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"A personal memoir in which Lyn Slater, known on Instagram as "Accidental Icon," brings her characteristic style, optimism, forward-thinking, and rules-are-meant-to-be-broken attitude to the question of how to live boldly at any age. When Lyn Slater started her fashion blog, Accidental Icon, at age sixty-one, she discovered that followers were flocking to her account for more than just her A-list style. As Lyn flaunted gray hair, wrinkles, and a megadose...
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Dutton
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Geno is living out his final days in a nursing home, bored, curmudgeonly, and struggling to connect with his nursing assistant, Angel, who he sees as being different from him in every way possible, and unable to understand him in any way. Perhaps no one really can, since Geno has been telling everyone who will listen that he's not just Geno--in fact, he's lived many past lives, dating back 1000 years, and since that first life in Seville, Spain,...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"A quirky group of seniors attempts to solve one murder while covering up another--with the help of an enterprising tortoise--in this twisty, darkly funny mystery from the author of Three Bags Full. It has been an eventful morning for Agnes Sharp and the other inhabitants of Sunset Hall, a house share for the old and unruly in the sleepy English countryside. Although they have had some issues (misplaced reading glasses, conflicting culinary tastes,...
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2023.
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English
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"On a routine trip to the Piggly Wiggly in Albany, Georgia, widower Fletcher Dukes smells a familiar perfume, then sees a tall woman the color of papershell pecans with a strawberry birthmark on the nape of her neck. He knows immediately that she is his lost love, Altovise Benson. Their bond, built on county fairs, sit-ins, and marches, once seemed a sure and forever thing. But their marriage plans were disrupted when the police turned a peaceful...
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"Life near the North Korean border is a zero-sum game, an ongoing battle in which you either win or you lose. This dangerous, shadowed netherworld is home to an unforgettable woman known only as the 'trickster'...throughout the course of these interconnected chapters she is a slave, an escape artist, a murderer, a terrorist, a spy, a lover, and a mother--a woman who must often choose the unthinkable to survive war and conquest in Korea"--
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Callisto Publishing, an imprint of Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Staying strong and flexible becomes even more important as we age. This guide to exercise for seniors makes it easy to stay in motion with short and simple exercises you can do anytime and anywhere. With clear illustrations alongside step-by-step instructions from licensed physical therapist Ed Deboo, you'll learn how to build muscle mass, improve bone density, and feel great in only 10 minutes per day. A 3-part plan-Start with the principles of...
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Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"The brand new novel from the #1 bestselling author of The Old Ducks' Club! Judy Leigh Clover Harrington might be sixty-one, but she's still bossing it in the corporate world and can still run rings around her younger colleagues. And then she is made redundant.. Devastated and now suddenly the wrong side of sixty Clover doesn't know what to do with her life or her corporate wardrobe! What does she wear if not red lippy and a power suit?! Rather than...
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Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Howard is a widowed sailor living alone on the coast of Ireland. His daughter, Grace, hires Annie, a lovely older woman to help around the house. Initially resistant to this support, Howard is soon charmed by Annie's gentle care, and the two fall in love. This new romance illuminates the hurt within Howard's relationship with Grace, tearing at Howard and Annie's seaside love story"--
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Pearson Educational, Inc., AARP
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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Provides information for seniors on the features and functions of Microsoft Windows 11, covering such topics as personalizing Windows, searching the web, installing new apps, discovering useful websites, sending emails, and solving common problems.
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PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"An elder justice expert uncovers the failures in the systems that are supposed to protect us as we age, and provides a battle plan for families and policy-makers to counter the greed and incompetence. Between 1900 and 2000, Americans gained, on average, thirty years of life. That dazzling feat allowed tens of millions of Americans to reach the once-rare age of 85, now the fastest-growing age group. The bad news: For millions of Americans, the Golden...
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Catapult
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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In this debut novel, a young professional woman with a self-destructive streak pursues an emotionally intense relationship with a married lesbian couple who intrigue her with their ever-increasing sexual and emotional intensity.
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Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"The perfect gift for the senior in your life looking to increase function, improve energy, decrease joint pain, and enhance cognition! It's no secret that people are living longer lately, and setting up an appropriate exercise and nutrition plan is vital to maintaining this longevity. Fortunately,Quick Functional Exercises for Seniorscan help older adults keep up with everyday life activities. This book contains more than fifty exercises for seniors,...
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Paraclete Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Notker Wolf takes a lighthearted, refreshing approach to life that any reader will find delightful! Each of his anecdotes and stories has a nugget of wisdom that will resonate especially with anyone who has struggled against the outward signs of aging. As Wolf says, the soul doesnt age; its timeless and measures itself by a different standard than the body.
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The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"The issue of the future of Social Security, on which millions of Americans depend, produced great political theater at the State of the Union address. That highlighted a bigger problem of financing retirement as baby boomers seek to retire, often with limited resources. Many argue that the solution to the problem is for people to work longer. Teresa Ghilarducci, a noted expert on retirement, argues that the "working longer" idea is wrong, unnecessary,...
19) Humor me /producers, Jamie Gordon, Sam Hoffman, Courtney Potts ; written and directed by Sam Hoffman
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Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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After his wife leaves him, a struggling New York playwright moves in with his father in his New Jersey retirement community, and is soon enlisted to help with a senior citizen theater troupe staging a musical.
20) Ghost story
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Scream Factory
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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About the Members of the Chowder Society, who get together each week to share tales of horror. Soon, however, a secret terror invades the group, and one by one, they die mysteriously because of a real life ghost story that is part of their past.
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