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As a journalist whose career spans three decades, CNN correspondent Tom Foreman has reported from the heart of war zones, riots, and natural disasters. He has interviewed serial killers and been in the line of fire. But the most terrifying moment of his life didn't occur on the job-it occurred at home, when his eighteen-year-old daughter asked, "How would you feel about running a marathon with me?" At the time, Foreman was approaching fifty-one years old, and his last marathon was almost thirty years behind him. The race was just sixteen weeks away, but he reluctantly agreed.

Tommy Wilhelm is separated from his family, at odds with his father, failed in his career, and in a financial mess. One climactic day, while he reviews his past mistakes, a mysterious con man grants him a moment of truth and understanding and offers him one last hope.

This National Book Award winning novel traces five days in the life of a man whose wife has recently left him for his best friend. Through letter writing, Herzog movingly portrays both his own life and the complexity of modern life.

Après des années passées à jouer de la basse dans un groupe rock et à côtoyer les motards criminels de La Rose morte, Hoffer s’est lancé dans la production de vidéoclips. Il a vendu aux Enfants du Soleil le terrain adjacent à ses studios, mais a découvert que le nudisme et les bains de soleil n’étaient pas leur religion. Son amour précédent embrouille sa liaison avec Roberta, deux fois plus jeune que lui. Il a maille à partir avec son adolescent intérieur et toxicomane. Avec son ex-femme. Avec son associé. Et quelques autres personnes qui n’aiment pas son genre.

As the week opens, 50-something Hugh Argylle, owner of the Argylle Art Gallery, has a jarring fall from a ladder - a fall that leaves him with a fractured off-kilter vision of his own life and the lives of his friends, who are going through crises that leave them despairing, afraid, one half-step from going under emotionally or financially. Someone's going to have to fix all that, thinks Hugh - and it will probably be him.

This novel tells of Golden Richards, a man who, despite having four wives and 28 children, hasn't quite found fulfillment in life. And even after he falls in love again and takes a mistress, life continues to fall short of expectations.

Albert Schmidt, proud traditional gentleman and lawyer of the old school, was almost down for the count. His beloved wife was dead, he had stumbled into early retirement, and relations with his cherished and perfectly bred daughter couldn't have been worse. The only glimmer of salvation was his unlikely love affair with Carrie, a Puerto Rican waitress younger than his daughter.

Fortysomething sportswriter Jack Brannon is bored to tears with the men's tour. So he decides to check out Ginger Clayton, the hot, new franchise babe on the ladies' links. Things get interesting in a hurry, as it becomes clear somebody wants the gorgeous superstar disqualified for good.

Lil Olive, the leader of a group of feisty elderly women, decides that she is restless at the Rosehaven nursing home. Lil and her friends need some excitement in their dull lives. So, the group of women steal a car and hit the road in search of adventures, which include hilariously unforgettable trips to the local CVS and Hardee's, and end with an encounter with the law.