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1) Secrets
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Lance Michelli is on a quest to discover the secrets his grandmother cannot tell. What happened all those years ago, and what is it she so desperately needs him to find? The old villa in Sonoma holds the answers, but it is now owned by a young woman who neither knows nor cares about his mission. But Rese Barret is a force to contend with, and her own impending storm could sweep him up as their sparring creates a fierce and uncomfortable attraction....
Author
Series
A Hunter and Clewe mystery volume 1
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A retired librarian is hired by an eccentric collector who needs an archivist for his huge, expanding compendium of rare books, where she discovers the dead body of her new employer's ex-girlfriend, who was also the heir to a pharmaceutical fortune.
4) Emily, alone
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
255 p ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author of numerous novels, Stewart O'Nan has been lauded with critical acclaim and best-seller status on his way to consideration as one of America's most gifted novelists. Emily, Alone, a sequel to Wish You Were Here, revolves around widow and grandmother Emily Maxwell, whose ordered life is jarred when her sister-in-law suffers a stroke. But even amid the conflicting emotions of a changing world, Emily proves resilient and vows to move forward...
5) The scoop
Author
Series
The Godmothers volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the gossip newspaper where her daughter works is in danger of closing down because of the owner's gambling debts, Teresa "Toots" Loudenberry calls on three trusted friends to help her pull some strings to keep her daughter employed among Hollywood's elite.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
258 p.
Language
English
Description
When young attorney Becky Balwin hires Cora Felton to accompany her to New York City to meet a new client in his penthouse apartment, the Puzzle Lady jumps at the chance. Cora is just coming off a bad breakup, and finding out that Chief Harper testified at a parole hearing for a killer she helped put away has her feeling old. But, when she and Becky arrive at the apartment, they find the man is dead. There's a puzzle on his chest, and a prowler is...
7) Kingdomtide
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Now 94 and living a quiet life, Cecily Larson, when her family surprises her with an at-home DNA test, finds the unexpected results not only bringing to light the tragic love story she's kept hidden for decades but also calls into question everything about the family she's raised and claimed as her own.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Doris, a 96-year-old woman living alone in her Stockholm apartment, has few visitors, but her weekly Skype calls with her American grandniece Jenny give her great joy and remind her of her own youth. When Doris was a girl she was given an address book by her father, and ever since she has carefully documented everyone she met and loved throughout the years. Looking through the little book now, Doris is struck by the urge to put pen to paper. Writing...
11) Olive, again
Author
Series
Olive volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Funny, wicked and remorseful, Mrs. Kitteridge is a compelling life force, a red blooded original. When she's not onstage, we look forward to her return..."* And now, indeed, Olive Kitteridge has returned, as indomitable as ever. "It turns out--I just wasn't done with Olive," said Strout. "It was like she kept poking me in the ribs, so I finally said 'Okay, okay...'" Now Olive returns, this time as a person getting older, navigating her next decade...
12) Honey: a novel
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
A rebellious youth turned L.A. art queen confronts her twilight years, family secrets and a fiery late-life romance as past demons and the thirst for revenge resurface in the form of her drug-addled grandnephew Michael.
Author
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Wanting to organize an assisted death on her own terms, world-weary octogenarian Eudora Honeysett forges an unexpected bond with exuberant ten-year-old Rose, who drags her to tea parties, shopping sprees, and other social excursions.
Eudora Honeysett has lived a full life, and witnessed the indignities and suffering of old age. At eighty-five, her end will be on her terms. A call to a clinic in Switzerland sets the plan in motion. Then she meets...
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gladdy Gold's exotic vacation has reached a pinnacle: a romantic soak in a hot tub with the man she adores, far from Florida and her nosy neighbors…until an urgent message concerning the safety of her best friends sends her running home. Now, her idyll is ony a memory, her would-be-beau, Jack, is furious, and not only are the girls of the Gladdy Gold Detective Agency alive and well-they're onto a hot new murder case. Is a suave senior Romeo to blame...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
417 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
After schlepping all over New York City, senior PI Gladdy Gold is happy to be back on Florida turf. Especially now that she and Jack Langford are officially an item. But no sooner has the yenta brigade gotten back to their favorite routines, such as poolside stretching and kvetching-than the notorious outlaw, the "Grandpa Bandit," issues Gladdy's detective agency a direct challenge: Catch me if you can. The dapper thief has hit six Fort Lauderdate...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A comedic novel about an American woman leaving her 20-year marriage to her French husband, returning to her native San Francisco to pick up the life she left behind, and the entwining lives of her children and grandchildren"--
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When 84-year-old Edie Havercroft sees Lucy Theddle, who disappeared back in 1951, standing outside the post office one Tuesday afternoon, she wonders if a secret she's held onto all these years could be the key to unlocking what happened to her friend before the girl is forgotten forever.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"On her favorite day of the year, Elizabeth Davenport awakens in her cottage on the wild and windy Cornish coast, opens her front door, and discovers a precious gift: the small blue crocus and a note that begins I Wish . . . They are not signed, but she knows they've been left by her first and truest love, Tom Hale. Each of these precious missives convey a simple wish for something they had missed, and the life they might have shared. She has kept...