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Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Two miner's daughters from Butte, Montana, Effa Commander and Whippy Bird, now restauranteurs, reveal the truth behind the scandalous Love Triangle murder, a crime that involved their childhood friend, May Ann Kovacks--aka Hollywood star Marion Street.
44) The snow hare
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lena has lived a long, quiet life on her farm in Wales, alongside her husband and child. But as her end approaches, buried memories begin to return. Of her childhood in Poland, and her passion for science. Of the early days of her marriage, reluctant wife to an army officer. Of the birth of her daughter, whose arrival changed everything. Memories less welcome return, too. Her Polish village, transformed overnight by the Soviets, and the war that doomed...
Author
Series
Southern quilting mystery volume 1
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Retired folk art curator Beatrice Coleman knows everything there is to know about quilts, except how to make them. But with her recent move to Dappled Hills, North Carolina, she's learning all sorts of new things--including how to solve a murder. Includes quilting tips.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Embarking on a more than 3,000-kilometer walking journey from rural Canada to the East coast so that she can see the ocean for the first time in her life, an octogenarian woman has experiences that blur her perspectives between illusion, memory and reality.
Author
Series
Eternity Springs volume 13
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Lilliana Howe, who is feeling disillusioned with her life after losing her job, decides to spend the summer with her landlady's camping club at Stardance Ranch resort, only to learn that the resort is run by her childhood crush.--Adapted from back cover.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twenty-three-year-old Tanner Quimby needs a place to live. Preferably one where she can continue sitting around in sweatpants and playing video games nineteen hours a day. Since she has no credit or money to speak of, her options are limited, so when an opportunity to work as a live-in caregiver for an elderly woman falls into her lap, she takes it. One slip on the rug. That's all it took for Louise Wilt's daughter to demand that Louise have a full-time...
Author
Series
Main Street Book Club mystery volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As Sugar Springs gears up for its all-class high school reunion, Mississippi bookstore owner Arlo Stanley prepares to launch her largest event: a book-signing with the town's legendary alum and bestselling author, Wally Harrison. That's when Wally is discovered dead outside of Arlo's front door and her best friend is questioned for the crime. When the elderly ladies of Arlo's Friday Night Book Club start to investigate, Arlo has no choice but to...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A comedic novel about an American woman leaving her 20-year marriage to her French husband, returning to her native San Francisco to pick up the life she left behind, and the entwining lives of her children and grandchildren"--
52) A killer past
Author
Publisher
Robert Hale
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Mary Harrington doesn't want to revive her past. She certainly doesn't want her son and granddaughter to know what she did forty four years ago. But when two teenagers from a local gang try to mug her, old habits are hard to forget. Sergeant Jack Rossini, Rivershore, Michigan's lone investigative detective, initially doesn't believe an 'old' woman could have put the youths in the hospital, but once he meets Mary, he becomes curious. -- Publisher.
53) Infinite home
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Edith is a widowed landlady who rents apartments in her Brooklyn brownstone to an unlikely collection of humans, all deeply in need of shelter. Crippled in various ways--in spirit, in mind, in body, in heart--the renters struggle to navigate daily existence, and soon come to realize that Edith's deteriorating mind, and the menacing presence of her estranged, unscrupulous son, Owen, is the greatest challenge they must confront together.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
As Hannah Pearl's memories of her 1940 escape from war-torn France to England become ever more vivid, her present-day relationships with her daughter and granddaughters are altered, and they confront the impact of the past on the present.
Author
Series
Puzzle Lady mystery volume 14
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an elderly boarder at a Bakerhaven bed-and-breakfast drops dead during afternoon tea, there's nothing particularly suspicious about it--except for the Sudoku in his jacket pocket. But when a second body turns up in the window seat and an autopsy shows both men were poisoned with elderberry wine, the Puzzle Lady suspects she's dealing with a cold-blooded killer who for some reason is copying the Cary Grant movie Arsenic and Old Lace, in which...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
An elderly woman descending into dementia embarks on a desperate quest to find the best friend she believes has disappeared. Convinced Elizabeth is missing and in terrible danger, Maud's search for the truth will go back decades and have shattering consequences. As this singular obsession forms a cornerstone of Maud's rapidly dissolving present, the clues she discovers seem to lead to another unsolved disappearance: her sister, Sukey, who vanished...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A novel set in England about eighty-four-year-old Florence, a resident in a nursing home, who has fallen in her apartment, leading her to think about her childhood friend and the secrets of their past that are about to come to light"--
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