If you're a woman preparing for the 30 years following menopause, it is possible for you to eliminate 70 percent of the decay and 50 percent of the injuries and illness associated with aging. And if that sounds too incredible to believe...
Older women
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Author:Crowley, Chris, Lodge, Henry S.Summary: -
Author:Helgason, HallgrimurSummary:"I live here alone in a garage, together with a laptop computer and an old hand grenade. It's pretty cozy." Herra BjOrnsson is at the beginning of the end of her life. Oh, she has two weeks left, maybe three-she has booked her cremation...
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Author:Walsh, AnnSummary:Sixteen-year-old Darrah is in trouble. She lost her temper and, as a result, Mrs. Johnson, was hurt. Now her parents want her to go to something called a "Restorative Justice" circle that the RCMP suggested. Darrah has to face her...
- Author:Sutanto, Jesse Q.Summary:
A USA Today bestseller A lonely shopkeeper takes it upon herself to solve a murder in the most peculiar way in this captivating mystery by Jesse Q. Sutanto, bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties. Vera Wong is a lonely little old lady...
- Author:Haslett, AdamSummary:
Banker Doug Fanning begins building a massive mansion on land formerly owned by retired teacher Charlotte Graves' grandfather. The land was once donated to the local town, and now Charlotte is trying to stop Doug's construction efforts...
- Author:Flynn, RobertSummary:
Chance Carter doesn't like his Grandmother Rista. When he learns her health is failing, the only thing compelling him to leave Florida for Texas is his status as the sole heir to her million-dollar ranch. Yet when he pays her a visit,...
- Author:Butala, SharonSummary:
A collection of essays on women and aging from Canadian legend Sharon Butala In this incisive collection, Sharon Butala reflects on the ways her life has changed as she's grown old. She knows that society fails the elderly massively,...
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Author:Hood-Caddy, KarenSummary:In Karen Hood-Caddy's third inspiring novel featuring environmentalist heroine Jessie Dearborn, Jessie is concerned about the health of the water in her northern town. Harley, Jessie's Ojibway partner, declares he wants to move further...
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Author:Mayr, SuzetteSummary:Refusing to accept being dismissed by a society that leaves little space for old women, three friends plan a daring and extraordinary adventure Hannelore, Clotilde, and Frau Schnadelhuber are tired of living in a world that does not...
- Author:Mayr, SuzetteSummary:
Refusing to accept being dismissed by a society that leaves little space for old women, three friends plan a daring and extraordinary adventure. Hannelore, Clotilde, and Frau Schnadelhuber are tired of living in a world that does not...
- Author:Weiner, JenniferSummary:
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of That Summer comes another heartfelt and unputdownable novel of family, secrets, and the ties that bind. When her twenty-two-year-old stepdaughter announces her engagement to her pandemic...
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Author:Birdsell, SandraSummary: - Author:Chiaverini, JenniferSummary:
Sylvia Bergstrom Compson resolves to find several heirloom quilts that have vanished. Traveling far and wide, she discovers fascinating truths about her mother, who died when Sylvia was only a child.
- Author:Chiaverini, JenniferSummary:
Sarah McClure takes a job helping elderly Sylvia Compson prepare her family estate for sale. Sylvia, a master quilter, agrees to share the tricks of the trade with Sarah. As the two women grow close, Sylvia shares her family's...
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Author:Hunter, MaureenSummary:Bertha Rand, Winnipeg's Cat Lady, was a familiar figure in the news; many knew her as the mad woman who lived in squalour with over fifty felines. In her tiny house on Queen Street, Bertha took in sick and abandoned cats, battling...
- Author:Cronin, MarianneSummary:
Seventeen-year-old Lenni Pettersson has been told she's dying, but she still has a lot of living left to do. Joining her hospital's arts and crafts class, she meets Margot, an eighty-three-year-old rebel, who transforms Lenni...
- Author:Ku, Pyŏng-moSummary:
Hornclaw is an assassin. But now, at sixty-five and nearing the end of her career, she has just slipped up. As Hornclaw's world closes in, this final chapter in her career may also mark her own bloody end.
- Author:Thorogood, RobertSummary:
Judith Potts is seventy-seven years old and blissfully happy. She lives on her own in a faded mansion just outside Marlow, there's no man in her life to tell her what to do or how much whisky to drink, and to keep herself busy she...
- Author:Wesseler, MarlisSummary:
Eleanor Sawchuck wants to spend her last years in peace, enjoying life while she still can, perhaps even pursuing a December romance. So when her book club decides to tackle a memoir by a young woman who suffered horrible abuse as a...
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Author:Allende, IsabelSummary:From New York Times and internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende, an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from San Francisco in the present-day to Poland and the United States during the Second...
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