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The cat who brought down the house : cat who, book 25. [sound recording] by Braun, Lilian Jackson.; Guidall, George(CARDINAL)345518;
Local columnist Qwilleran--Qwill, our hero--is immensely wealthy but funnels it through a foundation; lives in Pickax, Moose County, 400 miles north of anywhere; and dates the town librarian (although she's about to throw that over because libraries aren't about books anymore; Qwill's foundation is going to set her up in a bookstore). Thelma Thackeray, in her 80s, comes back to Pickax after a long Hollywood career in food. She's turning the old opera house into a revival movie theater, sparks a few other local delights, but can't seem to get her ne'er-do-well nephew to do well at all.
Subjects: Audiobooks; Books on CD.; Cat owners; Cats; Country life; Journalist-Detective and mystery stories; Koko (Fictitious character); Librarians; Millionaires; Millionaires; Moose County (Imaginary place); Mystery fiction.; Octogenarian women; Qwilleran, Jim (Fictitious character); Siamese cat; Yum Yum (Fictitious character);
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6
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The cat who brought down the house [large print] / by Braun, Lilian Jackson.(CARDINAL)770230;
Local columnist Qwilleran--Qwill, our hero--is immensely wealthy but funnels it through a foundation; lives in Pickax, Moose County, 400 miles north of anywhere; and dates the town librarian (although she's about to throw that over because libraries aren't about books anymore; Qwill's foundation is going to set her up in a bookstore). Thelma Thackeray, in her 80s, comes back to Pickax after a long Hollywood career in food. She's turning the old opera house into a revival movie theater, sparks a few other local delights, but can't seem to get her ne'er-do-well nephew to do well at all.
Subjects: Large print books.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Qwilleran, Jim (Fictitious character); Yum Yum (Fictitious character : Braun); Moose County (Imaginary place); Koko (Fictitious character); Country life; Millionaires; Siamese cat; Cat owners; Cats; Qwilleran, Jim (Fictitious character); Yum Yum (Fictitious character : Braun); Koko (Fictitious character); Journalist-Detective and mystery stories; Librarians; Octogenarian women;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 12
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Prayers for sale / by Dallas, Sandra.(CARDINAL)142674;
Drawn to the newly married seventeen-year-old Nit Spindle, who has moved to their small mountain Colorado town to escape the ravages of the Great Depression, octogenarian Hennie Comfort forges a friendship with the young woman based on shared hardships and secrets.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Depressions; Female friendship; Older women; Women's friendships.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Single-minded : a novel / by Daily, Lisa,author.(CARDINAL)422698;
"Alex has planned and executed her life with laser focus since she first met her future husband at the play-doh table on the first day of kindergarten. They have a terrific life, a gorgeous house on the bay, and fantastic careers they love. There's only one problem: Alex's husband Michael is gay, a fact he neglected to mention in the 23 years since they first met. Now, Alex's perfectly planned life has completely fallen apart, her biological clock is starting to feel like the timer on a nuclear device, and she finds herself drooling over her completely-dreamy-but-definitely-off-limits client, a star chef opening a hot new restaurant. Armed with dating guidance from her oddball collection of advisers--including her gay ex-husband, a foul-mouthed political consultant, a perkily masochistic yogi, and a pot-smoking octogenarian--Alex navigates the booby-trapped world of modern dating, in her search for a second chance at love"--
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Dating (Social customs); Divorce; Women; Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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South of superior / by Airgood, Ellen.(CARDINAL)395989;
Moving to Michigan's Upper Peninsula to care for an aging family friend, Madeline Stone becomes involved in the lives of the small community and two octogenarian sisters who teach her valuable lessons about love and goodwill.
