Zadoorian, Michael.
Summary: John and Ella Robina, a couple married 50+ years--she has stopped her cancer treatments, he has Alzheimer's-- kidnap themselves from the adult children and the doctors who seem to run their lives, and steal off on a forbidden vacation determined to prove that, when it comes to life, you can go back for seconds and sneak a little extra time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Zadoorian 2009Coe, Jonathan.
Summary: A family saga examines the events and relationships that bind three generations of women, as the elderly Rosamund records her memories of her troubled cousin Beatrix and the tragedy that transformed all of their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COETyler, Anne.
Summary: "It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon." This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The whole family--their two daughters and two sons, their grandchildren, even their faithful old dog--is on the porch, listening contentedly as Abby tells the tale they have heard so many times before. And yet this gathering is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2015
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2 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC TYLKuznetsova, Maria
Summary: "Larissa is a stubborn, brutally honest woman in her eighties, tired of her home in Kiev, Ukraine, tired of everything in life, really, except for her beloved granddaughter, Natasha. Natasha is tired as well, but that's because she has just had a baby, and she's struggling to balance her roles as a new mother, a wife, an actress (or she used to be, anyway), and a host to her husband's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KUZMargulies, Phillip
Summary: A sweeping historical tale based on the life and times of the daughter of a New York merchant finds the orphaned Belle suffering at the hands of a rival cousin before working as a prostitute and transforming herself repeatedly to win the love and life she desires.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARRasmussen, Rebecca.
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shaye Areheart Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RASGriffin, Anne
Summary: If you had to pick five people to sum up your life, who would they be? If you were to raise a glass to each of them, what would you say? And what would you learn about yourself, when all is said? At the bar of a grand hotel in a small Irish town sits 84-year-old Maurice Hannigan. He's alone, as usual, though tonight is anything but. Pull up a stool and charge your glass, because Maurice is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION GRIDean, Debra
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CARButler, Robert Olen
Summary: "A visionary and deeply moving novel centered around former newspaperman Sam Cunningham as he prepares to die, Late City covers much of the early twentieth century, unfurling as a conversation between the dying man and a surprising God. As the two review Sam's life, from his childhood in the American South and his time in the French trenches during World War I to a newspaper career in Chicago...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUTAzzopardi, Trezza.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC AZZDressler, Mylène
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Publisher / Publication Date: BlueHen Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DREHenry, Patti Callahan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HENPouncey, Peter R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Trade Paperbacks 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POUHudson, Melanie
Summary: "'This is a note to yourself, Juliet. You must keep the memories alive, because once upon a time you told a man called Edward Nancarrow that you would, and it's important to keep that promise.' A daring WWII pilot who grew up among the clouds, Juliet Caron's life was one of courage, adventure - and a love torn apart by war. Every nook of her Cornish cottage is alive with memories just waiting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Hudson 2019McCormack, Una
Summary: "An original novel based on the new Star Trek TV series! A thrilling novel leading into the new CBS series, Una McCormack's The Last Best Hope introduces you to brand new characters featured in the life of beloved Star Trek captain Jean-Luc Picard-widely considered to be one of the most popular and recognizable characters in all of science fiction"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCDean, Debra
Summary: In a novel that moves back and forth between the Soviet Union during World War II and modern-day America, Marina, an elderly Russian woman, recalls vivid images of her youth during the height of the siege of Leningrad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEAMistry, Rohinton
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Publisher / Publication Date: Faber 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MISWaldman, Ayelet.
Summary: A tale inspired by the World War II Hungarian Gold Train follows the 1945 American capture of a locomotive filled with riches and the efforts of a Jewish-American lieutenant's granddaughter to track down a mysterious woman seventy years later.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WALDorner, Marjorie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DORCorrea, Armando Lucas
Summary: "An unforgettable family saga exploring a hidden piece of World War II history and the lengths a mother will go to protect her children"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CORFerry, Peter
Summary: "Tom Johnson has just turned eighty-five. When faced with a nursing home, he escapes to the Netherlands to find the woman he fell in love with during World War II. His children want him back, but Tom fights to stay in the Netherlands for love, family and all the remaining rights of an old man"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FERMistry, Rohinton
Summary: Rohinton Mistry's enthralling novel is at once a domestic drama and an intently observed portrait of present-day Bombay in all its vitality and corruption. At the age of seventy-nine, Nariman Vakeel, already suffering from Parkinson's disease, breaks an ankle and finds himself wholly dependent on his family. His step-children, Coomy and Jal, have a spacious apartment (in the inaptly named...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage International 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MISRobinson, Marilynne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2004