Soon to be a major motion picture, this heart-warming and inspirational tale follows Enzo, a loyal family dog, tells the story of his human family, how they nearly fell apart, and what he did to bring them back together.Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: he thinks and feels in nearly human ways. He has educated himself by watching extensive television, and by listening very closely to the words of his master, Denny Swift, an up-and-coming race car driver. Through Denny, Enzo realizes that racing is a metaphor: that by applying the techniques a driver would apply on the race track, one can successfully navigate the ordeals and travails one encounters in life.Enzo relates the story of his human family, sharing their tragedies and triumphs. In the end, despite what he sees as his own limitations as a dog, Enzo comes through heroically to preserve the Swift family.The Art of Racing in the Rain is a testament to a man's life, given by his dog. But it is also a testament to the dog, himself. Though Enzo cannot speak, he understands everything that happens around him as he bears witness to his master's problems. His enforced muteness only refines his listening ability, and allows him to understand many of life's nuances that are lost on most humans. With humour, sharp observation, and a courageous heart, Enzo guides the reader to the bittersweet yet ultimately satisfying conclusion: there are no limitations to what we can achieve, if we truly know where we want to be.

The Art of Racing in the Rain

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Stein, Garth

Pets & Animal Care

Harpercollins

Available: The unfiltered and empowering new memoir for women about sex, dating and divorce after 40

Product Description 
 ‘Gripping’ Vogue‘Empowering’ Cosmopolitan‘Joyful’ Financial Times‘Eye-popping’ Daily Mail 
When her 22-year-marriage suddenly ended, 47-year-old mother of three Laura expected life as she knew it to be over. What she hadn’t expected: 
· An incredible one-night stand· A new-found sexual appetite· Ten men in eight months· That there is plenty of fun to be had after 40From G-spots to bald spots, dirty talk to dating fiascos, Available is the unflinchingly honest, empowering, and humorous true story of one woman’s love life after divorce. 
 ‘A real page-turner […] Unexpected, original, funny and sometimes deeply infuriating, Laura Friedman Williams has so much to say about what we expect of women’s sexuality. I loved it’ Viv Groskop author of How to Own the Room 
 Review 
‘Gripping’ Vogue 
‘Empowering and funny’ Cosmopolitan 
‘Joyful’ Financial Times 
‘An eye-popping adventure’ Daily Mail 
‘This memoir is a real page-turner. What happens when you start dating after 22 years of marriage? Unexpected, original, funny and sometimes deeply infuriating, Laura Friedman Williams has so much to say about what we expect of women’s sexuality. Confronting without being sleazy and intelligent without being preachy. I loved it’ Viv Groskop author of, How to Own the Room 
‘AVAILABLE offers far more than just a wild romp through the Wild West of the post-marital dating world – though a wild romp it certainly is. Curling up with this memoir is like settling in for a night with a hilarious girlfriend, listening to her best sexual anecdotes. AVAILABLE is also a serious exploration of womanhood. Laura reminds us of the importance of regaining all the parts of who we are as women, despite how easy it is to become consumed by the mammoth roles of Mother and Wife. We aren't here solely to serve our families as domestic martyrs. We deserve to reawaken the parts of ourselves that often become dormant once we enter maternal roles. We deserve to live life to the fullest, embracing each facet of our identities, even (especially!) the parts society teaches us to shove aside when we become mothers’ Caroline Mackenzie, author of One Year of Ugly 
 Book Description 
The unfiltered, hilarious and compulsive new memoir that Vogue calls ‘Gripping’ 
 About the Author 
Laura Friedman Williams is a native New Yorker whose writing credits consist of countless PTA newsletters and program notes for talent shows and school auctions, as well as ghostwritten bar mitzvah speeches for many of her friends. Her wit and wisdom have not yet made it to a larger audience, but her years spent raising children and running events at her children’s schools have kept her writing steady and sharp. She credits her degree in English from Washington University and the ten formative years she spent in book publishing – first in Subsidiary Rights at Warner Books (now Grand Central Publishing) and then at Henry Holt & Company, then as a book scout and finally as a literary agent – for giving her a deep love and respect for the written word. She credits the break-up of her marriage for finally giving her the subject matter about which she both needed and wanted to write. She lives in downtown Manhattan with her three children.

