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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Twenty years after a baby is stolen from a stroller, a woman is murdered in a care home. The two crimes are somehow linked, and a good bad girl may be the key to discovering the truth. Edith may have been tricked into a nursing home, but at eighty years young, she's planning her escape. Patience works there, cleaning messes and bonding with Edith, a kindred spirit. But Patience is lying to Edith about almost everything. Edith's own daughter, Clio,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is the love story of Michael Keddington and Faye Murrow, a love story that takes place not in seclusion, but in the real world, with the challenges that all lovers must face. No relationship is an island: there are threads that bind us all and pull at our lives: the demands of family, friends, work, and social obligation. And there are times that the pull of those threads becomes greater than the strength of the relationship. In these times,...
3) The locket
Author
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Locket marks the beginning of an entirely new series of audiobooks from Richard Paul Evans, the bestselling author of the Christmas Box collection. With this beautiful novel we learn that we are all given second chances, but that sometimes they are best given to someone else.
My Dearest Michael,
I would so rather say these things to your face, but, as we both know, life doesn't often take requests...first, I do not know yet the outcome of the...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Martha Andersson may be seventy-nine years old and live in a retirement home, but that doesn't mean she's ready to stop enjoying life. So when the new management of Diamond House starts cutting corners to save money, Martha and her four closest friends -- Brains, Rake, Christina, and Anna-Greta (aka the League of Pensioners) -- won't stand for it. Fed up with early bedtimes and overcooked veggies, this group of feisty seniors sets out to regain their...
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Series
Language
English
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Best-selling author Karen Kingsbury has been a RWA Rita finalist and Gold Medallion Award finalist. Sarah's Song is book three in The Red Gloves Series. For years Sarah Lindeman, now in her 80s, has carried out a special tradition over the 12 days of Christmas. This year, Sarah notices a young nurse listening, and in her recognizes pain and longing. Sarah prays that through her story, she can ease this young woman's sorrow and help her realize the...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Geno is living out his final days in a nursing home, bored, curmudgeonly, and struggling to connect with his nursing assistant, Angel, who he sees as being different from him in every way possible, and unable to understand him in any way. Perhaps no one really can, since Geno has been telling everyone who will listen that he's not just Geno--in fact, he's lived many past lives, dating back 1000 years, and since that first life in Seville, Spain,...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
422 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"After a major life upheaval on the eve of her 40th birthday, Kate Parker finds herself volunteering at Lauderdale House for Exceptional Ladies. There she meets 97-year-old Cecily Finn. Cecily's tongue is as sharp as her mind but she has lost her spark, simply resigning herself to the Imminent End. Having no patience with Kate's plight, Cecily prescribes her a self-help book with a difference--it's a 1957 cookbook, featuring menus for anything life...
Author
Publisher
Warner Faith
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
630 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The stories of Gideon, Maggie, Sarah, and Hannah will become a prized collection and cherished way to celebrate the holiday season year after year. Gideon, an eight-year-old with leukemia, spreads enduring hope and initiates an unforgettable series of Christmas miracles. Maggie, a mother seeking help for her son, finds joy that extends beyond her family to fill the life of a lonely stranger. Sarah, an elderly woman, sends the holiday message of love...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eighty-four-year-old Florence has fallen in her flat at Cherry Tree Home for the Elderly. As she waits to be rescued, she thinks about her friend Elsie and wonders if a terrible secret from their past is about to come to light. If the charming new resident is who he claims to be, why does he look exactly like a man who died sixty years ago?
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Berenson's engaging 12th canine cozy, trainer Melanie Travis is pleased to learn on enrolling one of her standard poodles in a class at the South Avenue Obedience Club that the club offers a visiting program at the Winston Pumpernill Nursing Home in Greenwich, Conn. A club member, Paul Lennox, started the program to cheer his Aunt Mary, a dog lover and resident at Winston Pumpernill. Unfortunately, during Melanie's first visit to the home, someone...
14) Board stiff
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sorenson, Wisconsin's deputy coroner Mattie Winston takes on the murder of Bernie Chase, the president of Twilight Nursing Home's board of directors, who was found with a mysterious substance on his body and had been suspected by some of offing the home's more expensive residents.
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A move into an old folks' home marks a new stage of life for both grandmother and granddaughter.
On one side of the Atlantic, Sophia Moore, an emotionally guarded film editor-troubled by her mother's long-ago suicide and her father's abandonment-overworks, incessantly contemplates her past, and continues an unfulfilling affair with the famous director of her latest movie.
But when she travels to the other side of the Atlantic to help her octogenarian...
20) Rest easy
Author
Publisher
Wattpad Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Heartsick from the death of his mother and heartsore from breaking up with his girlfriend, Dee Warrington is barely getting by. Eccentric with mad style, Naya's had straight As since the seventh grade, and when she makes a pinky promise, she means it. Both find themselves at Salvation Hill Nursing Home, volunteering during their summer break. There they meet Marie Von Delden - a former aspiring poet with a mysterious backstory. As Dee and Naya read...