midlife crisis

"Weaving together the true historical expeditions of Ada Blackjack and Robert Bartlett with a contemporary fictional story, How to survive in the North is a unique and visual narrative journey that shows the strength it takes to survive in even the harshest conditions--whether that be struggling for survival in the Arctic in the 1900s or surviving a mid-life crisis in the present day"--Back cover.

New Yorker Isaac Davis hates his job, doesn't love his girlfriend, and his ex-wife is a lesbian who has written a book about their marriage. Then he meets and falls in lust with a beautiful woman, which starts him on a search for romance and fulfillment.

Lester Burnham and his family seem to have the idyllic suburban life, but their world is actually spinning out of control. Lester's mid-life crisis affects everyone around him as he quits his job, develops a crush on his teenage daughter's friend and starts smoking pot with the young dope dealer next door.

"When his dream of the perfect marriage, the perfect son, and the perfect life implodes, a Wall Street millionaire takes a cross-country bus trip in search of his college sweetheart and ideals of youth."--Provided by publisher.

Weaving together the real life, historical expeditions of Ada Blackjack and Robert Bartlett with a contemporary fictional story, How to Survive in the North is a unique and visual narrative journey that shows the strength it takes to survive in even the harshest conditions - whether that be struggling for survival in the Arctic in the 1900s or surviving a mid-life crisis in the present day.

Susan Isaacs, a comedian and skeptical Christian who was raised Lutheran, describes the spiritual quest she took at age forty to reestablish her relationship with God.

The lives of Jack and Joy Griffin always seem to come back to Cape Cod, where they honeymooned, as they experience the ups and downs of life, including the deaths of Jack's parents, the marriage of their daughter, and Jack and Joy's divorce.

Marine behavioral biologist Nate Quinn is researching humpbacked whales off the coast of Maui--in particular, why they sing. The question has Nate and his crew poking, charting, recording, and photographing any large marine mammal that crosses their path. Then, one extraordinary day, a whale lifts its tail into the air to display a cryptic message spelled out in foot-high letters: Bite me. Then, when a roll of film returns from the lab missing the crucial tail shot--and their research facility is summarily trashed--Nate realizes that something very fishy indeed is going on. The weirdness only gets weirder when a call comes in from Nate's big-bucks benefactor saying that a whale has made contact--by phone. And it's asking for a hot pastrami and Swiss on rye.

"Trapped in a life that's lost all meaning, jaded New York architect Phillip Dimitrius sets off on a quest to find his roots. Joined by his rebillious daughter, Phillip heads off on a Greek odyssey where he crosses paths with a free-spirited singer. Together, the three start a strange, new life on an abandoned island in the Aegean Sea. But nothing perfect last forever ... and when a ship wrecks off shore one stormy night, the survivors turn Phillip's paradise upside down"--Container.

Bob Slocum, an average, middle-aged man with a good job, slowly becomes more and more unhappy with the routine of his life.