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Publisher
Worldwide
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"When Ida Mae Poindexter's sister Vonda shows up at her door--after being gone without a word for 60 years--Ida Mae has some questions. Add to that an unidentified skeleton and an untimely death, and Ida Mae and her best friend Claudia find themselves in a mystery of corruption, drug deals, and politics." --
422) Murder by mishap
Author
Publisher
Sybown Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Edna Davies is heading for the Providence Art Club when she spots a valuable heirloom brooch in the newly-tilled soil of a friend's yard. Her discovery helps to solve a 50-year-old mystery but it also precipitates a murder. As she tries to make sense of the killing, Edna realizes more than one person is hiding behind a false identity. Matching wits with extortionists, arsonists, and frauds, she must determine who is friend and who is foe before...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Life's beautiful for seventysomething influencer Gloria Rose, in her Upper West Side loft with rooftop garden and scores of Instagram followers--until she gets word that her old flame has been arrested for art theft and forgery, and, knowing her own involvement in his misdeeds decades earlier, decides to flee. But that plan is complicated when the nieces she raised are thrown into crises of their own. Willow, overshadowed by her notorious singer-songwriter...
425) Murder Olé!
Author
Publisher
Donald I. Fine Books
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
An outing across the border to Mexico by residents of a retirement home in California is spoilt by a death. When a second outing also results in death, aging sleuths Angela and Caledonia bypass the Mexican police and start their own investigation.
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In a crumbling mansion in a small Irish village in County Wicklow, two elderly sisters, Ella and Roberta O'Callaghan, live alone with their secrets, memories, and mutual hatred. Long estranged by a dark family tragedy, they communicate only by terse notes. But when the sisters are threatened with bankruptcy, Ella defies Roberta's wishes and takes matters into her own hands, putting her baking skills to good use and converting the mansion's old ballroom...
430) Tell me a riddle
Author
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
This collection of four stories, "I Stand Here Ironing," "Hey Sailor, what Ship?," "O Yes," and "Tell me a Riddle," had become an American classic. Since the title novella won the O. Henry Award in 1961, the stories have been anthologized over a hundred times, made into three films, translated into thirteen languages, and - most important - once read, they abide in the hearts of their readers
Author
Publisher
New Directions Books are published by James Laughlin
Pub. Date
[1964]
Language
English
Description
As George Oppenheimer describes "We first encounter Mrs. Goforth in one of her three villas on the southern coast of Italy frantically endeavoring to complete her memoirs before her death. However, there is still life in the old girl as she bullies her attractive female secretary, spits venom at a visitor whom she dubs "the witch of Capri," makes propositions to a handsome young itinerant poet over half her age, and dictates night and day, either...
Author
Publisher
Restless Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When a widowed, aging mother allows Green, her thirty-something daughter, to move into her apartment, all she wants for her is a stable and quiet existence like her own. Ideally, a steady income and, most importantly, a good husband with whom to start a family. But when Green turns up with her long-term girlfriend in tow, her mother is enraged and unwilling to welcome their relationship into her home. Having centered her life on her husband and child,...
Author
Publisher
Donald I. Fine Books
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
In an old people's home in Southern California, sleuths Angela Benbow and Caledonia Wingate sift through garbage to find a killer. The novel is at once a mystery and a look at everyday life in a retirement home, with its boredom and the fear of incapacity. By the author of Ho-Ho Homicide.
435) Love for grown-ups: the Garter Brides' guide to marrying for life when you've already got a life
Author
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
438) Advanced style
Author
Publisher
Power House Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Advanced Style is Ari Seth Cohen's blog-based ode to the confidence, beauty, and fashion that can only be achieved through the experience of a life lived glamorously. It is a collection of street fashion unlike any seen before - focused on the over-60 set in the world's most stylish locales. The (mostly) ladies of Advanced Style are enjoying their later years with grace and panache, marching to the beat of their own drummer. These timeless images...
Author
Publisher
TouchWood Editions
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Have you been waiting your whole life to explore different cities, taste new foods, and soak up a different culture, but have been held back due to life's many obligations? Do you feel that the time has come to finally act on your sense of adventure, but feel uncertain about how to begin? In picking up this book, you've already taken your first step toward new horizons and adventures! Unapologetically geared to the interest and concerns of the mature...
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