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Author
Series
Secret diary of Hendrik Groen volume 1
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1968]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A teenage boy and girl, high school sophomores from unhappy homes, tell of their bizarre relationship with an old man.
John and Lorraine are two high school sophomores who befriend Mr. Pignati, a lonely old man with an awful secret.
Author
Series
Martin Hench volume 1
Publisher
Tor, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's Red Team Blues is a grabby next-Tuesday thriller about cryptocurrency shenanigans that will awaken you to how the world really works. Martin Hench is 67 years old, single, and successful in a career stretching back to the beginnings of Silicon Valley. He lives and roams California in a very comfortable fully-furnished touring bus, The Unsalted Hash, that he bought years ago from a fading rock star. He knows...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
From the incomparable Anne Tyler, a wise, gently humorous, and deeply compassionate novel about a schoolteacher, who has been forced to retire at sixty-one, coming to terms with the final phase of his life.
10) Lucky
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The spiritual journey of a ninety year old atheist, and the quirky characters that inhabit his off-the-map desert town.
11) The first grader
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A heartwarming and inspiring true story of an 84-year-old Kenyan villager and ex-Mau Mau freedom fighter who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the education he could never afford. It is a triumphant testimony to the transforming force of education.
Author
Series
Alex Morrow novels volume 3
Publisher
Reagan Arthur Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"It's the week before Christmas when a lone robber bursts into a busy Glasgow post office carrying an AK-47. An elderly man suddenly hands his young grandson to a stranger and wordlessly helps the gunman fill bags with cash, then carries them to the door. He opens the door and bows his head; the robber fires off the AK-47, tearing the grandfather in two. DS Alex Morrow arrives on the scene and finds that the alarm system had been disabled before...
Series
Publisher
Distributed Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"They're retirees who are anything but retiring. Robert Duvall and Richard Harris deliver 'two of the year's most spectacular performances' (Bob Campbell, Newhouse Newspapers) as a reserved ex-barber and a salty former sea captain, beached in a quiet Florida town and living solitary lives. But after meeting in the local park one afternoon, these polar opposites soon become the unlikeliest of friends"--Container.
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In 1947, ninety-three-year-old Sherlock Holmes lives out his retirement in a remote Sussex farmhouse with a housekeeper and her young son, Roger, who stumbles upon information about Holmes's secret past.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Vic Edwards was the biggest star in Hollywood, a college football legend turned stunt double turned leading man. Now in his eighties, he's convinced by an old friend to accept an invitation to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at a two-bit film festival in Nashville. The trip launches him on both a hilarious fish-out-of-water adventure and an unexpectedly poignant journey into his past.
17) Roommates
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003?], c1995
Language
English
Description
When a 107-year old man moves in with his grandson, both of their lives are turned upside-down.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The UK is in peril. Five days before the PM is to host her first G12 summit, MI7's security is breached and every agent in the field identified and exposed. The only hope of finding the perpetrator is to bring an agent out of retirement, but with most of them either dead or close to it, the head of MI7 is left with only one choice, and his name is English.
19) Mr. Holmes
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In 1947, an aging Sherlock Holmes returns from a journey to Japan, where, in search of a rare plant with powerful restorative qualities, he has witnessed the devastation of nuclear warfare. Now, in his remote seaside farmhouse, Holmes faces the end of his days, with only the company of his housekeeper and her young son, Roger. Grappling with the diminishing powers of his mind, Holmes comes to rely upon the boy as he revisits the circumstances of the...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Swedish
Description
Ove, a grumpy, isolated retiree who spends his days enforcing block association rules and visiting his wife's grave, decides to give up on life until an unlikely friendship develops with a boisterous young family that moves in next door.
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