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From the bestselling author of Eventide, The Tie That Binds is a powerfully eloquent tribute to the arduous demands of rural America, and of the tenacity of the human spirit.
Colorado, January 1977. Eighty-year-old Edith Goodnough lies in a hospital bed, IV taped to the back of her hand, police officer at her door. She is charged with murder. The clues: a sack of chicken feed slit with a knife, a milky-eyed dog tied outdoors...
Colorado, January 1977. Eighty-year-old Edith Goodnough lies in a hospital bed, IV taped to the back of her hand, police officer at her door. She is charged with murder. The clues: a sack of chicken feed slit with a knife, a milky-eyed dog tied outdoors...
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Pub. Date
2017
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English
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""I've planted my feet on Fijian earth and I intend to stay here until the last sunset. Why don't you join me? Leave behind everything that didn't work out!" When Sina, Maya, Ingrid, and Lisbeth each receive a letter in the mail posing the same question,the answer is obvious. Their old high school friend Kat--Kat the adventurer, Kat who ran away to the South Pacific as soon as they graduated--has extended the invitation of a lifetime: Come live with...
23) Secrets
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Series
Michelli family volume 1
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English
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Rese Barrett, renovating an old villa in Sonoma, California, into a bed and breakfast, hires Lance Michelli as a cook/maid, not realizing he is the grandson of a former owner and is on a mission to uncover the secrets of his grandmother's past that are making her so unhappy.
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Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A manual geared specifically for women draws on the latest research in the science of aging to explain how women over the age of fifty can turn back their biological clocks to live stronger, healthier, injury-free, and more alert lives.
25) Guarding Tess
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A comedy about a cantankerous former First Lady and her reluctant bodyguard.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Featuring funny illustrations and boisterous rhyming text, this latest book in the Old Lady series finds the Old Lady swallowing a ghost, mask, spider, flashlight, some crows and a potion!
28) Someday home
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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
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English
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The sprawling lake home Lynn Lundberg built with her husband has been an epicenter of joyful family life, from summer holidays spent around the water, to cookies baked in the kitchen with grandchildren in the fall. But since her husband's sudden passing two years ago, Lynn has been lost in the grief and solitude she feels without him at home. She doesn't want to sell the big family place, but she can't exist there on her own much longer. After hearing...
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Determined to leave a mark on the world even though they are in the hospital and their days are dwindling, unlikely friends, seventeen-year-old Lenni and eighty-three-year- old Margot, devise a plan to create one hundred paintings showcasing the stories of the century they have lived.
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Series
Miss Julia series volume 5
Edition
Unabridged
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English
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In the 5th installment of the New York Times bestselling Miss Julia series, Miss Julia has finally met her match. Don't miss Ann Ross's newest, Miss Julia Raises the Roof, coming April 2018 from Viking. With devoted fans across the country, Miss Julia-that endearingly sharp-tongued southern belle of a certain age-has no shortage of admirers. But in Miss Julia Meets Her Match, our feisty heroine must come to terms with her most ardent admirer of all:...
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Publisher
Deseret
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
New Mexico college student Ellie Baxter decides to spend the summer in Idaho with her eccentric aunt Bertie and prove to her parents that Bertie does not need assisted living--but when she gets there, her aunt's efforts to match her up with handsome doctor John Flynn give the visit an entirely new focus.
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
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English
Description
After the devastating death of her mother, Una Richardson becomes a ladies' companion for Mrs. Elspeth McKenzie, garnering the wrath of Elspeth's cold and bitter daughter. More disturbing is the discovery that there were two companions before her, never to be seen again. The longer her questions go unanswered, the more Una fears she'll end up just like the other girls.
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Marlow Murder Club volume 1
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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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 TheTimes 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 joined...
36) Moving on
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Claire and Evelyn are estranged friends who reunite to get even with Howard, the petulant widower of their recently deceased best friend. Along the way, Claire reunites with Ralph, her great love from her younger years, as each woman must make peace with her past and learn to treasure the value of a good friend.
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Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times and internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende, an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from San Francisco in the present-day to Poland and the United States during the Second World War. In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in San Francisco. There, as the rest of...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"From the beloved author of Dominicana, a GMA Book Club Pick and Women's Prize Finalist, an electrifying and indelible new novel about a woman who has lost everything but the chance to finally tell her story. Write this down: Cara Romero wants to work. Cara Romero thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest of her life. But when, in her mid-50s, she loses her job in the Great Recession, she is forced back into the job market...
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English
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Eighty-four-year-old Florence has fallen in her flat at Cherry Tree Home for the Elderly. Waiting to be rescued, she wonders if a terrible secret from her past is about to come to light. If the charming new resident is who he claims to be, why does he look exactly like a man who died sixty years ago? Only her best friend, Elsie, believes her; everyone else thinks Florence is just confused. But as truths are revealed, the women find out that some memories...
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