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Tinkers [kit] / by Harding, Paul,1967-(CARDINAL)493337;
On his deathbed, surrounded by his family, George Washington Crosby's thoughts drift back to his childhood and the father who abandoned him when he was twelve.Winner Pulitzer Prize in fiction 2010.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Dementia; Identity (Psychology) in old age; Reminiscing in old age;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Tinkers / by Harding, Paul,1967-(CARDINAL)493337;
An old man lies dying. As time collapses into memory, he travels deep into his past where he is reunited with his father and relives the wonder and pain of his impoverished New England youth.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Dementia; Identity (Psychology) in old age; Reminiscing in old age;
Available copies: 12 / Total copies: 13
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The rain before it falls / by Coe, Jonathan.(CARDINAL)778790;
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Family secrets; Reminiscing in old age;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 7
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The great glorious goddamn of it all : a novel / by Ritter, Josh,author.(CARDINAL)671046;
In the tiny timber town of Cordelia, Idaho, ninety-nine year old Weldon Applegate recounts his life in all its glory. It's the story of dark pine forests brewing with ancient magic, and Weldon's struggle as a boy to keep his father's inherited timber claim, the Lost Lot, from the ravenous clutches of Linden Laughlin. Local legend says the Applegate family line boasts some of the greatest lumberjacks to ever roam the American West, but at the beginning of the twentieth century the jacks are dying out. Now it is up to Weldon to defend his family legacy. -- adapted from jacket
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Novels.; Loggers; Logging; Reminiscing in old age;
Available copies: 17 / Total copies: 18
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The Bird sisters : a novel / by Rasmussen, Rebecca.(CARDINAL)499823;
As elderly women, sisters Twiss and Milly live alone in the house where they grew up in Spring Green, Wis. They spend their days tending to injured birds and roaming their land, lost in memories. For Milly, there is the constant reminder of what could have been. Twiss spent her childhood happily trailing behind their golf-pro father, but Milly dreamed about a family and children that never happened. There was hope for a young Milly, until an accident strips their father of his golfing abilities and sets in motion a series of events that rips apart the already unstable family.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Sisters; Single women; Reminiscing in old age;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 8
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The Bird sisters. [large print] by Rasmussen, Rebecca.(CARDINAL)499823;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Twiss and her sister Milly have spent their lives nursing people and birds back to health. But back in the summer of 1947 they knew nothing about trying to mend what had been accidentally broken. That was the summer their golf pro father got in to an accident that cost him his swing and his charm; and their mother, the daughter of a wealthy jeweler, finally admitted their hardscrabble lives wouldn't change. Their priest announced that God didn't exist and ran off to Mexico, and a boy named Asa finally caught Milly's eye. And it was the summer their cousin Bett came down from a town called Deadwater and changed the course of their lives.
Subjects: Fiction.; Large print books.; Reminiscing in old age; Single women; Sisters;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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Tinkers. by Harding, Paul,1967-(CARDINAL)493337;
Subjects: Fiction.; Dementia; Identity (Psychology) in old age; Psychological fiction.; Reminiscing in old age;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Darke / by Gekoski, R. A.,author.(CARDINAL)718039;
Dr James Darke has expelled himself from the world. He writes compulsively in his 'coming of old age' journal; he eats little, drinks and smokes a lot. Meditating on what he has lost - the loves of his life, both dead and alive - he tries to console himself with the wisdom of the great thinkers and poets, yet finds nothing but disappointment. But cracks of light appear in his carefully managed darkness; he begins to emerge from his self-imposed exile, drawn by the tender, bruised filaments of love for his daughter and grandson.
Subjects: Novels.; Old age; Reminiscing in old age; Death; Families;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Grace [large print] / by Evans, Richard Paul.(CARDINAL)340505;
An old man reminisces about his first love, a young runaway who taught him more about life than anyone had before or since.
Subjects: Large print books.; Christmas fiction.; Christian fiction.; Romance fiction.; Reminiscing in old age; First loves; Runaway teenagers;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 5
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Grace : a novel / by Evans, Richard Paul.(CARDINAL)340505;
An old man reminisces about his first love, a young runaway who taught him more about life than anyone had before or since.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Christian fiction.; Christmas fiction.; First loves; Reminiscing in old age; Runaway teenagers;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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