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  Emily, Alone

  by Stewart O'Nan

  From the author of Last Night at the Lobster, a moving vision of love and family. A sequel to the bestselling, much-beloved Wish You Were Here, Stewart O'Nan's intimate new novel follows Emily Maxwell, a widow whose grown children have long moved away. She dreams of visits by her grandchildren while mourning the turnover of her quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood, but when her sole companion and sister-in-law Arlene... (more)
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  How to Live: A Search for Wisdom from Old People (While They Are Still on This Earth)

  by Henry Alford

  In this witty guide for seekers of all ages, author Henry Alford seeks instant enlightenment through conversations with those who have lived long and lived well. Armed with recent medical evidence that supports the cliche that older people are, indeed, wiser, Alford sets off to interview people over 70--some famous (Phyllis Diller, Harold Bloom, Edward Albee), some accomplished (the world's most-quoted... (more)
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  Nasty, Brutish, and Long: Adventures in Old Age and the World of Eldercare

  by Ira Rosofsky

  A coming of old-age story. In nursing homes across the country, members of the Greatest Generation are living out their last days. No matter how exciting or mundane their lives, they’re now occupying a hospital-style room—a public space where you can’t lock your door and strangers come and go. Life is a succession of pokes and prods, medications, TV, bingo, and, possibly, talking to Ira Rosofsky. Nasty,... (more)
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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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  All Through the Night

  by Mary Higgins Clark

  Mary Higgins Clark, the Queen of Suspense, celebrates the season with this Christmas classic featuring two of her most beloved characters. ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT All of Alvirah's deductive powers and Willy's world-class common sense are called upon as the two stumble into a Christmas mystery. A woman abandons her newborn at a Manhattan church. Simultaneously, a thief is absconding with a treasured artifact,... (more)
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  MANORANJAK KAHAVATE

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  Gaghar saying the ocean is the name of filling. Yun can say that the biggest stories are a reflection of the proverbs that are given just say bluntly clear. Language and regional variation despite the feelings of the society being attached causing s still very popular. The book of many Kahowtoan is instructive as a compilation of selected Kahowtoan not need to learn the invention is the mother of any age and so... (more)