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Gus Lobel has been one of the best scouts in baseball for decades, but, despite his efforts to hide it, age is starting to catch up with him. Nevertheless, Gus--who can tell a pitch just by the crack of the bat--refuses to be benched for what may be the final innings of his career. The one person who might be able to help is also the one person Gus would never ask: his daughter, Mickie, an associate at a high-powered Atlanta law firm.
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Frank is an aging ex-jewel thief, and his two grown children are worried that he can no longer care for himself. In deciding what to do with Frank, the most likely option appears to be putting him in a nursing home. But Frank's son comes up with another option: buy Frank a walking, talking robot programmed to look after him and improve his physical and mental health. Frank resists the robot at first, but he warms to it after realizing that it could...
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La nueva longevidad no es vivir más, sino mejor, diferente, plenos, partícipes e integrados. Y eso depende de los hábitos, los proyectos y la propia actitud. Diego Bernardini comparte su experiencia vivencial con personas mayores y propone su mirada de la vida. Muchas veces leemos que podríamos vivir hasta cien años y más también. Incluso ya hay quienes hablan de la inmortalidad del ser humano. ¿Pero qué hay de lo concreto de llegar, rondar...
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The series takes place in the geriatric wing of a struggling hospital and follows a staff of overworked doctors and nurses and their elderly patients. Though the tone is darkly comic, this critically-acclaimed series addresses very real issues such as death, hopelessness, abusive patients and how to survive a high-stress work environment. The hospital's care workers do whatever it takes to stay sane while dealing with unruly patients, their children...
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Cantankerous but doting husband Arthur does not share his wife Marion's passion for performing. While she is happy to sing her heart out with the unconventional local choir, Arthur would prefer to hide himself away and complain about how embarrassing it all is. But when heartbreak strikes, Arthur is forced to re-think his outlook on life. Arthur begins to find a way to come out of his shell and in the process forms a desire to build bridges with his...
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Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon-- the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him "the bitter neighbor from hell." But behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty young couple with two chatty young daughters move in next door and accidentally flatten Ove's mailbox,...
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"Charlie Reade parece un chico normal de secundaria, excelente en béisbol y fútbol americano, un estudiante decente. Pero lleva una carga pesada. Su madre murió en un accidente de atropello y fuga cuando él tenía siete años, y el dolor llevó a su padre. a beber. Charlie aprendió a cuidar de sí mismo y de su padre. Cuando Charlie tiene diecisiete años, conoce a una perra llamada Radar y a su anciano amo, Howard Bowditch, un recluso en una...
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Narrativas hispánicas volume 538
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"En un ruinoso edificio de la ciudad de Mexico, un grupo de ancianos pasa los dias entre rencillas vecinales y tertulias literarias. Teo, el narrador y protagonista de esta historia, tiene setenta y ocho anos y un apego enfermizo a la Teoria estetica de Adorno, con la que resuelve todo tipo de problemas domesticos. Sus mayores preocupaciones son llevar la cuenta de las copas que toma al dia para extender al maximo sus menguantes ahorros, escribir...
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A young man is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father: that he has terminal cancer, and that he has a young male lover.
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La alegoría más clara de Hemingway la constituye el viejo y el mar. En primer lugar, está la obstinación del anciano pescador contra su mala suerte: ochenta y cuatro días sin poder pescar un pez. Luego, habiendo pescado uno enorme, la lucha de ambos, frente a frente, solos y en mar adentro. Finalmente, el triunfo y el fracaso del hombre: retorna a tierra llevando al gran pez, pero en el trayecto de vuelta los tiburones han devorado al animal...
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Un hombre tiene un cuaderno viejo, traído y llevado mil veces, en su regazo. Una mujer a su lado escucha lo que él le lee cada mañana, aunque no acaba de entender. Muchos años antes, Noah Calhoun, vuelve a casa, a Carolina del Norte, después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Noah, de 31 años, intenta que la plantación de la que procede vuelva a su antigua gloria, pero las imágenes de la preciosa joven que conoció catorce años antes?una mujer...
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"Todo es hermoso en su tiempo. La vida es un viaje a través de estaciones hermosas y variadas, con una cadencia dinámica y llena de continuos descubrimientos. Abrace cada estación de su vida y aprenda a vivirla plenamente con la gracia y la ayuda de Joyce Meyer." --from the back cover.
"Everything is beautiful in its time. Life is a journey through beautiful and varied seasons, with a dynamic cadence and full of continued discovery. Embrace each...
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My Grandpa is a bit confused: he puts the chicken in the washing machine, he gets towels mixed up with napkins, gloves mixed up with socks, and he's always forgetting my name! To stop things from getting worse, he's come to live at our house. I'm glad he's with us, although I keep getting into trouble trying to help him. I'd do anything to stop my grandpa from forgetting things. Anything. What about you? What would you do for the people you love?...
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Nocturna: The Grea Old Man's Night - Ulysses is a hundred-year old man, battling for redemption on his last night on earth. Faced with imminent death, he is forced to rethink his past, his present, and his take on reality. Nocturna: Where The Elephants Go To Die - A woman narrates the final night on earth of a 100-year-od man, who fights for redemption from his life's misdeeds.
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Wendell Baker is a dreamer and schemer whose latest scam lands him in jail and leaves him alienated from his longtime girlfriend, best friend and even his dog. Eternally optimistic, Wendell makes the most of his time behind bars and vows to turn his life around. Upon release, he gets a job at a retirement hotel, where he befriends some of the colorful residents. Wendell's new friends advise him on how to win back his girl, while he helps them battle...