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Author
Series
Wildwater Walking Club volume 1
Publisher
Voice/Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
viii, 239 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Three women who are neighbors share their struggles with unfaithful men, rebellious children, and parental expectations while taking long walks near their homes on Wildwater Way.
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J.R.R. Tolkien famously described the Second Age of Middle-earth as a dark age, and not very much of its history is (or need be) told. And for many years readers would need to be content with the tantalizing glimpses of it found within the pages of The Lord of the Rings and its appendices, including the forging of the Rings of Power, the building of the Barad-dûr and the rise of Sauron. It was not until Christopher Tolkien published The Silmarillion...
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Walking to the shops one day in London's Notting Hill, fifty-year-old Eugene Wren discovers an envelope on the street bulging with cash. A man plagued by a shameful addiction, Wren hatches a plan to find the money's rightful owner. Instead of going to the police, or taking the cash for himself, he prints a notice and posts it around Portobello Road. This ill-conceived act creates a chain of events that links Wren to other Londoners--people afflicted...
44) Carnal knowledge
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999], p1971
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This film traces the sexual triumphs and disasters of two American men as it traces their lives from college days to middle age.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 24 cm
Description
After leaving his partner in New Mexico to start a new life in San Francisco, ESL teacher Aaron Englund seeks closure from a rejection-marked childhood and his own questionable choices by exploring his relationships with fellow misfits in his youth.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
307 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
Julian Treslove, a radio producer, and Samuel Finkler, a Jewish philosopher, have been friends since childhood and, as they enter middle age, they reminisce over their struggles with self-identity, anti-Semitism, women, love, and the past.
Author
Series
Magic shop books (Bruce Coville) volume 2
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Description
Small for his age but artistically talented, twelve-year-old Jeremy Thatcher unknowingly buys a dragon's egg.
48) Hood
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Sixteen-year-old Isabelle learns that she is the daughter of Robin Hood when her mother, Marien, sends her from their priory to get an urgent message to her father, aided by the Merry Men.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"It's been hundreds of years since King Arthur's reign. His descendant, Arthur, a future Lord and general gadabout, has been betrothed to Gwendoline, the quick-witted, short-tempered princess of England, since birth. The only thing they can agree on is that they despise each other. They're forced to spend the summer together at Camelot in the run-up to their nuptials, and within 24 hours, Gwen has discovered Arthur kissing a boy, and Arthur has gone...
Author
Series
Otto Ringling novels volume 2
Publisher
AJAR Contemporaries
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
347 pages ; 22 cm
Description
A novel about family, open-minded spirituality, and the American road. Facing one of life's greatest challenges, Otto Ringling takes comfort in a loving family and offbeat lessons from the eccentric spiritual teacher, Volya Rinpoche.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, A Division of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Peter Morrison's comfortable life takes an odd turn after his best friend begins seeing UFOs hovering over the city and a promotion at work puts him in touch with an author whose mysterious book seems to be coming true.
Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 8
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
287 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
After suffering personal calamities in New York, Mary Ann Singleton moves back to San Francisco after being gone for twenty years and begins to slowly rebuild her life, only to confront fresh terrors when her past comes back to haunt her.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In this British comedy classic, Mr. Charles Pooter, a middle-class, middle-aged city clerk in Victorian England, chronicles his daily domestic and social frustrations in hilarious detail as he aspires to move his family to a higher social position.
54) Rabbit, run
Author
Series
Rabbit Angstrom novels volume 1
Publisher
Fawcett Columbine
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
264 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
Twenty-two-year-old Rabbit Angstrom is a salesman in a local department store, father of a preschool-age son, and husband to an alcoholic wife who was his second-best high school sweetheart. The squalor and tragedy of their lives reminds us that salvation is a personal undertaking.
55) Mighty inside
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
240 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"Melvin Robinson wants a strong, smooth, He-Man voice...But the thought of starting high school is only making his stutter worse. And Melvin's growing awareness that racism is everywhere, not just in the South where a boy his age has been brutally killedby two white men, but also in his own hometown of Spokane is making him realize that he can't mutely stand by"--
56) Deerskin
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (77 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A recently divorced middle-aged man finds his life changing when he becomes obsessed with a deerskin jacket that seems to have strange powers.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (516 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Men of a Certain Age returns for a second season, with all three men facing a number of roadblocks on their continuing journeys through midlife. They know they can always rely on their friends to see them through. Joe recently overcame a gambling problem and is training for a pro spot on the senior golf tour. Owen is finally asserting himself at his family's car dealership, but is struggling with being the boss. Terry searches for stability after...
58) Ordinary world
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (1 hr. 27 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
59) The four seasons
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three very close-knit upper middle-class couples periodically take vacations together. These gatherings turn into a bittersweet exploration of not only their friendship, but divorce and its consequences, after one of the men leaves his wife for a much younger woman.
Series
Criterion collection volume 215
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (94 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A middle-aged journalist and his wife invite a footloose young hitch-hiker aboard their sail-boat for a Sunday outing in the Polish lake district. Like two peacocks, the men proceed to flaunt their virility before the woman, revealing a cynical sadism on the part of the husband and a growing resentment in the knife-wielding youth.
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