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Language
English
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Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs, confront their pasts in this story about how rebellion ages, influence corrupts, habits turn to addictions, lifelong friendships fluctuate and turn, and how art and music have the power to redeem. -- Publisher description
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Liam Pennywell, who set out to be a philosopher and ended up teaching fifth grade, never much liked the job at that run-down private school, so early retirement doesn't bother him. But he is troubled by his inability to remember anything about the first night that he moved into his new, spare, and efficient condominium on the outskirts of Baltimore. All he knows when he wakes up the next day in the hospital is that his head is sore and bandaged.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Based on the comical and moving New York Times bestseller "A man called Ove" by Fredrik Backman, 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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon; the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him 'the bitter neighbour from hell'. But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn't walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time? Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty...
6) Fairy tale
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher--for that world or ours." --
Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident...
Author
Lexile measure
HL 780L
Language
English
Description
"Old Keb Wisting is somewhere around ninety-five years old (he lost count awhile ago) and in constant pain and thinks he wants to die. He also thinks he thinks too much. Part Norwegian and part Tlingit Native (with some Filipino and Portuguese thrown in), he s the last living canoe carver in the village of Jinkaat, in Southeast Alaska. When his grandson, James, a promising basketball player, ruins his leg in a logging accident and tells his grandpa...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Becoming friends with Josef Weber, an old man who is particularly loved in her community, Sage Singer is shocked when one day he asks her to kill him and reveals why he deserves to die, causing her to question her beliefs.
9) Lucky
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Follows ninety-year-old atheist Lucky as he embarks on a spiritual journey of self-discovery.
10) St. Vincent
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
After his parents get divorced, a boy finds a friend and mentor in the grouchy, hedonistic older man living next door.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Gus Lobel has been one of the best scouts in baseball for decades, but, despite his efforts to hide it, age is starting to catch up with him. Nevertheless, Gus-who can tell a pitch just by the crack of the bat-refuses to be benched for what may be the final innings of his career. The one person who might be able to help is also the one person Gus would never ask: his daughter, Mickie, an associate at a high-powered Atlanta law firm.
12) Grumpier old men
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1995, 1997]
Language
English
Description
Grumpy Old Men become grumpier in this sequel as a newcomer (Sophia Loren) plans to change the town's bait shop into a ristorante.
13) Driveways
Publisher
Allied Vaughn
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
While helping his mother clean out his deceased aunt's house, a lonely young boy befriends the retiree living next door.
14) A spot of bother
Author
Language
English
Description
George Hall is an unobtrusive man. A little distant, perhaps, a little cautious, not at quite at ease with the emotional demands of fatherhood, or manly bonhomie. He does not understand the modern obsession with talking about everything. S2The secret of contentment, George felt, lay in ignoring many things completely. S3 Some things in life, however, cannot be ignored. At 61, George is settling down to a comfortable retirement, building a shed in...
15) Chances are
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo--in his first stand-alone novel in a decade--comes a new revelation: a gripping story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship. One beautiful September day, three sixty-six-year old men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college circa the sixties. They couldn't have been more different then, or even today--Lincoln's a commercial real estate broker, Teddy a tiny-press...
16) Senior moment
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
After losing his license for drag racing around Palm Springs, a retired NASA test pilot is forced to take public transportation where he finds a second chance at love.
17) The librarianist
Author
Language
English
Description
"Bob Comet is a retired librarian, isolated but not lonely, living out his quiet days in a mint-colored house in Oregon, surrounded by his books and small comforts. One morning, out on his daily walk, he performs an act of kindness that brings him into contact with a nearby senior center, where he soon begins volunteering. Here, as a community of peers and friends gathers around Bob, and following a happenstance brush with a painful complication from...
18) Henry, himself
Author
Language
English
Description
"Soldier, son, lover, husband, breadwinner, churchgoer, Henry Maxwell has spent his whole life trying to live with honor. A native Pittsburgher and engineer, he's always believed in logic, sacrifice, and hard work. Now, seventy-five and retired, he feels the world has passed him by. It's 1998, the American century is ending, and nothing is simple anymore. His children are distant, their unhappiness a mystery. Only his wife Emily and dog Rufus stand...
Author
Series
Heaven books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him, as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination. It's a place where your life is explained to you by five people, some of whom you knew, others who may have been strangers....
20) Almost magic
Author
Publisher
Phillip Finkelstein
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Almost Magic is a gentle comic look at love, loss and moving on after the loss of a loved one. In the novel, long time friends Don and Ben embark on a last minute road trip from Minnesota to Arizona. While Don has his own mysterious reasons for needing to get out of town, he is also worried about about his good friend Ben who has recently lost his wife. Or has he? Ben can hear his wife when no one else is around. While his psychiatrist advises him...
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