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41) Touch-me-not
Author
Language
English
Description
A mathematical knitters group is working on a coral reef quilt for a competition to draw attention to global warming. When a telephone stalker begins preying on their members, they turn to Victoria for help.
42) The Twits
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
The misadventures of two terrible old people who enjoy playing nasty tricks and are finally outwitted by a family of monkeys.
43) An available man
Author
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When Edward Schuyler, a modest and bookish sixty-two-year-old science teacher, is widowed, he finds himself ambushed by female attention. There are plenty of unattached women around, but a healthy, handsome, available man is a rare and desirable creature. The problem is that Edward doesn't feel available. He's still mourning his beloved wife, Bee. When his stepchildren surprise him by placing a personal ad on his behalf, the letters flood in, and...
44) What Rose forgot
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Rose Dennis wakes up in a hospital gown, her brain in a fog, only to discover that she's been committed to an Alzheimer's Unit in a nursing home. With no memory of how she ended up in this position, Rose is sure that something is very wrong. When she overhears one of the administrators saying about her that she's "not making it through the week," Rose is convinced that if she's to survive, she has to get out of the nursing home. She avoids taking...
Author
Series
League of pensioners volume 3
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In the third hilarious, unforgettable installment in internationally bestselling author Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg's League of Pensioners series, Martha and the League's latest escapade has them headed for the French Riviera in what is sure to be the most daring caper of the summer. Martha and her friends are sitting comfortably in Sweden ... a little too comfortably. Determined to do more for their fellow pensioners--and jazz things up for themselves--they're...
Author
Series
Sisters of Willow Pond trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
John and Ella Robina have shared a wonderful life for more than 50 years. In their eighties, Ella suffers from cancer and has chosen to stop treatment. John has Alzheimer's. Yearning for one last adventure, the self-proclaimed "down-on-their-luck geezers" kidnap themselves from the adult children and doctors who seem to run their lives and steal away on a forbidden vacation of rediscovery along the forgotten roads of Route 66.
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Norbert Zelenka has always lived life on the sidelines. It's how at seventy-three years old he finds himself broke and alone. But when Carlotta's Club--three strong-willed seniors with a flair for drama--decide to make Norbert their latest project, he reluctantly agrees to their scheme.
49) Love always
Author
Publisher
Phillip Finkelstein
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Love Always is a romantic comedy that shows you are never too old for love and adventure. Ruth and Sam have fallen in love but their adult children believe they are too old. This novel, inspired by a true story, details how they break free, get married and see the world. Ruth and Sam remind us that there is no upper age limit on love and adventure."--Amazon.com
50) Wild rovers
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Every man has his dream, and for aging cowboy Ross Bodine, paradise lies south of the border where a good spread, people to work it, and women to love await anyone with enough money. Young Frank Post has no trouble convincing Ross that robbing a bank can make his dream come true.
Author
Series
Ruth Rendell volume 42
Language
English
Description
"Mystery novel about friendship, love, and aging. Synopsis: In the wanting months of the second World War, a group of children discover an earthen tunnel in their neighborhood. Throughout the summer of 1944--until one father forbids it--the subterranean space becomes their "secret garden," where the friends play games and tell stories. Six decades later, beneath a house on the same land, construction workers uncover a tin box containing two skeletal...
52) The mule
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Earl Stone is a man in his 80s who is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. Even as his money problems become a thing of the past, Earl's past mistakes start to weigh heavily on him, and it's uncertain if he'll have time to right those wrongs before law enforcement, or the cartel's...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The series takes place in the geriatric wing of a struggling hospital and follows a staff of overworked doctors and nurses and their elderly patients. Though the tone is darkly comic, this critically-acclaimed series addresses very real issues such as death, hopelessness, abusive patients and the things it takes to survive a high-stress work environment. The hospital's care workers do whatever it takes to stay sane while dealing with unruly patients,...
54) Wilder days
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
James 'Pop Up' Morse seems destined to live out his days in a rest home until he breaks out! He and his grandson embark on a road trip to prove that the stories he has been telling over the years were more than just 'fish stories'.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A curmudgeonly but charming old woman, her estranged grandson, and a colony of penguins proves it's never too late to be the person you want to be in this rich, heartwarming story from the acclaimed author of Ellie and the Harpmaker. Eighty-five-year-old Veronica McCreedy is estranged from her family and wants to find a worthwhile cause to leave her fortune to. When she sees a documentary about penguins being studied in Antarctica, she tells the...
57) Millions of cats
Author
Publisher
Coward-McCann, Inc
Pub. Date
1928, 2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
How can an old man and his wife select one cat from a choice of millions and trillions?
58) On Golden Pond
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Shows the conflicts between three generations of the Thayers. The crotchety old professor and his wife spend their summer together on a lake in New England. The couple agrees to mind their estranged daughter's boyfriend's son, while the daughter and boyfriend go on a trip. The boy bonds with the old man in a way his daughter never did. Shows the terrors and graces of aging.
Series
Publisher
HBO Home Box Office
Pub. Date
2013.
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
Language
English
Description
"Raymond Jaffe feels like he doesn't belong. Not with his mother's new family. Not as a weekend guest with his father and his father's wife. Not at school, where he's an outcast. After his best friend moves away, Raymond has only two real connections: to the feral cat he's tamed and to a blind ninety-two-year-old woman in his building who's introduced herself with a curious question: Have you seen Luis Velez? Mildred Gutermann, a German Jew who narrowly...