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"Lili Howe took a leap of faith when she decided to join the Tornado Alleycats, her elderly landlady's all-female glamour-camping club. Lili's always given everything to her career, putting herself on track to become her CPA firm's youngest partner. But now that Lili's carefully planned future is shattered, she's willing to let summer work its magic on her-at all costs. There's never a dull moment at Stardance Ranch, the Colorado resort Brick Callahan...
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Will Self possesses one of the greatest literary imaginations of any writer working today. How the Dead Live is his most extraordinary book yet-a novel that will challenge, entertain, and truly astonish. Lily Bloom is an aging American transplanted to England who has lost her battle with cancer and lies wasting away at the Royal Ear Hospital. As her two daughters-lumpy Charlotte, who runs a hugely successful chain of stationery stores called Waste...
44) The new neighbor
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"In the tradition of Zoe Heller's What Was She Thinking? : Notes on a Scandal, a darkly sophisticated novel about an old woman's curiosity that turns into a dangerous obsession as she becomes involved in her new neighbor's complicated and cloaked life"--
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"A heart-warming story that celebrates the bonds of friends, family and sisterhood. This is a beautifully crafted novel." -Kristina Seek, author of The Hashtag Hunt
As a group of eighty-something girlfriends deals with the mental decline of their sorority sister, they reconnect with their college sorority, advise their grandchildren, find new lives for themselves, and continue to show up for each other.
Vivian, nicknamed "Button," is an Alzheimer's...
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Aunt Augusta, in her late 70's embroils her bachelor nephew, an utterly respectable, dahlia-growing, retired bank manager, in a series of wild escapades. The action moves from London, across the European continent to Istanbul, and ends in Paraguay. Most of the characters are from Aunt Augusta's somewhat murky past, although there are contemporary figures as a CIA agent and his hippie daughter, and Wordsworth from Sierra Leone, who lives with Aunt...
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"Another hilarious crime caper from the #1 bestselling author of the The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules continues the misadventures of the Senior League--who now have their sights set on Saint-Tropez... Nothing can stop the Senior League. They have a plan and it s going to need money. Lots of money. Sure, another bank robbery could finance their endeavour, but they re going to need a lot more than a few million dollars for what they have...
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Ettie Smith Amish mysteries volume 8
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How will Ettie help prove Dustin is innocent when all the evidence, including DNA, proves otherwise?
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Something to die for mystery volume 4th
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Carrie McCrite and Henry King are getting married, but Carrie has problems. She has dreams of a traditional wedding, not one like she experienced with Amos many years ago, when standing in the courthouse while a judge who was a friend of Amos's said a few droned words. That hadn't seemed like a celebration at all. But now...why couldn't she have a traditional wedding dress, a minister, flowers, a white cake, family and friends standing with them-a...
50) The adult
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"Natalie, a college freshman from a remote small town, is drawn into an all-consuming affair with an older woman"--
Natalie left her remote, forested hometown for her first year of university in Toronto. Everyone she encounters seems determined, confident what they want from life. Natalie reads advice listicles and watches videos online and thinks about how to fit in, how to really become someone, who that someone even is. When she meets Nora, an...
51) Kiss me now
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"He'd be the perfect guy . . . if he wasn't trying to ruin her life. Ian would do anything for his grandmother, so when Gran suddenly announces she's leaving the family property to her pretty new neighbor, Ian is on the case. He'll use every one of his sharply honed skills as a private investigator to expose the gold digger and save Gran. Brooke is living her best life far from the city and career that tried to destroy her. She's happy spending her...
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"When 73-year-old Emmy Hart asks her to help revitalize Hart's Hollow farm, Kristen accepts, despite her fears about becoming too attached to the family; and then there's Emmy's ruggedly handsome grandson."--Publisher.
From the moment Kristen Daniels arrives at Hart's Hollow, the place speaks to her soul. So when seventy-three-year-old Emmy Hart asks Kristen to help return the farm to its former glory, Kristen accepts--despite her fears about getting...
53) Petty magic: being the memoirs and confessions of Miss Evelyn Harbinger, temptress and troublemaker
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Evelyn Harbinger is a heck of a lot older than she looks. At 149 years of age, Eve can still iron out the wrinkles on a Saturday night, turning heads and taking more than phone numbers as the foxy, dark-haired girl she used to be. She and her sisters have spent the better part of their lives using their powers for only the highest good-Eve herself spied for the Allies in Paris and Berlin-but in their golden years, the beldames are free to enjoy themselves...
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Tales of the city volume 9
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Follows ninety-two-year-old Anna Madrigal, the legendary transgender landlady of 28 Barbary Lane, as she joins her former tenant Brian on a road trip to Nevada where she attends to unfinished business she has long avoided.
55) Five French hens
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The best days of your life might be still to come... When 73 year old Jen announces that she is going to marry Eddie, a man she met just a few months previously on a beach on Boxing Day, her four best friends from aqua aerobics are flabbergasted. The wedding is booked and, when the groom decides to have a stag trip to Las Vegas, the ladies arrange a hen party to beat all others - a week in the city of love, Paris. From misadventures at the Louvre,...
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Marlow Murder Club volume 1
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"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 sets crosswords for The Times newspaper. One evening, while out swimming in the Thames, Judith witnesses a brutal murder. The local police don't believe her story, so she decides to investigate for herself, and is soon...
57) Broken for you
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“A dazzling mosaic of intersecting lives and fates . . . Comparisons to John Irving and Tennessee Williams would not be amiss in this show-stopping debut” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
The national bestseller and Today Show Book Club selection, Broken for You is the story of two women in self-imposed exile whose lives are transformed when their paths intersect . . ....
The national bestseller and Today Show Book Club selection, Broken for You is the story of two women in self-imposed exile whose lives are transformed when their paths intersect . . ....
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When an elderly boarder at a Bakerhaven bed-and-breakfast drops dead during afternoon tea, there's nothing particularly suspicious about it--except for the Sudoku in his jacket pocket. But when a second body turns up in the window seat and an autopsy shows both men were poisoned with elderberry wine, the Puzzle Lady suspects she's dealing with a killer who's copying the movie Arsenic and Old Lace. More murders, more puzzles, and a grave dug in the...
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A daring WWII pilot who grew up among the clouds, Juliet Caron's life was one of courage, adventure - and a love torn apart by war. Every nook of her Cornish cottage is alive with memories just waiting to be discovered. Katherine Henderson has escaped to Cornwall for Christmas, but she soon finds there is more to her holiday cottage than meets the eye. And on the eve of Juliet's 100th birthday, Katherine is enlisted to make an old lady's final Christmas...
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"Told through the eyes of a very grumpy yet lovable mutt, a funny and touching tale of aging, death, friendship, and life that proves sometimes a dog's story is the most human of all. Tassen has always been a one-man dog. When his human companion, Major Thorkildsen, dies, Tassen and Mrs. Thorkildsen are left alone. Tassen mourns Major by eating too many treats, and Mrs. T by drinking too much. But the two unexpectedly find common ground in researching...
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