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Tinkers [sound recording] / by Harding, Paul,1967-(CARDINAL)493337; Rummel, Christian,narrator.; Rummel, Christian.;
Read by Christian Rummel.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.
Subjects: Psycholgical fiction.; Audiobooks.; Audiobooks.; Compact discs.; Reminiscing in old age; Identity (Psychology) in old age; Dementia; Fathers and sons;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The Blue Bottle Club / by Stokes, Penelope J.(CARDINAL)358611;
Subjects: Action and adventure fiction.; Christian fiction.; Women television journalists; Older women; Reminiscing in old age;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Bliss, remembered / by Deford, Frank.(CARDINAL)137723;
"A novel"--JacketWhen American swimmer Sydney Stringfellow arrives at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, she never expects to fall in love with a handsome young German, but she does. When politics separate them, she goes home to nurse her broken heart and meets Jimmy, a kind young American who restores her faith in love and marries her before being shipped off to the Pacific theater of WWII. When Horst shows up on her doorstep, though, Sydney is torn and must decide what she is willing to do for love. Told as a memoir, Deford's newest is entertaining and thought provoking. He has a superb sense of character and period, and readers will at once feel drawn into the turbulent times. The memoir device, while overused in many books, is put to excellent effect, allowing readers to easily identify with Sydney's son and interviewer, Teddy.
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Reminiscing in old age; Swimmers; Triangles (Interpersonal relations); Love triangles.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 8
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The Pelton papers : a novel / by Coates, Mari,author.(CARDINAL)850688;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-322)"It is 1961 and the artist Agnes Pelton, nearly eighty, is close to death. Surrounded by a few of her cherished paintings and the boxes that contain her memorabilia--her papers--she pours out her story and shares her secrets at last. Born into a family ruined by the famous Beecher-Tilton scandal, Agnes's life is complicated by poor health and intense shyness as she grows up with her mother and grandmother in a darkly draped Brooklyn house. Always artistic, Agnes finds her escape at the Pratt Institute, studying with Arthur Wesley Dow, and from there embarks on a lifelong quest to develop her own style of abstract art. Success comes early when she exhibits in the famous Armory Show of 1913, after which she is befriended by Mabel Dodge and mentored by another Manhattan socialite with whom she falls into unrequited love. She suffers defeats and heartbreak, travels to Italy, New Mexico, Hawaii, and California, and finally arrives in the desert town of Cathedral City, near Palm Springs. Here she settles into a sheltered and contemplative life, painting the vivid abstracts that are her joy and her reason for being".
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Biographical fiction.; Novels.; Women painters; Painting, Modern; Reminiscing in old age;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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The bird sisters [sound recording] by Rasmussen, Rebecca.aut; Sands, Xe.; Tantor Media.(CARDINAL)341284;
Narrated by Xe Sands.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: Audiobooks.; Domestic fiction.; Families; Reminiscing in old age; Single women; Sisters;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Blue Bottle Club [large print] by Stokes, Penelope J.(CARDINAL)358611;
Four friends gathered in a cold, dusty attic on Christmas day to make a solemn pact. "Our dreams for the future," they whispered, placing tiny pieces of paper into a shimmering blue bottle. But that event happened in the wake of the Depression of 1929, and it is decades later when local news reporter Brenna Delaney stumbles upon the blue bottle . . . and into the most meaningful story of her career. Brenna's search will uncover the secrets of that Blue Bottle Club . . . and her own life will never be the same.
Subjects: Action and adventure fiction.; Christian fiction.; Large print books.; Older women; Reminiscing in old age; Women television journalists;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 10
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Fried green tomatoes [videorecording] / by Avnet, Jon,1949-(CARDINAL)900277; Bates, Kathy,1948-(CARDINAL)344804; Flagg, Fannie.Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle-Stop Cafe.; Masterson, Mary Stuart,1966-(CARDINAL)371627; Parker, Mary-Louise.(CARDINAL)354396; Tandy, Jessica.(CARDINAL)843156; Universal Pictures (Firm)(CARDINAL)318695;
Subjects: Comedy films.; Feature films.; Nursing home residents; Reminiscing in old age;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 5
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The great glorious goddam of it all : a novel / by Ritter, JoshAuthor(DLC)n 2002076653;
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.
Subjects: Large type books.; Loggers; Logging; Reminiscing in old age; Large type books.;
Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 9
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Old heart / by Ferry, Peter,author.(CARDINAL)487892;
Tom Johnson has turned 85 and has suffered a few events, though he knows his mind is sharp. His oldest son, who had Down Syndrome has died, and his remaining two children want to move him out of the homestead lake house and into a retirement home in town. What Tom wants to do is to find the only woman he ever loved, a woman he met in the Netherlands where he was stationed during World War II.
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Older people; World War, 1939-1945; Reminiscing in old age;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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The stars are not yet bells / by Assadi, Hannah Lillith,author.(CARDINAL)415165;
"A story of secrets, loss, and the betrayals of memory: a lyrical novel of an aging woman confronting her romantic past under the mysterious skies of her island home. Off the coast of Georgia, near Savannah, generations have been tempted by strange blue lights in the sky near an island called Lyra. At the height of WWII, impressionable young Elle Ranier comes to the island when her new husband, Simon, is dispatched by his industrialist father to find the source of the mysterious lights. There they will live for decades, raising a family while employing much of the island's population in a quixotic campaign to find and exploit the elusive minerals rumored to lurk offshore. Fifty years later, as Simon's business is shuttered in disarray, Elle looks back at her life on the mysterious island--and at a secret she herself has guarded for decades. As her memory recedes, her life seems a tangle of questions: How did the business survive so long without ever finding the legendary Lyra stones? How did her own life crumble under treatment for depression? And what became of the other man they brought to the island--handsome, raffish Gabriel, who risked everything to follow the light to its source? With echoes of We Are Not Ourselves and even Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, The Stars Are Not Yet Bells is a darkly romantic story of the tantalizing, faithless relationship between ourselves and the lives and souls we leave behind."--
Subjects: Fiction.; Novels.; Reminiscing in old age; Married people; Islands; Secrecy; Married people.; Secrecy.;
Available copies: 21 / Total copies: 24
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