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Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Walter Schmidt has lived his whole life within the narrow, "comfortable" confines of traditional gender roles: he has made it to retirement without learning how to fry an egg or use a vacuum cleaner. After all, he could always count on his wife, Barbara.But when one morning she can't get up from bed anymore, everything changes. With biting humor and great warmth, Alina Bronsky writes about how Walter, nearing the end of his life, is suddenly forced...
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Stan and Joy Delaney are killers on the tennis court, and off it their chemistry is palpable. But after fifty years of marriage, they've finally sold their famed tennis academy and are ready to start what should be the golden years of their lives. The four Delaney children-- Amy, Logan, Troy, and Brooke-- were tennis stars in their own right. None of them had what it took to go all the way, but they're all successful grown-ups. Then a stranger named...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Upon waking up in a hospital bed in Baltimore with a major headache, recently retired teacher Liam Pennywell can't seem to remember how he got there. However, as he investigates the lapse in time, the outwardly miserable Liam is forced to come to terms with his life.
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English
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"From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older Americans. Finding that social security comes up short, often underwater on mortgages, these invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands in late-model RVs, travel trailers, and vans, forming...
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Publisher
Five Star, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"In this the fifth of the Paul Jacobson Geezer-lit Mystery Series crotchety octogenarian Paul Jacobson returns to Hawaii for a vacation with his family and becomes involved in a series of crimes while struggling with the problems of his short-term memory loss. Paul finds a dead body in the Honolulu Ala Wai Yacht Harbor and must deal with a murder in the care home where his friends reside. He has to use all his geezer resources to solve a case involving...
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Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
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"In Florida for the funeral of Portia Shelby, a former neighbor from Cabot Cove, sleuth Jessica Fletcher and her old friend Dr. Seth Hazlitt discover that an apparent death from natural causes is not always what is seems. Potent pills were discovered among Portia's heart medications, a toxic combination that any physician or pharmacist would have warned her against. But who delivered the lethal dose? Could it be the builder whose beachside development...
9) Out of death
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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On the run from dirty cops who committed murder deep in the woods, a lone hiker finds an unlikely ally in retired cop Jack Harris. The pair must stick together to survive the wilderness and the human predators within it.
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Series
Paul Jacobson geezer-lit mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"We financially plan for our retirement, but do we plan for our wellbeing? Here is an empowering guide with practical tools to help you live a passionate, fulfilling second half of life. If you're part of the Baby Boomer generation, then you belong to 26 percent of the US population that is retiring healthier than any generation before. And that means retirement is starting to look a whole lot different. No longer satisfied with a quiet life of sitting...
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Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Imagine waking up in a place you didn't recognize, not remembering anything from the day before and then finding a dead body. Cantankerous octogenarian Paul Jacobson must solve a series of murders while struggling with the problems of his short-term memory loss. Paul learns about the homeless community, disreputable art dealers and the beach scene in Venice Beach, California, and must dance a geezer two-step to stay out of the clutches of the police...
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Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
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Crotchety octogenarian Paul Jacobson becomes involved in a series of crimes while struggling with the problems of his short-term memory loss. On a honeymoon cruise to Alaska with his bride Paul must deal with missing people and murder. He has to use all his geezer resources to solve a case of international intrigue.
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Series
Return of Sherlock Holmes volume 1
Publisher
Severn House Large Print
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
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