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"After almost forty years in New Jersey, Catherine, Ralph, and their beloved Boston Terrier Karma are hitting the road, relocating to a gorgeous, serene island off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, where Catherine can work on her backhand and Ralph can hit the links. But upon their arrival in the Seven Oaks gated community, it becomes apparent that Catherine and Ralphs visions of retirement couldnt be more different. While Catherine is intrigued by...
22) Recessional
Author
Pub. Date
1994
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
484 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
23) Whisper's edge
Author
Series
Cricket Creek novel volume 4
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Savannah Perry, social director of Whisper's Edge, a retirement community struggling to stay afloat financially, finds a savior in business-minded Tristan McMillan who, determined to prove himself, has purchased the community from his grandfather.
24) Botched 4 murder
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
A death in her mother's retirement community leads Sophie "Phee" Kimball to investigate a controversial developer and the community's fiercely competitive bocce players.
Author
Publisher
Pajama Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
218 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A young boy volunteering at a retirement home finds a stray dog and notices that it revives decades-old memories for a bitter resident. The boy bonds with the resident as he listens to stories about growing up in Saskatchewan during the Great Depression. Thanks to his new friend and his canine companion, the elderly man is able to pass away peacefully, immersed in fond memories of his youth" --
Author
Publisher
Jimmy Patterson Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
900L
Physical Desc
287 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
While trying to jumpstart the zombie apocalypse, twelve-year-old Ernestine Montgomery and her new stepbrother, Charleston, stumble upon a murder mystery in the retirement apartments where their parents do maintenance.
Author
Publisher
Pajama Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
670L
Physical Desc
256 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Strict new rules at Brayside Retirement Home make it hard for West Highland Terrier Harvey to continue his important role as comfort dog. Meanwhile, Harvey's owner Maggie struggles with being the understudy for the school play, his friend Austin faces shame over money troubles, and retirement home resident Bob Kowalski begins to feel lonely and anxious as his wife is in the hospital." -- Provided by publisher.
28) Lifetime passes
Author
Series
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts Surely
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
154 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In this darkly comedic YA graphic novel, a group of teens starts a program to bring senior citizens to a local theme park to take advantage of the unofficial park policy: If someone dies on the property, the rest of their party is given lifetime passes!
Sixteen-year-old Jackie Chavez loves her local amusement park, Kingdom Adventure, maybe more than anything else in the world. The park is all she and her friends Nikki, Daniel, and Berke--although...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Large print ed. ; Unabridged.
Physical Desc
381 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Imagine waking up in your son's home, not remembering anything from the day before, and being accused of murder. Cantankerous octogenarian Paul Jacobson struggles with short-term memory loss. As he ends up suspiciously close to a bank robbery, a kidnapping, and a drug bust, his granddaughter helps him track down the real perpetrators. Paul juggles two girlfriends and confronts a murderer in this second in the series.
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
385 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Crotchety octogenarian Paul Jacobson returns to Hawaii for a vacation with his family and becomes involved in a series of crimes while struggling with the problems of his short-term memory loss. Paul finds a dead body in the Honolulu Ala Wai Yacht Harbor and must deal with a murder in the care home where his friends reside. He has to use all his geezer resources to solve a case involving the local drug cartel.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Life near the North Korean border is a zero-sum game, an ongoing battle in which you either win or you lose. This dangerous, shadowed netherworld is home to an unforgettable woman known only as the "trickster." Inspired by the story of Lee's great aunt, one of the oldest women to escape alone from North Korea, 8 Lives of a Century Old Trickster consists of eight dark and spellbinding chapters that follow this remarkable character and her family as...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
ix, 326 pages : map ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Phee's marriage to Marshall Gregory promises to be the wedding of the year in Arizona's Sun City West--that is, if you ask her mother Harriet. But before she can walk down the aisle, it looks like she has to solve one more murder. At a model train exhibit, Phee, Harriet, and their beloved Chiweenie, Streetman, discover the body of Sun City West's railroad club president, with an incriminating tap shoe near his lifeless corpse. Wilbur Maines may have...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Bunco Baves are a group of hip retirees who love to play bunco, an addictive game of luck. Bu someone's luck is about to run out. When Claudia Connors returns from Vegas with a new husband, actor Lance Ledeaux, Kate McCall and the other Bunco Babes are shocked. To make matters worse, Lance has plans to direct, produce, and star in a play he has written-and he wants all the Babes to participate. When he's killed during rehearsal with a pistol,...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
244 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Never underestimate a Burned Out Old Broad. This time the three retired widows, Hadley Joy Morris-Whitfield (socialite and volunteer), Dr. Robinson Leary (retired English Professor) and Mary Rose McGill (housewife and sweet Catholic girl) join new BOOB Girl Patty Whack in clever ways to break the boredom of aging. Except now they'd welcome some boredom. Patty Whack turns out to be Calamity Doodles, an aging spy whose husbands number five and six...
Author
Series
Boob girls volume iv
Publisher
Grief Illustrated Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
139 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Perculator Rasmussen lay face-down, spread-eagled on the dining room floor of Meadow Lakes Retirement Community. The back of his head was smashed in, his throat was cut, a nylon cord was around his neck. There was a bullet hole in his jacket and a knife in his back. 'Are we sure he's dead?' Mary Rose McGill asked. 'If he isn't,' Wiley Vondra said. 'He'd better have damn good insurance.'" -- Page [4] cover.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
240 pages : photographs ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Never underestimate a Burned Out Old Broad. This time it is an adventurous road trip along US Highway 2 for the three retired widows, Hadley Joy Morris-Whitfield (socialite and volunteer), Dr. Robinson Leary (retired English professor), and Mary Rose McGill (housewife and sweet Catholic girl) along with new BOOB Girl Esmeralda St. Benedict, a gorgeous gypsy. From the opening crash of an entrance by Frieda Grossemouth to Esmeralda's foggy exit, follow...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
265 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fifth-grader Addie and two other children who spend afternoons at the Happy Valley retirement community, where their mothers work, investigate whether one of the residents is a superhero.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
177 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"There's a naked man in the laundry room at Meadow Lakes Retirement Community. He's wearing only a brown vest, a stetson hat and cowboy boots. But that's about the extent of excitement in the big complex and that's why four diverse widows take off in secret for parts unknown, leaving no forwarding address. Between adopting the boys at the Ragged Ass Saloon, finding a dead body in the woods and capturing the killer, closing down a sleazy porno shop...
40) Whack 'n' roll
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Bunco Babes are not your average retirees. When they're not throwing the dice, they like to throw themselves into juicy mysteries. But murder itself is a dicey business, and in this game, luck can run out for good. The sixty set at Serenity Cove Estates in South Carolina certainly knows how to keep active. When not playing bunco or putting the greens, they are gossiping--and where there's gossip, there's a party. So it's no surprise that when...