what women know about work, family, and the path to building a life
Schank, Hana
2018
"Based on interviews with over forty women about their experiences in the twenty-five years since they graduated from college, the book discusses topics such as ambition, mixing career and family, and sexism in the workplace"--OCLC.
stories about the 12 hardest things I'm learning to say
Corrigan, Kelly
2018
Kelly Clark draws on her experiences with parenting, marriage, career, friendship, illness, aging, and mortality to explore how people interact with others and conduct of life.
With the kids off at college and her husband enjoying a jump-started career, Elizabeth "Birdie" Shore, feeling lonely, embarks on a search for self, believing that her former passion for life can only be rediscovered outside of her twenty-four-year-old marriage.
While accompanying her daughter and husband to freshman college orientation, Nora hears someone call her by a name she hasn't heard in 25 years. Not even her husband knows that she used to be Jane Barth, a student deeply involved in the 1960s anti-war movement. Now a wife and mother living quietly in northern Michigan, Nora must finally confront her past and all the lies that she's told through the years.
Noreen Kelly loses her job and her boyfriend on the same day, and as she wonders what to do with the rest of her life, she finds some surprising answers, some new friends, and a new passion while walking through her neighborhood.
When Anne Johnson begins hearing voices in her head warning her that there will be a murder in her apartment building in thirty days, she sets out to stop the killer before time runs out.
Londonite Bridget Jones faces the challenges of maintaining sex appeal as the years roll by, the nightmares of drunken texting, the skinny jean, the disastrous e-mail cc, total lack of Twitter followers, and TVs that need ninety buttons and three remotes to simply turn on.