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  • Thorazine beach
    Author:
    Harris, Bradley
    Summary:

    Winner, 35th International 3-Day Novel Contest.

    Jack Minyard is a private eye down on his luck. He’s badly overweight and on the wrong side of sixty. He’s lost his marriage, and maybe a little of his mind, too. After narrowly...
  • The wheaton
    Author:
    Jackson, Joanne
    Summary:

    A year after the early death of his wife, John Davies comes hesitantly out of retirement to take a job at The Wheaton, a senior's residence. Having resisted 'getting involved' for his entire life, John is immediately out of his comfort...
  • The storyteller
    Author:
    Picoult, Jodi
    Summary:

    Sage Singer befriends Josef Weber, a beloved Little League coach and retired teacher. But then Josef asks Sage for a favor she never could have imagined--to kill him. After Josef reveals the heinous act he committed, Sage feels he may...
  • The spectator bird
    Author:
    Stegner, Wallace
    Summary:

    A retired literary agent revisits his journals from a trip he took to his mother's birthplace some years before. His memories reveal that he has been less of a mere spectator through life than he had thought.
  • The sigma protocol
    Author:
    Ludlum, Robert
    Summary:

    American investment banker Ben Hartman is on holidays in Switzerland when he meets a childhood friend - who promptly tries to kill him. But this is only the beginning.
  • The secret diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 1/4 years old
    Author:
    Groen, Hendrik
    Summary:

    Hendrik Groen may be old, but he is far from dead and isn't planning to be buried anytime soon. Instead, he sets out to write an exposé: a year in the life of his care home in Amsterdam.
  • The Seary line
    Author:
    Lundrigan, Nicole
    Summary:

    Nearing death, an old man laments his poor choice of a wife, and has orchestrated a situation where he will see his childhood love one last time. From these circumstances emerges Stella, a woman who grapples with her family ghosts as...
  • The road to Lichfield
    Author:
    Lively, Penelope
    Summary:

    The Road to Lichfield is the Booker Prize shortlisted first novel by Penelope Lively. Ann Linton leaves her family in Berkshire and sets up camp in her father's house when he is taken into a nursing home in distant Lichfield. As...
  • The rights of desire
    Author:
    Brink, Andre
    Summary:

    Ruben Oliver's life is coming apart. He is obliged to take early retirement as a librarian due to the new political realities of South Africa. His wife dead, one son in Australia, the other emigrating, the only constants are his...
  • The old man and the sea
    Author:
    Hemingway, Ernest
    Summary:

    The story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal, a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream.
  • The inheritance of loss
    Author:
    Desai, Kiran
    Summary:

    Himalayas, 1986. Retired judge Jemubhai Patel lives with his cook and sixteen-year-old granddaughter, Sai. An Indian-Nepalese insurgency makes Jemubhai confront his past and interrupts Sai's romance with her Nepali tutor. Meanwhile...
  • The greatest lover of last Tuesday
    Author:
    McKinnon, Neil
    Summary:

    Eighty-year-old Alberto Camelo has searched for love in all the wrong places. Nevertheless, he claims that his experiences have made him the world’s greatest lover. This claim is belied by his ancient neighbour and closest friend...
  • The Finkler question
    Author:
    Jacobson, Howard
    Summary:

    Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disappointed BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different...
  • The borrowed life of Frederick Fife
    Author:
    Johnston, Anna
    Summary:

    "A funny, heartfelt story about found family and seeing the silver lining in life. Fans of A Man Called Ove and Remarkably Bright Creatures will especially enjoy this new novel." —Library Journal. A zany case of mistaken...
  • The angel's jig
    Author:
    Poliquin, Daniel
    Summary:

    Facing the dwindling years of his life, an old man waits for his turn on the auction block, hoping to be sold to a family as decent as the one he is leaving. It is not the first time he has been here, and it may not be the last. Mute in...
  • Strange weather in Tokyo
    Author:
    Kawakami, Hiromi
    Summary:

    Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Asian Literary Prize, Strange Weather in Tokyo is a story of loneliness and love that defies age. Tsukiko, thirty-eight, works in an office and lives alone. One night, she happens to meet one of her former...
  • Schmidt steps back
    Author:
    Begley, Louis
    Summary:

    Schmidt is a self-described maverick WASP attorney who now heads a foundation established by his magnanimous billionaire Jewish Egyptian friend, Mike Mansour. At 78, Schmidt is widowed, vigorous, shrewd yet romantic, with a gargantuan...
  • Rhino ranch
    Author:
    McMurtry, Larry
    Summary:

    Fast approaching 70, Duane Moore is adjusting to the loneliness of retirement. Then things get stirred up when a billionaire heiress moves to the area and opens a rhinoceros sanctuary.
  • Pépé à la mer
    Author:
    Dufresne, Rhéa
    Summary:

    « Pépé est la terreur de Mouettes-sur-Mer.» Il trouve son bonheur dans l’art de déranger les autres, il les dérange tous. Les lecteurs, les baigneurs, les architectes de châteaux de sable, les joueurs de volleyball… qu’ils soient...
  • Pere Goriot
    Author:
    Balzac, Honoré de
    Summary:

    At the shabby boarding house in the rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève, petty Madame Vauquer and her tenants wonder at the plight of the aging resident Goriot. Once a well-heeled merchant, Goriot was--at first--afforded special treatment from...

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