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The Last Resort
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Alison Lurie |
Like a loyal Victorian wife, Jenny has devoted her life to her much older husband, the famous writer and naturalist Wilkie Walker, bringing up their children and researching and editing his best-sell… |
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Good News
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Edward Abbey |
Jack, an old man in search of his son, and Sam, a Harvard-educated Indian, face the dictator and his nasty band of killers who are taking over the South. |
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Shadow Baby (Today Show Book Club #14)
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Alison McGhee |
Clara first spies him through the crack in the stained-glass window of her church, lighting a string of handmade lanterns in the Adirondack woods. A lone old man, Georg Kominsky moves stealthily amon… |
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The briefcase
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Hiromi Kawakami |
"Tsukiko, thirty-eight, works in an office and lives alone. One night, she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, "Sensei" in a local bar. Tsukiko had only ever called him "Sensei" (… |
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A killing in the hills
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Julia Keller |
"When three elderly men are gunned down over coffee at a local diner, the town of Acker's Gap is shaken. But a pattern of violence is taking shape that prosecutor Bell Elkins is becoming all too fami… |
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Come back pigeon
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Antonie Schneider |
When the pigeon Barnaby buys shortly after his family moves to the country flies away, he and his sister Flora begin to help an elderly neighbor care for his flock of pigeons. |
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El Señor Mee
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Andrew Crumey |
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
In this inventive novel, octogenarian book collector Mr. Mee discovers the Internet with life-changing results. Told from the points of view of the guileles… |
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Old man's love story
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Rudolfo A. Anaya |
An old man in New Mexico shares his most intimate thoughts about his wife, their life together and her death. |
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The Hooks files III
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Paul Boyce |
"Paul Boyce weaves his fictional mysteries into the fabric of Great Depression era America, a time so reminiscent of his own childhood. Follow along as retired civil engineer Elias Hooks and his prot… |
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Shadow Ranch
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Jo-ann Mapson |
The impact of four-year-old Spencer's death has rocked the Carpenter family. For Lainie, the loss of her son is unbearable, and now both her marriage and her very sanity are threatened. Her guitar-ob… |
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Pied Piper
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John Boyne,Nevil Shute |
The novel by Nevil Shute. As the German army overruns France . An old Englishman returning to Britain agrees to escort two children to London. Trains, buses, hotels fail him and each shift in his pla… |
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The Old Man and The Boy
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Robert Chester Ruark |
Mr. Ruark narrates a semi-autobiographical account of his childhood with himself cast as "the Boy" and his two grandfathers combined into "the Old Man". The Old Man and the Boy engage in all manner … |
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A slight trick of the mind
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Mitch Cullin |
*The basis for the Major Motion Picture Mr. Holmes starring Ian McKellen and Laura Linney and directed by Bill Condon.*
It is 1947, and the long-retired Sherlock Holmes, now 93, lives in a remote … |
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An Artist of the Floating World
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Kazuo Ishiguro |
As Japan rebuilds her cities after the calamity of World War II, the celebrated painter Masuji Ono should be enjoying a tranquil retirement. But as his memories continually return to a life and caree… |
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Amigoland
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Oscar Casares |
In a small town on the Mexican border live two brothers, Don Fidencio and Don Celestino. Stubborn and independent, they now must face the facts: they are old, and they have let a family argument stan… |
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La père Goriot
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Honoré de Balzac |
SCOTT (copy 1): The Hédi Bouraoui Collection in Maghrebian and Franco-Ontario Literatures is the gift of University Professor Emeritus Hédi Bouraoui. |
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