Seven Year Switch is the story of a single mother whose husband ran off to join the Peace Corps, leaving her with a three-year-old. Seven years later, just when they’ve figured out how to make it on their own, he’s ba-ack, proving he can’t even run away reliably. Now Jill has to face the fact that there’s simply no way she can be a good mom without letting her ex back into her daughter’s life. They say that every seven years you become a completely new person, and it takes a Costa Rican getaway to help Jill make her choice—between the woman she is and the woman she wants to be.

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Summer Blowout

Bella Shaughnessy works as a stylist and makeup artist for her family’s small chain of beauty salons in Marshbury, Massachusetts. After Bella’s own marriage flames out spectacularly when her half-sister runs off with her husband, Bella makes a vow: no more men. When the whole clan heads to Atlanta for a big Southern wedding, sparks fly—in a summer blowout no one will ever forget.

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Shine On: How To Grow Awesome Instead of Old

If you’re a forty-to-forever woman who’s interested in aging well, don’t miss this motivating and inspiring book.

Join New York Times bestselling author Claire Cook on a transformative journey that will help you shake off all those worries about getting older and embrace what can be the most vibrant, creative and empowering chapter of your life.

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Life’s a Beach

Life’s a bit of a beach these days for Ginger Walsh, who finds herself single at 41 and back home living in the family FROG (finished room over the garage) in the fictional town of Marshbury. She’s spent a few too many years in sales, and is hoping for a more fulfilling life as a sea glass artist, but instead is babysitting her sister’s kids and sharing overnights with Noah, her sexy glassblower boyfriend with commitment issues and a dog Ginger’s cat isn’t too crazy about.

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Multiple Choice

March Monroe and her daughter Olivia are going to college. Not together at the same school, of course, just at the same time. March knows Olivia is going, naturally, since she and her husband have just made their first exorbitant tuition payment. But Olivia doesn’t exactly know the arrangement…yet. It’s not as if March plans never to tell her; she just figures she’ll wait a bit — until they’ve had a little time to miss each other. So imagine Olivia’s surprise when one day she shows up for training at a local radio station and finds out that one of the other interns is . . . her mother.

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