Humor & Entertainment

Friedman Williams, Laura

Humor

The Borough Press

‘Gripping’ Vogue 
‘Empowering’ Cosmopolitan 
‘Joyful’ Financial Times 
‘Eye-popping’ Daily Mail\nWhen her 22-year-marriage suddenly ended, 47-year-old mother of three Laura expected life as she knew it to be over. What she hadn’t expected: 
· An incredible one-night stand 
· A new-found sexual appetite 
· Ten men in eight months 
· That there is plenty of fun to be had after 40 
From G-spots to bald spots, dirty talk to dating fiascos, Available is the unflinchingly honest, empowering, and humorous true story of one woman’s love life after divorce. 
‘A real page-turner […] Unexpected, original, funny and sometimes deeply infuriating, Laura Friedman Williams has so much to say about what we expect of women’s sexuality. I loved it’ Viv Groskop author of How to Own the Room

The No.1 bestselling author reveals life-changing strategies to help you demolish fear, seize control, and reach your full potential The wall. Sooner or later we all hit it. The wall can be anything. It could be your lack of motivation, it could be your fear of leaving your comfort zone, it could be the aimlessness that comes from not having set yourself the right goals, it could be that you spend too much time with people who undermine you. What all these things have in common is that they're holding you back. They're the things that are stopping you from reaching your true potential, from getting the most you can out of your life. In this straight-talking inspirational book, Ant Middleton identifies twenty obstacles that are standing in our way, and offers common-sense, practical solutions to each of them. He shows the reader how they too can break through that wall and start becoming the best version of themselves.

The Wall: The Guide to Help You Smash Self-Doubt and Become the True You

Self-Help

Middleton, Ant

Motivational

<h2>'We can't wait for this.' Red</h2> <h2>Menopausing is more than just a book, it's a movement. An uprising.</h2> Menopause affects every woman, and yet so many approach it with shame, fear, misinformation or silence. Why is no one talking about this? Who has the correct information? And how can we get it? That's how this book has come about. We are going to tell you the truth, so you can make an informed decision about your life and your body ... mic drop.' For too long, women have had to keep quiet about the menopause - its onset, its symptoms, its treatments - and what it means for us. Menopausing will build an empowered, supportive community to break this terrible silence once and for all. By exploring and explaining the science, debunking damaging myths, and smashing the taboos around the perimenopause and menopause, this book will equip women to make the most informed decisions about their health... and their lives. Menopausing will also celebrate the sharing of stories, enabling women to feel less alone and more understood, and talk openly and positively about menopause. <ul> <li>No more scaremongering: just evidence-based info</li> <li>No shame: real women, real menopause stories, real empathy, real community</li> <li>Honest, no-holds-barred advice: Dry vagina? Zero sex drive? Hair loss? We've got it covered</li> <li>The start of a movement: to get everyone talking about the menopause in every home, GP surgery and workspace</li> </ul> Davina McCall was a number 1 Sunday Times Hardback Non Fiction bestseller in the w/e September 25th 2022

Menopausing: Book of the Year, The British Book Awards 2023, and Sunday Times bestselling self-help guide, to help you cope with symptoms and live your best life during menopause

Biographies & Memoirs

McCall, Davina

Potter, Dr. Naomi

Community & Culture

Lisa Snowdon is on a mission to spread the word: growing old just means getting better! Having struggled for over a decade after starting her menopause in her early forties, Lisa Snowdon has come to realise something she wants all women to understand. This new phase of life is actually a golden opportunity: a chance to become an even stronger, even bolder you. In Just Getting Started, Lisa will support you through the life stages, from fertility to pregnancy, menopause and beyond. By being patient, kind and open-minded, by learning and listening to what your body needs, you too can make it through the menopause with a smile on your face. With no subject off-limits, Lisa guides you through every issue she herself faced, from dealing with weight gain, fighting her hormones, reigniting her sex life and finding a renewed sense of self-love. Refreshingly intimate and hugely inspirational, this is your essential companion to embracing life and enjoying your second spring. Because, really, the best is yet to come.

Just Getting Started: The new menopause guide for 2023 to help you cope with signs, symptoms and everything else to improve your life.