Subjects: Fiction.; Self-realization in women;
Available copies: 13 / Total copies: 13
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It all comes back to you / by Duke, Beth,author.(CARDINAL)851328;
"Veronica "Ronni" Johnson, licensed practical nurse and aspiring writer, meets the captivating Violet in the assisted living facility where Violet requires no assistance, just lots of male attention. When she dies, she leaves Ronni a very generous bequest ... only if Ronni completes a book about her life within one year. As she's drawn into the world of young Violet, Ronni is mesmerized by life in a simpler time. It's an irresistible journey filled with revelations, some of them about men Ronni knew as octogenarians at Fairfield Springs. Struggling, insecure, flailing at the keyboard, Ronni juggles her patients, a new boyfriend, and a Samsonite factory of emotional baggage as she tries to craft a manuscript before her deadline. But when the secrets start to emerge, some of them in person, and they don't stop, everything changes."--Page 4 of cover.
Subjects: Fiction.; Legacies; Older women; Young women; Life change events; Female friendship; Women's friendships.;
Available copies: 16 / Total copies: 16
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Looking for a love story : a novel / by Shaffer, Louise.(CARDINAL)382788;
After the success of her first novel, Love, Max - an irresistibly funny look at divorce as seen through a dog's eyes - Francesca's fictional saga becomes real when her sexy photographer husband bails on her. The good news is that Francesca gets custody of their apartment and their dog - an adoring scamp who has mastered the art of unconditional love. Still, a girl and her dog have to eat, so a desperate search for income leads Francesca to Chicky, a spunky, red-haired octogenarian who wants Francesca to write the memoirs of her parents, Joe and Ellie, who toured the vaudeville circuit in the early 1920s. Francesca is reluctant to take the job, but Chicky's tales soon lure her into a showbiz era as irresistible and unlikely as the love story that unfolds. As she re-creates Joe and Ellie's story, Francesca reflects, with hilarious honesty, on her own childhood and marriage - and discovers how to put the pieces of her life back together in a way that redefines herself and the true meaning of family and love.
Subjects: Fiction.; Intergenerational relations; Self-realization in women; Women authors; Intergenerational relationships.;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 8
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Cats, dogs, men, women, ninnies, & clowns : the lost art of William Steig / by Steig, Jeanne.(CARDINAL)774743; Steig, William,1907-2003.(CARDINAL)149013;
Ladies & gents -- Art -- Dogs -- Cats -- Odd ducks -- Clowns & ninnies -- Bodily harm."Children, octogenarians, and everyone in between knows the work of William Steig, the beloved cartoonist and award-winning children's book author whose cartoons graced the covers and pages of the New Yorker for more than seventy years. In [this book], Jeanne Steig uncovers more than 450 never-before-published cartoons by her husband and provides personal insight and anecdotes about his work and their relationship, shedding new light on this celebrated genius." --p.[4] of cover.
Subjects: American wit and humor, Pictorial.; Steig, William, 1907-2003;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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There but for Grace / by Pierce, Anne Whitney,1953-author(CARDINAL)376874;
"Fifty-three-year-old Grace Winthrop Hobbes is newly divorced with two college-age kids, an eccentric octogenarian mother, a stalled novel-in-progress, and a sex drive that is coming out of hibernation with a vengeance. Refusing to go gently into the dark night of abstinence and retreat, and tired of sexual double standards, Grace makes a vow to seize life's bull by the horns. Her adventures begin with Fuzz, who likes to take notes after sex; with Dylan, a soulful computer genius in search of an "era"; Otis, a one-armed jogger raising a seven-year-old daughter with OCD; and a banker in Vermont who offers a new twist. However, Grace's year of re-liberation doesn't go quite as planned. As her empty house slowly fills with quirky, unexpected "guests," she gains new insights into friendship, intimacy, happiness, and the notion of home. There but for Grace is a funny, earnest look at the modern "family," nuclear and extended - sometimes way overextended." --
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Romance fiction.; Man-woman relationships; Desire; Lust; Middle-aged women; Divorced women; Man-woman relationships;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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Etta and Otto and Russell and James : a novel / by Hooper, Emma,author.(CARDINAL)406133;
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.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Romance fiction.; Friendship; Memory; Older women; Voyages and travels; Walking; Friendships.;
Available copies: 12 / Total copies: 12
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