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Lunch at the Piccadilly

A recent arrival at the Rosehaven Convalescence Center to recuperate from a bad fall, the elderly but irrepressible Lil Olive turns the institution upside down when she and some of her new friends steal a car and hit the highway.

By Clyde Edgerton

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Hardcover:

9781587245336 | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, December 1, 2003), cover price $30.95 | About this edition: A recent arrival at the Rosehaven Convalescence Center to recuperate from a bad fall, the elderly but irrepressible Lil Olive turns the institution upside down when she and some of her new friends steal a car and hit the highway.

Paperback:

9781616206277 | Algonquin Books, August 5, 2015, cover price $24.99

9780345476784 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, September 1, 2004), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A recent arrival at the Rosehaven Convalescence Center to recuperate from a bad fall, the elderly but irrepressible Lil Olive turns the institution upside down when she and some of her new friends steal a car and hit the highway.

Board Stiff

By Annelise Ryan

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Paperback:

9780758272768 | Kensington Pub Corp, March 4, 2014, cover price $7.99

Nursing Home Ninjas

Product Description: At eighty- seven, Marvin's eyesight is failing, but even he can't miss the bruises on his fellow nursing- home residents. The staff dismisses his concerns, so Marvin enlists the aid of two friends to expose the abuser. Armed only with their cunning and a collection of homemade weapons, they stalk suspects, collect documents and set booby traps...read more

By Al Stevens

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Hardcover:

9781432826949 | Five Star, March 18, 2013, cover price $25.95

Paperback:

9781410458179 | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, June 5, 2013), cover price $25.99 | About this edition: At eighty- seven, Marvin's eyesight is failing, but even he can't miss the bruises on his fellow nursing- home residents.

The Carousel

Product Description: This is the love story of Michael Keddington and Faye Murrow, a love story that takes place not in seclusion but in the real world, with the challenges that all lovers must face. No relationship is an island: There are threads that bind us all and pull at our lives -- the demands of family, of friends, of work, and social obligation...read more

By Richard Paul Evans

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Hardcover:

9780743200905 | Large print edition (Simon & Schuster, September 1, 2000), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Continues the love story of Michael Keddington and Faye Morrow as Faye leaves for medical school, obstacles from suicide to miscarriages arise, and a friendship is formed with Hallie, who faces her own share of life's battles.

Paperback:

9781476744803 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, March 23, 2013), cover price $22.99 | About this edition: This is the love story of Michael Keddington and Faye Murrow, a love story that takes place not in seclusion but in the real world, with the challenges that all lovers must face.

9780743428705 | Reissue edition (Pocket Books, October 2, 2001), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: The author of The Christmas Box and The Looking Glass returns to the moving but unfinished saga of Faye Murrow and Michael Keddington, whose hasty marriage is undermined by the stresses and strains of everyday life, unless they can find the forgiveness and faith that can bind them together.

CD/Spoken Word:

9780792799009 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Sound Library, May 1, 2001), cover price $79.95 | About this edition: This is the love story of Michael Keddington and Faye Murrow, a love story that takes place not in seclusion, but in the real world, with the challenges that all lovers must face.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780792724537 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Sound Library, May 1, 2001), cover price $54.95 | About this edition: Resumes the saga of Murrow and Michael Keddington.

9780743500500 | Abridged edition (Simon & Schuster Audioworks, September 1, 2000), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Resumes the saga of Murrow and Michael Keddington.

Percival Everett by Virgil Russell

By Percival L. Everett

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Paperback:

9781555976347 | Graywolf Pr, February 5, 2013, cover price $15.00

Dark Blue Death

Product Description: Austin Police officer Zoe Barrow, first seen in the Anthony award-nominated Austin City Blue, is assisting field officers in role-playing for the new police cadets at Austin Police Department's Training Academy. Zoe and fellow training officer Anne Panzarella are conducting moving violations stops when a cadet comes running up to say one of the cadets has been killed...read more

By Jan Grape

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Hardcover:

9781594144233 | Five Star, November 22, 2005, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Austin Police officer Zoe Barrow, first seen in the Anthony award-nominated Austin City Blue, is assisting field officers in role-playing for the new police cadets at Austin Police Department's Training Academy.

