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Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
4 CDs (4 hrs., 35 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
They say sixty is the new forty. Whoopi Goldberg wants to know, Why can't sixty be sixty and proud of it? Laugh-out-loud funny and downright helpful, Two Old Broads tells it like it is for all of us who left middle age in the dust and want to be present, positive, and as extraordinary as ever in our golden years. You've survived the past; why not embrace the present and prepare for the future so you have more time to laugh along the way?
42) Iris and Ruby
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The unexpected arrival of her willful teenage granddaughter, Ruby, brings life and disorder to 82-year-old Iris Black's old house in Cairo. Ruby, driven by her fraught relationship with her own mother to run away from England, is seeking refuge with the grandmother she hasn't seen for years. An unlikely bond develops between them, as Ruby helps Iris to record her fading memories of the glittering, cosmopolitan Cairo of World War II, and of her one...
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Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xiv, 193 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"On a rainy Sunday afternoon in January the recently widowed Mrs. Palfrey moves to the Claremont Hotel in South Kensington. "If it's not nice, I needn't stay," she promises herself, as she settles into this haven for the genteel and the decayed. "Three elderly widows and one old man who seemed to dislike female company and seldom got any other kind" serve for her fellow residents, and there is the staff, too, and they are one and all lonely. What...
45) The lido
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
479 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Description
Kate is a twenty-six-year-old riddled with anxiety who works for a local paper in Brixton, London, covering forgettably small stories. Assigned to write about the closing of the local lido (an outdoor pool and recreation center), she meets an eighty-six-year-old widow who has swum there daily since she was a child. Kate's simple local interest story soon blossoms into a portrait of a singular woman -- and a beautiful friendship that provides sustenance...
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1979.
Physical Desc
150 pages ; 20 cm
Description
A great, sensitive, heartbreaking, loving and joyous book which simply celebrates life.
Playwright and Jungian analyst Florida Scott-Maxwell explores the unique predicament of one's later years: when one feels both cut off from the past and out of step with the present; when the body rebels at activity but the mind becomes more passionate than ever. Written when Maxwell was in her eighties, The Measure of My Days offers a panoramic vision of the...
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Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same well-to-do mansion block in London for decades. She lives a quiet, comfortable life, despite her deeply disturbing, dark past. She doesn’t talk about her escape from Nazi Germany at age 12. She doesn’t talk about the grim post-war years in France with her mother. Most of all, she doesn’t talk about her father, who was the commandant of one of the Reich’s most notorious extermination...
Publisher
Touchstone Television
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 617 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Four not-so-old seniors have moved in together in a Florida home. They share the house, their dreams, and a whole lot of cheesecake. Dorothy's main goal is to find a companion she can relate to, while her mother, Sophia loves to tell "Picture this" type of stories. Rose is a little corny, but lovable never-the-less, and Blanche spends her time courting every man she can lay her hands on. All these fiesty seniors have either been divorced or widowed...
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
[270 pages ; 21 cm]
Description
"Face is a book of fictional vignettes that examines the fear and vestigial evolutionary habits that have caused women and men to cultivate the imagined reality that older women's faces are unattractive, undesirable, and something to be "fixed." Based on "older face" experiences of the author, Justine Bateman, and those of dozens of women and men she interviewed, the book presents the reader with the many root causes for society's often negative attitudes...
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Publisher
Harper Horizon
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
xvii, 222 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
As they age, men get the gravitas of becoming "distinguished" while women become invisible. Hecht and Goldberg provide a lively conversation about growing older with no apologies. They believe that the world needs more Broads: a rare breed of women who know their purpose and owns her presence. Feisty, fun, gutsy, original-- are you a Broad? Consider this book your invitation to join the club!
Series
Criterion collection volume 1169
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
After the death of her husband and children, an elderly Lesotho woman prepares for her own death, but finds a new will to live when her village is threatened with forced relocation.
53) 80 for Brady
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
Inspired by a true story of friendship and adventure, four lifelong friends set out on an unforgettable journey to see their hero Tom Brady play in Super Bowl LI and witness one of the greatest comebacks in sports history, discovering that it's never too late to live life to the fullest.
Author
Publisher
Familius LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
254 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"Psychologist Dr. Carla Marie Manly provides an important and meaningful window into womanhood for those approaching fifty and beyond. A must-read book for any woman approaching the age of fifty, Aging Joyfully touches the sensitive reality of the transition from a life filled with new beginnings to a graceful process filled with freedom, beauty, and joy."--Amazon.com.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On the eve of retirement, a judgmental middle-class snob discovers her husband has been having an affair with her best friend and is forced into exile with her bohemian sister who lives on an impoverished inner-city council estate.
56) Petty magic: being the memoirs and confessions of Miss Evelyn Harbinger, temptress and troublemaker
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Using witchcraft to extend her considerable life, Evelyn Harbinger dons a youthful appearance to catch the eye of a man she believes to be the reincarnation of a beloved World War II espionage partner who lost his life helping her to advance the Allied cause.
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Series
New Americana volume 4
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Description
For some folks, Hart's Hollow Farm has seen better days. But for the Hart family matriarch, it's a home worth fighting for. From the moment Kristen arrives at Hart's Hollow, the place speaks to her soul. So when 73-year-old Emmy Hart asks Kristen to help return the farm to its former glory, she accepts--despite her fears about getting involved with Emmy--or the two kids in Emmy's care. Then there's there is Emmy's ruggedly handsome grandson, who...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
288, 6 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Madame Burova, beloved Tarot reader, palmist, and clairvoyant, is retiring and leaving her booth on the Brighton seafront. After inheriting her mother's fortune-telling business as a young woman, Imelda Burova has spent her life on the Brighton pier practicing her trade. She and her trusty pack of Tarot cards have seen the lovers and the liars, the angels and the devils, the dreamers and the fools. Now, after a lifetime of keeping other people's secrets,...
Author
Series
Nonna Maria series volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 22 cm
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Description
"Nonna Maria has lived in Ischia, a little island in the Gulf of Naples, her entire life. Recognizable by the widow's black she's worn every day for decades, Maria always has pasta on the stove and espresso in the pot for the neighbors who stop by to ask her advice on life and love. Everyone knows her, and she knows everyone's business. So when something goes wrong, islanders look to her, and not the local carabinieri, to find the solution. A man's...
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