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Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
x, 188 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"A witty new novel about three self-proclaimed "old bags" who run off to a Greek island... Since their children left home, Ruth, Dania, and Bess have grown used to living wonderfully free lives. Only now they're beset by children again--this time, their grandchildren. In order to escape, they decide to run away to Greece together for a year. At first, settled on a glorious island, barefoot and contented, they think they've rediscovered the wheel....
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
224 pages
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
Description
"The Dollhouse. That's what we boys like to call it. The Barbizon Hotel for Women, packed to the rafters with pretty little dolls. Just like you." Fiona Davis's stunning debut novel pulls readers into the lush world of New York City's glamorous Barbizon Hotel for Women, where a generation of aspiring models, secretaries, and editors lived side-by-side while attempting to claw their way to fairy-tale success in the 1950s, and where a present-day journalist...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 19 cm.
Description
At sixty-five, Hornclaw is beginning to slow down. She lives modestly in a small apartment, with only her aging dog, a rescue named Deadweight, to keep her company. There are expectations for people her age—that she'll retire and live out the rest of her days quietly. But Hornclaw is not like other people. She is an assassin. Double-crossers, corporate enemies, cheating spouses—for the past four decades, Hornclaw has killed them all with ruthless...
90) The weekend
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"For nearly four decades, lifelong friends Jude, Wendy, Adele, and Sylvie have seen each other through romances, child-rearing, changing careers, divorces, medical recoveries, and general aging. But now Sylvie has died, and the three remaining women are tasked with cleaning out her beach house before it's sold. Thrust together In this weathered old house on the ocean, where the ghosts of their younger selves compete with their current realities, the...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"A novel set in England about eighty-four-year-old Florence, a resident in a nursing home, who has fallen in her apartment, leading her to think about her childhood friend and the secrets of their past that are about to come to light"--
Author
Series
Puzzle lady mysteries volume 14
Formats
Description
"When an elderly boarder at a Bakerhaven bed-and-breakfast drops dead during afternoon tea, there's nothing particularly suspicious about it--except for the Sudoku in his jacket pocket. But when a second body turns up in the window seat and an autopsy shows both men were poisoned with elderberry wine, the Puzzle Lady suspects she's dealing with a cold-blooded killer who for some reason is copying the Cary Grant movie Arsenic and Old Lace, in which...
94) The cemetery yew
Author
Series
Victoria Trumbull mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
vii, 243 p. ; 22 cm.
Author
Publisher
FaithWords
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 21 cm
Description
" A heartwarming story that celebrates how life-changing friendships can be found in all seasons of life. The sprawling lake home Lynn Lundberg built with her husband has been an epicenter of joyful family life, from summer holidays spent around the water, to cookies baked in the kitchen with grandchildren in the fall. But since her husband's sudden passing two years ago, Lynn has been lost in the grief and solitude she feels without him at home....
96) Florence Gordon
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Meet Florence Gordon: blunt, brilliant, cantankerous and passionate, feminist icon to young women, invisible and underappreciated by most everyone else. At seventy-five, Florence has earned her right to set down the burdens of family and work and shape her legacy at long last. But just as she is beginning to write her long-deferred memoir, her son Daniel returns to New York from Seattle with his wife and daughter, and they embroil Florence in their...
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Formats
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, 92-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 escaped...
99) Good eggs
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Formats
Description
"When Kevin Gogarty's irrepressible eighty-three-year-old mother, Millie, is caught shoplifting yet again, he has no choice but to hire a caretaker to keep an eye on her. Kevin, recently unemployed, is already at his wits' end tending to a full house while his wife travels to exotic locales for work, leaving him solo with his sulky, misbehaved teenaged daughter, Aideen, whose troubles escalate when she befriends the campus rebel at her new boarding...
100) The new neighbor
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Stoic and independent, ninety-year-old Margaret Riley rarely leaves the Tennessee mountaintop where she lives, finding comfort in the mystery novels that keep her company-- until she spots a woman who's moved into the long-empty house across the pond. On the run from her old life, Jennifer Young and her four-year-old son, Milo, have moved to a quiet town where no one from her past can find her. Seeing Jennifer as a mystery to be solved, Margaret crosses...
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