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Liam Pennywell, who set out to be a philosopher and ended up teaching fifth grade, never much liked the job at that run-down private school, so early retirement doesn't bother him. But he is troubled by his inability to remember anything about the first night that he moved into his new, spare, and efficient condominium on the outskirts of Baltimore. All he knows when he wakes up the next day in the hospital is that his head is sore and bandaged.
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Secret diary of Hendrik Groen volume 1
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 22 cm
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"Hendrik Groen may be old, but he is far from dead and isn't planning to be buried any time soon. Granted, his daily strolls are getting shorter because his legs are no longer willing and he has to visit his doctor more than he'd like. Technically speaking he is...elderly. But surely there is more to life at his age than weak tea and potted geraniums? Hendrik sets out to write an exposé: a year in the life of his care home in Amsterdam, revealing...
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Secret diary of Hendrik Groen volume 3
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 22 cm
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Hendrik and Evert are in a bind after Evert takes an unattended baby in a stroller for a walk and must return the baby to its parents without being noticed.
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On the eve of his ninetieth birthday, a bachelor decides to give himself a wild night of love with a virgin. As is his habit, he has purchased hundreds of women, and asks a madam for her assistance. The fourteen-year-old girl who is procured for him is enchanting, but exhausted as she is from caring for siblings and her job sewing buttons, she can do little but sleep. Yet with this sleeping beauty at his side, it is he who awakens to a romance he...
8) Lucky
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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The spiritual journey of a ninety year old atheist, and the quirky characters that inhabit his off the map desert town.
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012
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1 DVD (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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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.
13) Telling the bees
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Albert Honig's most constant companions have always been his bees. A never-married octogenarian, still residing in the house in which he was born, Albert makes a modest living as a beekeeper, just has his father and his father's father had done before him. Deeply acquainted with the ways and workings of the hives, he knows that bees dislike wool clothing and foul language; that the sweetest honey is made from the blooms of the eucalyptus; and that...
14) Manglehorn
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IFC Films
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Al Pacino and Holly Hunter give moving performances as a cat loving locksmith and a lovelorn bank teller who are both transformed by a new romance in this magical love story.
Publisher
Desert Mountain Media
Pub. Date
c2002.
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1 DVD (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Un quinteto de ancianos se escapa de una clínica en busca de un sueño común, de tocar música en público.
A quintet of elderly men escape from a nursing home in search of a common dream of playing their music in public.
16) The big finish
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Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
326 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Description
"An unlikely friendship between a curmudgeonly old man and a desperate young woman delivers a funny and uplifting message about the power of human connection and how it's never too late to be the person you wanted to be. Eighty-eight-year-old Duffy Sinclair wants the last leg of his bachelor life to be strictly predictable, so Centennial Assisted Living is perfect: low-sodium meals, off-key sing-alongs, and the company of his best pal and roommate,...
17) When all is said
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If you had to pick five people to sum up your life, who would they be? If you were to raise a glass to each of them, what would you say? And what would you learn about yourself, when all is said? At the bar of a grand hotel in a small Irish town sits 84-year-old Maurice Hannigan. He's alone, as usual -- though tonight is anything but. Pull up a stool and charge your glass, because Maurice is finally ready to tell his story. Over the course of this...
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Criterion collection volume 831
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
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Set in nineteenth-century Macao, a wealthy aging merchant with no heirs and no spouse becomes obsessed with a tale about a rich man who gives a poor sailor a small sum of money to impregnate his wife.
19) Duck
Publisher
Distributed by Westlake Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Los Angeles, 2009. Arthur is a retired widower in a dystopian society where social services have gone the way of social graces, and another Bush occupies the White House. Forced from his home with only a duck named Joe to accompany him, Arthur embarks on a quest for purpose and community across the urban desert of Los Angeles. Arthur learns that saving the life of this duck may have led to the salvation of his own. In a duck who believes him to be...
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Publisher
TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
272 p. ; 23 cm.
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As the elderly hero of Thomas Rayfiel?s daring new novel, In Pinelight, sits in a retirement home responding to the questions of an unseen interrogator, the fragments he supplies form the portrait of a man?s life in upstate New York. Losses, loves, destructive family relationships, sexual entanglements, and moments of mystical awareness filter through the seeming minutiae of small-town gossip to confront the reader with their cumulative power.
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