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"Tassen has always been a one-man dog. When his human companion, Major Thorkildsen, dies, Tassen and Mrs. Thorkildsen are left alone. Tassen mourns Major by eating too many treats, and Mrs. T by drinking too much. But the two unexpectedly find common ground in researching Roald Amundsen's expedition to the South Pole led by a pack of intrepid dogs. But the quiet days Tassen and Mrs. T spend together at the library researching the explorer's arctic...
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"A wildly entertaining road trip novel featuring a college dropout and an eighty-four-year-old woman off on the adventure of their lives, full of tremendous heart, wit, and wisdom from the USA Today bestselling author of The Invisible Husband of Frick Island. Twenty-three-year-old Tanner Quimby needs a place to live. Preferably one where she can continue sitting around in sweatpants and playing video games nineteen hours a day. Since she has no credit...
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"A richly compelling and deeply moving novel that traces the converging lives of a young boy who witnesses a brutal murder, the doctor who tends to him, and an elderly woman guarding her long buried past. It seems like just another night shift for Lucy, an overworked ER physician in Providence, Rhode Island, until six-year-old Ben is brought in as the sole survivor from a horrifying crime scene. He's traumatized and wordless; everything he knows has...
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Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"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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"Kathleen is eighty years old. After she has a run-in with an intruder, her daughter wants her to move into a residential home. But she's not having any of it...Martha is having a quarter-life crisis. Unemployed, unloved and uninspired, she just can't gether life together...When Martha sees Kathleen's advertisement for a driver and companion to share an epic road trip across America with, she decides this job might be the answer to her prayers...Anyway,...
27) Poetry
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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Korean
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A sixty-something woman, faced with a crippling medical diagnosis and the discovery of a heinous family crime, finds strength and purpose when she enrolls in a poetry class. Lee Chang-dong's follow-up to his acclaimed Secret sunshine is a masterful study of the subtle empowerment, and moral compass, of an elderly woman.
28) The adult
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023.
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First edition.
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English
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"Natalie, a college freshman from a remote small town, is drawn into an all-consuming affair with an older woman"--
29) Zero bridge
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Kanopy Streaming
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2014.
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Kashmiri
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A truly independent film of integrity and offhand grace, Zero bridge tells the deeply affecting tale of a student and small-time criminal in Kashmir who develops a crush on an older, college educated woman.
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
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First edition.
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English
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"In her lively social history of American women and aging, acclaimed New York Times columnist Gail Collins illustrates the ways in which age is an arbitrary concept that has swung back and forth over the centuries. From Plymouth Rock (when a woman was considered marriageable if "civil and under fifty years of age"), to a few generations later, when they were quietly retired to elderdom once they had passed the optimum age for reproduction, to recent...
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Nonna Maria series volume 2
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English
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"Nonna Maria sets out to clear her goddaughter's name and uncover the checkered past of an unidentifiable victim in this transporting mystery"--
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Marlow Murder Club volume 1
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English
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"Judith Potts is seventy-seven years old and blissfully happy. She lives on her own in a faded mansion just outside Marlow, there's no man in her life to tell her what to do or how much whisky to drink, and to keep herself busy she sets crosswords for TheTimes newspaper. One evening, while out swimming in the Thames, Judith witnesses a brutal murder. The local police don't believe her story, so she decides to investigate for herself, and is soon joined...
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New York Review Books
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2021.
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English
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"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...
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Gaia & Friends, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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The Blossoming of Women brings us a new, wide sweep of research, personal stories, and thought-provoking questions to help fortify and guide us to our unique role as Elders. Elders who are decidedly not alone, lost or forgotten but deeply involved and connected in a world where we make a distinctive and valuable contribution to the whole as we become more truly ourselves.--Publisher.
38) Still Doing It
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Flying in the face of this culture’s extreme ageism, STILL DOING IT explores the lives of older women. Partnered, single, straight, gay, black and white, nine extraordinary women, 67-87, express with startling honesty and humor how they feel about themselves, sex and love in later life and the poignant realities of aging. Outspoken for their generation these women mark a sea change. Women over 65 are already the fastest growing segment of the population...
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Taos Institute Publications
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[2015]
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English
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As they turned 70, the authors of 70Candles! Women Thriving in Their 8th Decade set out to investigate how women their age and older were living their lives. They sought role models for themselves and messages for the droves of baby boomers on their heels. They were curious about the challenges and joys of their age-mates, their work and retirement status, living arrangements, family and social connections, and more. These septuagenarians knew they...
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Ullstein
Pub. Date
2011
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Deutsch
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"Als die 79-jh̃rige Elfriede wegen Schlafstr̲ungen einen Arzt aufsucht, rat ihr dieser: 'Suchen Sie sich einen Mann.' Die alte Dame ist zunc̃hst skeptisch, tastet sich dann jedoch ins Liebesleben zuruck, das bald turbulenter und intensiver wird, als es fur sie je war. Nacktbadestrand ist eine uberraschende, provokante und wahre Geschichte uber Lust, Phantasien und Beziehungsñgste im Spt̃herbst des Lebens"--P. [4] of cover.
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