Rubin, Adam
Summary: When grumpy Old Man Fookwire builds feeders to try to keep birds--the only creatures he likes--from leaving for the winter, he finds himself in a battle with clever, crafty squirrels who want a share of the abundant food.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sandpiper 2011
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC Rub1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE RUB (BASKET)
Jacobson, Howard
Summary: At the age of ninety-something, Beryl Dusinbery is forgetting everything - including her own children. Her tongue, meanwhile, remains as sharp as ever. She spends her days stitching macabre messages into her needlework and tormenting her two long-suffering carers with tangled stories of her love affairs. Shimi Carmelli can do up his own buttons, get around without the aid of a walking frame,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACIronside, Virginia.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IROIronside, Virginia.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC IronsTyler, Anne.
Summary: From the incomparable Anne Tyler, a wise, gently humorous, and deeply compassionate novel about a schoolteacher, who has been forced to retire at sixty-one, coming to terms with the final phase of his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009