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.

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-one years, Bud has had one week that belongs only to him. Lois has had zero. Every October, he goes to deer camp. Four hours north. No signal. No interruptions. Lois packs the cooler, keeps the house running, and makes sure nothing follows him there. Then she finally does the math. This year, Lois stops packing. She books seven days that belong only to her. But when one ordinary conversation exposes something Bud has let her believe for their entire marriage, Lois realizes the problem was never deer camp. It was what his untouchable week cost her—and how easily he let her pay ...

She’s being neglected by her billionaire husband. Then she overhears him tell his best friend the truth: “I didn’t marry her because I loved her. I married her because I felt like I owed her.” And she just found out she’s pregnant. Hannah built her husband’s company. She wrote his speeches. She ran his whole life. She made Griffin a billionaire. In return? He neglected her and made her feel invisable. Then, at the launch she spent two years building, in the very speech she wrote for him, Griffin hands her work to Julie, the woman who wants everything Hannah has. He praises Julie...

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...

For sixteen years, Maeve Calder has lived in a house that never fully belonged to her. She bought it with her husband. She signed the papers. She paid the mortgage. She built a life inside its walls. But Warren’s mother still has a key. Judith lets herself in without knocking. She rearranges Maeve’s kitchen, moves her things, folds her towels, waters her plants, and treats every room like a place she only lent to her daughter-in-law. Maeve has swallowed it for sixteen years. Then a snowstorm closes the roads, Warren is miles away, and Judith walks into Maeve’s bedroom. Not the kitchen...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

She stepped into the hallway to find the restroom. She found her husband on the phone instead. "She doesn't know. And she doesn't need to. I'll handle it when the time is right." Rachel went back to the table. Finished her wine. Laughed at the right moments. Smiled when Grant caught her eye across the room. Then she went home and started looking. What she found wasn't another woman. It was worse — in a different way. Months of emails. Contract drafts. A folder on his laptop labeled London Housing with school listings for their children. In a city she's never been to. For a move he never ...

He realized he loved her the summer she walked away... Violet Howard has spent her entire marriage loving a man who never asked her to come second. He just always made sure she did. While billionaire CEO Jake Howard built an empire, Violet quietly built everything else—the perfect home, the perfect life, the perfect marriage... or so she kept telling herself. But when Jake forgets her birthday yet again, Violet packs a suitcase and drives to the beach house where they once dreamed of spending every summer together. Only this time... she's not waiting for him to come back. As long, sun-...

Twenty years of work. One sentence in a will. And suddenly Marnie needs permission to enter the cottage she rebuilt. She restored thirty-one windows. Rebuilt the porch. Laid the stone path. Spent every summer putting her hands into Glenn's family lake cottage because she believed it was theirs in every way that mattered. Then Glenn's mother dies and leaves it to his sister. At the reading, nobody looks at Marnie. Bridget tells her she can still visit. She just needs to text first. And Glenn says, “It's what Mom wanted.” But he isn't surprised. That is the part Marnie can't let go. ...

For eleven years, Marisol Vega has been the second wife who made everything easy. She stayed quiet. She stepped back. She never made Ray’s children choose. Then her stepdaughter gets married. Marisol spends three months altering Noelle’s wedding dress, sewing love into every seam and hiding a secret pocket over the bride’s heart. But when the family photos begin, Marisol is told to step aside. Just family for this one. Ray sees it happen. He sees his ex-wife remove Marisol from the frame. He sees his wife standing alone with two glasses of champagne. And he stays where the list put ...

Her vacuum cleaner found out her husband was cheating before she did. When Nell Ridley hears something rattling around in the Roomba, she pops the bin expecting a dime. She finds a diamond earring. It isn't hers. No other woman has set foot in that house in months. And the Roomba runs every single day — which means it got under her bed since Tuesday. When she asks her mother whether Tom seems off lately, Diane Whitlock reaches across the table, takes her hand, and says all the kindest things. You've never grieved your father. You've always been sensitive. Tom's the only one who's shown up...

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 ...

The app logs everything. That's the whole point of it — shared goals, weekly check-ins, private notes from each one-on-one session with Larkin, all visible to both spouses under the "couples accountability" plan Bridget specifically signed them up for. Except one folder isn't shared. Bridget only finds it by accident, tapping the wrong tab on a Sunday morning, looking for last week's goal-setting notes. A full year of private sessions. Logged under Holt's name alone, on a plan Bridget never approved or paid for, dated back to almost the exact week she'd told her sister, relieved, that ...

“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...

One glove. One horse. One very public reckoning. Frankie Mercer can pick her own horse out of a hundred head in the rain. She can't spot a liar across her own kitchen table. It starts with a woman's riding glove in her husband's overnight bag. Brand new. Never ridden in. A maker she's never stocked. Beau has an answer ready. Frankie keeps the glove anyway. Because four of her homebred horses are missing — sold and "rehomed" out from under her while she lay in a hospital bed. And when she finally finds her heart-horse, he's ninety minutes down the road winning under another name, her brand...

Tucked away on a cobblestone street in enchanting Bologna, Italy, is the only English bookstore in the city. It’s owned by prickly Sandy Cooke, who keeps love, and even romantic fiction, at a distance. Her employee, timid and hopelessly optimistic Moira, dreams of transforming the struggling shop into a vibrant community hub. Against the odds, one Bolognese summer, it becomes a haven for fellow expats at their own crossroads.

He broke his vow without ever touching another woman. Lorraine Devereaux built beautiful spaces for her husband’s luxury hotel empire, but behind the chandeliers and champagne, Aiden has been letting another woman too close. Brittany Chase calls him late at night. Touches him like she belongs. Cries when Lorraine objects. And at their fifteenth anniversary party, when Brittany humiliates Lorraine in front of everyone, Aiden chooses the wrong woman’s tears over his wife’s truth. So Lorraine takes off her ring and walks out. Now Aiden is left with an empty penthouse, a marriage in ruins...