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Author
Series
Publisher
Debols¡llo
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
Español
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 behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty young couple with two chatty young daughters move in next door and accidentally flatten Ove's mailbox,...
42) Coda
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A famous pianist struggling with stage fright late in his career finds inspiration with a free-spirited music critic.
43) Family matters
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
431 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
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 Chateau Felicity), but are too squeamish and resentful to tend to his physical needs. Nariman must now turn to his younger daughter, Roxana, her husband, Yezad, and their two sons, who share a small, crowded home....
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Widower Otto cannot get over the death of his wife and keeps making clumsy attempts at suicide until he forms an unlikely friendship with a boisterous young family who has moved in next door.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
" We aspire to live in a country where old men are celebrated as vital elders but not demeaned if they become ill and dependent. We aspire to maintain health as well as maintain dignity and fulfillment in frailty. Old Man Country helps readers see and imagine these possibilities for themselves. The book follows the journey of a writer in search of wisdom, as he encounters twelve distinguished American men over 80 -- including Paul Volcker, the former...
46) Tommaso
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A story of a middle-aged American actor and filmmaker, who is recovering from his drug addiction and alcoholism and living with his much younger wife and their little daughter in Rome.
47) Papa Goriot
Author
Publisher
YoYo USA Inc
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
3 sound discs (3 hrs) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
El hecho de que el inquilino en la casa de huespedes de vauquer, goriot tenga todo el aspecto de un hombre pobre y abandonado por la fortuna no le impide alardear de que sus dos hijas son, respectivamente una duquesa y una baronesa. El padre las ama, pero las hijas que han subido de posicion social lo ignoran y hasta lo desprecian.
The fact that the tenant in the boarding house of Vauquer, Goriot, has the aspect of a poor man ignored by fortune does...
48) Be mine
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
10 audio discs (12 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Now in the twilight of life, Frank Bascombe, a man who has occupied many colorful lives, finds himself in the most sorrowing role of all: caregiver to his son, Paul, diagnosed with ALS. On a shared winter odyssey to Mount Rushmore, Frank faces down the mortality that is assured each of us, and in doing so confronts what happiness might signify at the end of days.
49) The mule
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a true story, follows a man in his eighties who is desperate for money and becomes a drug courier for a Mexican cartel.
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