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Celebrate Older Americans Month Each May, Older Americans Month honors older adults and the countless contributions they make in our community. They are mentors, family, friends, neighbors, volunteers, civic leaders, and so much more. We recognize that each person's journey is unique with different needs and desires, and we are here for you in every stage of life. Check out these titles that focus on aging selected by your librarian - just for you!
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Front-wave Boomers : Growing Very Old, Staying Connected, and Reimagining Aging
by Gillian Ranson
The Baby Boomer generation is heading into old age in a time of overt ageism and shamefully deficient eldercare. Journalist Gillian Ranson, a front-wave boomer herself, investigates what boomers are doing to prepare for old age. One thing they all share is the need for intimate, caring social ties to other people.
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Long Live the Queen : 23 Rules for Living from Britain's Longest-Reigning Monarch
by Bryan Kozlowski
For the first time, step behind Palace doors to unlock the little-known strategies behind the Queen's remarkable self-preservation. Investigating the 23 rules of her iconic resilience, you'll learn how to channel your inner royal - at work, at play, or at the table - in this fascinating plunge into the House of Windsor's famous fountain of youth. |
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Ladysitting : My Year With Nana at the End of Her Century
by Lorene Cary
From cherished memories of weekends she spent as a child with her indulgent Nana to the reality of the year she spent “ladysitting” her now frail grandmother, Lorene Cary journeys through stories of their time together and five generations of their African American family.
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An elderly lady must not be crossed
by 1954- Tursten, Helene
Six interlocking stories describe a series of unfortunate incidents in the life of 88-year-old Maud, shedding light on the present day when detectives show up after the disturbing discovery of a dead body in her apartment.
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Late city : a novel
by Robert Olen Butler
A visionary and deeply moving novel centered around former newspaperman, 115 year old Sam Cunningham as he prepares to die. Late City covers much of the early twentieth century, unfurling as a conversation between the dying man and a surprising God. Sam is amazed at what he still has left to learn about himself after all these years in this heart-rending novel from the Pulitzer Prize winner.
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Violeta : a novel
by Isabel Allende
Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family with five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homeland almost at the moment of her birth. Her life is shaped by some of the most important events of history: the fight for women's rights, the rise and fall of tyrants, and ultimately not one, but two pandemics.
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The Thursday murder club
by 1970- Osman, Richard
Meeting weekly in their retirement village's Jigsaw Room to exchange theories about unsolved crimes, four savvy septuagenarians propose a daring but unorthodox plan to help a woman rookie cop solve her first big murder case.
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The remember balloons
by Jessie Oliveros
A gentle introduction to age-related memory loss that features a little boy who is dismayed when his grandfather's astonishing collection of balloons, each pertaining to a wonderful family memory, begin to float away as the boy begins collecting balloons of his own.
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How to babysit a grandpa
by Jean Reagan
Sharing mischievous antics with his grandfather, an exuberant young narrator counsels readers on how to provide appropriate care for a grandparent, offering advice from topping cookies with ice cream and blowing dandelion puffs to splashing in puddles and staging a scary play.
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Being Toffee
by Sarah Crossan
Escaping her abusive home and moving into an abandoned house with an elderly dementia patient who mistakes her for someone else, Allison plays along before realizing how much the woman needs safe professional care.
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Hour of the bees
by Lindsay Eagar
At first, twelve-year-old Carol is not happy to be spending the summer helping her parents move her grandfather to an assisted living home, but as the summer wears on, she finds herself drawn to him, fascinated by his amazing stories
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