From an emergency room in Calgary, where an intern hears his poorly timed joke about suicide, Zan winds up on the psychologist’s couch. But the doctor’s efforts to investigate Zan’s mental state are constantly stymied by his misfiring...
Aging
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Author:Tindle, HilarySummary:A practicing physician and NIH-funded researcher draws on her research and experience to show that our unique patterns of thinking and feeling about ourselves, others and the world may be the key to how well and how fast we age.
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There are those who never grow old because they are taken too soon.There are those who grow old without worries, enjoying everything life has to offer. There are those who desperately try to slow down the ticking clock. And then there...
- Author:Schurman, BradleySummary:
A demographic futurist explains the coming Super Age--when there will be more people older than sixty-five than those under the age of eighteen--and explores what it could mean for our collective future.
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Author:Baille, Martha, Guadagni, NickySummary:An Oprah Editor's Pick, named as one of Globe & Mail's Best 100 Books of 2014, and one of Quill & Quire's Best Books of 2014. "Bewitching riddle of a novel." - O, the Oprah Magazine. "Baillie...
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Author:Cravit, DavidSummary:The oldest Baby Boomers have turned 60 so everybody’s starting to talk about the “aging of the population.”
But most of the talk is about numbers: what percentage of the population will be how old in what year, what it will mean...
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Author:Grenier, Daniel, Strauss, PabloSummary:There’s something extraordinary about Thomas Langlois.Thomas is a young boy growing up in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with a French-Canadian father, Albert, and an American mother, Laura. But beyond the fact that he lives between two...
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Author:Bjorklund, Barbara R.Summary: - Author:HALDEMAN, JoeSummary:
Private William Mandella is a reluctant hero in an interstellar war against an unknowable and unconquerable alien enemy. But his greatest test will be when he returns home. Relativity means that for every few months' tour of duty...
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Author:Malley, GemmaSummary:In 2140 England, where drugs enable people to live forever and children are illegal, teenaged Anna, an obedient "Surplus" training to become a house servant, discovers that her birth parents are trying to find her.
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Author:Fitzgerald, F. ScottSummary:This collection of four of F. Scott Fitzgerald's most memorable short stories begins with 'The curious case of Benjamin Button,' in which the protagonist is born an old man and ages in reverse until he becomes a baby, and then finally...
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Author:Fitzgerald, ScottSummary:The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, originally published in Colliers Magazine on May 27th, 1922. The story follows Benjamin's life from his birth in 1860. However he is no ordinary child, as he...
- Author:Young, John K.Summary:
In this course, Howard University professor John K. Young takes audiences through the microscope on a journey of discovery into the world of cells and tissues, where a complex scheme of activity is taking place all the time, literally...
- Author:Laplante, LaurentSummary:
Celui qui vieillit entend à la fois ses grinçantes articulations et les bruits de la société moderne. Ses souvenirs coexistent avec le flambant neuf. Il se rappelle Duplessis et vit sous des gouvernements minoritaires. Il revoit la...
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Author:Currie, RobertSummary:What begins as a look back at a different time in history quickly takes a dark turn in Bob Currie’s latest collection. Embodying a variety of characters, often in different voices – both those of well-known classic poets as well as the...
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Author:Mas, Sophie, Maigret, Caroline DeSummary:From the bestselling authors of How to be Parisian, what smart, savvy, fabulous French women think, feel and advise as they hit forty on life, love, and everything else Older, but Better, but Older has the playful wit, self deprecation...
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Author:IRONSIDE, VirginiaSummary:'Certainly not!' says Marie Sharp, when a friend suggests she join a bookclub when she turns sixty. 'Bookclub people always seem to have to wade through Captain Corelli's Mandolin, or groan, The God of Small Things....
- Author:Le Guin, Ursula K.Summary:
From acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin, and with an introduction by Karen Joy Fowler, a collection of thoughts-always adroit, often acerbic-on aging, belief, the state of literature, and the state of the nation. Ursula K. Le Guin has...
- Author:Homel, DavidSummary:
In 1970, when he was travelling in Spain as an 18-year-old, David Homel took a false step and ended up in pieces at the foot of a cliff. After a spell in a Spanish hospital, he was gathered up in the arms of a nearby US military...
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