Life Crisis

The crisis of unfulfilled lives unfolds gradually, often with acquiesced boredom and a flimsy search for purpose. Our relevancy comes into question, or we succumb to the idea that the future will be one of slow-moving ambition and then an even slower glide into comfort as the flush of freedom fades. We can change this outcome if we want to. We should want to. The 60-Something Crisis: How to Live an Extraordinary Life in Retirement is the first book to circumvent the tired approaches of finding purpose, or using reinvention to discover a path of fulfillment after sixty.

His family always wanted the other woman. Now she's pouring the wine at Nora's own table. For six years Nora kept the Whitakers running: the dinners, the donors, her billionaire husband's ailing father and all his pills. All while Adrian learned to call her worries dramatic. So when his mother's hand-picked golden girl moves home, takes a key to the house, and slides into Nora's chair, he doesn't see the trap closing. Then the other woman stages a scene in front of every donor they have, and Adrian makes his choice. He picks wrong. Nora doesn't scream. She doesn't beg. She just stops, and ...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER READ BY THE AUTHOR Jim Collins, international bestselling author of Good to Great, offers transformative lessons on constructing—and reconstructing—a life through the cliff moments and transitions we all will face repeatedly in our lives. What to make of...

She wakes up on her birthday to an empty house. No card. No message. No flowers. Just his coffee mug in the sink and the echo of a door that closed before she opened her eyes. Nina calls him at ten. He answers distracted — voices in the background, papers shuffling. He doesn't mention the date. She doesn't remind him. She waits until dinner. Nothing. So she packs a weekend bag. Drives to a hotel fifteen minutes away. Turns off her phone. And sits in a silence she chose — instead of the one she'd been living inside for years. When Ian comes home to a dark house, he panics. Not because he...

In Embrace Discomfort, Michael Easter seeks out off-the-grid visionaries, disruptive genius researchers, and mind-body conditioning trailblazers who are unlocking the life-enhancing secrets of a counterintuitive solution: discomfort. Each of the 10 episodes except for the final one will feature an expert in a discomfort area, including ultra-runner Courtney Dauwalter, survivalist Laura Zerra, nutritionist Dr. Trevor Kashey, and fear expert Dr. Joseph E. LeDoux

For thirty-four years, Corinne has wanted Lisbon. She has taught the language, watched the flights, kept the little blue-and-white magnet on every refrigerator she has ever owned, and waited for the right time. Then her sabbatical is approved. Six weeks. No classes. No excuses. Corinne finally asks her husband for the trip she has wanted since she was nineteen. Ross says spring would be better. October is his mother’s birthday. His practice is busy. They should do Lisbon right, not squeezed. Then Corinne finds the folder on the family drive. LISBON OCT. Flights. Hotel. Reservations. Two ...

Her father died. Her husband sent flowers. And arrived late. Not hours late — late enough that Grace stood at the graveside with her mother and her brother and no one asked where Graham was. They already knew. He always had somewhere more important to be. She buried her father beside people who showed up. Then she stopped. She stopped managing Graham's schedule. Stopped reminding him about the kids' games and her mother's appointments. Stopped smoothing the space between his absence and their family's needs. Stopped being the woman who held everything together so no one had to notice he ...

He kissed her best friend... but he forgot about the doorbell camera. Crystal Landry teaches teenagers to read the fine print. Everyone thinks her class is cute. They don't know she reads contracts for a living. Then the camera catches her husband with her best friend — and a few words she was never supposed to hear. Words that tell her this isn't just an affair. There's a plan. It's on paper. And he's so sure his quiet little wife will never look closely enough to find it. He picked the wrong woman to underestimate. Crystal doesn't scream. She doesn't beg. She starts keeping receipts —...

“Once you start reading, be prepared, because you won’t want to stop.” —Oprah Winfrey OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK New York Times bestselling author Lara Love Hardin recounts her slide from soccer mom to opioid addict to jailhouse shot caller and her unlikely comeback as a highly...

For sixteen years, Renata has hosted her husband’s family dinners, absorbed his mother’s insults, and kept the peace with a level face. Then Coralie humiliates her at the annual memorial dinner — in front of the whole family, in front of Renata’s daughter, at Renata’s own table. Renata finally says no. By morning, the family wants an apology. And her husband Mark asks her to give it. Just apologize so they can move on. But Renata is done being the road to everyone else’s peace. She stops smoothing, stops translating, stops absorbing the coldness his mother has aimed at her for ...

