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Fourteenth goldfish volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Ellie's scientist grandfather has discovered a way to reverse aging, and consequently has turned into a teenager--which makes for complicated relationships when he moves in with Ellie and her mother, his daughter.
Author
Publisher
Facts on File
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
The New Biology offers an intriguing overview of the latest technologies in the study of living organisms, using straightforward language and striking line illustrations and photographs. Since the phrase was coined three decades ago, new biology has
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
After a sudden change of plans, a remarkable woman and her loyal group of friends try to figure out what she's going to do with the rest of her life--from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting to Exhale Loretha Curry's life is full. A little crowded sometimes, but full indeed. On the eve of her sixty-eighth birthday, she has a booming beauty supply empire, a gaggle of lifelong friends, and a husband...
Author
Publisher
Aguilar
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
La nueva longevidad no es vivir mas, sino mejor, diferente, plenos, participes e integrados. Y eso depende de los habitos, los proyectos y la propia actitud. Diego Bernardini comparte su experiencia vivencial con personas mayores y propone su mirada de la vida. Muchas veces leemos que podriamos vivir hasta cien anos y mas tambien. Incluso ya hay quienes hablan de la inmortalidad del ser humano. ¿Pero que hay de lo concreto de llegar, rondar y/o atravesar...
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English
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New York Times best-seller and 2012 ECPA Book of the Year.
Join Billy Graham as he reflects upon his life, recounts God's many gifts, and shares the challenges of fading bodily strength while still standing strong in his commitment to finish life well.
Nearing Home-written by Reverend Billy Graham in his nineties-is a deeply personal memoir that explores how our strength can continually be found in the foundational truths of Scripture and inexhaustible...
Author
Series
Houston series volume 4
Language
English
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Description
Aurora Greenway tries to come to grips with aging, her family, friends, and lovers.
10) From strength to strength: finding success, happiness, and deep purpose in the second half of life
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
The roadmap for finding purpose, meaning, and success as we age, from bestselling author, Harvard professor, and the Atlantic's happiness columnist Arthur Brooks. Many of us assume that the more successful we are, the less susceptible we become to the sense of professional and social irrelevance that often accompanies aging. But the truth is, the greater our achievements and our attachment to them, the more we notice our decline, and the more painful...
11) Henry, himself
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Soldier, son, lover, husband, breadwinner, churchgoer, Henry Maxwell has spent his whole life trying to live with honor. A native Pittsburgher and engineer, he's always believed in logic, sacrifice, and hard work. Now, seventy-five and retired, he feels the world has passed him by. It's 1998, the American century is ending, and nothing is simple anymore. His children are distant, their unhappiness a mystery. Only his wife Emily and dog Rufus stand...
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Based on Nobel Prize-winning research, an easy-to-follow lifestyle plan for losing weight, looking younger, and feeling energized. This is the first book for a general audience to take that fascinating science and translates into an accessible, practical guide to losing weight, looking younger, and feeling energized. You'll also learn Naomi Whittel's life hacks for sleep, travel, stress reduction, and productivity, as well as delicious and nutritious...
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Series
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English
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'Provides valuable tips and advice to help your provide the best eldercare while respecting the demands of your time. It guides your through typical caregiver issues, explores the best choices for caring for your elderly loved ones, and helps you develop and implement plans that deliver the strongest possible care. -- Publisher's annotation.
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English
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A poignant, evocative story that celebrates the magic of motherhood, the joys of coming home, and the price we so willingly pay for love.
Years of trying unsuccessfully to conceive a child have broken more than Angie DeSaria's heart. Following a painful divorce, she moves back to her small Pacific Northwest hometown and takes over management of her family's restaurant. In West End, where life rises and falls like the tides, Angie's fortunes will...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Women growing older contend with ageism, misogyny, and loss. Yet Pipher shows most older women are deeply happy and filled with gratitude for the gifts of life. Their struggles help them grow into the authentic, empathetic, and wise people they have always wanted to be. Here she offers a timely examination of the cultural and developmental issues women face as they age. -- adapted from jacket
17) The father
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages. As he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind, and even the fabric of his reality.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The author confronts the realities of being forty, examining how the modern forties are less associated with midlife than in the past and discussing the disconnects of social media, the French perspectives about libido, and the challenges of raising kids while caring for aging parents.
"The best-selling author of Bringing Up Baebae investigates life in her forties, and wonders whether her mind will ever catch up with her face. When Pamela Druckerman...
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