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Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
A rich but lonely woman notices a shivering blond youth sitting alone on a park bench. She offers him food and shelter, and the apparently mute teenager accepts. Every night she locks his bedroom door, but the boy goes in and out of his room through the fire escape window, returning early next morning without her knowledge. She eventually attempts to seduce him, and the boy soon learns who's in control of their relationship and how far she'll go to...
62) An =: Sweet bean
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
日本語
Description
Baker Sentaro's business enjoys new success when his new 76-year-old assistant Tokue shares her recipe for the sweet red bean paste used in the bakery's dorayaki pancakes, but another of Tokue's secrets may bring their happy work life to an early end.
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
La perra = The bitch (16:49): A sexy satire in which a couple with empty lives invents a fantasy about the new maid in order to satisfy their sexual obsessions.
We have decided not to die (11:22): Three figures undergo transformation through three rituals in a modern day allegorical triptych.
United we stand (8:57): Eight old-timers come upon a young woman stuck in a swamp.
Antichrist (27:14): A group of young boys have a leader who believes himself...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Martha Andersson may be 79 years old and live in a retirement home, but that doesn't mean she's ready to stop enjoying life. So when the new management of Diamond House starts cutting corners to save money, Martha and her four closest friends--Brains, The Rake, Christina and Anna-Gretta (a.k.a. The League of Pensioners)--won't stand for it. Fed up with early bedtimes and overcooked veggies, this group of feisty seniors sets about to regain their independence,...
65) Guarding Tess
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1994.
Language
English
Description
A delightful comedy about a cantankerous former First Lady and her reluctant bodyguard.
Author
Language
English
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Seventeen-year-old Lenni Pettersson has been told she's dying, but still has plenty of living to do. She lives on the Terminal Ward at the Glasgow Princess Royal Hospital. In their arts and crafts class she meets Margot, an 83-year-old, purple-pajama-wearing, fruitcake-eating rebel. Their friendship blooms, and though their days are dwindling both are determined to leave their mark on the world. With the help of Lenni's doting palliative care nurse...
67) Birdsong
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a young girl moves from the country to a small town, she feels lonely and out of place. But soon she meets an elderly woman next door, who shares her love of nature and art. As the seasons change, can the girl navigate the failing health of her new friend? Acclaimed author and artist Julie Flett's textured images of birds, flowers, art, and landscapes bring vibrancy and warmth to this powerful story, which highlights the fulfillment of intergenerational...
Author
Language
English
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Description
A wildly entertaining road trip novel featuring a college dropout and an eighty-four-year-old woman off on the adventure of their lives, full of tremendous heart, wit, and wisdom from the USA Today bestselling author of The Invisible Husband of Frick Island. Twenty-one-year-old Tanner Quimby needs a place to live. Preferably one where she can continue sitting around in sweatpants and playing video games nineteen hours a day. Since she has no credit...
69) A werewolf boy
Publisher
CJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
An elderly woman is summoned back to Korea where she spent her youth. Memories overwhelm Suni of a feral and mute orphan who the family took in. Young Suni is determined to tame the "wolf boy" and teach him to live among people. In return, he repays her with unparalleled devotion. When a threat to Suni brings out the boy's bestial instinct, he becomes the target of the villagers' fears. To save his life, Suni abandons him, but promises she will return....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Just when things have finally cooled down for 88-year-old Maud after the disturbing discovery of a dead body in her apartment in Gothenburg, a couple of detectives return to her doorstep, ruining a perfectly good afternoon. Though Maud deftly dodges their questions with the skill of an Olympic gymnast a fifth of her age, she wonders if suspicion has fallen on her, little old lady that she is. The truth is, ever since Maud was a girl, death has seemed...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Veronica "Ronni" Johnson, licensed practical nurse and aspiring writer, meets the captivating Violet in the assisted living facility where Violet requires no assistance, just lots of male attention. When she dies, she leaves Ronni a very generous bequest ... only if Ronni completes a book about her life within one year. As she's drawn into the world of young Violet, Ronni is mesmerized by life in a simpler time. It's an irresistible journey filled...
Author
Language
English
Description
It is 1951, and at number six Sycamore Street fifteen-year-old Edie Green is lonely. Living with her eccentric mother and her mother's new boyfriend, she is desperate for something to shake her from her dull, isolated life. So when the popular, pretty Lucy Theddle befriends Edie, she thinks all her troubles are over. Even though Lucy has a secret, one Edie is not certain she should keep. Then Lucy goes missing. Now in 2018, Edie is eighty-four and...
73) These old broads
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
Three aging divas and their agent all hate each other, but since they are all desperate for money they agree to reunite for a television special.
Author
Series
Puzzle Lady mystery volume 4
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
The crime-solving powers of the inimitable Cora and her clever niece, Sherry Carter, are put to the ultimate test as they square off against a yuletide killer who hides within the white-and-black shadows of an acrostic. Smug crossword-creator Harvey Beerbaum solves the acrostic, and it turns out to be a poem promising the death of an actress.
75) Puzzled to death
Author
Series
Puzzle Lady mystery volume 3
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Bakerhaven, Connecticut, the home of Cora Felton, the Puzzle Lady, seems like the ideal place to host a charity crossword-puzzle tournament. A slew of celebrity contestants are on the way, and the locals have been invited to challenge the veteran puzzlers head-on. But soon the town's attention is fixated on something far more controversial than crosswords when the body of the town tart is discovered lying dead on her kitchen floor. Before anyone can...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the beloved author of Dominicana, a GMA Book Club Pick and Women's Prize Finalist, an electrifying and indelible new novel about a woman who has lost everything but the chance to finally tell her story. Write this down: Cara Romero wants to work. Cara Romero thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest of her life. But when, in her mid-50s, she loses her job in the Great Recession, she is forced back into the job market...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The Action League Grannies have been spied on by the California National Guard. They've been written about in Time magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the San Jose Mercury News. They've appeared on Fox News with Bill O'Reilly, Jon Stewart's Comedy Central, and are regulars in Bay Area evening news stories. In public, they've been both booed and cheered, but they continue to protest with a sense of outrage, a sense of humor, and a commitment...
Author
Series
(Joan Avna)Covington volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Circumstance has brought together three women "of a certain age" ... Grace, Hannah, and Amelia ... to a Pennsylvania boardinghouse where three square meals and a sagging bed is the most any of them can look forward to. But friendship will take them on a startling journey to a rundown North Carolina farmhouse where the unexpected suddenly seems not only welcome, but delightfully promising.
80) The new neighbor
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Stoic and independent, ninety-year-old Margaret Riley rarely leaves the Tennessee mountaintop where she lives, finding comfort in the mystery novels that keep her company-- until she spots a woman who's moved into the long-empty house across the pond. On the run from her old life, Jennifer Young and her four-year-old son, Milo, have moved to a quiet town where no one from her past can find her. Seeing Jennifer as a mystery to be solved, Margaret crosses...
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