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First published in 1925, "The Professor's House" is the profound study of a middle-aged man's unhappiness by critically acclaimed American author Willa Cather. The novel tells the story of its central character, Professor Godfrey St. Peter, in three parts. In the first part, the Professor feels that he is losing control over his life and resists the direction it is taking. He is displeased with his family's move to a new house, with his daughters...
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"One of the most charming and memorable romantic comedies in American literature, William Dean Howells's Indian Summer tells of a season in the life of Theodore Colville. Colville, just turned forty, has spent years as a successful midwestern newspaper publisher. Now he sells his business and heads for Italy, where as a young man he had dreamed of a career as an architect and fallen hopelessly in love. In Florence, Colville runs into Lina Bowen, sometime...
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338 pages ; 25 cm
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"When his dream of the perfect marriage, the perfect son, and the perfect life implodes, a Wall Street millionaire takes a cross-country bus trip in search of his college sweetheart and ideals of youth. Myopic, narcissistic, hilariously self-deluded and divorced from the real world as most of us know it, hedge fund manager Barry Cohen oversees $2.4 billion in assets. Deeply stressed by an SEC investigation and by his 3 year-old-son's diagnosis of...
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451 pages ; 24 cm
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"A dynamic and inspiring exploration of the new science that is redrawing the future for people in their forties, fifties, and sixties for the better -- and for good. Drawing from emerging information in neurology, psychology, biology, genetics, and sociology -- as well as her own story of midlife transformation -- Hagerty redraws the map for people in midlife and plots a new course forward in understanding our health, our relationships, even our...
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1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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John Turturro plays an extremely uptight engineer whose entire life is punctual and routine to the point of absurdity. He finds himself struggling with the monotony of everyday life and the threat of middle age. Then a routine business trip turns into a life-altering experience when he meets some bizarre but sincere strangers: a free spirit played by Sam Rockwell, a phone sex operator (Catherine Keener), and a paranoid mechanic (Dermot Mulroney)....
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1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A spicy adult comedy of manners, morals, and mid-life crises. A man who has everything nearly loses it all in an obsessive quest for a beautiful woman he spies from his Rolls-Royce.
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Iconic humorist Dan Jenkins brings his matchless sense of hilarity to this riotous send-up of professional golf. Forty-something sportswriter Jack Brannon is bored to tears with the men's tour. So he decides to check out Ginger Clayton, the hot, new franchise babe on the ladies' links. Things get interesting in a hurry, as it becomes clear somebody wants the gorgeous superstar disqualified for good.
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xi, 352 pages ; 24 cm
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"A wise, radical, and optimistic approach to marriage, from a leading clinical psychologist who has counseled couples and individuals for decades"--Dust jacket.
People today are trying to make their marriages work over longer lives than ever before-- but staying married isn't always easy. De Marneffe addresses key problems that challenge marriages, and explains the psychological, emotional, and relational capacities we must cultivate to overcome...
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Cruel, small-town banker Howell Whittington has a stroke sitting up in church, and when he wakes up, he's transformed and wants nothing more than to be a real husband, which scares his proper, repressed wife Elizabeth to death. Setting out to right past wrongs, he blackmails the town's baddies into doing the right thing by threatening to foreclose on their mortgages. A hilarious story of marriage and love and second chances.
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xv, 395 pages : map ; 21 cm
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A hilarious and heartbreaking novel about retreating from the madness of modern life and escaping to a tropical paradise. Inspired in part by Herman Wouk's own experience of living for seven years on an island in the sun, the novel tells the story of Norman Paperman, a New York City press agent who, facing the onset of middle age, runs away to a Caribbean island to reinvent himself as a hotel keeper. Zany mishaps, illicit love, hilarity, and disaster--of...
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x, 243 pages ; 23 cm
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"Max Lucado invites readers to leave the wilderness and discover a life defined by grace, refined by challenge, and aligned with a heavenly call. By studying the life of Joshua and the biblical book that bears his name, Lucado reveals God's promises for every step and reminds readers that God still fights for them." --
Este, bien podría ser el secreto mejor guardado en la iglesia. Max Lucado dice que muchas personas subestiman lo que les ha sucedido...
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1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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Jean, René, Janine: two men and a woman from different generations and different backgrounds, whose paths meet at a crisis point in mid-life, faced with disappointment and frustration, all three muse about a legendary "uncle in America", a guardian angel who gives them their hearts' desires and tells them exactly what they want to hear.
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