The Home for Unwanted Girls meets Orphan Train in this unforgettable novel about a young girl caught in a scheme to rid England's streets of destitute children, and the lengths she will go to find her way home—based on the true...
Older women
- Author:Graham, GenevieveSummary:
- Author:Lyons, AnnieSummary:
It's never too late to start living. Infused with the emotional power of Me Before You and the irresistible charm of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine and Be Frank with Me, a moving and joyous novel about an elderly woman ready...
- Author:Atwood, MargaretSummary:
Iris was married at eighteen to a politically prominent industrialist but is now poor and eighty-two, and living in Port Ticonderoga. While coping with her unreliable body, Iris reflects on her far from exemplary life.
- Author:Rinehart, Mary RobertsSummary:
Miss Cornelia Van Gorder wants some adventure in her life, so she rents a large mansion to see what she can stir up. There, she is confronted by an embezzlement problem and a murderous masked criminal.
- Author:Aird, CatherineSummary:
A letter received by an old woman's son after her death alerts Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan that one woman's death by natural causes in a local nursing home may actually be murder.
- Author:Peterson, TracieSummary:
During World War II, many of the young men of Haven, Pennsylvania are fighting in Europe. Unable to serve due to an earlier car accident, Andy Gilbert must stay at home and keep his job as a telegram delivery boy, bringing news of the...
- Author:Friddle, MindySummary:
When her husband dies on the eve of their impending European vacation, housewife Emma Hanley watches her dreams of world travel vanish even as she becomes more immersed in the lives of her two living children.
- Author:Butala, SharonSummary:
Writing at the top of her game, Sharon Butala returns to the short story in this astounding new collection. In Butala’s world, the season of fury and wonder is the season of old age. The stories in this book are the stories of women who...
- Author:Taylor, MargieSummary:
Rose Addams is hitting her sixties, but these days it feels like they're starting to hit back... Her daughter, Morgan, has ditched her thesis program and moved back home to Vancouver, while her son Jason's partner has never...
- Author:Wiggin, Kate Douglas SmithSummary:
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is a classic American 1903 children’s novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin that tells the story of Rebecca Rowena Randall and her two stern aunts in the fictional village of Riverboro, Maine. Rebecca’s joy for life...
- Author:Craig, Elizabeth SpannSummary:
To the residents of the sleepy town of Bradley, North Carolina, hardworking Jill Caulfield seemed beyond reproach. She volunteered at the women’s shelter, worked at the church preschool, cleaned houses for extra money and actually...
- Author:GREGORY, PhilippaSummary:
A wickedly incisive contemporary satire which undermines political correctness and modern mores.
- Author:Gurganus, AllanSummary:
Allan Gurganus's Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All became an instant classic upon its publication. Critics and readers alike fell in love with the voice of ninety-nine-year-old Confederate widow Lucy Marsden, one of the most...
- 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:Adderson, CarolineSummary:
At first Curtis isn't worried when his mother doesn't come home after her all-night shift at the gas bar. For a time Curtis manages on his own, looking after himself and his five-year-old brother. But then the credit card maxes out and...
- Author:Edgerton, ClydeSummary:
Lil Olive, the leader of a group of feisty elderly women, decides that she is restless at the Rosehaven nursing home. Lil and her friends need some excitement in their dull lives. So, the group of women steal a car and hit the road in...
- Author:Adams, MichelleSummary:
"A story of love long postponed but never forgotten, Little Wishes is a tale to be treasured. Michelle's Adam's lovely, luminous writing is a beacon that draws readers closer and brings them home to the lasting truths...
- Author:Buffie, ErnaSummary:
At the heart of the novel is 74-year-old Pearl Calder, a woman who has thrown away her past and kept it a secret from her daughters. But as Pearl confronts her own mortality, she begins to understand what her dead husband, Henry, has...
- Author:Thomas, RosieSummary:
Une grandiose histoire d’amour, de perte et de pardon. L’arrivée de Ruby, une adolescente troublée, provoque un tourbillon dans la maison d’Iris Black, sa grand-mère de 82 ans. Fuyant la relation tendue qu’elle entretient avec sa mère,...
- Author:Miller, K. D.Summary:
Linked short stories based on the paintings of Alex Colville and haunted by supernatural elements.