Snowdon, Lisa

Arts & Literature

A compelling, lucid, and highly readable chronicle of medieval life written by the authors of the bestsellingLife in a Medieval Castle and Life in a Medieval City
Historians have only recently awakened to the importance of the family, the basic social unit throughout human history. This book traces the development of marriage and the family from the Middle Ages to the early modern era. It describes how the Roman and barbarian cultural streams merged under the influence of the Christian church to forge new concepts, customs, laws, and practices. Century by century it follows the development -- sometimes gradual, at other times revolutionary -- of significant elements in the history of the family:
<ul>
<li>The basic functions of the family as production unit, as well as its religious, social, judicial, and educational roles. 
</li>
<li>The shift of marriage from private arrangement between families to public ceremony between individuals, and the adjustments in dowry, bride-price, and counter-dowry. 
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<li>The development of consanguinity rules and incest taboos in church law and lay custom. 
</li>
<li>The peasant family in its varying condition of being free or unfree, poor, middling, or rich. 
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<li>The aristocratic estate, the problem of the younger son, and the disinheritance of daughters. 
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<li>The Black Death and its long-term effects on the family.</li>
<li>Sex attitudes and customs: the effects of variations in age of men and women at marriage. 
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<li>The changing physical environment of noble, peasant, and urban families. 
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<li>Arrangements by families for old age and retirement.</li>
</ul>

Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages

GIES, Frances.

Relationships

Probes the psychological motivations of older men who leave their wives for younger women and explores the consequences for all three members of the triangle

Jennifer Fever: Older Men--Younger Women

Gordon,Barbara

The Paston family of Norfolk, England, has long been known to medieval scholars for its large collection of personal correspondence, which has survived five centuries. Revealing a wealth of information about manners, morals, lifestyle, and attitudes of the late Middle Ages, the letters also tell the story of three generations of the fifteenth-century Paston family that treads like a historical novel full of memorable characters: Margaret Paston, the indomitable wife and mother who fought the family's battles; her husband, John Paston I, tough, hardheaded, and thrice confined to Fleet Prison but never yielding to his enemies; daughter Margery, who scandalized family and friends by falling in love with the Paston bailiff, Richard Calle; lighthearted, chivalric Sir John; and cheerful, sensible John III, who against all odds succeeded in marrying for love. 
A Medieval Family traces the Pastons history from 1420, through the stormy Wars of the Roses, to the early 1500s. The family's story, extracted from their letters and papers and told largely in their own words, shows a side of history rarely revealed: the lives and fortunes not of kings and queens but of ordinary middle-class people with problems, tragedies, and moments of happiness.

A Medieval Family: The Pastons of Fifteenth-Century England

Gies, Joseph

Harper.

What is the most baffling period in our lives? Not childhood, not old age, but the decades of our forties and fifties, the period now generously known as middle age. It's both an occasion for regret and an opportunity for coming to terms, the moment when we come up against our limits and discover -- for better and worse -- who we are.
My Life in the Middle Ages is a portrait of what that unnerving experience is like. A collection of unified essays about the pleasures and pathos that attend the threshold of old age, it charts an original course between reportage and confession. Drawn from the author's own life, from the testimony of parents, children, teachers, and friends, from the books he's read and the life that he chose -- and that chose him -- My Life in the Middle Ages is a comic, poignant memoir that's both personal and generational.
Whether he is struggling with God (or trying to find out if he believes in one), celebrating the books he's loved and regretting those he'll never read, or leafing through the snapshots in his family album and marveling at the passage of time, James Atlas is always alert to the surprises of everyday life. He parses the fine points of success and failure among New York's "lower upper-middle class" (several of the chapters began as essays in The New Yorker) and expresses the largest themes: "I tried to remind myself that death was a part of life. I was here, then I wouldn't be here."
Atlas writes movingly about watching his parents age and his father die. In a wry and soul-searching piece, he recounts his perplexing quest for spiritual meaning after a secular lifetime, a quest that takes him to a private synagogue and a Buddhist meditation center. On the tennis court, he ruefully capitulates to his teenage son's blossoming athletic prowess, recalling a similar passing of the torch with his own father forty years earlier.
At once pensive and funny, lighthearted and profound, My Life in the Middle Ages is a tale of survival, but also a meditation on how it feels to flourish -- how to live.

My Life in the Middle Ages: A Survivor's Tale

Atlas, James

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The Art of Racing in the Rain

Available: The unfiltered and empowering new memoir for women about sex, dating and divorce after 40

Available: The unfiltered and empowering new memoir for women about sex, dating and divorce after 40

The Wall: The Guide to Help You Smash Self-Doubt and Become the True You

Menopausing: Book of the Year, The British Book Awards 2023, and Sunday Times bestselling self-help guide, to help you cope with symptoms and live your best life during menopause

Just Getting Started: The new menopause guide for 2023 to help you cope with signs, symptoms and everything else to improve your life.

Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages

Jennifer Fever: Older Men--Younger Women

A Medieval Family: The Pastons of Fifteenth-Century England

My Life in the Middle Ages: A Survivor's Tale