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Jack Reacher novels volume 24
Language
English
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In the next highly anticipated installment of Lee Child's acclaimed suspense series, Jack Reacher comes to the aid of an elderly couple...and confronts his most dangerous opponents yet. This isn't one of those times. Reacher is on a Greyhound bus, minding his own business, with no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there. Then he steps off the bus to help an old man who is obviously just a victim waiting to happen. But you...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Have you forgotten your password? Deleted important files? Sent email to the wrong person? If so, you're going to get a kick out of this book. Bestselling author and gentle humorist Karen O'Connor offers hilarious senior moments from the digital world to make you smile or laugh out loud. These short stories, insightful Scriptures, technology tips, and brief prayers encourage you to keep laughing while you figure out the new gadgets that come along....
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English
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Confined to a nursing home and about to turn 100, 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.
Author
Publisher
Que
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"My Internet for Seniors helps you quickly and easily get online and start using everything the internet has to offer. With step-by-step tasks, large text, close-up screen shots, and a custom full-color interior designed for comfortable reading, you'll quickly be getting the most out of your online experience." - Publisher
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Language
English
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Richard Osman is back with everyone's favorite mystery-solving quartet, and the second installment of The Thursday Murder Club series is just as clever and warm as the first-an unputdownable, laugh-out-loud pleasure of a read--
Elizabeth has received a letter from an old colleague, a man with whom she has a long history. He's made a big mistake, and he needs her help. His story involves stolen diamonds, a violent mobster, and a very real threat to...
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...
Author
Publisher
Bull Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Kids, are you worried that mom can't get into the tub safely or dad is having trouble getting up the stairs? Mom and dad, do you want to get the kids off your back and relieve their constant worrying? This book is the solution: it offers a practical step-by-step, room-by-room guide to simple modifications that can help senior make their home safer and easier to navigate. ...Designed to help seniors, along with their caregivers, address the challenges...
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Pub. Date
s202
Language
English
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Summary:
Staying active is an important part of keeping fit. But as we age, it can be harder to keep up with a fitness routine. Fitness Over 40 delivers a comprehensive method for staying in shape and improving the energy levels that may decline from aging. Find a six-week plan specially geared toward anyone over 40 looking to improve strength, balance, flexibility, and endurance--Amazon.com
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"As revelatory as Atul Gawande's Being Mortal, physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson's Elderhood is an essential, empathetic look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life. For more than 5,000 years, "old" has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That means most people alive today will spend more years in elderhood than in childhood, and many will be elders for 40 years or more. Yet at the very moment that humans...
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English
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What am I going to do with my retirement?
People talk about retirement like it's supposed to be an endless vacation. But what if, like the majority of those facing retirement, you can't afford such a luxury? Or, what if you just want something more from retirement? Some advocate for no retirement at all. But you've worked for decades and a rest and reprieve do sound appealing. What should you do? Does God have a purpose for your retirement?
Yes,...
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English
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After more than a year in Europe, Joanna Vaughn returns to Sweetwater Crossing, her dreams of becoming a concert pianist shattered. As if that weren't enough, her husband, whom she married after a whirlwind courtship, has died. The only thing sustaining her on the journey back to Texas was the thought of her childhood home. But to Joanna's dismay, she's changed so much that the place she once loved no longer feels like home. After his fiancee married...
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"In this tender and funny novel, award-winning author Hilma Wolitzer mines the unpredictable fallout of suddenly becoming single later in life, and the chaos and joys of falling in love the second time around. When Edward Schuyler, a modest and bookish sixty-two-year-old science teacher, is widowed, he finds himself ambushed by female attention. There are plenty of unattached women around, but a healthy, handsome, available man is a rare and desirable...
Author
Publisher
Plume, Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A personal memoir in which Lyn Slater, known on Instagram as Accidental Icon, brings her characteristic style, optimism, forward-thinking, and rules-are-meant-to-be-broken attitude to the question of how to live boldly at any age. When Lyn Slater started her fashion blog, Accidental Icon, at age sixty-one, she discovered that followers were flocking to her account for more than just her A-list style. As Lyn flaunted gray hair, wrinkles, and a megadose...
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English
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In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves The Thursday Murder Club. There's Red Ron, the infamous former socialist firebrand, still causing trouble; gentle Joyce, widowed, pining for another resident, but surely not as innocent as she seems; Ibrahim, a former therapist who understands the darker side of human nature; and Elizabeth? Well, no one is...
Author
Publisher
Que
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The full-color, step-by-step tasks -- in legible print -- walk you through learning to use today's technology for all your entertainment needs. With My Digital Entertainment for Seniors, you'll: learn all about how you can watch movies and TV, listen to music, read books, and play games on devices you already own; get acquainted with on-demand video, music, podcasts, eBooks, and magazines, audiobooks, and games; find out how you can enjoy multiple...
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