Poor Mrs. Rigsby

Product Description: CNA Sally Cox is about as happy to be at Walnut Hills Nursing Center as the patients are. But it's work or starve, now that her husband has found a younger companion. Sally's new crowd skews toward the elderly - ninety-year-old Elsie Rigsby, for instance, whose dementia comes and goes with her gold-digging son and grandson's visits...read more

By Kathy Herman

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Paperback:

9781590523148 | Multnomah Pub, July 1, 2004, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: CNA Sally Cox is about as happy to be at Walnut Hills Nursing Center as the patients are.

Lunch at the Piccadilly: A Novel

A recent arrival at the Rosehaven Convalescence Center to recuperate from a bad fall, the elderly but irrepressible Lil Olive turns the institutions upside down when she and some of her new friends steal a car and hit the highway. By the author of Raney and Walking Across Egypt.

By Clyde Edgerton

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Hardcover:

9781565121959 | 1 edition (Algonquin Books, October 1, 2003), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A recent arrival at the Rosehaven Convalescence Center to recuperate from a bad fall, the elderly but irrepressible Lil Olive turns the institution upside down when she and some of her new friends steal a car and hit the highway.

Tread Softly

Product Description: "It seems crazy that in all that time I never stopped to think what I was actually cut out to do or be. But I'm sure I'm not unusual. There must be hundreds of people stuck in jobs they hate, or married to the wrong partner, or trying to be someone they're not...read more

By Wendy Perriam

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Hardcover:

9780720611762 | Peter Owen Ltd, January 1, 2003, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: "It seems crazy that in all that time I never stopped to think what I was actually cut out to do or be.

No Place Like Home

Product Description: A New York Times Bestseller The Cisco triplets are appalled by their widowed father's behavior. He seems to care more about his gold-digging fiancee than he does about his children. Even worse, Dad put their spunky grandmother - head of the family candy company - in a nursing home against her will...read more

By Fern Michaels

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Hardcover:

9780786270873 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, December 9, 2004), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: A New York Times Bestseller The Cisco triplets are appalled by their widowed father's behavior.

Paperback:

9780743457958 | Pocket Books, October 29, 2002, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: After their widowed father puts their grandmother in the nursing home so that he can spend more time with his gold-digging fiancâee, college seniors Sara, Hannah, and Sam Cisco set out to free Granny.

CD/Spoken Word:

9780792730347 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Sound Library, November 1, 2003), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The Cisco triplets are appalled by their widowed father's behavior.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780792730330 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Audio Books, November 1, 2003), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: The Cisco triplets are appalled by their widowed father s behavior.

The Pains of April

An old man in a rest home on the Gulf Coast remembers his frustrations, lessons, and fears as he tries to find himself through a lifetime of memories and dreams.

By Frank Turner Hollon

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Paperback:

9781931561143 | Macadam Cage Pub, August 1, 2002, cover price $7.50 | About this edition: An old man in a rest home on the Gulf Coast remembers his frustrations, lessons, and fears as he tries to find himself through a lifetime of memories and dreams.

Effie Leland Wilder : Three Complete Novels: Out to Pasture/over What Hill?/Older but Wilder

Product Description: With combined sales over 700,000 copies, these three best-selling short novels gently poke fun at growing older, while reflecting on the challenges and losses that seniors face. Hattie McNair, the star of these stories, tells of the high--and the low--times at Fair Acres, a retirement community in South Carolina...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Effie Leland Wilder

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Hardcover:

9780517220023 | Random House Value Pub, April 1, 2002, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: With combined sales over 700,000 copies, these three best-selling short novels gently poke fun at growing older, while reflecting on the challenges and losses that seniors face.

Over What Hill: More Notes from the Pasture

By Laurie Allen Klein and Effie Leland Wilder

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Paperback:

9781561452668 | Peachtree Pub Ltd, April 1, 2002, cover price $9.95

Out to Pasture: (But Not over the Hill)

Product Description: Television chef and literary activist Curtis Aikens helps you select and prepare fresh produce for healthy and delicious dining. Sharing infromation gathered through his successful career in the produce business, Curtis Aikens reveals tips you need to become an informed consumer...read more

By Effie Leland Wilder

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Hardcover:

9781561451012, titled "Out to Pasture: But Not over the Hill" | Peachtree Pub Ltd, March 1, 1995, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The sometimes funny, sometimes bittersweet story of a retiree who is, despite age and her surroundings, devoted to living-and loving every minute of it.

