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This book speaks to those over 50 who are looking to rededicate their lives to something other than work. It's difficult to know where to turn after a long career, so this book offers four helpful concepts. First off, you've probably had miraculous experiences in your life that are not fully appreciated for their significance. Revisiting them with a fresh perspective as described in "Wonderlust" could renew your sense of uniqueness and meaning and provide a strong foundation to pivot in exciting new directions.

This book is a searingly honest personal story of suicide. As Rita Wright navigates her way through the loss of her daughter, Anna Wright, she demonstrates how anxiety, panic, and depression do not have to end in death. This is a personal and professional insight into why some people can manage their emotions, whereas others, with an inbuilt fragility, melancholia, and what she refers to as a genetic "naked nerve", seek relief in death. Under the Fig Tree is a dramatic true-life, 21st-century story of one girl whose feelings and troubles are replicated worldwide.

On August 26, 2015, Emmy Award-winning 24-year-old reporter Alison Parker was murdered on live television, along with her colleague, photojournalist Adam Ward. Their interviewee was also shot but survived. In the wake of his daughter's murder, Andy Parker became a national advocate for commonsense gun safety legislation. The night of the murder, with his emotions still raw, he went on Fox News and vowed to do "whatever it takes" to end gun violence in America.