Books like Mundane's world by Judy Grahn

A practical guide offering encouraging advice and real-life stories for mid‑life women who have spent their youth at home, helping them find confidence and new life skills.

The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin

A collection of short stories set in Louisiana and featuring themes of social inequality, psychological exploration, and personal growth within a society of strict social mores and gender roles, exploring issues of emancipation, racial tensions, and the awakening of a character named Desiree.

The works of Kate Chopin, including short stories, psychological fiction, and women's fiction, highlighting the struggles of women and their relationships in the American South of the late 19th century.

"Ancients lived in accordance with daily, seasonal, and yearly rhythms by necessity. But modern life overrides these cycles -- from weather and food to work and recreation. Because they are inherently cyclical and instinctually caregivers, women are especially affected. Millions of women trying to do it all, all the time, end up feeling depleted and defeated. In these pages Sara Avant Stover shows how simple, natural, and refreshingly fun practices can put women back in sync with their own cycles and those of nature. When we honor spring's seedlings, summer's color, fall's harvest, and winter's quietude, we harmonize our inner and outer worlds. Stover's suggestions nurture the body, invigorate the mind, and lift the spirit, yielding the same benefits as a getting-away-from-it-all retreat. Illustrated yoga poses, inviting recipes, and innovative journaling, meditation, and brainstorming techniques make reconnecting to the essential easy -- not just for a weekend or week but year-round and lifelong"--