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"Irreverently funny and surprisingly moving, All Passion Spent is the story of a woman who discovers who she is just before it is too late. After the death of elder statesman Lord Slane--a former prime minister of Great Britain and viceroy of India--everyone assumes that his eighty-eight-year-old widow will slowly fade away in her grief, remaining as proper, decorative, and dutiful as she has been her entire married life. But the deceptively gentle...
83) Molded 4 murder
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Kensington Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Sophie "Phee" Kimball enjoys working as a bookkeeper for a private investigator. If only her mother Harriet could enjoy her retirement at Sun City West in Arizona - instead of constantly getting involved with retirees being prematurely put out to pasture. This time Quentin Dussler, a prominent member of the clay sculpting club, was found dead, clutching a piece of paper scrawled with Phee's mother's name. Terrified she's been targeted by assassins,...
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Breeze Village volume 1
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[Kate Maclean]
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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She's young at heart but feeling her age. When she smells foul play, can an octogenarian catch a killer and prove she still has what it takes?
Virginia Walker fears losing her independence. Mortified to learn she forgot to pay $10K in property taxes, the eighty-year-old spitfire finds herself fighting foreclosure. So when a resident dies under mysterious circumstances at her best friend's retirement community, she vows to solve the crime and collect...
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Honeychurch Hall novels volume 7
Publisher
Constable
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Spring is in the air ... and so, too, is the sound of music as the residents of Honeychurch Hall are stunned to learn that the Dowager Countess Lady Edith Honeychurch has agreed to the staging of a production of The Merry Widow in the dilapidated grand ballroom. Fears that the fiercely private octogenarian must be going senile are soon dismissed when our heroine, Kat Stanford, learns that the favour is a result of a desperate request from Countess...
87) The old people
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Carrying Woman Originals
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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Since the beginnings of darkest silence the people of a mythical island have spent their days tying the ancient knot that binds them to their ancestors. To tie this knot they must dig a hole; to dig a hole they first must have a fire; and to make a fire that is hot enough for hole digging, this knot that they have been tying for countless generations must finally be tied. From silence to mud to rope to knot to wood to words to fire, the Old People...
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Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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When Norman Huntley and his friend, Henry invent an 83-year-old woman, named Miss Hargreaves, they are inspired to write to their fictional friend. The silly, harmless, game turns out not to be such, when she arrives on their doorstep, in Buckinghamshire, exactly as he imagined her.
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Español
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In a nursing home in a town in North Carolina, an eighty-year old man reads his diary to his wife who is suffering from Alzheimers. The diary begins in 1946, when Noah returns from World War II and begins renovating a southern plantation. As the story of Noah and Allie unfolds, their portrait of love, tender moments and fundamental changes affect us all.
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Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
1994
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English
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The story of old people adjusting to age. Retiring news photographer Francis Brimm, 78, settles in Pines, Florida, a few houses from his sister, Muriel. They don't have much in common--he is a cynic and non-believer, she a religious provincial--but one thing they do share, the fear of appearing senile. By the author of The Music Room.
96) Ending up
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"Ending Up is a grotesque and memorable dance of death, full of bickering, bitching, backstabbing, drinking (of course), and idiocy of all sorts. It is a book about dying people and about a dying England, clinging to its memories of greatness as it succumbs to terminal decay. Everyone wants a comfortable place to die, and Kingsley Amis's characters have found it in Happeny Tuppeny Cottage, out in the country, where assorted septuagenarians have come...
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Out to pasture volume 1
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English
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The diary of a woman living in a retirement home in South Carolina. She describes the place, the people and the way they keep themselves busy and happy. With illustrations.
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Secret diary of Hendrik Groen volume 2
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English
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In the acclaimed follow-up to the #1 international bestseller The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, everyone's favorite curmudgeon is back and as funny and charming as ever with the newest adventures of the Old-But-Not-Dead Club -- for fans of Frederik Backman and Graeme Simsion. Everyone's favorite octogenarian is back and, together with his pals in the Old-But-Not-Dead Club, he is more determined than ever to wreak havoc and turn a twinkly eye on the...
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