Paperback:

9781561452651, titled "Out to Pasture but Not over the Hill" | Peachtree Pub Ltd, March 1, 2002, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Television chef and literary activist Curtis Aikens helps you select and prepare fresh produce for healthy and delicious dining.

9780783882727 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, September 1, 1997), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: In journal format, tells the story of Hattie McNair's experiences and adventures in a South Carolina retirement community

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781561451364, titled "Out to Pasture: But Not over the Hill" | Abridged edition (Peachtree Pub Ltd, October 1, 1996), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The first of Effie Leland Wilder's raucous tales about Hattie McNair and the other residents of FairAcres Retirement HomeHattie McNair may be retired, but she certainly hasn't retired from life.

Rhode Island Blues

When Sophia, a thirty-four-year-old film editor living in London, journeys to Rhode Island to help her eighty-three-year-old grandmother, Felicity, settle into a retirement center, she stumbles upon a riotous assortment of family secrets, falls in love, and uncovers nursing-home fraud. Reading-Group guide available. Reprint.

By Fay Weldon

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Hardcover:

9780754015437 | Large print edition (Chivers, June 1, 2001), cover price $55.01 | About this edition: In Rhode Island Blues, Fay Weldon brings her deliciously wicked humor and seasoned wisdom to a story set, for the first time, in America.

9780783893433 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, February 1, 2001), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Smart, sexy, and infinitely charming, Rhode Island Blues tells the story of Sophia Moore, a loveless and guarded thirty-four-year-old film editor in London who believes that her only living relative is her stormy and wild grandmother Felicity.

9780871137753 | Atlantic Monthly Pr, November 1, 2000, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: When Sophia journeys to Rhode Island to help her eighty-three-year-old grandmother settle into a retirement center, she stumbles upon an assortment of family secrets, falls in love, and uncovers nursing-home fraud.

Paperback:

9780802138736 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, February 1, 2002), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: When Sophia journeys to Rhode Island to help her eighty-three-year-old grandmother settle into a retirement center, she stumbles upon an assortment of family secrets, falls in love, and uncovers nursing-home fraud.

9780754024118 | Large print edition (Chivers, June 1, 2001), cover price $22.01

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780754006855 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Audio Books, September 1, 2001), cover price $84.95 | About this edition: Weldon on top form; Weldon tackling love, sex, ageing, death; Weldon at her wittiest best; Weldon unparalleled.

The Locket

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.

By Richard Paul Evans

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Hardcover:

9781568957029 | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, April 1, 1999), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Working at a rest home after caring for his mother during her terminal illness, Michael accepts the deathbed request of an elderly woman to return her cherished locket--given to her by a long-lost love--to her old hometown

9780684834733 | Simon & Schuster, October 1, 1998, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Working at a rest home after caring for his mother during her terminal illness, Michael accepts the deathbed request of an elderly woman to return her cherished locket--given to her by a long-lost love--to her old hometown

Paperback:

9781568959702 | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, April 1, 2000), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: After the death of his mother, Michael Keddington finds employment at the Arcadia nursing home where he befriends Esther, a reclusive but beautiful elderly woman who lives in mourning for her youth and lost love.

CD/Spoken Word:

9780792799436 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Audio Books, December 1, 2001), cover price $79.95 | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780792724513 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Sound Library, March 1, 2001), cover price $69.95 | About this edition: 2001 CHIVERS PRESS set of 8 UNABRIDGED Audio Cassettes

9780671043261 | Abridged edition (Simon & Schuster Audioworks, October 1, 1998), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Working at a rest home after caring for his mother during her terminal illness, Michael accepts the deathbed request of an elderly woman to return her cherished locket--given to her by a long-lost love--to her old hometown.

Oh, My Goodness: More Surprises from Fairacres

Product Description: Welcome back to FairAcres! Here's another inspiring and humorous hit from Effie Leland Wilder, featuring Hattie McNair and her lovable cohorts at FairAcres Retirement Home. At the age of ninety-two and with more than 500,000 copies of her four best-selling books in print, youâd think that author Effie Leland Wilder would be content to rest on her laurels...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Marilynn Mallory-Brandenburger (illustrator) and Effie Leland Wilder

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Hardcover:

9781561452552 | Peachtree Pub Ltd, August 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Welcome back to FairAcres!

