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Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Joining an anthropologist's 1950 expedition to discover a lost tribe on a remote Micronesian island, a young doctor investigates and proves a theory that the tribe's considerable longevity is linked to a rare turtle, a finding that brings worldwide fame and unexpected consequence.
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Language
English
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Now a major motion picture starring Louis Partridge and Vanessa Redgrave, The Lost Girls is the story of a now grown-up Wendy and her ties to Peter Pan, in a novelized retelling of the original fairy tale. Imagine a world in which the sole purpose of the women in the Darling family has been to entertain Peter Pan and his lost tribe. That is, until the contemporary Wendy Darling decides that she does not want to succumb to the same fate of the three...
7) Autumn
Author
Series
Seasonal (Ali Smith) volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"From the Man Booker-shortlisted and Baileys Prize-winning author of How to be both: a breathtakingly inventive new novel--about aging, time, love, and stories themselves--that launches an extraordinary quartet of books called Seasonal. Readers love Ali Smith's novels for their peerless innovation and their joyful celebration of language and life. Her newest, Autumn, has all of these qualities in spades, and--good news for fans!--is the first installment...
Author
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
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Wearying of endless visits to the myriad points of human history, a time traveler attends his own one-hundredth birthday celebration every year with other versions of himself and encounters in his thirty-ninth year his murdered forty-year-old body, a situation that compels him to prevent his own death.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A married couple who originally agreed to not speak of their past failed relationships alternate reading from the memoirs they've written about their lives, in a novel that explores polyamory, bisexuality, aging, and love.
12) Winter
Author
Series
Seasonal (Ali Smith) volume 2
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Winter. Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. And now Arts mother is seeing things. Come to think of it, Arts seeing things himself. When four people, strangers and family, converge on a fifteen-bedroom house in Cornwall for Christmas, will there be enough room for everyone? Winter. It makes things visible. Ali Smiths shapeshifting Winter casts a warm, wise, merry and uncompromising eye over a post-truth era...
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Language
English
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"And Just Like That"...A Sex & the City Book List
All About Bias
Author Birthdays - October
Senior Characters in Fiction
All About Bias
Author Birthdays - October
Senior Characters in Fiction
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"After a sudden change of plans, a remarkable woman and her loyal group of friends try to figure out what she's going to do with the rest of her life--from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting to Exhale Loretha Curry's life is full. A little crowded sometimes, but full indeed. On the eve of her sixty-eighth birthday, she has a booming beauty supply empire, a gaggle of lifelong friends, and a husband...
14) Everyman
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Language
English
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Description
The hero of Everyman is obsessed with mortality. As he reminds himself at one point, "I'm thirty-four! Worry about oblivion when you're seventy-five." But he cannot help himself. He is the ex-husband in three marriages gone wrong. He is the father of two sons who detest him, despite a daughter who adores him. And as his health worsens, he is the envious brother of a much fitter man.
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A smart, witty novel of driving lessons and vertigo, short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize. Sonja is ready to get on with her life. Shes over forty now, and the Swedish crime novels she translates are losing their fascination. She sees a masseuse, tries to reconnect with her sister, and is finally learning to drive. But under the overbearing gaze of her driving instructor, Sonja is unable to shift gears for herself. And her vertigo,...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A magnificently mordant reckoning with mortality by the great British novelist. Francesca Stubbs has a very full life. A highly regarded expert on housing for the elderly who is herself getting on in age, she drives restlessly round England, which is 'her last love'. She wants to 'see it all before she dies'. Amid the professional conferences she attends, she fits in visits to old friends, brings home-cooked dinners to her ex-husband, texts her son,...
Author
Publisher
Forge/Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Milena Michiko Flaesar's Mr Kat�o Plays Family is an eccentric second-lease-on-life novel for fans of A Man Called Ove and Beautiful World, Where Are You. Mr Kat�o-a curmudgeon and recent retiree-finds his only solace during his daily walks, where he wonders how his life went wrong and daydreams about getting a dog (which his wife won't allow). During one of these walks, he is approached by a young woman. She calls herself Mie, and invites him...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Three women, each facing an empty nest, come together to cheer and challenge one another in this insightful, poignant new novel from acclaimed author Susan Kietzman.For years, Ellie, Alice, and Joan enjoyed a casual friendship while volunteering at their childrens Connecticut high school. Now, with those children grown and gone to college, a local tragedy brings the three into contact again. But what begins as a catch-up lunch soon moves beyond small...
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