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10 best books like An Unfinished Marriage (Joan Anderson): At Home with Beatrix Potter: The Creator of Peter Rabbit, Find Me, Shiksa Goddess, Breaking the Surface, Moonlight Sonata at the Mayo Clinic, My Pet Virus: The True Story of a Rebel Without a Cure, A Dresser of Sycamore Trees, Eavesdropping, If I Had My Life to Live Over I Would Pick More Daisies, Inventing the Rest of Our Lives: Women in Second Adulthood

At Home with Beatrix Potter: The Creator of Peter Rabbit
AuthorSusan Denyer
ISBN0810921065
The creator of Peter Rabbit, Samuel Whiskers, and Jemima Puddle-Duck, Beatrix Potter (18661942) is one of the best-loved children's book authors of all time. Yet few in America are aware of the role she played in protecting some of England's most beautiful landscapes and in designing romantic interiors...
Find Me
AuthorRosie O'Donnell
ISBN0446690309
I have always found Rosie O'Donnell entertaining, but I had no idea how much I would like her book! She is a terrific writer, and I believe she wrote this book and not a ghostwriter because the voice and the thought process is so authentic that I have to believe it is really her. The story is interesting --...
Shiksa Goddess
AuthorWendy Wasserstein
ISBN0375726039
Celebrated playwright and magnetic wit Wendy Wasserstein has been firmly rooted in New York’s cultural life since her childhood of Broadway matinees, but her appeal is universal. Shiksa Goddess collects thirty-five of her urbane, inspiring, and deeply empathic essays–all written when she...
Breaking the Surface
AuthorGreg Louganis
ISBN0679437037
Beyond the mists of prehistory, back when the 7.5 meter platform was made of giant slabs of rock and the 10m was supplied by the pate of a cooperative apatosaur, this reviewer used to fantasize about making it to the Olympics as a diver when he should have been doing his mat exercises.

One might...
Moonlight Sonata at the Mayo Clinic
AuthorNora Gallagher
ISBN0307592987
This taut yet lyrical memoir tells of the author’s experience with a baffling illness poised to take her sight, and gives a deeply felt meditation on vulnerability and on what it means to lose the faith you had and find something better.

One day at the end of 2009, during a routine eye exam that...
My Pet Virus: The True Story of a Rebel Without a Cure
AuthorShawn Decker
ISBN1585425257
I was destined for a life of medical drama from day one," begins this comic memoir with a mission. "I was born in the month of July, and my horoscope sign is a disease (Cancer). The symbol for Cancer? A crab (the sexually transmitted critter). Not only that, my parents named me Shawn Timothy Decker, which...
A Dresser of Sycamore Trees
AuthorGarret Keizer
ISBN0060643579
The prophet Amos, a herdsman and a dresser of sycamore trees, had a parallel, and more challenging, calling as a shepherd of human souls. So too does Garret Keizer, an Episcopalian minister to the community of Island Pond in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom. This profoundly contemporary book displays...
Eavesdropping
AuthorStephen Kuusisto
ISBN0393349586
Blind people are not casual listeners. Blind since birth, Stephen Kuusisto recounts with a poet's sense of detail the surprise that comes when we are actively listening to our surroundings. There is an art to eavesdropping. Like Annie Dillard's An American Childhood or Dorothy Allison's One or Two...
If I Had My Life to Live Over I Would Pick More Daisies
AuthorSandra Martz
ISBN0918949246
And then, there is poetry. I think it will save me. I chose to read this somewhat dated anthology of women’s poetry this month as a break. That shows how bad things are getting, when a book about an old woman’s regrets is uplifting. It has a great variety of short stories, essays and poems from all aspects...
Inventing the Rest of Our Lives: Women in Second Adulthood
AuthorSuzanne Braun Levine
ISBN0452287219
The first editor of Ms. magazine helps women address the three crucial questions of second adulthood: What matters? What works? What's next?

