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"After he's forced to sell the family farm he's labored on his whole life, 63-year-old Gerrit Laninga doesn't know what to do with himself. He sacrificed everything for the land--his time, his health, his family--with nothing to show for it but bitterness, regret, and two grown children who want nothing to do with him. Fifteen-year-old Rae Walters has growing doubts and fears about The Plan--the detailed blueprint for high school that will help her...
22) Night owl
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Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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Pulled out of retirement when someone sabotages an innovative aerospace project, Brad Tasker, drawn into a dangerous conspiracy-and a string of suspicious deaths, is targeted by assassins and, with no one to trust, must adapt to a new game of espionage or die.
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"Farlingaye Hall is a beautiful hotel in Suffolk on the east coast of England. Unfortunately, it is also the site of the brutal murder of Frank Parris, a retired advertising executive. Stefan Codrescu, a Romanian maintenance man, is arrested after police find blood spatter on his clothes and bed linen. He is found guilty and spends eight years in prison. It appears an open and shut case, but there is more than meets the eye. Alan Conway, the late...
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2020.
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English
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"Lil and Frank married young, having bonded over how they both lost a parent when they were children. Over time, their marriage grew and strengthened, with each still wishing for so much more understanding of the parents they'd lost prematurely. Now, after many years in Boston, they have retired in North Carolina. There, Lil, determined to leave a history for their children, sifts through letters and notes and diary entries - perhaps revealing more...
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Bellevue-Sur-Mer novels volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Theresa is desperate for a change. Forced into early retirement, fed up with babysitting her bossy daughter's obnoxious children, she sells her Highgate house and moves to the picture-perfect town of Bellevue-sur-Mer, just outside Nice. With its beautiful villas, its bustling cafes and shimmering cerulean sea, the village sparkles like a diamond on the French Mediterranean coast. Once the hideaway of artists and writers, it is now home to the odd...
26) Cocaine nights
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Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
1998
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English
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On the Spanish Riviera, an English discotheque manager is falsely accused of setting fire to a villa which killed its occupants. The man's brother arrives from England to clear his name and in the process uncovers a drugs and pornography ring.
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Ladies of Covington volume 2
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2001
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English
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Hudson Street Press
Pub. Date
c2010
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English
Description
Counsels readers who have suffered retirement savings setbacks on how to explore affordable options abroad, outlining practical steps while revealing how unconventional destinations in foreign cultures may cost less than traditional American retirements.
29) Thorn tree
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Now in his late-sixties, Daniel lives in quiet anonymity in a converted guest cottage in the Hollywood Hills. A legendary artist, he's known for one seminal work-Thorn Tree-a hulking, welded, scrap metal sculpture that he built in the Mojave desert in the 1970s. The work emerged from tragedy, but building it kept Daniel alive and catapulted him to brief, reluctant fame in the art world. Daniel is neighbors with Celia, a charismatic but fragile actress....
30) The international living guide to retiring overseas on a budget: how to live well on $25,000 a year
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Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Achieve your dream of retiring abroad while on a budget The International Living Guide to Retiring Overseas on a Budget provides a detailed guide to one of the least-known but most effective retirement strategies in today's chaotic economic environment: retiring abroad. The premise is simple: Enjoy a happier, healthier, more fulfilling retirement than you could possibly afford in the U.S. or Canada by finding the right overseas retirement haven. The...
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Ladies of Covington volume 3
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Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
c2002
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English
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English
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"The small town of Lachlan, Florida, was rocked last year when two bodies were uncovered in the roots of a fallen tree. Despite their lack of investigative experience, Sara Medlar; her niece, Kate; and Jack Wyatt found themselves at the center of the mystery, working together to reveal the truth behind a decades-old secret in the sleepy town. After a narrow escape, they vowed to never again involve themselves in something so dangerous--until Janet...
34) Swan song
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Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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The film follows retired hairdresser and local bar performer icon Pat Pitsenbarger who has given up on life from the confines of his small-town Sandusky, Ohio nursing home. But when Pat gets word that a former client's dying wish was for him to style her final hairdo, he sets out on an epic journey across Sandusky to confront the ghosts of his past, and collect the beauty supplies necessary for the job. A comical and bittersweet journey about rediscovering...
35) The Charles Schwab guide to finances after fifty: answers to your most important money questions
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Publisher
Crown Business
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Whatever your specific financial issue, one thing is certain - your range of choices is vast. As the financial world becomes increasingly complex, what you need is deeply researched advice from professionals whose credentials are impeccable and who prize clarity and straightforwardness over financial mumbo-jumbo." --Dust flap.
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
Description
Excited to finally attend the exclusive Witches Ball, Molly and Elsie find their enchanting time marred by murder, and, with the whole place on lockdown, an angry council and a real Spanish Inquisitor breathing down their necks, they must move fast to conjure up a cunning killer.
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Minister Andrew Benton has been waging a public war with celebrity psychic Montague Black, who is riding his way to national fame by intruding on a local murder investigation; when the two men are invited to a public summit, only the minister comes out alive.
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Maurice Mundy volume 1
Publisher
Severn House Publishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Maurice Mundy, a recently retired detective, returns to Scotland Yard. Ten years ago a boy was murdered. Another look at the case reveals that a sex worker was also murdered that same night, but nothing linked the two murders at the time. As Mundy probes into the events of that fateful night, will his maverick approach be a dangerous step too far?
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Paul Jacobson geezer-lit mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Octogenarian Paul Jacobson must overcome the limitations of short term memory loss and the restrictions of living in a retirement home in Hawaii in order to clear himself of murder charges after finding a body stuffed in a trash chute.
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