Tyler, Anne

Thirty-eight-year-old Jeremy Pauling, having spent his entire life on the top floor of his mother's Baltimore row house, is drawn out of his self-imposed isolation when his mother dies and he rents out rooms to a young woman and her child.

While driving to the funeral of a friend, a couple married twenty-eight years examine the expectations and disappointments of their marriage.

An author of guidebooks for travelling businessmen goes through life "accidently". It is an accident tinged with purpose when he gets involved with the astonishing Muriel and her talent for finding adventure.

Sixty-one-year-old fifth-grade teacher Liam Pennywell, having been forced into retirement, is attacked shortly after moving into his new condominium on the outskirts of Baltimore, and embarks on a mission to recover memories which he lost during the incident, which results in an unlikely friendship with a woman half his age.

When she is taken hostage by a bank robber, Charlotte Emory finds that her experience provides her with a new perspective of her past life and the future she hopes to make for herself.

On the surface, fifty-three year old Rebecca is outgoing and joyous. But after presiding over a disastrous family picnic, she is beginning to question just who she really is. This book is the story of how she answers that question.

Macon Leary, the lonely author of guidebooks for traveling businessmen, has become very set in his ways, but he is forced into an engagement with life after meeting Muriel, a woman with a talent for finding adventure.

Shy, plump teenager Evie Decker's entire life changes when she becomes obsessed with local rock singer Drumstrings Casey.