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Nonfiction by, for, and About Women
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Elders:
Becoming/Being an Elder, Living with Elders, Elder Wisdom, Elder Issues
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- Albert, Susan Wittig & Dayna Finet, editors. With Courage and Common Sense: Memoirs from the Older Women's Legacy Circles
(reviewed by PJ Pierce)
Anthologies/Collections; Elders; Memoir
- Arrien, Angeles. The Second Half of Life: Opening the Eight Gates of Wisdom
(reviewed by Mary Ann Moore)
Life Lessons; Elders
- Athill, Diana. Somewhere Towards the End
(reviewed by Judith Helburn)
Memoir; Elders; Creative Life
- Baar, Karen. For My Next Act: Women Scripting Life After Fifty
(reviewed by Lee Ambrose)
Body Language; Elders
- Bond, Alma H. Old Age is a Terminal Illness
(reviewed by Doris Anne Roop-Benner)
Memoir; Elders
- Carpenter, Liz. Getting Better All the Time
(reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert)
Memoir; Elders; Active Life
- Carpenter, Liz. Unplanned Parenthood: The Confessions of a Seventy-Something Surrogate Mother
(reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert)
Memoir; Elders; Relationships
- Cohen, Elizabeth. The House On Beartown Road: A Memoir of Learning and Forgetting
(reviewed by Robin Edgar)
Memoir; Relationships; Elders
- de Hennezel, Marie. The Art of Growing Old
(reviewed by Judith Helburn)
- Doherty, Janice Hoetker. A Calendar Year of Horticultural Therapy
(reviewed by Sharon Wildwind)
Nature/Place/Environment; Elders; Arts/Crafts
- Donnell, Ernestine Sisk. Grandmother Said: A Memoir
(reviewed by Lee Ambrose)
Memoir; Relationships; Elders
- Ellis, Neenah. If I Live to be 100: Lessons from the Centenarians
(reviewed by Judith Helburn)
- Ephron, Nora. I Feel Bad About My Neck
(reviewed by Duffie Bart)
Memoir; Elders
- Goldman, Connie. Late Life Love
(reviewed by Judith Helburn)
Elders; Relationships
- Goldman, Connie. The Gifts of Caregiving
(reviewed by Judith Helburn)
Life Lessons; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Elders
- Goodwin, B. Lynn. You Want Me to Do What?: Journaling for Caregivers
(reviewed by Kathy Waller)
Life Lessons; Creative Life; Elders
- Gorman, Amy. Aging Artfully
(reviewed by Trilla Pando)
Elders; Biography
- Graham, Barbara, editor. Eye of My Heart
(reviewed by Susan Schoch)
Life Lessons; Elders; Relationships
- Gross, Jane. A Bittersweet Season: Caring for Our Aging Parents—and Ourselves
(reviewed by Trilla Pando)
Memoir; Elders; Relationships
- Gussow, Joan Dye. Growing, Older: A Chronicle of Death, Life, and Vegetables
(reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert)
Memoir; Elders; Life Lessons; Nature/Place/Environment
- Horn, Janet, M.D. and Robin Miller, M.D. The Smart Woman's Guide to Midlife and Beyond
(reviewed by Trilla Pando)
Active Life; Elders; Cultural/Gender Focus
- Lawrence-Lightfoot, Sara. The Third Chapter
(reviewed by Judith Helburn)
Life Lessons; Elders
- Lovejoy, Sharon. Toad Cottages & Shooting Stars: Grandma's Bag of Tricks
(reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert)
Creative Life; Nature/Place/Environment; Elders
- Lustbader, Wendy. Life Gets Better
(reviewed by Judith Helburn)
Life Lessons; Elders; Relationships
- Matzkin, Alice & Richard. The Art of Aging
(reviewed by Judith Helburn)
Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Creative Life; Elders
- Merrill, C.S. Weekends with O'Keeffe
(reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert)
Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment; Elders
- Nicholas, Theresa. Buryin' Daddy: Putting My Lebanese, Catholic, Southern Baptist Childhood to Rest
(reviewed by Trilla Pando)
Memoir; Elders; Relationships
- Oliver, Mary. Long Life: Essays and Other Writings
(reviewed by Judith Helburn)
Elders; Nature/Place/Environment; Poetry
- Orsborn, Carol. Fierce with Age: Chasing God and Squirrels in Brooklyn
(reviewed by Judith Helburn)
Memoir; Elders
- Quindlen, Anna. Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
(reviewed by Judy Alter)
Memoir; Life Lessons; Elders
- Quinlan, Kathie. Blessing Our Goodbyes
(reviewed by Judith Helburn)
Life Lessons; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Elders
- Reichl, Ruth. For You Mom, Finally
(reviewed by Sharon Lippincott)
Memoir; Elders; Relationships
- Rosenblatt, Carolyn. The Boomer's Guide to Aging Parents
(reviewed by Judith Helburn)
- Rubin, Lillian. 60 On Up: The Truth About Aging in America
(reviewed by Judith Helburn)
- Rycraft, R.A. and Leslie What, editors. Winter Tales II: Women on the Art of Aging
(reviewed by Mary Ann Moore)
Anthologies/Collections; Memoir; Elders
- Rycraft, R.A. and Leslie What, editors. Winter Tales II: Women on the Art of Aging
(reviewed by Ann McCauley)
Anthologies/Collections; Memoir; Elders
- Sarton, May. As We Are Now
(reviewed by Marlys Marshall Styne)
Literary/Classic Fiction; Elders
- Singer, Thea. Stress Less: The New Science That Shows Women How to Rejuvenate the Body and the Mind
(reviewed by Susan M. Andrus)
Elders; Cultural/Gender Focus; Body Language
- Stettinius, Martha. Inside the Dementia Epidemic: A Daughter's Memoir
(reviewed by Penny Leisch)
Memoir; Life Lessons; Elders
- Styne, Marlys Marshall. Elder Expectations: My Life in Rictameters
(reviewed by Judith Helburn)
Poetry; Elders
- Trigiani, Adriana. Don't Sing at the Table: Lessons I Learned from My Grandmothers
(reviewed by Lee Ambrose)
Memoir; Life Lessons; Elders
- Wakan, Naomi Beth. Late Bloomer: On Writing Later in Life
(reviewed by Mary Ann Moore)
Memoir; Creative Life; Elders
- Weinberg, Janet Amalia, editor. Still Going Strong: Memoirs, Stories, & Poems About Great Older Women
(reviewed by Judith Helburn)
Anthologies/Collections; Memoir; Elders
- Weinstein, Sheila. Moving to the Center of the Bed
(reviewed by Susan Schoch)
Memoir; Life Lessons; Elders
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