Adanna is the sister who stayed. The one who manages the house, the children, the medications, the schedule written in black ink that keeps everything running. She has not asked for anything in twenty-seven years. When her sister Jo's return to Lagos disrupts the careful machinery of Adanna's life, a buried sketchbook surfaces — textile designs she drew at nineteen, before she chose duty over creation. The indigo patterns. The ochre. The warp and weft of a life she locked away. Now her fingers itch. The hunger is back. And in the spare room of her Lagos home, between school runs and her ...

"Robert Fass proves the perfect guide to exploring these concepts of age and happiness. Presenting the author’s personal journey, and his research and interviews, Robert keeps listeners engaged and tuned in to this fascinating study." — AudioFile Magazine This audiobook will change your life...

The New York Times bestselling money guide, providing time-tested financial advice on topics like saving, managing debt, investing for the future, and selecting insurance, is now revised and updated with all that Gen Z and millennials need to know now. With over half a million copies sold, this...

Through an infinite number of lifetimes—and in the least likely of places—an immortal discovers what they value most in this contemplative fantasy novel. Stuck in a cycle of endless reincarnations, Luri has experienced everything on offer—and more. Whether it's spending decades as a monk...

His phone was on the counter. The screen lit up while she was making dinner. One text. His sister's name. One sentence: "She's not going anywhere. Stop worrying and focus on the deal." Justin didn't correct her. Didn't push back. Didn't defend his wife or their marriage. He read it and kept working. Simone wasn't snooping. She was chopping onions. And in six seconds, she understood something about her marriage that had taken twelve years to see: his entire family had built a strategy around her patience. She was the one who stayed. The one who adjusted. The one who showed up to every Sunday...

My cheating husband used my overnight shifts to meet his mistress. He forgot every call leaves a record. I’m a 911 dispatcher. For eight years, my husband Trent Tate timed my coffee before every shift, filled my gas tank, and texted to make sure I was safe. What he was really doing was making sure I stayed behind my console while he slipped into another woman’s bed. Lacey Collier wasn’t a stranger. She was the pharmacy technician who filled my prescriptions, knew my work schedule, and told me to stay safe at night—the same words my husband texted while he was with her. I discovered ...

Diane Keller packed the navy linen dress first. The one she bought for the dinner by the water. The one she imagined wearing on the second honeymoon Greg said they needed. Seven days at sea. No kids. No work calls. No clients. No one else’s schedule between them. Then they step aboard, and Diane sees the banner. MERIDIAN MEDICAL. PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE. It isn’t a second honeymoon. It is Greg’s company reward trip. His people. His itinerary. His victory. And when the lanyard is handed to her, Diane finally sees exactly where she stands. Diane Keller. Guest. Greg says he thought she knew...

Tuesday morning. She’s scrolling her call log for a client’s number. Incoming call. Two weeks ago. Answered. Forty-seven seconds. No voicemail. She was in the shower. Paul was home. Sylvie Beckett hasn’t spoken to her sister in six years. Not since their mother’s funeral. Not since the parking lot, the will, and the words neither of them took back. She has learned to live with the silence the way she lives with an untended garden — quietly aware of what used to grow there, no longer expecting it to bloom. Then the letter comes. Handwritten. Three lines. Nina’s tall, forward-...

Thanks to environmental pollutants, iodine deficiency has become a worldwide epidemic. Everybody knows pollutants cause cancer. What they don't know is that these pollutants cause a deficiency that can make us sick, fat, and stupid. Iodized salt - supposedly a solution to iodine deficiency - is actually a nutritional scam that provides a false sense of security. The Iodine Crisis explains how we became so deficient, then shows the time-tested solution to reversing many conditions. 

"The first book to argue that even though artificial intelligence may replace millions of jobs, it can never replace the one thing that truly matters." Artificial intelligence isn't just changing the way we work. It's changing the way we think about ourselves. For generations, we humans measured our worth by our intelligence, our education, our careers, and our ability to produce valuable work. But what happens when a machine can perform many of the same intellectual tasks in seconds—and at almost no cost? The result isn't simply economic disruption. It's an identity crisis. Millions of ...