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Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"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...
86) Romancing Nadine
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In this heartwarming series from Amy Lillard, three generations of women find the Oklahoma Amish community of Wells Landing a heaven-sent opportunity to take new leaps of faith . . . Wife, widow, mother, and grandmother-sixty-something Nadine Burkhart is everything a sensible Amish woman is supposed to be. She's moved to Wells Landing to give her daughter and granddaughter a fresh start-not herself. So as far as she's concerned, good-hearted farmer...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
In The Destruction of the Books, the Vault of All Known Knowledge was destroyed and its learned caretaker abducted , leaving the forces against darkness without resource and leadership.
The world as they know it and all that is good are now threatened by the same shadows that have oppressed the continent beyond the sea.
The only hope for enlightenment and salvation lies in a lowly librarian adventurer named Juhg who unknowingly brought about...
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis's longtime assistant, Maggie, returns to her ancestral home on Ikaria for her 104-year-old grandmother's funeral, she quickly realizes not only was Yiayia likely murdered, but that a series of other long-lived Ikariots had recently died under the same suspicious circumstances. Back in Athens, Andreas and his chief detective Yianni pursue a smuggling and protection ring embedded in the Greek DEA, and its possible...
Author
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
During the time of Lyndon Johnson's presidency, Herbie Gneiss is forced to leave college to get a job. His income from the Kant-Brake toy factory, which manufactures military toys for children, keeps his chocolate-loving mother from starvation. Mr. Gibbon, a patriotic veteran of three wars, also works at Kant-Brake. When Herbie is drafted, Mr. Gibbon falls in love with Herbie's mother and they move in together at Miss Ball's rooming house. Since Herbie...
93) Aging out
Author
Publisher
Boho Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Myron is a member of the town's notorious criminal family. Soosie tried to kill her sister. Adam was thrown away by his family. The only thing they have in common is they are all wards of the state currently housed in a group home, and they are all seventeen. When they no longer qualify for the state's protection at eighteen, they will be dumped out of the system, regardless of where they might end up. To provide a small handhold when they are on...
95) Molded 4 murder
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"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,...
96) Cuento de hadas
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"A troubled teenager befriends an elderly recluse, who dies and leaves him a taped message explaining that his shed is the portal to another world."--
99) The old gents
Author
Publisher
Arte Publico Press
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
An octogenarian novelist who is resigned to death regains the desire to live, on being smitten by a woman some 60 years his junior. Pops will need all the energy he can muster because competing for the lady's affection are three other men, one of them his son.
100) White rabbit
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
A day in the life of an old woman. She is Ruth Caster Hubble, a cantankerous 88, who lives in a condo in Laguna Beach, California. For company she has her second husband, Henry, king of the boobs as she calls him. The novel describes her daily routine, handling her aches and pains, worrying over her granddaughter's bad boyfriend, bossing Henry and reminiscing on her first husband. The novel analyzes the paradox of the human need for illusion, at the...
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