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Albom, Mitch Egan, Jennifer. Griffin, Anne Groen, Hendrik Heacox, Kim King, Stephen Mooney, DanGroen, Hendrik
Summary: "Nine years before the events of the #1 international bestseller The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 1/4 Years Old, Hendrik and his best friend Evert embark on a madcap adventure -- with an unexpected guest. Hendrik Groen and Evert Duiker, faithful friends in good and bad times, are well over seventy and their lives have quieted down. They see each other once a week to play chess, have a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GROMooney, Dan
Summary: Joel lives in a nursing home, and hes not one bit happy about it. He hates being told when to eat, when to sleep, when to take his pills. Hes fed up with life and begins to plan a way out when his new roommate, a retired soap opera actor named Frank, moves in and turns the nursing-home community upside down. Though the two men couldnt be more opposite, a fast friendship is formed when Frank is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Mooney 2019Albom, Mitch
Summary: "In this enchanting sequel to the number one bestseller The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom tells the story of Eddie's heavenly reunion with Annie--the little girl he saved on earth--in an unforgettable novel of how our lives and losses intersect. Fifteen years ago, in Mitch Albom's beloved novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, the world fell in love with Eddie, a grizzled war...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ALBCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ALBCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION ALBKing, Stephen
Summary: "Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, but he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was seven, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself and his dad. When Charlie is seventeen, he meets a dog named Radar and her aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house with a locked shed in the backyard....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KINEgan, Jennifer.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Egan 2011Heacox, Kim
Summary: "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,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alaska Northwest Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEAGriffin, Anne
Summary: If you had to pick five people to sum up your life, who would they be? If you were to raise a glass to each of them, what would you say? And what would you learn about yourself, when all is said? At the bar of a grand hotel in a small Irish town sits 84-year-old Maurice Hannigan. He's alone, as usual, though tonight is anything but. Pull up a stool and charge your glass, because Maurice is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press 2019