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large print books Large type books Man-woman relationships Man-woman relationships Drama Man-woman relationships Fiction May-December romances May-December romances Drama May-December romances Fiction Relations amoureuses intergénérationnelles Romans, nouvelles, etc Self-realization in women FictionSummary: The film follows the blossoming love between a well-off suburban widow and her handsome and earthy younger gardener. After their romance prompts the scorn of her selfish children and snooty country club friends, she must decide whether to pursue her own happiness or carry on a lonely, hemmed-in existence for the sake of the approval of others.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA ALLSummary: When a 30-something fashion photographer agrees to a date with a precocious teenager, he gets far more than he bargained for.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER HARSummary: Lonely widow Emmi Kurowski meets Arab worker Ali in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love--to their own surprise, and to the shock of family, colleagues, and drinking buddies. An emotional power that reflects the ethnic tensions within German society.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ALISummary: Charade (1963) is comedy-mystery set in Paris about a young widow who, with the help of a handsome stranger, is trying to find the fortune her dead husband secreted away while being pursued by a trio of thugs.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Madacy Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CHACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Charade 2001Summary: Benjamin Braddock has just finished college and is already lost in a sea of confusion and barely contained angst when he becomes sexually involved with the middle-aged mother of the young woman he's dating.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRASummary: Splendor in the grass: Two 1920s Kansas teenagers find their intense sexual feelings for each other are putting them at odds with their families and the rigid respectability of the town they live in.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE GRESummary: This sparkling British comedy follows a May-December romance between free spirit Lauren and young-at-heart divorced grandfather Ed. The age gap isn't Lauren and Ed's only challenge: they face the disapproval of Lauren's parents, who are practically Ed's contemporaries, and her envious older sister, who's got a chaotic family of her own. On the other side, they endure Ed's down-on-his-luck,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV YOURaney, Deborah
Summary: "At twenty-nine, Phylicia Chandler put her life on hold to care for her dying mother with her sisters, Joanna and Britt. Now Mom is gone and their father stuns them all by running off with a woman young enough to be their sister. Life is moving forward all around her, but Phylicia feels stuck--until her father's protégé, Quinn Mitchell, presents the sisters with an intriguing business...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gilead Publishing, LLC 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION RANHyde, Catherine Ryan
Summary: Anton Addison-Rice is determined to help his neighbor Edith leave her abusive marriage. As Anton falls hopelessly and selflessly in love, Edith fears both her husband finding her and Anton getting hurt.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction HydFairley, Kim
Summary: "Kim Fairley was twenty-four when she fell in love with and married a man who was fifty-seven. Something about Vern -- his quirkiness, his humor, his devilish smile -- made her feel an immediate connection with him. She quickly became pregnant, but instead of the idyllic interlude she'd imagined as she settled into married life and planned for their family, their love was soon tested by the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: She Writes Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FAIRLEY, KIM FAIHuston, Allegra
Summary: This is the time to run away, she thinks, to call it a mistake, to race back to home and safety. If I don't go home I will never feel safe again. On meeting Micajah Burnett, the son of an old school friend, Eve Armanton is faced with a choice. Years of a miserable marriage means she's as broken as the beautiful antique violin she's just found, and Micajah offers a spark of life, an opportunity...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUSWaugh, Daisy
Summary: Sir Ecgbert Tode of Tode Hall has survived to a grand old age - much to the despair of his younger wife, Emma. But at ninety-three he has, at last, shuffled off the mortal coil. Emma, Lady Tode, thoroughly fed up with being a dutiful Lady of the Manor, wants to leave the country to spend her remaining years in Capri. Unfortunately her three tiresome children are either unwilling or unable (too...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAUWhite, Edmund
Summary: "Aldwych West, an eighty-year-old modern-day aristocrat living alone in his Manhattan townhouse, is used to having what he wants. And when he sets eyes on August Dupond, a strong, stunningly beautiful soloist in the New York City Ballet, he decides he must have him. Soon they strike up a closeness that falls between the blurry lines of friendship, sponsorship, and love, and August moves in with...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHIAustin, Finola
Summary: "Yorkshire, 1843: Lydia Robinson - mistress of Thorp Green Hall - has lost her precious young daughter and her mother within the same year. She returns to her bleak home, grief-stricken and unmoored. With her teenage daughters rebelling, her testy mother-in-law scrutinizing her every move, and her marriage grown cold, Lydia is restless and yearning for something more. All of that changes with...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC AUSBishop, Katie
Summary: ""That place has been my whole life. Everything I thought I knew about myself was constructed in those few months I spent within touching distance of the sea. Everything I am is because Alistair loved me." Rachel has been in love with Alistair for fifteen years. Even though she's now married to someone else. Even though she was a teenager when they met. Even though he is twenty years older than...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BISErnaux, Annie
Summary: "The Young Man is Annie Ernaux's account of her passionate love affair with A., a man some 30 years younger, when she was in her fifties. The relationship pulls her back to memories of her own youth and at the same time leaves her feeling ageless, outside of time- together with a sense that she is living her life backwards. Amidst talk of having a child together, she feels time running its...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ERNAUX, ANNIE ERNSummary: In the early 1960's, 16-year-old Jenny Mellor lives with her parents in a London suburb. She is smart, pretty, and working toward her goal of being accepted into Oxford. Her life will take a big turn when she meets David, a man twice her age. Now she must decide if she will pursue an education at Oxford, or if she will choose to learn all that a charismatic, older man can teach her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EDURoss, Ann B.
Summary: Frustrated with her life in the trailer park, Etta Mae Wiggins dreams of something better, but her ambition to marry a wealthy elderly man is challenged by the man's scheming children, her ex's underworld enemies, and her former flame Bobby Lee.
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 ROSCrimp, Imogen
Summary: Anna doesn't fit in. Not with her wealthy classmates at the selective London Conservatory where she unexpectedly wins a place after university, not with the family she left behind, and definitely not with Max, a man she meets in the bar where she sings for cash. He's everything she's not--rich, tailored to precision, impossible to read--and before long Anna is hooked, desperate to hold his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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Summary: A middle-aged, single mother going through an ugly divorce begins a torrid, irresponsible, and obsessive love affair with a twenty-year-old neighbor, resulting in life-changing consequences.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SANSteel, Danielle
Summary: While her mother, Oscar-winning actress Ardith Law, a Hollywood icon at 62, deals with conflicting feels for a much-younger man, her daughter, Morgan, a successful plastic surgeon in NYC, falls for a much-older man, which brings them together as they each try to navigate an unconventional romance.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Abé, Shana
Summary: "1867, Richmond, Virginia: Though she wears the same low-cut purple gown that is the uniform of all the girls who work at Worsham's gambling parlor, Arabella stands apart. It's not merely her statuesque beauty and practiced charm. Even at seventeen, Arabella possesses an unyielding grit, and a resolve to escape her background of struggle and poverty. Collis Huntington, railroad baron and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ABEBrinkley-Rogers, Paul
Summary: "Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Paul Brinkley‑Rogers has lived an adventurous life all over the world. But there is one story he cannot forget: that of his haunting love affair with a mysterious older Japanese woman in 1959. Paul was a sailor aboard the USS Shangri‑La that long‑ago summer when he met Kaji Yukiko in the seaport of Yokosuka. A fierce intellectual,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2016