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"When Lydia takes a job running the Senior Citizens' Social Club three afternoons a week, she assumes she'll be spending her time drinking tea and playing gentle games of cards. The members of the Social Club, however, are not at all what Lydia was expecting. From Art, a failed actor turned kleptomaniac to Daphne, who has been hiding from her dark past for decades to Ruby, a Banksy-style knitter who gets revenge in yarn, these seniors look deceptively...
2) The bezzle
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Martin Hench volume 2
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Language
English
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The year is 2006. Martin Hench is at the top of his game as a self-employed forensic accountant, a veteran of the long guerrilla war between people who want to hide money, and people who want to find it. He spends his downtime on Catalina Island, where scenic, imported bison wander the bluffs and frozen, reheated fast food burgers cost twenty-five dollars. Wait, what? When Marty disrupts a seemingly innocuous scheme during a vacation on Catalina Island,...
3) Umberto D
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Criterion collection volume 201
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Italiano
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This neorealist masterpiece by Vittorio De Sica follows the daily life of an elderly pensioner as he struggles to make ends meet during Italy's postwar economic recovery. Alone except for his dog, Umberto is determined to maintain his dignity in a city where human kindness seems to have been swallowed up by the forces of modernization. His simple quest to satisfy his most fundamental needs makes for one of the most heartbreaking stories ever filmed,...
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Shirley Benson was owner now of the beautiful Valle de los Reyes, mistress of the old Spanish ranch house and its faithful Mexican servants. On the night that her father was killed in a rustler's raid, she made the unpleasant discovery that the Box B ranch was heavily mortgaged and that most of her cattle had disappeared, stolen by the men who had murdered her father. With courage inherited from her pioneer forebears, she refuses to sign the quit-claim...
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Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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A man called Otto: Based on the comical and moving New York Times bestseller, it tells the story of Otto Anderson, a grumpy widower whose only joy comes from criticizing and judging his exasperated neighbors. When a lively young family moves in next door, he meets his match in quick-witted and very pregnant Marisol, leading to an unexpected friendship that will turn his world upside down.
Women talking: The women of an insular, ultraconservative...
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Kaléidoscope
Pub. Date
septembre 2022.
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Français
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"Au soir de sa vie, un vieil homme lègue deux graines à ses fils : à l'aîné, une graine de fougère ; au cadet, une graine de bambou. "Plantez-les dans la forêt en souvenir de moi". Si la fougère recouvre vite le sol, rien ne pousse de la graine de bambou, au grand désespoir du plus jeune des frères..." --
"Near the end his life, an old man bequeaths two seeds to his sons: to the older one, a fern seed; to the younger one, a bamboo seed....
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