You've been volunteered : a class mom novel —Gelman, Laurie, author.

"In the eagerly anticipated follow-up to Laurie Gelman's "irreverent and hilarious" (The New York Post) hit Class Mom, brash, lovable Jen Dixon is back with a new class and her work cut out for her If you've ever been a ...

Special delivery —Steel, Danielle.

Autopsy of a boring wife —Lavoie, Marie-Renée, 1974- author.

"Marie-Renée Lavoie's Autopsy of a Boring Wife tells the hysterically funny and ultimately touching tale of forty-eight-year-old Diane, a woman whose husband leaves her and is having an affair because, he says, she bore...

Class mom : a novel —Gelman, Laurie, author.

Laurie Gelman's clever debut novel about a year in the life of a kindergarten class mom-a brilliant send-up of the petty and surprisingly cutthroat terrain of parent politics.Jen Dixon is not your typical Kansas City kin...

Mrs. Bridge : a novel —Connell, Evan S., 1924-2013, author.

Walter Bridge, an ambitious attorney in World War II era Kansas City, provides for his family's material wants and needs, always with an eye toward keeping up appearances, but as the years pass, his emotional distance le...

Where is Kyra?

Kyra Johnson, a middle-aged divorcee, moves into her elderly mother's Brooklyn apartment while she looks for work and tries to get back on her feet. When her mother dies suddenly, Kyra is left without any support, both e...

All the single ladies —Frank, Dorothea Benton, author

In this charming, evocative, soul-touching novel, Dorothea Benton Frank once again takes us deep into the heart of the magical Lowcountry where three amazing middle aged women are bonded by another amazing woman's death....

Clouds of Sils Maria

At the peak of her international career, Maria Enders is asked to perform in a revival of the play that made her famous twenty years ago. Back then she played the role of an alluring young girl but now she is being asked...

The matchmaker : a novel —Hilderbrand, Elin.

The robber bride —Atwood, Margaret, 1939-

We are water : a novel —Lamb, Wally.

Women in sunlight : a novel —Mayes, Frances, author.

Revenge of the middle-aged woman —Buchan, Elizabeth.

Her happy marriage and successful career falling apart after twenty-five years, Rose Lloyd struggles with the prospect of starting over until the reappearance of an old flame.

Gone : a novel —Hanauer, Cathi.

Susannah's garden —Macomber, Debbie.

If I could turn back time —Harbison, Elizabeth M.

You've been volunteered —Gelman, Laurie.

"If you've ever been a room parent or school volunteer, Jen Dixon is your hero. She says what every class mom is really thinking, whether in her notoriously frank emails or standup-worthy interactions with the micromanag...

Family pictures —Green, Jane, 1968-

As dark truths from the past reveal themselves, two middle-aged women must learn to forgive -- for the sake of their children and themselves.

The almost moon : a novel —Sebold, Alice.

Having acted as her dutiful yet resentful caregiver, Helen Knightly, a depressed, divorced, middle-aged woman, smothers her invalid mother and in the aftermath revisits her unhappy childhood and the choices that brought ...

The chaperone

Society matron Norma Carlisle volunteers to accompany future Jazz Age star and free spirit Louise Brooks for a summer in New York. But why does she want to go? It's a story full of surprises, about who these women really...