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Author
Publisher
New American Library
Language
English
Description
"Seven years ago, Terry Archer and his family experienced a horrific ordeal that nearly cost them their lives. Today, the echoes of that fateful night are still audible. Terry's wife, Cynthia, is living separate from her husband and daughter after her own personal demons threatened to ruin her relationship with them permanently. Their daughter, Grace, is rebelling against her parents' seemingly needless overprotection. Terry is just trying to keep...
2) My grandpa
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
An elderly grandfather bear and his adoring grandson share a special relationship.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
506 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Russian immigrant Malka arrives in 1913 Manhattan, where she struggles to survive and learns trade secrets from an Italian ices peddler before setting off across America in an ice cream truck with a handsome, illiterate radical to seek their fortunes.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
The staff and residents at Fulton, North Carolina's retirement facility, share the realities of their lives, from a prominent lawyer who feigns dementia to escape life with his son, to a woman who keeps a scrapbook of every local crime.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
443 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Martha Anderson and the League try to bilk a rich neighbor and his French Riviera cronies out of money in order to defray the construction costs of a new resort village for seniors.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Fed up when the new management of their retirement home begins cutting corners, a group of seniors begin a life of white collar crime and plot to carry out a complex, untraceable heist at the National Museum.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Martha Anderson and the League have a wild time in Las Vegas that ends with them securing a nice sum for the Swedish pensioners, but when they return home, an infamous motorcycle gang takes a suspicious interest in them.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
384 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Confined to a nursing home and about to turn one hundred, Allan Karlsson, who has a larger-than-life back story as an explosives expert, climbs out of the window in his slippers and embarks on an unforgettable adventure involving thugs, a murderous elephant, and a very friendly hot dog stand operator.
10) Akin: a novel
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
339 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Noah Selvaggio is a retired chemistry professor and widower living on the Upper West Side, but born in the South of France. He is days away from his first visit back to Nice since he was a child, bringing with him a handful of puzzling photos he's discovered from his mother's wartime years. But he receives a call from social services: Noah is the closest available relative of an eleven-year-old great-nephew he's never met, who urgently needs someone...