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"'There are three things you should know about Elsie. The first thing is that she's my best friend. The second is that she always knows what to say to make me feel better. And the third thing...might take a bit more explaining.' Eighty-four-year-old Florence has fallen in her flat at Cherry Tree Home for the Elderly. As she waits to be rescued, she thinks about her friend Elsie and wonders if a terrible secret from their past is about to come to light....
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Red gloves series volume 3
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Warner Books
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c2004
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English
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Kensington Books
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©2014.
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English
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Sorenson, Wisconsin's deputy coroner Mattie Winston takes on the murder of Bernie Chase, the president of Twilight Nursing Home's board of directors, who was found with a mysterious substance on his body and had been suspected by some of offing the home's more expensive residents.
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Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"After a major life upheaval on the eve of her 40th birthday, Kate Parker finds herself volunteering at Lauderdale House for Exceptional Ladies. There she meets 97-year-old Cecily Finn. Cecily's tongue is as sharp as her mind but she has lost her spark, simply resigning herself to the Imminent End. Having no patience with Kate's plight, Cecily prescribes her a self-help book with a difference - it's a 1957 cookbook, featuring menus for anything life...
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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"In a game of life or death, the seniors at Pondside Manor risk it all. With help from Pondside Manor s quirky, twentysomething kitchen worker Foster Kresowik, resident Robert Kallman creates The World of Pondside, a video game that delights the nursing home s residents by allowing them to virtually relive blissful moments from days long past or even create new ones. One-legged Duane Lotspeich is overjoyed when he can dance the tango again. Octogenarian...
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