Suddenly Sixty: And Other Shocks of Later Life

10 best books like Suddenly Sixty: And Other Shocks of Later Life (Judith Viorst): Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now!, Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault: Essays from the Grown-Up Years, Lake of the Ozarks: My Surreal Summers in a Vanishing America, Rabbits for Food, Jumanji, Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?, Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting, Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing As We Age, Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope, The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins

Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now!

Author	Dr. Seuss
ISBN	0007169892

Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now! by Dr. Seuss was published a year before I was born. I probably had it read to me but beyond the funny dog eared Marvin and the pointing fingers on the cover, that's all I remember from those early years. I'm now reading it to my children.

Like Cat in the Hat,...

Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault: Essays from the Grown-Up Years

Author	Cathy Guisewite
ISBN	0735218420

From the creator of the iconic "Cathy" comic strip comes her first collection of funny, wise, poignant, and incredibly honest essays about being a woman in what she lovingly calls "the panini generation."

As the creator of "Cathy," Cathy Guisewite found her way into the hearts of readers more...

Lake of the Ozarks: My Surreal Summers in a Vanishing America

Author	Bill Geist
ISBN	1538729806

Beloved TV host Bill Geist pens a reflective memoir of his incredible summers spent in the heart of America in this New York Times bestseller.
Before there was "tourism" and souvenir ashtrays became "kitsch," the Lake of the Ozarks was a Shangri-La for middle-class Midwestern families on vacation,...

Rabbits for Food

Author	Binnie Kirshenbaum
ISBN	1641290536

A heartbreaking, irreverent, laugh-out-loud funny meditation on what it's like to lose your mind from acclaimed novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum.

It’s New Year’s Eve, the holiday of forced gaiety, mandatory fun, and paper hats. While dining out with her husband and their friends, Kirshenbaum's...

Jumanji

Author	Chris Van Allsburg
ISBN	0395304482

What an entertaining story! I first read this as a child, then I watched the movie with Robin Williams and fell in love all over again. But it was in my sophomore year at college when I was taking a course on "Reading in the Elementary School," and had to pull together a portfolio of books, that I chose this...

Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?

Author	Bill Martin Jr.
ISBN	0805053883

What will you hear when you read this book to a preschool child?

Lots of noise!

Children will chant the rhythmic words. They'll make the sounds the animals make. And they'll pretend to be the zoo animals featured in the book-- look at the last page!

Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle...

Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting

Author	Anna Quindlen
ISBN	0812996100

Mother, mother-in-law, grandmother--the Pulitzer-winning columnist and #1 bestselling author reflects on the roles we play throughout our lives, sharing personal stories and advice on the special joys and complexities of middle age.

It's a little challenging to suss out why exactly...

Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing As We Age

Author	Mary Pipher
ISBN	1632869608

A New York Times Bestseller

The New York Times bestseller from the author of Reviving Ophelia--a guide to wisdom, authenticity, and bliss for women as they age.

Women growing older contend with ageism, misogyny, and loss. Yet as Mary Pipher shows, most older women are deeply happy...

Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope

Author

Megan Phelps-Roper

As featured on the BBC documentary, 'The Most Hated Family in America' it was an upbringing in many ways normal. A loving home, shared with squabbling siblings, overseen by devoted parents. Yet in other ways it was the precise opposite: a revolving door of TV camera crews and documentary makers, a world...

The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins

Author

Dr. Seuss

Celebrate the 75th birthday of this classic treatise on bullying by Dr. Seuss with our new foil-covered, color-enhanced Anniversary Edition!

The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins is the story of a young peasant and his unjust treatment at the hands of King Derwin.

While The 500 Hats...

Stone Soup

Author	Marcia Brown
ISBN	0689878362

As someone who generally likes and actually much prefers lushly coloured and hued illustrations, I was not expecting to enjoy Marcia Brown's version of the European folktale of Stone Soup as much as I have. The illustrations really are wonderful (attention to detail, captured movement, realistic...

Dragons Love Tacos

Author	Adam Rubin
ISBN	0803736800

This scrumptious New York Times bestseller has a whole lot of kick!

Dragons love tacos. They love chicken tacos, beef tacos, great big tacos, and teeny tiny tacos. So if you want to lure a bunch of dragons to your party, you should definitely serve tacos. Buckets and buckets of tacos. Unfortunately,...

Unbecoming

Author	Jenny Downham
ISBN	1910200646

Three women - three secrets - one heart-stopping story. Katie, seventeen, in love with someone whose identity she can't reveal. Her mother Caroline, uptight, worn out and about to find the past catching up with her. Katie's grandmother, Mary, back with the family after years of mysterious absence...

The Sawbones Book: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine

Author	Justin McElroy
ISBN	1681883813

A compelling, often hilarious and occasionally horrifying exploration of how modern medicine came to be!

Wondering whether eating powdered mummies might be just the thing to cure your ills? Tempted by those vintage ads suggesting you wear radioactive underpants for virility? Ever considered...

