Catalog Search Results
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A comedic novel about an American woman leaving her 20-year marriage to her French husband, returning to her native San Francisco to pick up the life she left behind, and the entwining lives of her children and grandchildren"--
202) The Weekend
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"For nearly four decades, lifelong friends Jude, Wendy, Adele, and Sylvie have seen each other through romances, child-rearing, changing careers, divorces, medical recoveries, and general aging. But now Sylvie has died, and the three remaining women are tasked with cleaning out her beach house before it's sold. Thrust together In this weathered old house on the ocean, where the ghosts of their younger selves compete with their current realities, the...
203) Elizabeth is missing
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Maud, an elderly woman struggling with dementia, becomes convinced that her best friend Elizabeth is missing and something terrible has happened to her.
204) Driving Miss Daisy
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Set in Atlanta in the 1950's, a textile factory owner insists on hiring an ever-patient chauffeur for his aging head-strong mother. The Jewish woman and her African American driver eventually build a relationship over many years.
205) Death and honesty
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Victoria Trumbull, the ninety-two-year-old poet/sleuth, discovers a neighbor's body in the home of one of the three town assessors. The assessors have been skimming off tax money from wealthy landowners and stashing it in their own special retirement funds. Then the private pilot of the not-so-holy clergyman husband of one of these landowners is found dead, floating in his employer's pond, his face gnawed by snapping turtles. Finally, searching for...
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Time Warner Trade Pub
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
A tale of rural Ireland chronicles the life and times of eighty-something-year-old Minnie O'Brien as she struggles to preserve the farm left to her by her husband as she awaits the return of her prodigal younger son.
209) Greta
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A sweet, naive young woman trying to make it on her own in New York City, Frances doesn't think twice about returning the handbag she finds on the subway to its rightful owner. That owner is an eccentric French piano teacher with a love for classical music and an aching loneliness. Having recently lost her mother, Frances quickly grows closer to the widowed Greta. The two become fast friends, but the older woman's maternal charms begin to dissolve...
212) Driving Miss Daisy
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
A joyous comedy about a head-strong southern lady and her ever-patient chauffeur.
213) Driving Miss Daisy
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Set in Atlanta in the 1950's, a textile factory owner insists on hiring an ever-patient chauffeur for his aging head-strong mother. The Jewish woman and her African American driver eventually build a relationship over many years.
215) The snow hare
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Lena has lived a long, quiet life on her farm in Wales, alongside her husband and child. But as her end approaches, buried memories begin to return. Of her childhood in Poland, and her passion for science. Of the early days of her marriage, reluctant wife to an army officer. Of the birth of her daughter, whose arrival changed everything. Memories less welcome return, too. Her Polish village, transformed overnight by the Soviets, and the war that...
Author
Series
Publisher
Cartwheel Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The old lady is at it again, and this time she's swallowing a spoon... while humming a tune! You won't believe why this old lady swallowed a spoon, a bowl, some flour, a pan, and more! Read this book and find out why!
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Canada, 2018: At ninety-seven years old, Winnifred Ellis knows she doesn't have much time left. Soon she'll be gone, just like her husband, her daughter, and the many loved ones she's lost over the years, and the story of her shameful past will die with her. When her great grandson Jamie, the spitting image of her husband, asks about his family tree, Winnifred can't lie any longer, even if it means breaking a promise she made so long ago. . . England,...
218) Shadow of a century
Author
Publisher
J. Grainger
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"A broken woman, New York, 2016. A fearless rebel, Dublin 1916. And a gripping story that spans a century. During a time of great upheaval and unrest in Ireland, as men and women run to take up arms against the tyranny and occupation of the British Empire, the lives of three women are forever altered, and thereby inextricably linked over the span of a century. Mary Doyle arrives in Dublin in 1913, doomed, she fears, to a life of domestic service....
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Presents a young reader's version of a story in which Molly, close to aging out of the foster care system, takes a position helping an elderly woman named Vivian and discovers that they are more alike than different as she helps Vivian solve a mystery from her past.
Author
Publisher
Self-published by Joshua Berkov
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"Seventy-nine-year-old Esther Kellerman thinks she has a pretty good life. She plays bridge, reads for her book club, and routinely drives her Cadillac DeVille into the mailboxes of her neighbors. Her latest mailbox mishap leads her to the doorstep of some mysterious new residents of her suburban Columbus, Ohio, subdivision. As she introduces herself to Sarah, the elderly woman who answers the door, Esther soon realizes that there's something wrong...