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1) Calypso
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
Personal essays share the author's adventures after buying a vacation house on the Carolina coast and his reflections on middle age and mortality.
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"I believe Freud got it wrong when he said that the two basic drives that motivate our thoughts and behavior are 1) sex and 2) death, which he sometimes called aggression, go figure. So what runs the show, then? Fear of embarrassment prevails until the age of thirty, followed by the desire to lose weight, and finally, the need to sit down." In LETS BE LESS STUPID, longtime New Yorker staffer and former SNL writer, Patty Marx, employs the weapon she...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"One of the world's leading artists-a living legend-and bestselling author of The Creative Habit shares her secrets for harnessing vitality and finding purpose as you age. From insight to action, Keep It Moving is a guidebook for expanding one's possibilities over the course of a lifetime"--
6) Old
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A family's tropical beach vacation turns sinister when they discover that they all seem to be aging rapidly.
7) King Lear
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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Description
Daisy Fuller Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital the day that Hurricane Katrina hits. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud from the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life. The unusual aspect of his life is that he ages backwards, being born an old man. He is diagnosed with several aged diseases at birth and thus given...
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