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Leota's Garden
by Francine Rivers
Now available in softcover! Award-winning author Francine Rivers opens a world full of vibrant characters with a powerful story of hope. In this stunning new novel, Francine explores the new life that love can bring to a decaying garden of broken relationships. Through the lives of 84-year-old Leota, her granddaughter, and a college student with all the answers, Francine leads readers to ponder the value of life... (more)
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Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
by Helen Simonson
Written with a delightfully dry sense of humour and the wisdom of a born storyteller, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand explores the risks one takes when pursuing happiness in the face of family obligation and tradition. When retired Major Pettigrew strikes up an unlikely friendship with Mrs. Ali, the Pakistani village shopkeeper, he is drawn out of his regimented world and forced to confront the realities of life... (more)
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Making Rounds with Oscar
The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat
by David Dosa
A remarkable cat. A special gift. A life-changing journey. They thought he was just a cat. When Oscar arrived at the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Rhode Island he was a cute little guy with attitude. He loved to stretch out in a puddle of sunlight and chase his tail until he was dizzy. Occasionally he consented to a scratch behind the ears, but only when it suited him. In other words,... (more)
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Home
by Marilynne Robinson
Hundreds of thousands were enthralled by the luminous voice of John Ames in Gilead , Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel. Home is an entirely independent, deeply affecting novel that takes place concurrently in the same locale, this time in the household of Reverend Robert Boughton, Ames’s closest friend. Glory Boughton, aged thirty-eight, has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father.... (more)
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Kingdom of Silk: Book 2
Layla, Queen of Hearts
by Glenda Millard
When Layla's school announces a Senior Citizens’ Day, Layla is at a loss. Who can she take? Her friend Griffin Silk offers to share his grandmother, Nell, but Layla desperately wants someone of her own. So Nell introduces Layla to Miss Amelie and a friendship begins. Layla soon learns that Miss Amelie has problems with her memory. Layla is determined to help—and a small but significant miracle occurs in this warm... (more)
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The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
by Walter Mosley
A masterful, moving novel about age, memory, and family from one of the true literary icons of our time. Ptolemy Grey is ninety-one years old and has been all but forgotten-by his family, his friends, even himself-as he sinks into a lonely dementia. His grand-nephew, Ptolemy's only connection to the outside world, was recently killed in a drive-by shooting, and Ptolemy is too suspicious of anyone else to... (more)
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Zen series: Book 2
Zen Ties
by Jon J. Muth
Summer has arrived -- and so has Koo, Stillwater's haiku-speaking young nephew. And when Stillwater encourages Koo, and his friends Addy, Michael, and Karl to help a grouchy old neighbor in need, their efforts are rewarded in unexpected ways. Zen Ties is a disarming story of compassion and friendship that reaffirms the importance of our ties to one another.
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Water for Elephants
by Sara Gruen
Though he may not speak of them, the memories still dwell inside Jacob Jankowski's ninety-something-year-old mind. Memories of himself as a young man, tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. Memories of a world filled with freaks and clowns, with wonder and pain and anger and passion; a world with its own narrow, irrational rules, its own way of... (more)
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Remembering the Bones
by Frances Itani
“Itani’s writing is merely breathtaking.” — Newsday The new novel from the award-winning author of Deafening is a poignant exploration of one eighty-year-old life, as its heroine lies at the bottom of a ravine where she has crashed en route to visit the queen. Born the same day as Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, Canadian Georgina Danforth Witley is one of ninety-nine privileged Commonwealth subjects invited... (more)
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Insomnia
by Stephen King
Ralph Roberts hasn't been sleeping well lately. Every morning he wakes just a little bit earlier until pretty soon, he isn't sleeping at all. It wouldn't be so bad if not for the strange hallucinations--and the nightmares that keep coming to life.
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Tessie and Pearlie: A Granddaughter's Story
by Joy Horowitz
In their touching story, two Jewish grandmothers--Tessie and Pearlie--share their wisdom, knowledge, and recipes to die for. Still close to their immigrant past and hardened by wars, the Depression, and discrimination, they teach us about living. And dying. They are the last of a breed--a generation passing but not likely to be forgotten.
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Aging With Grace: What the Nun Study Teaches Us About Leading Longer, Healthier, and More Meaningful Lives
by David Snowdon
In 1986 Dr. David Snowdon, one of the world’s leading experts on Alzheimer’s disease, embarked on a revolutionary scientific study that would forever change the way we view aging—and ultimately living. Dubbed the “Nun Study” because it involves a unique population of 678 Catholic sisters, this remarkable long-term research project has made headlines worldwide with its provocative discoveries. Yet Aging with Grace... (more)
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My Mother, Your Mother: Embracing "Slow Medicine," the Compassionate Approach to Caring for Your Aging Loved Ones
by Dennis M. McCullough
What's the right thing to do for mom and dad as they get older? Thanks to advances in science and medicine, more of our parents are living longer than ever before. And though we are rewarded with more time with the people we love, we are also faced with new sets of complications—more diseases, more disability, more need for support and careful judgments. Yet while our health care system may help people live to... (more)
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House Mother Normal
A Geriatric Comedy
by B. S. Johnson
James Joyce's/Finnegan's Wake. A Symposium featuring Beckett, Jolas, and more.
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The Granny Project
by Anne Fine
This sensitive and funny play explores the issues of old age and the family. It is part of the "Plays Plus" series. "Plays Plus" is a series of playscripts which deal with important contemporary issues. Much more than a script, each one provides resource material which gives a framework for exploring issues in the classroom. Stimulus material includes poems, photographs, fact lists and extracts which are combined... (more)
Susan and Sereena and the Cat's PlaceNan Hayden Agle
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Susan and Sereena and the Cat's Place
by Nan Hayden Agle
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The Vile Village
by Lemony/ Helquist, Brett (ILT) Snicket
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Safe Sanctuaries
Reducing the Risk of Abuse in the Church for Children and Youth
by Joy T. Melton
This ten-year anniversary edition of the best-selling SAFE SANCTUARIES series brings together in one volume the transformative and foundational information found in Melton's books for children and for youth. Today it remains the only resource of its kind to offer the tools necessary to train leaders of the church, so that the next generation of leaders is safe. This new updated volume includes valuable information... (more)
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Asthma
by American College of Physicians
Asthma provides the information needed tocare for adult asthma patients. Its 14 chapters provide essential information on the causes and classifications of asthma and its diagnosis and treatment. Asthma also features illustrative case studies that focus on patients in the office setting. Topics include the pathogenesis, evaluation, and differential diagnosis of asthma, pharmacotherapy and immunotherapy, exercise-... (more)
Wild flowers and how they grew : a South Dakota historical novelBarbara Oaks
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Wild flowers and how they grew : a South Dakota historical novel
by Barbara Oaks