Doris Grumbach’s COMING INTO THE END ZONE: A MEMOIR; at seventy, the author takes a look back at the friendships and losses; decisions and debacles, that affected her life.

Sylvia Plath’s THE COLOSSUS; anguished “confessions” in verse.

Bonnie Angelo’s FIRST MOTHERS: THE WOMEN WHO SHAPED THE PRESIDENTS; how eleven Chief Executives were guided prior to their marriages.

Anne Tyler’s CLOCK DANCE; a novel about three decades in a woman’s life, and the emerging changes.