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Every one is standalone, about 25,000 words, and illustrated throughout. Pick the one that matches the thing on your mind.

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AI Without the Jargon

A Calm, Practical Guide to ChatGPT and Everyday Artificial Intelligence After 60

Learn what AI actually is, how to ask it for useful things, and when to check its work before you trust it.

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Money, work, and the paperwork

Second-Act Business

A Practical Guide to Starting Small, Earning Wisely, and Building on a Lifetime of Experience After Retirement

Turn a lifetime of knowing how to do something useful into a small business that fits the life you already have.

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What you do with the time

The Next Chapter

A Practical Guide to Rebuilding Identity, Purpose, and Belonging After Retirement

Rebuild identity, purpose, and belonging when the job that answered "what do you do" is gone.

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Technology Without Embarrassment

A Patient, Practical Guide to Phones, Computers, Passwords, and Everyday Digital Life After 60

Your phone gets redesigned while you sleep, and that is not your fault: here is a calm way to use it anyway.

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Don’t Get Scammed

A Plain-Language Guide to Fraud, Identity Theft, Impostors, and Financial Self-Defense After 60

Every scam is built to rush you, so this book teaches the calm habits that slow that one moment down.

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The people in your life

Friendship After 60

A Practical Guide to Rebuilding Connection, Belonging, and a Social Life That Fits Now

Friendship used to come free with work and raising a family, and here is how to rebuild it on purpose.

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Never Too Late to Learn

A Practical Guide to Memory, Skills, Classes, and Curiosity After 60

Pick up the thing you set down. Learning later isn't a lesser version of learning young.

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The people in your life

Loving Them Without Losing Yourself

A Guide to Adult Children, Boundaries, Money, and Family Peace After 60

Stay close to your grown children for the long haul without being quietly emptied out.

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Money, work, and the paperwork

Less House, More Life

A Practical Guide to Downsizing, Decluttering, Moving, and Keeping What Matters

Downsize on your own terms, at your own pace, and carry the right amount of your life forward.

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Dating Again After 60

A Practical Guide to Confidence, Companionship, Online Dating, Intimacy, and Safety

Company again, at a pace you choose, with your judgment and your savings fully intact.

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The people in your life

The Caregiver’s Compass

A Practical Guide to Caring for an Aging Parent or Partner Without Disappearing Yourself

Care for someone you love in a way that leaves a little more of you intact each day.

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Money, work, and the paperwork

Put Your Life in Order

A Calm Guide to Documents, Passwords, Insurance, Wishes, and the Information Your Family May Need

One page at a time, make your affairs findable by the people who would need to find them.

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Strong Enough to Talk

A Practical Guide to Men's Emotional Health, Friendship, Stress, and Asking for Help After 60

One true sentence, said out loud, to one safe person. That is where this book starts.

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Grandparenting with Love and Boundaries

A Practical Guide to Connection, Family Rules, Distance, Gifts, and Changing Roles

The grandmother who asks before handing over the cookie ends up seeing the grandchild more, not less.

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What you do with the time

Your Creative Second Act

A Practical Guide to Writing, Art, Music, Making, and Sharing Work After 60

A watercolor kit still in its plastic. A memoir you've only ever told yourself. Here is the way in.

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Cooking for the two of you

The Two-Plate Kitchen

Healthy, Affordable, Enjoyable Cooking for One or Two After 60

You learned to cook for six. Cooking for one or two is its own craft, with its own tricks.

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Protein After 60

A Practical Guide to Eating for Strength, Recovery, and Healthy Aging

Muscle slips away quietly. Ordinary food, spread across the day, is one of the plainest answers there is.

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Staying steady on your feet

Strong, Steady, and Independent

A Practical Guide to Strength, Balance, Mobility, and Fall Prevention After 60

A stand-up that needs a push off the armrest. A hand on the wall. Those costs can come down.

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Lose Weight, Keep Your Strength

A Practical Guide to Fat Loss Without Muscle Loss After 60

Losing weight after sixty is easy to do badly. This is the version that leaves your strength intact.

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Numbers, medicines, and the doctor

Rethinking Drinking After 60

A Practical Guide to Alcohol, Sleep, Medications, Mood, and Cutting Back Safely

The nightcap that used to help you sleep now wakes you at four. This book takes that seriously, without shame.

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Numbers, medicines, and the doctor

Prediabetes: Your Next Best Step

A Practical Guide to Blood Sugar, Food, Movement, Weight, and Follow-Up After 60

Prediabetes is a yellow light, not a stop sign. Here is what to do next, calmly and without upending your life.

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Numbers, medicines, and the doctor

A Calmer Number

A Practical Guide to Blood Pressure, Home Monitoring, Food, Movement, Stress, and Medication After 60

That blood pressure cuff in the drawer was never the enemy. Nobody just explained it plainly.

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A Happier Gut After 60

A Practical Guide to Digestion, Fiber, Constipation, Bloating, Reflux, and When to Seek Care

Food that never bothered you now sits heavily, and nobody sent a letter explaining why. This is that letter.

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Eat Enough to Stay Strong

A Practical Guide to Low Appetite, Unintentional Weight Loss, and Better Nutrition After 60

Weight that comes off on its own is telling you something. This book helps you read it and turn it around.

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Staying steady on your feet

Move Better, Hurt Less

A Joint-Friendly Guide to Activity, Arthritis, Pain, Strength, and Everyday Function After 60

Less fear when the knee twinges, and a practical way to do more with the pain you actually have.

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Sleep Better After 60

A Practical Guide to Insomnia, Routines, Naps, Sleep Apnea, and Restful Nights

The bad nights outlasted the reason for them. Here is how to interrupt the loop, and when to call a doctor.

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Numbers, medicines, and the doctor

Medicines Without Confusion

A Practical Guide to Prescriptions, Over-the-Counter Drugs, Supplements, and Safer Medication Use After 60

One page, kept current, that you could hand to a stranger in an emergency room.

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What you do with the time

Your First Healthy Year of Retirement

A Twelve-Month Plan for Movement, Food, Sleep, Medical Care, Purpose, and Connection

Your health in retirement runs on the shape of your week, and you are now the only person who can build it.

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Men’s Health After 60

A Practical Guide to Strength, Heart Health, Prostate Questions, Sexual Health, Sleep, and Preventive Care

About six pieces of information regarding your own body, and a person to call. That is an achievable amount.

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Women’s Health After Menopause

A Practical Guide to Bone, Heart, Pelvic, Sexual, Sleep, and Preventive Health After 60

Menopause gets the pamphlet. The forty years after it get almost nothing. This is the missing briefing.

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$299.00 the set

The whole shelf, in one box

All thirty in print, and the set brings the ebook and the audiobook of every title with it at no extra charge. The same thirty bought one at a time come to $779.10.

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