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Seasons of life
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John N. Kotre |
Program 5, Late adulthood (Ages 60+). A variety of case studies look at the last stage of development when people consider whether the story of their life has been a good one. The significance of gra… |
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Pieces of light
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Charles Fernyhough |
Blending the most up-to-date science with literature and personal stories, a psychologist provides an illuminating look at human memory--the way people remember and forget. |
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After the parade
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Lori Ostlund |
After leaving his partner in New Mexico to start a new life in San Francisco, ESL teacher Aaron Englund seeks closure from a rejection-marked childhood and his own questionable choices by exploring h… |
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The Go-Between
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L. P. Hartley |
Narrated as a memoir, this excellent novel tells the story of one summer at the turn of the century when the narrator was a young boy. The boy spends the summer in question as a guest at a country es… |
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Balkan Memories
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Tanja Zimmermann |
270 pages : 23 cm |
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Collective Remembering
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Ludmila Isurin |
xiii, 316 pages : 24 cm |
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Shadows of empire
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Allan Massie |
Shadows of Empire tells the stories of four Scottish brothers and their sister, from the 1930s through the war against Hitler. It is an engrossing portrait of a lost age of British power and responsi… |
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The Abomination
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Paul Golding |
**From Goodreads:**
Cruising the seamy underbelly of London’s gay scene, James Moore Zamora is as eager to repel men as he is to seduce them. Handsome, sophisticated, intelligent, and vain, beneat… |
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Making Peace with Your Past
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Harold H. Bloomfield |
Do You: Harbor guilt or grudges from past relationships? Feel plagued by thoughts of regret? Think "Oh, no, not again!" when personal problems arise? Wonder why life hasn't turned out the way you wan… |
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Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older
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Douwe Draaisma |
Is it true, as the novelist Cees Nooteboom once wrote, that 'Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases'? Where do the long, lazy summers of our childhood go? Why is it that as we grow olde… |
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La Confusion des sentiments
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Stefan Zweig |
Stefan Zweig was particularly drawn to the novella, and Confusion, a rigorous and yet transporting dramatization of the conflict between the heart and the mind, is among his supreme achievements in t… |
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Confessions of a Diplomatic Pouch Clerk
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James A. Abrahamson |
The author was in the US. Foreign Service from 1957 to 1969. This is a true story of his experiences while employed as a diplomatic pouch clerk in the American Consulate General in Sydney, Australia … |
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