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Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Mystery novel about friendship, love, and aging. Synopsis: In the wanting months of the second World War, a group of children discover an earthen tunnel in their neighborhood. Throughout the summer of 1944--until one father forbids it--the subterranean space becomes their "secret garden," where the friends play games and tell stories. Six decades later, beneath a house on the same land, construction workers uncover a tin box containing two skeletal...
Author
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas has spent a lifetime observing the natural world, chronicling the customs of pre-contact hunter-gatherers and the secret lives of deer and dogs. In this book, the capstone of her long career, Thomas, now eighty-eight, turns her keen eye to her own life. The result is an account of growing old that is at once funny and charming and intimate and profound, both a memoir and a life-affirming map all of us may follow to embrace...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Raymond Jaffe feels like he doesn't belong. Not with his mother's new family. Not as a weekend guest with his father and his father's wife. Not at school, where he's an outcast. After his best friend moves away, Raymond has only two real connections: to the feral cat he's tamed and to a blind ninety-two-year-old woman in his building who's introduced herself with a curious question: Have you seen Luis Velez? Mildred Gutermann, a German Jew who narrowly...
45) From strength to strength: finding success, happiness, and deep purpose in the second half of life
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 252 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The roadmap for finding purpose, meaning, and success as we age, from bestselling author, Harvard professor, and the Atlantic's happiness columnist Arthur Brooks. Many of us assume that the more successful we are, the less susceptible we become to the sense of professional and social irrelevance that often accompanies aging. But the truth is, the greater our achievements and our attachment to them, the more we notice our decline, and the more painful...
46) No safe house
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Seven years ago, Terry Archer and his family experienced a horrific ordeal that nearly cost them their lives. Today, the echoes of that fateful night are still audible. Terry's wife, Cynthia, is living separate from her husband and daughter after her own personal demons threatened to ruin her relationship with them permanently. Their daughter, Grace, is rebelling against her parents' seemingly needless overprotection. Terry is just trying to keep...
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The peaceful life of two aging sisters is shattered when they take in a young Polish violinist who they find injured after having been washed ashore near their coastal English home. Their town is suspicious of any visitors and things get worse when he befriends a Russian woman who is visiting the town.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Khalil lives in the upstairs apartment with his family, which is big and busy and noisy. Downstairs lives Mr. Hagerty, who is quiet. Khalil and Mr. Hagerty don't appear to have a lot in common, but hot summer days have a way of bringing people together. As Khalil looks for buried treasure in the yard, Mr. Hagerty tends to his garden. Both help each other navigate language -- whether it be learning new words or remembering those seemingly forgotten....
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Touchstone hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"Bernard White is a curmudgeonly widower who has lived in Seven Springs, Florida for decades and has kept to himself since his wife passed. When his neighbor is murdered, he emerges from his solitude to reconnect with his fellow octogenarians. These connections become a literal lifeline as a second, and then a third, elderly woman is murdered, and 'the originals' as they call themselves, realize that they are being targeted. Amy Unger is an artist...
51) 6-minute fitness at 60+: simple home exercises to reclaim strength, balance, and energy in 15 days
Author
Publisher
www sixminutefitness com
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
243 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Safe, simple exercises that help older adults retain muscle mass in order to lead healthier, more active lives.
52) Everyman
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
182 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Philip Roth's new novel is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. The fate of Roth's everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers, through the family trials and professional achievements of his vigorous adulthood, and into his old age, when he is rended by observing the deterioration of his contemporaries and stalked by his own physical woes. A successful...
Author
Publisher
No Starch Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xxv, 331 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Fall in love with your computer! This friendly guide will take you from pressing the "on" button to being a confident computer user in no time. Step-by-step instructions and full-color images make it east to follow along, and each lesson has short exercises to help you practice what you've learned. And, if you get stuck, just flip to the solutions at the back of the book!
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Valentine's Day is approaching, and while Shannon is delighted to be friends with not one but two handsome men, not everyone in town is feeling the love. After her elderly neighbor Jesse Hennessey fails to make his daily appearance at the local diner, Shannon swings by his place to check on him. Not only does she find Jesse dead--of an apparent heart attack--but she also realizes that his home has been ransacked. Someone suggests that a thief was...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A curmudgeonly but charming old woman, her estranged grandson, and a colony of penguins proves it's never too late to be the person you want to be in this rich, heartwarming story from the acclaimed author of Ellie and the Harpmaker. Eighty-five-year-old Veronica McCreedy is estranged from her family and wants to find a worthwhile cause to leave her fortune to. When she sees a documentary about penguins being studied in Antarctica, she tells the...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
A novel of psychological suspense, in which a young woman returns to the quirky Bronx riverfront neighborhood where she grew up, only to find that her mother's house has become a hoarder's nest. As Evie digs into the events of the past few months, a bigger, more sinister story begins to unfold.