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Follow your heart [large print] by Tamaro, Susanna,1957-(CARDINAL)386254; Cullen, John,1942-(CARDINAL)390434;
Subjects: Epistolary fiction.; Large print books.; Reminiscing in old age;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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No! I don't want to join a book club : diary of a sixtieth year / by Ironside, Virginia.(CARDINAL)752487;
Approaching what she believes will be the most interesting period of her life, nearly sixty-year-old curmudgeon Maris Sharp eschews the trend-oriented activities of her peers in order to enjoy her relationship with a new grandchild and a new gentleman friend.
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Older women; Reminiscing in old age;
Available copies: 19 / Total copies: 19
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No! I don't want to join a book club [sound recording] / by Ironside, Virginia.; Phillips, Siân,1934-;
Read by Sian Phillips.Approaching what she believes will be the most interesting period of her life, nearly sixty-year-old curmudgeon Marie Sharp eschews the trend-oriented activities of her peers in order to enjoy her relationship with a new grandchild and a new gentleman friend.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Humorous fiction.; Older women; Reminiscing in old age;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 6
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City of girls / by Gilbert, Elizabeth,1969-author.(CARDINAL)265524;
Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly pleasure), City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love. In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance. Her affluent parents send her to Manhattan to live with her Aunt Peg, who owns a flamboyant, crumbling midtown theater called the Lily Playhouse. There Vivian is introduced to an entire cosmos of unconventional and charismatic characters, from the fun-chasing showgirls to a sexy male actor, a grand-dame actress, a lady-killer writer, and no-nonsense stage manager. But when Vivian makes a personal mistake that results in professional scandal, it turns her new world upside down in ways that it will take her years to fully understand. Ultimately, though, it leads her to a new understanding of the kind of life she craves - and the kind of freedom it takes to pursue it. It will also lead to the love of her life, a love that stands out from all the rest. Now eighty-nine years old and telling her story at last, Vivian recalls how the events of those years altered the course of her life - and the gusto and autonomy with which she approached it. "At some point in a woman's life, she just gets tired of being ashamed all the time," she muses. "After that, she is free to become whoever she truly is." Written with a powerful wisdom about human desire and connection, City of Girls is a love story like no other.
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Entertainers; Scandals; Reminiscing in old age.;
Available copies: 148 / Total copies: 191
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When all is said [large print] / by Griffin, Anne,1969-author.(CARDINAL)783810;
"At the bar of a grand hotel in a small Irish town one Saturday night in June, 84-year-old Maurice Hannigan gives five toasts to the five people who have meant the most to him. Through these people, he tells the story of his own lif with all its regrets and feuds, loves and triumphs."--Winner of the John McGahern Award.
Subjects: Large print books.; Novels.; Older men; Reminiscing in old age;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 9
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When all is said [sound recording] : a novel / by Griffin, Anne,1969-author.(CARDINAL)783810; Buggy, Niall,1948-narrator.;
Read by Niall Buggy.This is the story of Maurice Hannigan, who, over the course of a Saturday night in June, orders five different drinks at the Rainford House Hotel. With each he toasts a person vital to him. His doomed older brother, his troubled sister-in-law, his daughter of fifteen minutes, his son far off in America, and his late, lamented wife. And through these people, the ones who left him behind, he tells the story of his own life, with all its regrets and feuds, loves and triumphs.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Older men; Reminiscing in old age;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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No! I don't want to join a book club / by Ironside, Virginia.(CARDINAL)752487;
Subjects: Fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Middle-aged women; Reminiscing in old age;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The unnatural history of Cypress Parish / by Blackwell, Elise,1964-(CARDINAL)670055;
Louis Proby is an old man now, sitting in his study in New Orleans awaiting what they say is a huge storm, Hurricane Katrina. As he watches the skies darken, he remembers his earlier life, as a watchful, curious young man filled with hunger and desire in Cypress Parish, the life that was washed away when the Mississippi River flooded in 1927.He remembers exactly how the Parish was sacrificed to those waters because the city fathers said it was expendable. They said that flooding Louis's home was necessary to save New Orleans. He has long known that was never the truth. The Parish could have been spared. And he has always known the part his father played in that decision. But what he thinks on now is the dearest cost extracted from him on the day they dynamited the dikes and let the waters flow. He thinks on his first love, Nanette Lançon.
Subjects: Fiction.; Reminiscing in old age;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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The red address book [large print] / by Lundberg, Sofia,1974-author.(CARDINAL)803658; Menzies, Alice,translator.(CARDINAL)429826;
Meet Doris, a 96-year-old woman living alone in her Stockholm apartment. She has few visitors, but her weekly Skype calls with Jenny--her American grandniece, and her only relative--give her great joy and remind her of her own youth. When Doris was a girl, she was given an address book by her father, and ever since she has carefully documented everyone she met and loved throughout the years. Looking through the little book now, Doris sees the many crossed-out names of people long gone and is struck by the urge to put pen to paper. In writing down the stories of her colorful past--working as a maid in Sweden, modeling in Paris during the 30s, fleeing to Manhattan at the dawn of the Second World War--can she help Jenny, haunted by a difficult childhood, unlock the secrets of their family and finally look to the future? And whatever became of Allan, the love of Doris's life? A charming novel that prompts reflection on the stories we all should carry to the next generation, and the surprises in life that can await even the oldest among us, "The Red Address Book" introduces Sofia Lundberg as a wise--and irresistible--storyteller.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Large print books.; Older women; Reminiscing in old age;
Available copies: 11 / Total copies: 13
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Follow your heart / by Tamaro, Susanna,1957-(CARDINAL)386254; Cullen, John,1942-(CARDINAL)390434;
Subjects: Epistolary fiction.; Reminiscing in old age;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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