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Award-winning author Jill McCorkle takes us on a splendid journey through time and memory. Constantly surprising, Life After Life is filled with a sense of wonder as the residents, staff, and neighbors of the Pine Haven retirement center share some of life's most profound discoveries. Some of the most true-to-life characters that you are ever likely to meet in fiction, what they learn about themselves and one another will transform them all. (Bestseller)...
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Serge Storms novels volume 22
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"The Sunshine State's most lovable psychopath, Serge A. Storms, kills it in this zany adventure from the "compulsively irreverent and shockingly funny" (Boston Globe) king of mayhem, New York Times bestselling author Tim Dorsey. Serge and Coleman are back on the road, ready to hit the next stop on their list of obscure and wacky points of interest in the Sunshine State. This time, Serge's interest is drawn to one of the largest retirement villages...
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National Book Critics Circle Award Winner: This funny, poignant novel about the misadventures of a Miami Beach widow is “brilliant” (Los Angeles Times).
After her beloved husband dies of cancer, Dorothy Bliss is consigned to a life of tedium, waiting out her remaining years in a Miami beachside community shared precariously by its Jewish and Latino residents. When Dorothy attends a series of parties intended to lighten
4) I want Candy
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Returning home and illegally rooming with her mother in a posh retirement community, down-on-her-luck real estate agent Candace Carmichael, while trying to pick up the pieces of her life, falls for Turner, the local sheriff, who is off limits.
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"Eight-five-year-old Hendrik Groen is fed up to his false teeth with coffee mornings and bingo. He dreams of escaping the confines of his care home and practising hairpin turns on his mobility scooter. Inspired by his fellow members of the recently formed Old-But-Not-Dead Club, he vows to put down his custard cream and commit to a spot of octogenarian anarchy. But the care home's Director will not stand for drunken bar crawls, illicit fireworks and...
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"It's love at first sight when Cleo arrives in Fairhope, Alabama, after taking early retirement from her longtime position as professor of social work. Touted as "the nicest town in the world, " Fairhope is home to an eclectic community of retirees. Harbor Village boasts classes in painting, pottery, and photography, not to mention being a buyer's market for husbands. It seems an ideal place to make new friends and rediscover life. Until a dead body...
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Imagine waking up in your son's home, not remembering anything from the day before, and being accused of murder. Cantankerous octogenarian Paul Jacobson struggles with short-term memory loss. As he ends up suspiciously close to a bank robbery, a kidnapping, and a drug bust, his granddaughter helps him track down the real perpetrators. Paul juggles two girlfriends and confronts a murderer in this second in the series.
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When sixty-eight year old Sarah Miller moves into the Cunningham Village retirement community, she is mourning the loss of her husband, her young grandson, and the place that has been home for forty-two years. But Sarah is a survivor. As she reaches out into the retirement community that is to become home, she finds friends, activities, new hobbies, and a possible love interest. The tenth installment of this fun, friendly series of cozy mysteries...
12) Chasing shadows
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"Now you see them, now you don't. When senior citizens start mysteriously disappearing from a Boston retirement home, heiress Kristina Worthington is suspicious. Especially since she fears her beloved grandmother is next. Without solid evidence, she's forced to turn to the one police officer who might listen--her former love, Gabe Burke. Now a seasoned cop, Gabe still sees her as the rich girl whose family thought he wasn't good enough. And though...
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Jacobson becomes an undercover resident at a nursing home to help the Honolulu police track down a sexual assault perpetrator. The police gave Paul the names of three persons-of-interest, but none of the three appear suspicious. Things go downhill when the woman who had been assaulted is found murdered.
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Octogenarian Paul Jacobson returns to Hawaii for a vacation with his family and becomes involved in a series of crimes, while struggling with the problems of his short-term memory loss. He faces a number of strange coincidences involving acts of vandalism, drug dealers and two murders. Paul puts all the pieces together, escapes a watery grave, and with the help of his friends, solves the murders.
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While planning her wedding, Sophie "Phee" Kimball gets sidetracked by the murder of a model train enthusiast . . .
Phee's marriage to Marshall Gregory promises to be the wedding of the year in Arizona's Sun City West-that is, if you ask her mother Harriet. But before she can walk down the aisle, it looks like she has to solve one more murder. At a model train exhibit, Phee, Harriet, and their beloved Chiweenie, Streetman, discover the body...
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Ivy Beasley mysteries volume 3
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Apart from the unwelcome noise made by the morning cleaning crew, life has been quiet at Springfields Luxury Retirement Home. Too quiet, in fact. Ivy and her team of sleuths, known as Enquire Within, have resorted to finding lost cats, and Gus is even threatening to return to his memoirs. But no sooner does he attempt to put a winning phrase together than he receives a call from his ex-wife, Katherine, who is in desperate need of a place to hide....
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"Life near the North Korean border is a zero-sum game, an ongoing battle in which you either win or you lose. This dangerous, shadowed netherworld is home to an unforgettable woman known only as the "trickster." Inspired by the story of Lee's great aunt, one of the oldest women to escape alone from North Korea, 8 Lives of a Century Old Trickster consists of eight dark and spellbinding chapters that follow this remarkable character and her family as...
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When psychic (and hubcap retailer) Wanda Alewine pays a late night visit to Myrtly Clover, she urges the octogenarian sleuth to head straight to greener Pastures retirement Home. But Wanda doesn't want Myrtle to consider the home's dubious amenities, she wants Myrtly to prevent a murder seen in a vision. reluctant Myrtle investigates with sidekick Miles, who seems a lot more interested in Greener Pastures than she is. As the dup digs, the uncover...
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