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Author
Series
Out to pasture volume 1
Formats
Description
The diary of a woman living in a retirement home in South Carolina. She describes the place, the people and the way they keep themselves busy and happy. With illustrations.
Author
Series
Out to pasture volume 4
Pub. Date
1999
Description
A novel on aging through the eyes of a resident of an old people's home in South Carolina. She is Hattie McNair who records debates among residents on the merits of the past and the present.
Author
Series
Out to pasture volume 2
Pub. Date
[1996]
Description
The adventures of Hattie and her friends at FairAcres retirement home who are far from ready to retire from life.
Author
Series
Out to pasture volume 3
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
Old age through the eyes of Hattie McNair a resident of a retirement home, chronicling the daily activities, relationships and ailments. By the author of Out to Pasture.
27) Away from her
Description
Fiona and Grant are an Ontario couple who have been married for over 40 years. During the twilight of their years, Grant is forced to face the fact that Fiona's 'forgetfulness' actually is Alzheimer's. After Fiona wanders away and is found, the decision is made for her to go into a nursing home. For the first time in their relationship, they are forced to undergo a separation since this nursing home has a 'no-vistors for first 30 days of a patient's...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
College student Joe Talbert has an assignment to interview a stranger and write a brief biography. With deadlines looming, he heads to a nearby nursing home. Carl Iverson is a dying Vietnam veteran -- and a convicted murderer. Writing about him, Joe can't reconcile the heroism of the soldier with the despicable acts of the convict, and tries to uncover the truth.
31) The Gin Game
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
A bittersweet comedy that follows the relationship that develops between nursing home residents Fonsia Dorsey and Weller Martin during a series of gin games. As the games progress, their ailments, misfortunes, and losses are exposed in funny, honest, and increasingly heated moments, and what begins as a tentative friendship quickly turns into a battle of wills.
32) Away from her
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Fiona and Grant are an Ontario couple who have been married for over forty years. During the twilight of their years, Grant is forced to face the fact that Fiona's forgetfulness actually is Alzheimer's. After Fiona wanders away and is found, the decision is made for her to go into a nursing home. When Grant visits Fiona after the 30-day orientation period, he discovers that she has forgotten him and transferred her affections to another man.
33) The Cuban
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
When a na��ve pre-med student gets her first job in a nursing home, an unexpected friendship with Luis, an elderly Cuban musician, reignites her love of music and changes her life forever.
Author
Series
League of pensioners volume 2
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Martha Andersson and the league are at it again with swindling the biggest Vegas casinos, outsmarting a gang of young robbers, and evading the Swedish police.
36) Away from her
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Fiona and Grant are an Ontario couple who have been married for over 40 years. During the twilight of their years, Grant is forced to face the fact that Fiona's 'forgetfulness' actually is Alzheimer's. After Fiona wanders away and is found, the decision is made for her to go into a nursing home. For the first time in their relationship, they are forced to undergo a separation since the nursing home has a 'no-vistors,' first 30 days policy of a patient's...
37) The mole agent
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
A private investigator in Chile hires someone to work as a mole at a retirement home where a client of his suspects the caretakers of elder abuse.
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Coal Miner's Daughter : The story of Loretta Lynn and her ambitious husband Mooney who takes Loretta away from her backwoods Appalachian home to be his child bride.
Smokey and the Bandit : Two truckers trying to transport 400 cases of beer from Texas to Atlanta get pursued by a sheriff after they pick up a hitch-hiking runaway bride-to-be who happens to have left the sheriff's son.
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas : A famous brothel, the "Chicken...
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