Second Acts: Stories of Starting Over and/or Reinventing Yourself

Fiction

Beyond This Moment
Tamera Alexander

A Year on Ladybug Farm
Donna Ball

Home Safe
Elizabeth Berg

Revenge of the MiddleAged Woman
Elizabeth Buchan

The Opposite of Love
Julie Buxbaum

The Summer I Dared
Barbara Delinsky

Wild Designs
Katie Fforde

Pushing 30
Whitney Gaskell

Jemima J.: A Novel About Ugly Ducklings and Swans
Jane Green

The English Major
Jim Harrison

Stepping into Sunlight
Sharon Hinck

The Perfect Fit: Fat-Free Dreams Just Don't Taste the Same
Louise Kean

The Pursuit of Other Interests
Jim Kokoris

The Year That Follows
Scott Lasser

The Lost Recipe for Happiness
Barbara O’Neal

The Dive from Clausen's Pier
Ann Packer

Julie and Romeo
Jeanne Ray

Time Off for Good Behavior
Lani Diane Rich

The Department of Lost & Found
Allison Winn Scotch

Horseplay
Judy Reene Singer

The Last Song
Nicholas Sparks

Tender Grace
Jackina Stark

Honor Thyself
Danielle Steel

Stamped Out
Terri Thayer

Lottery
Patricia Wood

Nonfiction

The Wishing Year: A House, a Man, My Soul: A Memoir of Fulfilled Desire
Noelle Oxenhandler
152.4 OXE

When You're Falling, Dive: Lessons in the Art of Living
Mark Matousek
155.24 MAT

The Second Journey:  The Road Back to Yourself
Joan Anderson
155.633 AND

Give It Up!: My Year of Learning to Live Better with Less
Mary Carlomagno
179.9 CAR

The Year of Living Like Jesus: My Journey of Discovering What Jesus Would Really Do
Ed Dobson
248.4 DOB

Start Where You Are: Catch a Fresh Vision for Your Life
Charles R. Swindoll
248.48995 SWI 

Thinking About Tomorrow: Reinventing Yourself at Midlife
Susan Crandell
305.244 CRA

The Slippery Year: A Meditation on Happily Ever After
Melanie Gideon
306.8743 GID

Pursuit of Happyness
Chris Gardner
332.62092 GAR

A Year Without “Made in China”: One Family’s True Life Adventure in the Global Economy
Sara Bongiorni
337.73051 BON 

Do-over!: In Which a Forty-Eight-Year-Old Father of Three Returns to Kindergarten, Summer Camp, the Prom, and Other Embarrassments
Robin Hemley
371.8 HEM

Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages
Ammon Shea
423.028 SHE

Pregnancy and Parenting After Thirty-Five:  Mid Life, New Life
Michele Moore
618.2 MOO

Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting
Michael Perry
630.92 PER

Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping
Judith Levine
640.73 LEV 

Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously
Julie Powell
641.5 POW

Throw Out Fifty Things:  Clear the Clutter, Find Your Life
Gail Blanke
648.5 BLA

Reinvention: How to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life
Brian Tracy
650.1 TRA

A Devil to Play: One Man's Year-Long Quest to Master the Orchestra's Most Difficult Instrument
Jasper Rees
788.94092 REE

The Long Snapper: A Second Chance, a Super Bowl, a Lesson for Life
Jeffrey Marx
796.332092 MAR

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