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1) Calypso
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Personal essays share the author's adventures after buying a vacation house on the Carolina coast and his reflections on middle age and mortality.
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Language
English
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Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending. Full of eye-opening research and riveting storytelling, Gawande asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end.
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Language
English
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From the moment we are born, our cells begin to age. But aging does not have to mean decline. World-renowned surgeon Dr. Steven Gundry has been treating mature patients for most of his career. He knows that everyone thinks they want to live forever, until they hit middle age and witness the suffering of their parents and even their peers. So how do we solve the paradox of wanting to live to a ripe old agebut enjoy the benefits of youth? This groundbreaking...
4) 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.
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Language
English
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For Fans of HBO's 'Succession'
Pulitzer Prize Winners in Fiction
Shakespeare in Fiction
Shakespeare-inspired Fiction
Pulitzer Prize Winners in Fiction
Shakespeare in Fiction
Shakespeare-inspired Fiction
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Dark truths and long-suppressed emotions come to the surface in 1979 when a successful Iowa farmer decides to cut one of his daughters out of his will.
On a prospering Iowa farm in the 1970's, wealthy farmer Lawrence Cook announces his intentions to divide the farm among his daughters, setting off a family crisis reminiscent of Shakespeare's "King Lear."
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A practical guide to how we can positively adapt to a changing world, from the internationally bestselling authors of The 100-Year Life 'The London Business School professors Andrew J. Scott and Lynda Gratton have been predicting how society must adapt for years. Now they have a post-pandemic road map for us all' Sunday Times Smart new technologies. Longer, healthier lives. Human progress has risen to great heights, but at the same time it has prompted...
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