New brain research is proving it: Women at midlife really do start to see the world differently. Some 37 million women now entering their fifties and...
A Boy I Once Knew: What a Teacher Learned from her Student
AuthorElizabeth Stone
ISBN1565123158
One morning, a box was delivered to Elizabeth Stone's door. It held ten years of personal diaries and a letter that began "Dear Elizabeth, You must be wondering why I left you my diaries in my will. After all, we have not seen each other in over twenty years . . ." What followed was a remarkable year in Elizabeth's...
Running to the Mountain: A Midlife Adventure
AuthorJon Katz
ISBN0767904982
Jon Katz, a respected journalist, father, and husband, was turning fifty. His writing career had taken a dubious turn, his wife had a demanding career of her own, his daughter was preparing to leave home for college, and he had become used to a sedentary lifestyle. Wonderfully witty and insightful,...
Jennie: The Life of Lady Randolph Churchill, Vol 1: The Romantic Years 1854-95
AuthorRalph G. Martin
If she had simply been the mother of Winston Churchill, her place in history would have been assured. But the Brooklyn-born Jennie was also the most fascinating and desirable woman of her age, the toast and the scandal of two continents throughout her long life. Volume I, THE ROMANTIC YEARS, follows...
Penn & Teller's How to Play in Traffic
AuthorPenn Jillette
ISBN1572972939
Penn & Teller know travel! They've taken every mode of transportation from motorcycles to the QE2 and stayed everywhere from Motel 6 to The Plaza (Motel 6 is better -- they explain why).Now, the beloved authors of Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends present practical jokes, miracles, and anecdotes that...
Confessions of a Turtle Wife
AuthorAnita Salzberg
A lighthearted look at how one woman learned to laugh at and cope with her spouse’s “second” passion. When Anita Salzberg marries her husband, Allen, she discovers that she’s also married his “little” turtle hobby. While sports widows merely get dragged to the stadiums or the links, the...
Cottage for Sale, Must Be Moved: A Woman Moves a House to Make a Home
AuthorKate Whouley
When Kate Whouley saw the classified ad for an abandoned vacation cottage, she began to dream. Transport the cottage through four Cape Cod towns. Attach it to my three-room house. Create more space for my work and life. Smart, single, and self-employed, Kate was used to fending for herself. But she wasn’t...
When Women Were Priests
AuthorKaren Jo Torjesen
ISBN0060686618
This is a challenging book, not in the sense that it is a tough read (it's very well written book), but in the sense that it forces readers to address their own assumptions and the way in which they view women and the church. In her book, Karen Jo Torjessen makes an attempt to both defend the reality of women's...
How to Lose Your Ass and Regain Your Life: Reluctant Confessions of a Big-Butted Star
AuthorKirstie Alley
I'm not sure exactly why I read this - it was short, it was on my bookshelf, I thought maybe it had something interesting about weight loss - but honestly...Meh. Not a great memoir. This is no "Bossypants" or "Yes Please," the celebrity books against which I judge all celebrity books. This read very much...
We Are Our Mothers' Daughters
AuthorCokie Roberts
ISBN0688169678
In this bestselling collection of essays, renowned news correspondent Cokie Roberts examines the nature of women's roles, from mother to mechanic, sister to soldier, through the illuminating lens of her personal experience. Each essay introduces us to several of the fascinating women Roberts...
Denial: My 25 Years Without a Soul
AuthorJonathan Rauch
My bias... I am a straight male that views homosexuality as a choice, and a bad one at that with clear undeniably poor outcomes for people who choose it.

That said, I have an open mind, and I read this to try to put myself in the shoes of people on the other side of the ideological divide. This book provided...
Visions and Revisions: Coming of Age in the Age of AIDS
AuthorDale Peck
ISBN1616954418
Novelist and critic Dale Peck's latest work, part memoir, part extended essay, is a foray into what the author calls 'the second half of the first half of the AIDS epidemic'. Reminiscent of Joan Didion's The White Album and Kurt Vonnegut's Palm Sunday, Visions and Revisions has been assembled from over...
No Saints Around Here: A Caregiver's Days
AuthorSusan Allen Toth
ISBN0816692866

When we promise “in sickness and in health,” it may be a mercy that we don’t know exactly what lies ahead. Forcing food on an increasingly recalcitrant spouse. Brushing his teeth. Watching someone you love more than ever slip away day by day. As her husband James’s Parkinson’s disease...
Dear Father, Dear Son: Two Lives... Eight Hours
AuthorLarry Elder
ISBN1936488450
"Stunning ... a wonderful read ... a page-turner ... a handbook for life." Those words of advance praise from another celebrated author scarcely convey just how powerfully mesmerizing is the latest book by New York Times best-selling author and nationally syndicated radio talk show host Larry Elder.

Dear...
Conscience: Two Soldiers, Two Pacifists, One Family--a Test of Will and Faith in World War I
AuthorLouisa Thomas
It is not surprising that the World War I experiences of Norman Thomas (1884-1968) form a major part of Louisa Thomas' new book: This long-lived peace advocate was, after all, the author's great grandfather and a six-time Socialist presidential candidate. Conscience does pay due attention to her...
Run to the Mountain: The Journals of Thomas Merton, V. 1
AuthorThomas Merton
ISBN0060654759
When Thomas Merton died accidentally in Bangkok in 1968, the beloved Trappist monk's will specified that his personal diaries not be published for 25 years -- presumably because they contained his uncensored thoughts and feelings. Now, a quarter of a century has passed since Merton's death, and the...
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