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Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
A chance encounter in a nursing home leads to an unexpected friendship between a dowdy housewife and a spry octagenarian who tells her the story of a fiercely independent woman half a century ago, inspiring the housewife to change her life, often with hilarious results
3) Amour
Pub. Date
2013
Language
Français
Formats
Description
"Georges and Anne are a couple of retired music teachers enjoying life in their eighties. However, Anne suddenly has a stroke at breakfast and their lives are never the same. That incident begins Anne's harrowingly steep physical and mental decline as Georges attempts to care for her at home as she wishes"--IMDb.
4) Verdi
Author
Publisher
Editorial Juventud
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
A young python does not want to grow slow and boring like the older snakes he sees in the tropical jungle where he lives.
Una joven pitón no quiere crecer para convertirse en una víbora lenta y aburrida, como las viejas víboras que ve en la selva tropical donde vive.
Author
Series
League of pensioners volume 2
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Martha Andersson and the league are at it again with swindling the biggest Vegas casinos, outsmarting a gang of young robbers, and evading the Swedish police.
8) Quartet
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The rumor circling the halls is that Beecham House (the home for retired musicians) is soon to play host to a new resident. Word is, it's a star. Reginald, Wilfred and Cecily are in for a special shock when the new arrival turns out to be none other than their former singing partner, Jean. Her subsequent career as a star soloist, and the ego that accompanied it, split up their long friendship and ended her marriage to Reggie, who takes the news of...
9) Amour
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Français
Description
A touching tale of a loving couple whose unbreakable bonds of marriage are tested by life's greatest challenge.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
中文（繁體）
Description
Centuries ago, two 'sworn sisters' are isolated by their families, but stay connected through a secret language written in the folds of a white silk fan. Now in modern-day Shanghai, their descendents must draw inspiration from the past as they struggle to maintain their own eternal bond in the face of life's complications. What unfolds are two stories, generations apart, but everlasting in their universal notion of love, hope and friendship.
Author
Publisher
NorthSouth Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
This inspring picture book celebrates the friendship between a young girl and an elderly woman as they plant seeds in a community garden alongside friends and neighbors, waiting for the seeds to flower. By mid-summer, the friends welcome a rainbow of color in the garden and picnics in the sun. At harvest, the young girl's elderly friend is bed-ridden, but jubilant as they share baskets with red tomatoes and snap peas amid the sweet smell of lavender....
Author
Publisher
Punto de Lectura
Pub. Date
2013
Language
Español
Description
"Verano de 1924. Durante una rutilante fiesta de la alta sociedad en Riverton Manor, un joven y prometedor poeta se quita la vida. Invierno de 1999. Grace Bradley, una anciana de noventa y ocho an��s que otrora fuera doncella en la mansio�� de Riverton, recibe la visita de una joven directora de cine que esta�� rodando una peli��ula sobre aquel suicido [suicidio]. Esa visita convoca los recuerdos que durante de��adas Grace habi��...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
中文（繁體）
Description
Inspired by the bestselling novel SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN by Lisa See, the film is a timeless portrait of female friendship. In 19th-century China, seven year old girls Snow Flower and Lily are matched as laotong - or "old sames" - bound together for eternity. Isolated by their families, they furtively communicate by taking turns writing in a secret language, nu shu, between the folds of a white silk fan. In a parallel story in present day...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Coal Miner's Daughter : The story of Loretta Lynn and her ambitious husband Mooney who takes Loretta away from her backwoods Appalachian home to be his child bride.
Smokey and the Bandit : Two truckers trying to transport 400 cases of beer from Texas to Atlanta get pursued by a sheriff after they pick up a hitch-hiking runaway bride-to-be who happens to have left the sheriff's son.
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas : A famous brothel, the "Chicken...
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