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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When a veteran Washington journalist moved to Kansas, he met a new neighbor who was more than a century old. Little did he know that he was beginning a long friendship -- and a profound lesson in the meaning of life. Charlie White was no ordinary neighbor. Born before radio, Charlie lived long enough to use a smartphone. When a shocking tragedy interrupted his idyllic boyhood, Charlie mastered survival strategies that reflect thousands of years of...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Milena Michiko Fla©♭sar's Mr Kat©Æo Plays Family is an eccentric second-lease-on-life novel for fans of A Man Called Ove and Beautiful World, Where Are You. Mr Kat©Æo--a curmudgeon and recent retiree--finds his only solace during his daily walks, where he wonders how his life went wrong and daydreams about getting a dog (which his wife won't allow). During one of these walks, he is approached by a young woman. She calls herself Mie, and invites...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Herb's charmed life with his dear wife, Susan, in their Key West house is coming undone. Susan, in her seventies, now needs constant care, and Herb is in denial about his own ailing health. The one bright spot is the arrival of an endlessly optimistic manicurist calling herself Renee. She sings to Susan during manicures, gets her to paint, and brings her a much-needed sense of contentment. But then Herb and Susan's adult children arrive to stage an...
4) Comeback
Author
Publisher
Ken Berry
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This is a baseball book unlike any you have ever read. The opportunity of a lifetime presents itself to a 63 year old former baseball player who has long ago left his past behind. He and his dog Gunner are living on a 345 acre lake in the backwoods of Minnesota. His small cabin is all the two of them need to get by. Late one night his cell phone rings and his life will never be the same."--Back cover
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Shirley Benson was owner now of the beautiful Valle de los Reyes, mistress of the old Spanish ranch house and its faithful Mexican servants. On the night that her father was killed in a rustler's raid, she made the unpleasant discovery that the Box B ranch was heavily mortgaged and that most of her cattle had disappeared, stolen by the men who had murdered her father. With courage inherited from her pioneer forebears, she refuses to sign the quit-claim...
