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"Once a world-famous photographer, known for her iconic image, "Still Life with Bread Crumbs," Rebecca Winter has drifted out of the spotlight, and is now more inclined to think of herself as the Artist Formerly Known as Rebecca Winter. As her income dries up, she decides to leave behind the expensive world she knows in New York City, sublet her apartment, and move to a small, inexpensive cabin in the country, where her life falls into a quieter rhythm....
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
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Approaching what she believes will be the most interesting period of her life, nearly sixty-year-old curmudgeon Marie Sharp eschews the trend-oriented activities of her peers in order to enjoy her relationship with a new grandchild and a new gentleman friend.
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
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"In a sea of CBA heroines who are unfailingly young and beautiful, readers identify with Dorothy, the plucky 80-something grandma who's a demon at the wheel. Baby, you can drive our car."--Publishers Weekly In celebration of life's simple pleasures, Charlene Ann Baumbich introduces readers to the pastoral Illinois town of Partonville, as well as the farm on its outskirts where eighty-seven-year-old Dorothy Wetstra resides, driving around in her '76...
64) The adult
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Natalie, a college freshman from a remote small town, is drawn into an all-consuming affair with an older woman"--
"An addictively gripping coming-of-age story about an all-consuming, insidious love affair between a college freshman and a mysterious older woman, from an unforgettable new voice in fiction Eighteen-year-old Natalie has just arrived at her first year of university in Toronto, leaving her remote, forested hometown for the big, impersonal...
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"This humorous, candid, and well-researched book is a refreshing and accessible guide to menopause for today's modern woman. There has never been a better time to be a menopausal woman. After all, technology is such that sixty really is the new forty
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2015.
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English
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Embarking on a more than 3,000-kilometer walking journey from rural Canada to the East coast so that she can see the ocean for the first time in her life, an octogenarian woman has experiences that blur her perspectives between illusion, memory and reality.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2015.
Language
English
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"In the tradition of Zoe Heller's What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal, a darkly sophisticated novel about an old woman's curiosity that turns into a dangerous obsession as she becomes involved in her new neighbor's complicated and cloaked life"--
68) Poms
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Several women decide to form a cheerleading team at their retirement community.
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"A tender, joyous debut novel about a cub reporter and her eighty-six-year-old subject--and the unlikely and life-changing friendship that develops between them. Kate is a twenty-six-year-old riddled with anxiety and panic attacks who works for a local paper in Brixton, London, covering forgettably small stories. When she's assigned to write about the closing of the local lido (an outdoor pool and recreation center), she meets Rosemary, an eighty-six-year-old...
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2022.
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English
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Celebrated children’s book author Agnes Lee is determined to secure her legacy—to complete what she knows will be the final volume of her pseudonymously written Franklin Square novels; and even more consuming, to permanently protect the peninsula of majestic coast in Maine known as Fellowship Point. To donate the land to a trust, Agnes must convince shareholders to dissolve a generations-old partnership. And one of those shareholders is her best...
72) The old woman
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Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"An old woman shares her home with a scruffy old dog, her best friend and constant companion. One fall day, they go for a walk and the woman throws sticks for the dog. She loves hearing the autumn leaves under her feet and the wind in the trees. She looks up at a crow in the sky and imagines what it might feel like to fly. As the wind comes up and the light begins to fade, she remembers playing outside as a child, never wanting to go in. Suddenly...
73) Annie Dunne
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Publisher
Viking Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
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Annie Dunne and her cousin Sarah host their great-niece and nephew for the summer on their farm in 1950s Ireland.
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Three generations of a boisterous Irish family are upended by a matriarch's shoplifting activities and an upbeat American home aide whose initial support catapults the family into the worst crisis they have ever faced.
80) Wild oats
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
When a widow mistakenly receives a life insurance check for five million dollars, she and her best friend embark on a trip to enjoy the money and discover that they are being tracked by government and insurance agents.
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