Catalog Search Results
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Set in a women's extended-care unit of a California hospital, the story follows the daily lives of a ragtag staff assigned to care for elderly patients who are, well, getting on. Nurse DiDi is the no-nonsense newbie, Unit veteran Nurse Dawn is tasked with training DiDi, but winds up obsessing over male Supervising Nurse Patsy. Disgruntled Dr. Jenna James continues her above-it-all temper tantrums despite being given a fresh start.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Appears on these lists
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.
Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher-for that world or ours. Charlie Reade looks like a regular...
Author
Series
Publisher
Que
Language
English
Description
Easy, clear, readable, and focused on what you want to do. Step-by-step instructions for the tasks you care about most. Large, full-color, close-up photos with callouts to iPhone photos that show you exactly what to do. Common-sense help when you run into iPhone problems or limitations. Tips and notes to help you get the most from your iPhone. Full-color, step-by-step tasks walk you through getting and keeping your iPhone working just the way you...
Author
Publisher
Firefly Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Studies abound confirming what we all know: use it or lose it. Exercise of any kind has a profound positive effect on health, longevity, disease prevention and a sense of well-being. The exercises in Anatomy of Exercise for 50+ will support good health at any age, but for those over fifty they can help in the prevention of age-related problems like joint mobility, balance and fatigue, as well as medical conditions like heart disease, colon cancer,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The Communist Pathet Lao has taken over this former French colony. Most of the educated class has fled, but Dr. Siri Paiboun, a Paris-trained doctor whose late wife had been an ardent Communist, remains. And so this 72-year-old physician is appointed state coroner, despite the fact that he has no training or even supplies to use in performing his new task. What he does have is curiosity and integrity. At his age he is not about to let a bunch of ignorant...
Author
Publisher
Healing Arts Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"In this herbal guide to healthy aging, medical herbalist David Hoffmann discusses how to maintain the body's vitality as we age and how to treat and prevent the health concerns brought about by aging. He provides herbal treatments to restore and protect each of the body's major systems--from the muscles, bones, and digestive system to the pulmonary, cardiovascular, and reproductive organs - as well as herbal remedies for specific ailments such as...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An extraordinary look at what it means to grow old and a heartening guide to well-being, Happiness Is a Choice You Make weaves together the stories and wisdom of six New Yorkers who number among the “oldest old” those eighty-five and up. In 2015, when the award-winning journalist John Leland set out on behalf of The New York Times to meet members of Americas fastest-growing age group, he anticipated learning of challenges, of loneliness, and of...
Author
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"How did Joan do that? Now you can find out! As we get older, our bodies go through many changes, especially physical and mental. Most are out of our control. But for those that aren’t, all we need sometimes is advice about how to make specific, sustainable, and successful decisions that can alter the course of how our lives go from that point forward. This is where Joan MacDonald of Train with Joan comes in. Just a few years ago, this septuagenarian...
72) Going in style
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lifelong buddies Willie, Joe, and Al decide to buck retirement and step off the straight and narrow for the first time in their lives when their pension fund becomes a corporate casualty. To pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, the three risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very bank that absconded with their money.
Author
Publisher
Harper Business
Pub. Date
[2011], ©2011
Language
English
Description
Former Wall Street Journal "Love and Money" columnist presents a valuable and compassionate guide for adult children helping their elderly parents manage their money that covers such topics as estate planning, understanding Medicare, nursing homes, and elder fraud.
Author
Series
100 year old man novels volume 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
When a hot air balloon ride ends with a sea landing and an unexpected rescue from a North Korean ship, one hundred-year-old Allan Karlsson and his sidekick Julius find themselves in the middle of a diplomatic crisis of epic proportions.
Author
Language
English
Description
Now a major motion picture starring Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland, coming January 2018 from Sony Pictures Classics. Official Selection. Toronto Film Festival. Venice Film Festival. “The Leisure Seeker is pretty much like life itself: joyous, painful, moving, tragic, mysterious, and not to be missed.”Booklist, starred review. The Robinas have shared a wonderful life for more than sixty years. Now in their eighties, Ella suffers from cancer...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Feisty Dr. Siri Paiboun is no respecter of persons or party; at his age he feels he can afford to be independent. In this, the second novel in the series, he travels to Luang Prabang, where he communes with the deposed king who is resigned to his fate: it was predicted long ago. And he attends a conference of shamans called by the Communist Party to deliver an ultimatum to the spirits: obey party orders or get out. But as a series of mutilated
...Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request