To Shape a Life

Product Description: Book by Forney, Melissa, Richardson, Judy

By Melissa Forney and Judy Richardson

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Hardcover:

9781928961031 | Melissa Forney Enterprises, December 1, 2000, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Book by Forney, Melissa, Richardson, Judy

The Carousel: A Novel

The author of The Christmas Box and The Looking Glass returns to the moving but unfinished saga of Faye Murrow and Michael Keddington. (view table of contents)

By Richard Paul Evans

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Hardcover:

9780684868912 | Simon & Schuster, October 1, 2000, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Resumes the moving but unfinished saga of Faye Murrow and Michael Keddington.

One More Time: --Just for the Fun of It! : Notes from Fairacres

In journal format, tells the story of Hattie McNair's experiences and adventures in a South Carolina retirement home.

By Laurie Allen Klein (illustrator) and Effie Leland Wilder

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Paperback:

9780783889603 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, June 1, 2000), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: In journal format, tells the story of Hattie McNair's experiences and adventures in a South Carolina retirement home.

Older but Wilder

Product Description: As with her two previous best-selling books, OUT TO PASTURE (BUT NOT OVER THE HILL) and OVER WHAT HILL? NOTES FROM THE PASTURE, author Effie Leland Wilder's third installment offers her loyal readers another testimony to living life to the fullest - no matter what your age...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Laurie Allen Klein (illustrator) and Effie Leland Wilder

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Paperback:

9780783889597 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, May 1, 2000), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: As with her two previous best-selling books, OUT TO PASTURE (BUT NOT OVER THE HILL) and OVER WHAT HILL?

One More Time: Just for the Fun of It!

In journal format, tells the story of Hattie McNair's experiences and adventures in a South Carolina retirement home (view table of contents)

By Laurie Allen Klein (illustrator) and Effie Leland Wilder

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Hardcover:

9781561452132 | Peachtree Pub Ltd, October 1, 1999, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In journal format, tells the story of Hattie McNair's experiences and adventures in a South Carolina retirement home

First Air War, 1914-1918

By Lee Kennett

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Hardcover:

9780029173015 | Free Pr, November 1, 1990, cover price $35.00 | also contains Apostles of Light: A Novel

Miscellaneous:

9781439105450, titled "The First Air War: 1914-1918" | Free Pr, July 30, 1999, cover price $14.99

Cereus Blooms at Night

When Mala, old and notoriously crazy, arrives at the Paradise Alms House, she is placed in the tender care of Tyler, a gay male nurse, and an extraordinary relationship begins to develop.

By Shani Mootoo

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Hardcover:

9780786217342 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, February 1, 1999), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: When Mala, old and notoriously crazy, arrives at the Paradise Alms House, she is placed in the tender care of Tyler, a gay male nurse, and an extraordinary relationship begins to develop.

9780802116338 | Grove Pr, September 1, 1998, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Judged unfit to stand trail for a murder she is accused of committing many years before, the aging, notoriously crazy Mala Ramchandin is placed under the care of a vivacious male nurse who becomes her unlikely confidant

Paperback:

9780802144621 | Grove Pr, October 27, 2009, cover price $16.00

9780380731992 | Perennial, September 1, 1999, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Sent to the town of Paradise in the Caribbean many years earlier when she is declared unfit to stand trial for murder, Mala eventually confides her story in a sympathetic male nurse.

9781862072497 | New edition (Granta Books, April 1, 1999), cover price $12.55 | About this edition: When Mala, old and notoriously crazy, arrives at the Paradise Alms House, she is placed in the tender care of Tyler, a gay male nurse, and an extraordinary relationship begins to develop.

9780771064005 | McClelland & Stewart Ltd, March 30, 1998, cover price $17.99

9780889740648 | Press Gang Pub, October 1, 1996, cover price $15.95

Bring Us the Old People: A Novel

Ninety-two-year-old Maime reflects on her life, recalling her strong family ties in Poland, her troubled marriage, her survival during the Holocaust in a root cellar, the challenges of a new life in America, and her struggles to cope with an awful momentshe was unfairly forced to experience

By Marisa Kantor Stark

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Hardcover:

9781566890748 | Coffee House Pr, September 1, 1998, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Ninety-two-year-old Maime reflects on her life, recalling her strong family ties in Poland, her troubled marriage, her survival during the Holocaust in a root cellar, the challenges of a new life in America, and her struggles to cope with an awful momentshe was unfairly forced to experience

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