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Good Reads About or By Seniors
...And Ladies of the Club
Helen Hooven Santmyer
Call Number: SANTMYE
The author wrote this hefty novel in her late 80s while in a nursing home. Follow a group of women as they form a book club in 1868 and maintain friendships as they mature and age.
The Girls
Helen Yglesias
Call Number: YGLESIA
Jenny, age 80 and the youngest of four sisters, flies to Miami to help her two oldest sisters. The four women are unique, funny and touching in spite of the encumbrances of their ages.
A Green Journey
Jon Hassler
Call Number: HASSLER
Meet Miss Agatha McGee, retired elementary school teacher and civic force in Staggerford, Minnesota. She makes new discoveries during a trip to Ireland, and in the two books that follow, discovers love and provides refuge from rising flood waters for neighbors and friends: Dear James and The Staggerford Flood.
Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind
Ann Ross
Call Number: ROSS
A proper Southern lady, recently widowed, finds herself the guardian of a child who is supposedly her late husband's. As scandal swirls, Miss Julie tells you she's had "enough" in this fast-paced comic story with zany characters. Also look for Miss Julia Takes Over and Miss Julia Throws a Wedding
Mountain City
Gregory Martin
Call Number: 979.316
This descriptive and poignant story of Martin's family elders in Mountain City, Nevada could be retold in many rural towns: population shrinking and aging. He celebrates their daily lives and their rooted attachment to a difficult but beautiful place.
The Notebook
Nicholas Sparks
Call Number: SPARKS
Noah Calhoun reads daily to Allie. He has recorded the love story of their meeting as teenagers and its conclusion in a nursing home. This old man celebrates their lives together and hopes for a miracle of love.
Older But Wilder
Effie Leland Wilder
Call Number: WILDER
Effie Wilder was 85 when she wrote this first novel. Her keen observation and good humor in her own life in a retirement home sparkle in these warm-hearted stories of the goings-on at Fair Acres Retirement Home. Follow-up books are: Out to Pasture and One More Time.
Simon's Night
Jon Hassler
Call Number: HASSLER
A retired college professor enters a new life in a senior foster home. But institutional life doesn't suppress curiosity, creativity, adventure or love. Simon finds it is not yet his turn to "live in a dormant state."
Stones for Ybarra
Harriet Doerr
Call Number: DOERR
An American couple live out their retirement in rural Mexico in this vivid and touching story of place and the experience of aging.
Things You Get for Free
Michael McGirr
Call Number: B-MCGIRR MCGIRR
One minute there's laughter and the next minute tears while reading McGirr's experiences escorting his seventy-something Mum on a European vacation. Tourists are described in all their ridiculous glory while Michael copes with his own problems, the death of his father, and insightful moments with his mother.
Walking Across Egypt
Clyde Edgerton
Call Number: EDGERTO also CASSETTE EDGERTO
Elderly widow Mattie Rigsby's life centers around her church and home life in a small town. Enter first a scruffy stray dog, then Wesley Benfield, a young delinquent recently escaped from a correction center. Mattie's been ready to be a grandma for a long time...
White Rabbit
Kate Phillips
Call Number: PHILLIP
Ruth Caster Hubble begins the new first day of December with the Caster clan white rabbit tradition, and minute by minute during the day she seeks order in the modern world -- with routines, memories and coping strategies that give a touching and hilarious portrait.
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