Author: John Stuart MillPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385399807
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Memories of Old Friends
Author: FoxMemories of Old Friends. Being Extracts from the Journals of Caroline Fox of Penjerrick, Cornwall from 1835 to 1871
Author: John Stuart MillPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385399785
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Memories of Old Friends
Author: Caroline FoxOld Friends
Author: Tracy KidderPublisher: Rosetta Books
ISBN: 079533768X
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
A Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s “touching, funny and inspiring” true story of daily life in a New England nursing home (The New York Times). Ninety-year-old Lou quit school after the eighth grade, worked for the rest of his life, and stayed with the same woman for nearly seventy years. Seventy-two-year-old Joe was chief probation officer in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, holds a law degree, and has faced the death of a son and the raising of a mentally challenged daughter. Now, the two men are roommates in a nursing home. Despite coming from very different backgrounds, the two become close friends. Focusing on these two men as well as introducing us to the other aging residents of Linda Manor in Northampton, Massachusetts, literary journalist Tracy Kidder examines the sorrows and joys of growing older and the universal struggle to find meaning in the face of mortality. From the New York Times–bestselling author and National Book Award–winning author of The Soul of a New Machine, this is an extraordinary look inside an often-hidden world. “As in his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Soul of a New Machine, House, and the best-selling Among Schoolchildren, Kidder reveals his extraordinary talent as a storyteller by taking the potentially unpalatable subject of life in a nursing home and making it into a highly readable, engrossing account.” —Library Journal “Rich detail and true-to-the-ear dialogue let the brave and determined elderly speak for themselves—and for the continually surprising potential of the human spirit.” —Kirkus Reviews
Memories of Old Friends
Author: Caroline FoxPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Old Friends
Author: Margaret AitkenPublisher: Feiwel & Friends
ISBN: 1250890942
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
Paired with colorful and vibrant art by Lenny Wen, Old Friends by Margaret Aitken is an inventive and heartfelt debut picture book that celebrates found family, caregiving, and the value of intergenerational friendships. Marjorie wants a friend who loves the same things she does: baking shows, knitting, and gardening. Someone like Granny. So with a sprinkle of flour in her hair and a spritz of lavender perfume, Marjorie goes undercover to the local Senior Citizens Group. It all goes well until the Cha-Cha-Cha starts and her cardigan camouflage goes sideways. By being true to herself, Marjorie learns that friends can be of any age if you look in the right places. A Bill Martin, Jr. Picture Book Award Nominee A 2023 Maine Literary Award Finalist
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge
Author: Mem FoxPublisher: Omnibus Books
ISBN: 9781743810583
Category : Boys
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge lives next door to a nursing home. When he finds out that his special friend, Nancy Alison Delacourt Cooper, is losing her memory he sets out to find what a memory is.
Aline. An old friend's story. By the author of “The Gambler's Wife,” etc. [i.e. Elizabeth C. Grey.]
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Author: Let's Get Back to the Party
Author: Zak SalihPublisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 164375114X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
“A gorgeously written meditation on being a gay man in America now . . . A raw and captivating debut.” —BookPage Recommended by: O, the Oprah Magazine * BuzzFeed * The Millions * Cosmopolitan * Electric Literature * Literary Hub * Harper's Bazaar * Lambda Literary * LGBTQ Reads * Passport magazine * Paperback Paris * Debutiful * Book Riot * The Bay Area Reporter * The Advocate It is 2015, weeks after the Supreme Court marriage equality ruling. A high school art history teacher, Sebastian Mote envies his queer students and their freedom to live openly the youth he lost to fear and shame. When he runs into his childhood friend Oscar Burnham at a wedding in Washington, DC, he can’t help but see it as a second chance. Now thirty-five, the men haven’t seen each other in more than a decade. But Oscar has no interest in their shared history, nor in the sense of belonging Sebastian craves. Instead, he’s outraged by what he sees as the death of gay culture: bars overrun with bachelorette parties, friends coupling off and having babies. For Oscar, conformity isn’t peace, it’s surrender. While Oscar and Sebastian struggle to find their place in a rapidly changing world, each is drawn into a cross-generational friendship that treads the line between envy and obsession: Sebastian with one of his students, Oscar with an older icon of the AIDS era. And as they collide again and again, both men must reckon not just with each other but with themselves. Provocative, moving, and rich with sharply drawn characters, Let’s Get Back to the Party introduces an exciting and contemporary new talent.
The Memory of Old Jack
Author: Wendell BerryPublisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458757978
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
In a rural Kentucky river town, "Old Jack" Beechum, a retired farmer, sees his life again through the shades of one burnished day in September 1952. Bringing the earthiness of America's past to mind, The Memory of Old Jack conveys the truth and integrity of the land and the people who live from it. Through the eyes of one man can be seen the values Americans strive to recapture as we arrive at the next century.