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8) Tinkers
Author
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Paul Harding's Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times–bestselling debut novel about memory, consciousness, and our place in the natural world.
An old man lies dying. Confined to bed in his living room, he sees the walls around him begin to collapse, the windows come loose from their sashes, and the ceiling plaster fall off in great chunks, showering him with a lifetime of debris: newspaper clippings, old
...Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Twiss and her sister Milly have spent their lives nursing people and birds back to health. But back in the summer of 1947 they knew nothing about trying to mend what had been accidentally broken. That was the summer their golf pro father got in to an accident that cost him his swing and his charm; and their mother, the daughter of a wealthy jeweler, finally admitted their hardscrabble lives wouldn't change. Their priest announced that God didn't exist...
Author
Language
English
Description
Ptolemy Grey is a 91-year-old man, suffering from dementia and living as a recluse in his Los Angeles apartment. Then Robyn Small, a 17-year-old family friend, appears and helps clean up his apartment and straighten out his life. A reinvigorated Ptolemy volunteers for an experimental medical program that restores his mind, and he uses his last days--shortened now by the medical experiment--to delve into the mystery of the recent drive-by shooting...
15) Gilead
Author
Series
Gilead novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
As the Reverend John Ames approaches the hour of his own death, he writes a letter to his son chronicling three previous generations of his family, a story that stretches back to the Civil War and reveals uncomfortable family secrets.
Author
Series
Those darn squirrels volume 3
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
As Old Man Fookwire's birds prepare to migrate south for the winter, those darn squirrels decide to follow.
17) My grandpa
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
An elderly grandfather bear and his adoring grandson share a special relationship.
20) The mitten tree
Author
Publisher
Fulcrum
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Old Sarah knits mittens for all the children waiting for the school bus and hangs them on the blue spruce tree at the bus stop.
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