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Three authors. Stories worth your time.
ProseBooks is home to the writing of Samantha Bax, Jess Langford, and Alex Carter — absorbing, honest books you'll want to return to. Browse the collection below, or join our list for word on every new release.
Meet Our Authors
Jess Langford
ABOUT JESS
She writes for women who are done waiting for permission to start over.
Jess Langford writes about the things women don't always say out loud — the reinvention, the self-doubt, the quiet victories. Her books are built on one belief: the changes that matter most are rarely dramatic. They're quiet, incremental, deeply personal — and the woman making them deserves a guide written in plain language, without clinical distance or easy answers. She writes for the woman who has already tried the plans and the podcasts, and is looking for something that actually meets her where she is right now.
She Starts Again — Book One
For the woman standing at the edge of everything she thought her life would be, looking at what comes next and not quite knowing how to begin. After a relationship, after a painful chapter, or simply the moment the old version of her life stops fitting. Not a list of instructions — the kind of honest company that makes the next step feel possible.
She Loves Herself Now — Book Two
For the woman who got quietly covered over inside a relationship — the one with opinions she stopped voicing, a life she set aside, a sense of herself that grew fainter until she could barely hear it. This is the honest reckoning: releasing the guilt and the grief and the anger, and learning the daily practice of choosing herself. She didn't disappear. She just got quiet — and this is how she gets loud again.
She Feels Everything — Book Three
For the woman who feels everything — who reads a room in seconds, cries at the commercial, carries other people's moods home like they're her own, and has been told her whole life that she's "too much." She isn't too much. She's tuned differently, and no one ever taught her how to live inside a nervous system this sensitive without drowning in it. This is where she learns to feel deeply without losing herself in it.
She Stops Apologizing — Book Four
For the woman who says sorry before she's done anything wrong — who reads the room before she speaks, manages everyone's moods before they've said a word, and calls it kindness. It isn't kindness. It's a reflex, learned early, and it's costing her more than she knows. This is how she learns to say no and mean it — even with the people who know her best.
She Quiets the Noise — Book Five
For the woman who's awake at 2:47 in the morning, rehearsing a conversation with someone who's fast asleep — who chose the flooring in April and has un-chosen it eleven times since. She isn't thinking too much. She's thinking the same thing too many times, and that's a different problem with a different fix. Half of this book is tools.
She Finally Heals — Book Six
She Finally Heals is for the woman who is awake at 3:40 in the morning asking a question she has never said out loud. Why am I not better yet? She did the work. She read the books, she let it go the way everyone told her to, and enough time has passed that people have stopped asking. It gets called stress, or a rough patch, or simply being tired — and none of those names help, because every one of them puts the problem inside her. She has been grieving. Not a person — a life. The years. The woman she was before. The future she was building right up until the day she was not. Nobody ever gave her the word. She finally heals. Not by getting that woman back — by being heard, once, by somebody who does not flinch.
Alex Carter
ABOUT ALEX
He writes for men who are done pretending they've got it all figured out.
Alex Carter writes about the things men rarely say out loud — the loneliness that follows a divorce, the reinvention that arrives later than planned, and the small, unglamorous wins that quietly change a life. His books rest on one belief: standing on your own doesn't mean standing alone. They're honest and practical, written in plain language — no lectures, no easy answers. He writes for the man starting over at 50 or 60 who's rebuilding his friendships, his health, and his footing, and looking for a guide who actually gets it.
The Solo Life
Running a home on your own — laundry, cleaning, groceries, simple repairs, and keeping the place going without the guesswork.
The Divorced Man's Playbook
Rebuilding your life, your home, and yourself after 50 — the practical and the personal, in plain language.
Starting Over After Divorce For Men
Building a new life after divorce or loss — routine, identity, and a real answer to "so what now?"
Starting Over After Fifty
An honest guide to meeting someone again — apps, profiles, and modern etiquette, without embarrassing yourself online.
The Single Dad's Handbook
For fathers over 40: co-parenting, the logistics, and staying close to your kids while you hold it together.
How To Make Friends as a Man
For men over 50 whose circle went quiet — where to find good men, how to go first, and a simple 90-day plan to rebuild it.
Samantha Bax
ABOUT SAMANTHA
Real food, honest wellness — for the second half of life.
Samantha Bax is a passionate home cook who writes for women navigating the years that too often get overlooked — perimenopause, menopause, and everything after. Her books trade fad diets and clinical lectures for simple, real-food cooking and steady, doable wellness. She believes eating well in your 40s, 50s, and beyond shouldn't mean deprivation or complication — just good food that helps you feel like yourself again. No gimmicks, no guilt, just a plan you can actually live with.
Just Released...
The All-New Low Calorie High Protein Low-Carb Diet Cookbook
For the home cook who's tired of choosing between food that's good for her and food she actually wants to eat. High-protein, low-carb recipes for every meal — hearty breakfasts to guilt-free desserts, with international flavors and plenty of vegetarian and vegan options — each one with the calories and macros already counted. Straightforward meal prep, a ready-made shopping list, and not a bland plate in sight.".
The All-New Pritikin Diet For Seniors After 60 (3rd Edition)
For the cook over 60 who wants to protect their heart without giving up the pleasure of a good meal. More than 75 whole-food, low-fat Pritikin recipes — breakfasts to desserts — built to steady blood sugar, support a healthy weight, and keep energy up, with a ready-made 14-day plan that takes the guesswork out of starting. Proven principles, real food, no fuss.
Bariatric Cookbook For Seniors
For the senior rebuilding their relationship with food after bariatric surgery — when every bite has to count and nothing can feel like a chore. Gentle, nutrient-dense recipes carry you from liquids back to satisfying solids, rich in the protein, calcium, and vitamins recovery calls for, with heart-healthy and diabetes-friendly options and simple guidance on portions and staying hydrated. Nourishing food for a comfortable new start.
Find All Of Samantha's Books on Her Author Page at Amazon.
What you've seen here is only a slice of Samantha's kitchen. She's written many more cookbooks for people who want food that loves them back — heart-healthy plates, high-protein meals, menopause and metabolism support, plant-based options, and plenty of cooking made simple for one.
Her complete collection lives on Amazon and grows as new titles arrive. Browse it all in one place, find the book that fits exactly where you are right now, and start cooking your way to feeling like yourself again. Tap the Amazon logo above or the buttom below to visit Samantha's author page."
