StumpStrong: Strength In Roots

From a "fresh and fun new voice in women's fiction": a divorcee finds her voice and courage thanks to an account of war and survival out of her family history.

Patricia Moore is coming of age. The age is menopause. And she might not survive it.

Her growing pains include not only hot flashes but sharp pangs of loneliness. Her daughter is away at college. Her dear Sheltie, Zoomie, still loves her ex-husband, who's got new muscles and a new girlfriend. And then there's the sudden, teenage-hormon...