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83) 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.
86) Deadline
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English
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Laura Leigh, a Hollywood starlet whose main talent seems to be landing in trouble, is missing. Toot's daughter, Abby, has both a personal and professional stake in the story. Not only is she editor-in-chief at gossip magazine The Informer but entertainment attorney Chris Clay, Abby's would-be beau, was the last person to see Laura. And now he's missing, too.
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Series
Red gloves series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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A New York Times bestselling author weaves a heartwarming tale of redemptive grace and the spirit of Christmas.
Every year Sarah Lindeman celebrates Christmas the same way, placing one special ornament on her tiny tree on each of the twelve days of Christmas. It is her time to remember where she came from, who she is today, and how long ago a song gave her another chance at love.. But this year the ritual is different. This year...88) A place for us
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Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When Martha, a wife and mother of three, sits down one late summer's morning to write out the invitations to her eightieth birthday celebration, she knows that what she is planning to reveal at the party could ruin the idyllic life she and her husband David have spent over fifty years building. But she has to let her family know what she and David have sacrificed. She can't live a lie any more.
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Series
Ladies of Covington volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
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Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"Pete is content in his simple life in a remote Montana town, but elderly widow Wilma is busy meddling in Pete's life to make up for past wrongs. When the sister Pete was separated from as a child shows up, Pete must confront a difficult past, and Wilma discovers her long-awaited chance at redemption may come at too high a price"--
"For the first time in his life, Pete has everything to lose. After years of drifting, fifty-year-old Pete Ryman has...
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
After the devastating death of her mother, Una Richardson becomes a ladies’ companion for Mrs. Elspeth McKenzie, garnering the wrath of Elspeth’s cold and bitter daughter, which leads to the discovery that there were two companions before her, never to be seen again.
93) The snow hare
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Lena has lived a long, quiet life on her farm in Wales, alongside her husband and child. But as her end approaches, buried memories begin to return. Of her childhood in Poland, and her passion for science. Of the early days of her marriage, reluctant wife to an army officer. Of the birth of her daughter, whose arrival changed everything. Memories less welcome return, too. Her Polish village, transformed overnight by the Soviets, and the war that...
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Language
English
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"HBO Max’s Hacks gets a romantic twist in the vein of Jenn Bennett in this swoon-worthy novel about a standoffish teen girl whose loner status gets challenged by a dynamic elderly woman and a perpetually cheerful boy. Eloise Deane is the worst and doesn’t care who knows it. She’s grumpy, prefers to be alone, and is just slogging through senior year with one goal: get accepted to USC and move to California. So when her guidance counselor drops...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"Fall 2016 Library Journal Editors' Pick "In my reckless and undiscouraged youth," Lillian Boxfish writes, "I worked in a walnut-paneled office thirteen floors above West Thirty-Fifth Street..." She took 1930s New York by storm, working her way up writing copy for R.H. Macy's to become the highest paid advertising woman in the country. It was a job that, she says, "in some ways saved my life, and in other ways ruined it." Now it's the last night...
96) Infinite home
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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The story of an ad hoc family and the crisis they must overcome together.
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Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When she gets word that her old flame has been arrested for art theft and forgery, seventysomething influencer Gloria Rose decides to go on the run but her plan is complicated when the nieces she raised are thrown into crises of their own.
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Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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A humorous and compassionate look at friendship between an old woman and a young man.
"On a rainy Sunday afternoon in January the recently widowed Mrs. Palfrey moves to the Claremont Hotel in South Kensington. "If it's not nice, I needn't stay," she promises herself, as she settles into this haven for the genteel and the decayed. "Three elderly widows and one old man who seemed to dislike female company and seldom got any other kind" serve for her...
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Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Recent sexagenarian widow Dawna Carpenter thought running her own hardware store after the death of her husband was hard enough. With her adult daughter, April, moving back into town, and Darlene, the annoying boutique owner next door to her shop poking around, Dawna has her hands full. But when she finds a dead man in the bathroom of her store, with a framing hammer by his side, she’s in way over her head. The victim, Warren Highcastle, was a...
100) These old broads
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Three aging divas and their agent all hate each other, but since they are all desperate for money they agree to reunite for a television special.
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