone…

Claire ventures alone through the treacherous god realm to rescue her trapped protector before Morok finds the ancient Crone magic hidden there. Book 4 of…

Stripped of her magick, Claire alone knows the dark god Morok has infiltrated the Crones—and must recover her power in time to stop him. Book…

Newly-awakened Crone Claire Emerson races the clock to gather the remaining Crones and master her elemental magic as the dark Mages close in. Book 2…

Divorced and middle-aged, Kim returns to Florida to help her aging mother and is pulled into a cascade of family crises, including relatives coping with…

A second collection of uplifting short stories about the second half of life — a couple attempting role-reversal in retirement, friends confronting a loss of…

A collection of short stories about the drama, humor, and reinvention of midlife and the years beyond. Spreen’s debut short-fiction collection earned a five-star review…

Book 3 of Lynne Spreen’s Sedona Silver Romances. When her youngest leaves for college and her workaholic husband comes home smelling of someone else’s perfume,…

Sixty-something Celeste Waterbury escapes to the desert to leave a failing marriage behind, then finds herself unsettled by her attraction to the rugged Sedona contractor…

Broke and lonely, a widow returns to claim her childhood homestead near Sedona and is forced into an uneasy partnership with a land developer. An…

A prequel to Dakota Blues, exploring Karen Grace’s earlier life and the career and marriage pressures that precede her midlife road trip.

The closing book in Lynne Spreen’s Karen Grace series. As Karen travels between friends scattered from Palm Springs to Denver, four love stories unfold around…

Having broken free at fifty to start a new life, Karen Grace lands in Florida, camping out with friends and facing fresh relationships and setbacks.…

Karen Grace is far from home and newly unemployed when she agrees to take an elderly neighbor on one last road trip in a vintage…

In Edinburgh’s COVID-lockdown spring of 2020, cold-case detective DCI Karen Pirie learns of an unfinished manuscript by a recently dead crime novelist — one whose…

On a beach in British Columbia, a writer named Ruth finds a Hello Kitty lunchbox washed up from the 2011 tsunami. Inside is the diary…

On the day of Japan’s 1945 surrender, three men — an American missionary, a US gunner’s mate, and a local Chinese soldier — make a…

Recovering from surgery in a New York hospital, Lucy Barton wakes to find her estranged mother at her bedside after years of silence. As they…

In a letter to someone she loves above all others, Violeta recounts a life spanning a hundred years and two pandemics — from her birth…

Born at the end of the nineteenth century into a poor farming family in rural New South Wales, Dolly Maunder spends her life pushing at…

Bernardine Evaristo’s Booker Prize–winning novel follows twelve characters — mostly Black British women, spanning generations from a teenager to a woman in her nineties —…

Jennifer L. Butz launched WonderCrone after colliding head-on with ageism at sixty, and Rebel Aging is her witty, clear-eyed reckoning with the myths women are…

In this landmark work, Betty Friedan — author of The Feminine Mystique — turns her attention to what she calls the “age mystique”: the cultural…

After divorce upended the life she thought she’d have, Teri M. Brown climbed onto the back of a tandem bicycle and set out with her…