In Australia, a schoolteacher falls in love with a youth, 20 years her junior. The heroine is Aly, 36, a divorced woman, while he is Tom, 16. He is the son of her best friend. When the community discovers their affair it turns against her.

Despite famous couples, most older women have never been open to finding that special someone form the pool of younger men.

Packed with research, insights, and illuminating (and often funny) examples from Paris’s own divorce experience, this book is a “practical and reassuring guide to parting well.” —Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project Engaging and revolutionary, filled with wit, searing honesty, and intimate interviews, Splitopia is a call for a saner, more civil kind of divorce. As Paris reveals, divorce has improved dramatically in recent decades due to changes in laws and family structures, advances in psychology and child development, and a new understanding of the importance of the father. Positive psychology expert and author of Happier, Tal Ben-Shahar, writes that Paris’s “personal insights, stories, and research” create “a smart and interesting guide that can be extremely helpful for those going through divorce.” Reading this book can be the difference between an expensive, ugly battle and a decent divorce, between children sucked under by conflict or happy, healthy kids. This is “a compelling case that it’s high time for a new definition of Happily Ever After—for everyone” (Brigid Schulte, author of Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time).

Old enough to exude confidence, style, sophistication, and sex appeal — but young at heart enough to still enjoy the excitement of a younger man — the Cougar is a woman who knows what she wants. Relationship and sex columnist Valerie Gibson illuminates the wild world of mature women dating younger men, and uses her trademark wit to describe the excitement, satisfaction, drawbacks and pitfalls. From keeping up with a younger paramour to avoiding meeting his mother, Cougar is packed with valuable dating advice for today's single woman no matter what her age. Never losing sight of the liberating, empowering aspects to the Cougar lifestyle, Gibson sheds new light on those ladies looking to spice things up with the younger set.

"Highly irreverent, but filled with wisdom and infused with deep caring, Mixed Nuts is a memoir of a life working in psychotherapy." "Some people assume that all therapists are new-agey hand-holders who just listen and nod like bobbleheads, then suggest an astrology reading, a gluten-free diet, and your choice of complimentary love flower or polished healing stone on your way out the door. That's not me. My job is to help fix what's broken." Speaking to the layperson and the practitioner alike, even Rick's signature humor can't hide his deep understanding of mental illness, his desire to help heal it quickly and effectively, and his pragmatic and often creative approach to treatment."

Is he for real or Too Good to Be True? Since Stacy's marriage failed, she hasn't had much luck with dating. However, she has a great job, wonderful friends, and a huge stack of romance novels to get lost in. What more does she really need? When she's asked to train her boss's nephew, she expects him to be no different from her other trainees. She certainly didn't expect him to be a hot, younger man like the hero in her current book club pick... Nick moved from Florida to Michigan to take a temporary job working for his aunt. He doesn't intend on staying, and he certainly didn't intend to fall for the older woman who was assigned to train him. If only she'd stop fighting their attraction and give him a chance... Stacy desperately tries to convince herself that Nick isn't the guy for her. Besides being her boss's nephew and several years younger than her, he's only in Michigan temporarily. What good would it do to get involved with him? Never mind that he's sweet, sexy, and smart, and he makes her toes curl. Just like the heroes in her romance novels, he must be...Too Good to Be True. Too Good to Be True, an older woman younger man romance, is book one of the Kiss & Tell Book Club series.

An inspiring novel about taking risks and following your dreams from ?one of the hottest fiction authors of today.?(Urban Reviews) At forty-three years old, Oleana Day feels restless. She just needs change, and a direction. She?s found it in Matthew Harper. He?s smart, financially stable, drop-dead sexy, and has no baggage. There?s just one problem?he?s 18 years younger, and he?s full of surprises. But what unfolds between them is something neither would have guessed?an unexpected romance about coming to terms, coming of age, and fighting for the love of your life.

Can a Lawyer who Specializes in Breaking Up Couples Find Her Own Happy Ending? Hazel Chamberlayne can. She’s turning forty. And do you know what? She’s excited about it. Successful by her own standards, flanked by a group of magnetic friends, she feels as if life is genuinely beginning for her. Okay. Hazel would like a man. Though seeing the dregs of relationships every day as a divorce lawyer means she doesn’t have much hope in men, much luck with men nor much time to look for them, period. However, when fellow divorce lawyer Joe Ryan appears—a man ten years her junior, with a long-standing live-in girlfriend—he challenges Hazel’s beliefs about who men are and what they want. And what will make her happy in life. Because this man may be different. May be.

Remember back when women traded on their beauty and men traded on their wealth and power? Well, the times, they are a changin’. As women grow more successful and financially independent, they are abandoning their mothers’ “marry rich” mantra in favor of “it’s as easy to fall in love with a handsome man as an ugly one.” In this book, the sensational Cyndi Targosz teaches women of all ages the ins and outs of these lusty, and surprisingly long-lasting, affairs. Sprinkled with real-life stories of successful alliances, readers learn the truth about relationships with the sometimes younger, always sexier, hunky men women increasingly love to call their own.

“One of the great . . . American short-story writers” exposes the darkness of the human heart in these speculative tales of terror and tragedy (George R. R. Martin). A five-year-old boy never ages, living as an immortal in a past that no longer exists while the world encroaches upon his innocence, in the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning “Jeffty Is Five.” An alien attack leaves Earth on the brink of Armageddon, as humans find themselves unable to resist the sexual allure of their invaders in “How’s the Night Life on Cissalda?” In the Nebula Award–nominated “Shatterday” (subsequently adapted into the pilot episode of the second Twilight Zone series), a man fights for his life against a relentless enemy who knows his darkest secrets—his own doppelganger. In these and other thought-provoking stories, legendary author Harlan Ellison dissects the primal fears and inherent frailties common to all people and gives voice to the thoughts and feelings human beings bury deep within their souls. Unflinching and unapologetic, Ellison depicts men and women in all their ugliness and beauty, and humanity in all its fury and glory. Stories include “Introduction: Mortal Dreads,” “Jeffty Is Five,” “How’s the Night Life on Cissalda?,” “Flop Sweat,” “Would You Do it For a Penny?” (written in collaboration with Haskell Barkin), “The Man Who Was Heavily Into Revenge,” “Shoppe Keeper,” “All the Lies That Are My Life,” “Django,” “Count the Clock That Tells the Time,” “In the Fourth Year of the War,” “Alive and Well on a Friendless Voyage,” “All the Birds Come Home to Roost,” “Opium,” “The Other Eye of Polyphemus,” “The Executioner of the Malformed Children,” and “Shatterday.”