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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Meet Ove. He’s a curmudgeon — the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him “the bitter neighbor from hell.” But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn’t walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time? Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Liam Pennywell, who set out to be a philosopher and ended up teaching fifth grade, never much liked the job at that run-down private school, so early retirement doesn't bother him. What does bother him is that he has lost the memory of what happened the first night after he moved into his spare, efficient condominium on the outskirts of Baltimore. All he knows when he wakes up a day later in the hospital is that his head is sore and bandaged. His...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
"Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher--for that world or ours." --
4) Old goats
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three elderly retired men who are set in their ways try to see if they can change the way they live out the rest of their lives.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Soldier, son, lover, husband, breadwinner, churchgoer, Henry Maxwell has spent his whole life trying to live with honor. A native Pittsburgher and engineer, he's always believed in logic, sacrifice, and hard work. Now, seventy-five and retired, he feels the world has passed him by. It's 1998, the American century is ending, and nothing is simple anymore. His children are distant, their unhappiness a mystery. Only his wife Emily and dog Rufus stand...
Author
Series
Alex Morrow novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
It's the week before Christmas when a lone robber bursts into a busy Glasgow post office carrying an AK-47. An elderly man suddenly hands his young grandson to a stranger and wordlessly helps the gunman fill bags with cash, then carries them to the door. He opens the door and bows his head; the robber fires off the AK-47, tearing the grandfather in two. DS Alex Morrow arrives on the scene and finds that the alarm system had been disabled before the...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An unlikely friendship between a curmudgeonly old man and a desperate young woman delivers a funny and uplifting message about the power of human connection and how it's never too late to be the person you wanted to be. Eighty-eight-year-old Duffy Sinclair wants the last leg of his bachelor life to be strictly predictable, so Centennial Assisted Living is perfect: low-sodium meals, off-key sing-alongs, and the company of his best pal and roommate,...
8) Lucky
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows ninety-year-old atheist Lucky as he embarks on a spiritual journey of self-discovery.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In a rural Kentucky river town, "Old Jack" Beechum, a retired farmer, sees his life again through the shades of one burnished day in September 1952. Bringing the earthiness of America's past to mind, The Memory of Old Jack conveys the truth and integrity of the land and the people who live from it. Through the eyes of one man can be seen the values Americans strive to recapture as we arrive at the next century.
10) Finnegans wake
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows the narrator through various levels of drunken semi-consciousness. Loosely written around the Irish ballad of Tim Finnegan, who, roused by spilled whiskey, came to at his wake.
Author
Publisher
Workman Pub
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
xiii, 321 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Younger next year draws on the very latest science of aging to show how men 50 or older can become functionally younger every year for the next five to ten years, and continue to live like fifty-year-olds until well into their eighties. To enjoy life and be stronger, healthier, and more alert. To stave off 70% of the normal decay associated with aging (weakness, sore joints, apathy). and to eliminate over 50% of all illness and potential injuries....
12) 102 not out
Publisher
Shemaroo Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Hindi
Description
A one-hundred-and-two year old man seeking to become the oldest man alive clashes with the lifestyle of his seventy-five-year-old son.
14) The great beauty
Series
Criterion collection volume 702
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Italiano
Description
Aging journalist Jep Gambardella wanders the streets of Rome as he reflects upon the promise of his younger days when he wrote a succesful novel.
Author
Series
Visit from the Goon Squad volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Book circles the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other’s pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs, over many years, in locales as varied as New York, San Francisco, Naples, and Africa. We first meet Sasha...
Author
Language
English
Description
The basis for the Major Motion Picture Mr. Holmes starring Ian McKellen and Laura Linney and directed by Bill Condon.
It is 1947, and the long-retired Sherlock Holmes, now 93, lives in a remote Sussex farmhouse with his housekeeper and her young son. He tends to his bees, writes in his journal, and grapples with the diminishing powers of his mind. But in the twilight of his life, as people continue to look to him for answers,...
It is 1947, and the long-retired Sherlock Holmes, now 93, lives in a remote Sussex farmhouse with his housekeeper and her young son. He tends to his bees, writes in his journal, and grapples with the diminishing powers of his mind. But in the twilight of his life, as people continue to look to him for answers,...
17) Grumpy old men
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca.104 min.) : sd., col.
Language
English
Description
Two old men, rivals for fifty years, put new energy into their squabbles when a beautiful widow, and then another beautiful woman comes to town.
18) Land ho!
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Two ex-brothers-in-laws set off to Iceland in an attempt to reclaim their youth nightclubs, trendy spas, and rugged campsites. This adventure is a throwback to 1980s road trip comedies, as well as a candid exploration of aging, loneliness, and friendship.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Sage Singer is a baker. She works through the night, preparing the day’s breads and pastries, trying to escape a reality of loneliness, bad memories, and the shadow of her mother’s death. When Josef Weber, an elderly man in Sage’s grief support group, begins stopping by the bakery, they strike up an unlikely friendship. Despite their differences, they see in each other the hidden scars that others can’t, and they become companions. Everything...
Author
Publisher
Alaska Northwest Books, an imprint of Graphic Arts Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Old Keb Wisting is somewhere around ninety-five years old (he lost count awhile ago) and in constant pain and thinks he wants to die. He also thinks he thinks too much. Part Norwegian and part Tlingit Native (with some Filipino and Portuguese thrown in), he s the last living canoe carver in the village of Jinkaat, in Southeast Alaska. When his grandson, James, a promising basketball player, ruins his leg in a logging accident and tells his grandpa...
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