Dancing with Elephants: Mindfulness Training For Those Living With Dementia, Chronic Illness or an Aging Brain

Author

Jarem Sawatsky

Learn how to keep living life to the fullest.
Have you received a terminal or chronic diagnosis? Is your mind succumbing to age or illness? Can you ever find joy, peace, or fulfillment in these challenging conditions? The answer is a resounding YES.

Author Jarem Sawatsky saw the countless...

Man at the Helm

Author	Nina Stibbe
ISBN	0241003156

My sister and I and our little brother were born (in that order) into a very good situation and apart from the odd new thing life was humdrum and comfortable until an evening in 1970 when my mother listened in to my father's phone call and ended up blowing her nose on a tea towel - a thing she'd only have done...

Flames from the Ashes

Author

William W. Johnstone

The evil Jesus Mendoza Hoffman, descendant of one of the most infamous Nazis of all time, and his fanatical New Army of Liberation pose a dire threat to the new world -- and Ben Raines's rebel forces. With his massive army crushing everything in its path, Hoffman is spreading his chilling doctrine of death...

Great Moments in Jewish History

Author	Elinor Slater
ISBN	0824604083

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Girl Town

Author	Carolyn Nowak
ISBN	1603094385

Multi-award-winning cartoonist Carolyn Nowak (Lumberjanes) finds powerful truths in fantasy worlds. Her stunning solo debut collection celebrates the ascent of a rising star in comics.

Diana got hurt—a lot—and she's decided to deal with this fact by purchasing a life-sized robot...

The Heart Beats in Secret

Author	Katie Munnik
ISBN	0008336997

Scotland, 1940
In a house on the east coast, Jane faces motherhood alone. With her husband away at war, there is no one to protect her from small town suspicions and she must learn to keep her secrets to herself.



Three decades later her daughter Felicity leaves their life behind...

Gooney Bird Greene

Author	Lois Lowry
ISBN	0440419603

Two-time Newbery Medalist Lois Lowry introduces a new girl in class who loves being the center of attention and tells the most entertaining “absolutely true” stories.

There’s never been anyone like Gooney Bird Greene at Watertower Elementary School. What other new kid comes to school...

The Organized Home: Simple, Stylish Storage Ideas for All Over the House

Author	Julie Carlson
ISBN	1579656935

Buy fewer (and better) things. Store like with like. Get rid of the plastic. Display—don’t stash—your belongings. Let go of your inner perfectionist and remember that rooms are for living. These are a few of the central principles behind Remodelista: The Organized Home, the new book from the...

James Penney's New Identity

Author

Lee Child

Experience a heart-pumping and thrilling tale of suspense!

Originally published in THRILLER (2006),

edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author James Patterson.



Before Jack Reacher became the seminal, nomadic hero he is today and #1 New York Times bestselling...

Fibromyalgia for Families and Friends

Author

Janet L Black

Hi first I choose this rating because is so awesomely true no one would understand on less they are in our shoes life is not easy and this wonderful book


Thank you hope u get this comment I have lose a lot of people in my life especially so call family it hurts more when your own children are not...

Jackalope Springs Eternal

Author	Shannon Watters
ISBN	1684153808

When Counselor Jen takes the Roanoke scouts on a mission to find a Jackalope, they end up stumbling on a young cowgirl who’s been living in the woods surrounding camp with her herd of unusual critters!

In the aftermath of the time shenanigans set off by Jo’s Mysterious Time Thingy, the Roanoke...

Equality Lost

Author	Yehuda Henkin
ISBN	9657108012

In Equality Lost, Rabbi Yehuda Henkin teaches us how to extract the peshat in the Torah and demonstrates how to interpret Halacha in regard to women in the age of feminism, the conversion to Judaism of children in non-observant homes, and the killing of captured terrorists. Readers will immediately...

A Piglet Named Mercy

Author	Kate DiCamillo
ISBN	0763677531

Every porcine wonder was once a piglet! Celebrate the joy of a new arrival with this endearing picture-book prequel to the New York Times best-selling Mercy Watson series.

Mr. Watson and Mrs. Watson live ordinary lives. Sometimes their lives feel a bit too ordinary. Sometimes they wish something...

Perfect Touch

Author	Elizabeth Lowell
ISBN	0062328344

The queen of romantic suspense returns with a heart-racing tale in which a former soldier turned rancher and a beautiful designer race to stop a vicious killer—a battle for survival that threatens to explode in an intense and irresistible passion

An art dealer and owner of her own design...

Why Religion?: A Personal Story

Author	Elaine Pagels
ISBN	0062368559

Why is religion still around in the twenty-first century? Why do so many still believe? And how do various traditions still shape the way people experience everything from sexuality to politics, whether they are religious or not? In Why Religion? Elaine Pagels looks to her own life to help address these...

100 Days of Happiness

Author	Fausto Brizzi
ISBN	0525427376

What would you do if you knew you only had 100 days left to live? For Lucio Battistini, it’s a chance to spend the rest of his life the way he always should have—by making every moment count

Womanizing, imperfect but loveable Lucio Battistini has been thrown out of the house by his wife and is...