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"In What Makes Olga Run? Bruce Grierson explores what the wild success of a ninety-three-year-old track star can tell us about how our bodies and minds age. Olga Kotelko is not your average ninety-three-year-old. She not only looks and acts like a much younger woman, she holds over twenty-three world records in track and field, seventeen in her current ninety to ninety-five category. Convinced that this remarkable woman could help unlock many of the...
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Fast Track to Romance is an online dating guide for today's mature woman who have never dated online or have been unsuccessful at dating online. This exclusive guide written by a past matchmaker and a dating expert with over 500 dates of her own, will help navigate you easily through the online dating process. This includes fill in answers to the site's questionnaire, an easy to follow fill in profile template, along with straight talk on what photos...
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"Tess and Orla have been best friends throughout most of their adult lives. So when life gave them lemons and their loved ones let them down, they pooled their resources and bought a dressmakers shop on the corner of Penny Lane. And they've been doing just fine ever since. But one day, while studying her tired eyes and shapeless figure in the mirror, sixty-two-year-old Tess realised that she doesn't want her life to be just fine anymore. She wants...
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BL metamorphosis volume 2
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"An elderly woman and a high school girl develop a beautiful friendship through their shared passion for Boys' Love. Ichinoi, a 75-year-old woman living a peaceful life, unwittingly buys a Boy's Love manga one day ... and is fascinated by what she finds inside. When she returns to the bookstore to buy the next volume, the high school girl working there--Urara, a seasoned BL fan--notices a budding fangirl when she sees one. When Urara offers to help...
607) Rancho Notorious
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A western, set in the 1870s, which dramatizes the ballad The legend of Chuck-A-Luck. The search of a Wyoming cowboy for his fiancée's murderer leads him to a ranch-hideaway for bandits which is operated by an ex-saloon entertainer.
610) Pokój motyli
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"Posy Montague wkrótce skończy siedemdziesiąt lat. Wciąż mieszka w rodzinnym domu w urokliwym Suffolk, gdzie spędziła idylliczne dzieciństwo, łapiąc motyle z ukochanym ojcem, i gdzie wychowała własne dzieci. Choć z posiadłością wiążą ją cenne wspomnienia, choć ogród, który sama założyła i o który dbała przez ćwierć wieku, rozkwita jak nigdy dotąd, Posy wie, że będzie musiała podjąć trudną decyzję i sprzedać podupadające...
612) Legado mortal
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"La reportera de televisión Delaney Wright está a punto de saltar a la fama por dar la noticia en el informativo de las seis de juicio por asesinato del que todo el mundo habla. Debería estar entusiasmada, pero en realidad solo piensa en su afán por encontrar a su madre biológica. En juicio por asesinato está Betsy Grant, viuda de un rico doctor que ha padecido de alzhéimer durante ocho años. A pesar de que su antaño famoso abogado la insta...
613) Luz de febrero
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En Crosby, un pequeño pueblo en la costa de Maine, no suceden muchas cosas. Y sin embargo, las historias sobre la vida de las personas que viven allí contienen un mundo entero. Está Olive Kitteridge, una maestra jubilada, irascible, indecorosa, de honestidad inquebrantable. Tiene setenta años y aunque es más dura que una roca, sintoniza con los matices del alma humana. Está Jack Kennison, antiguo profesor de Harvard, que busca desesperadamente...
615) Las lunas de Júpiter
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Eleven short stories of heartbreak and the sadness of aging women.
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"After the ceasefire in 1988, the devastation to the landscape of Iraq wrought by the longest war of the twentieth century - the Iran-Iraq War - becomes visible. Yet, surveying this destruction from the sky, a strip of land bursting with green can be seen. The secret of this fertility, sustaining villages and remaining soldiers, is unclear. But it is said that one old woman is responsible for this lifeline"--
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While trying to cope with the daily realities of her existence in an old people's home, Gerda Wendt looks back on her childhood and adolescence, on her passion for astrophysics and the raised eyebrows it provoked, and on the tough choice that she had to make back in the summer of her life: the choice between love and a career abroad ... -Back cover.
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"At ninety years old, Audrey Thorpe still lives in a historic mansion on palm-tree-lined Victory Drive, determined to retain her independence. But when her health begins to fade, her family hires a part-time caretaker, Laurel. The two women seem to bond--until Audrey disappears. Unbeknownst to Laurel, Audrey has harbored a secret for 70 years, since her time as a nurse in the South Pacific during World War II. As the story moves between the verdant...
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"All families have secrets, don't they? 89-year-old Jeannette never meant to keep the truth from her family. But when a near fatal fall sends her to live with her granddaughter Amy, she finds herself revisiting a past that's been hidden for too many years.Amy, however, has always been good at keeping secrets. When ex-partner Nick shows up, she's forced to admit that some things just can't stay hidden forever. Judith is starting from scratch - again....