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In a future England where young people, or "Surpluses," are heavily regulated and everyone takes a drug called Longevity, a member of the Underground infiltrates the Pincent Pharma manufacturing plant and uncovers horrific acts being committed in an attempt to create eternal youth.
4) The legacy
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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When a Pincent Pharma truck is ambushed by the Underground, revealing not the expected supply of drugs but corpses, it becomes clear that the Longevity prescription for eternal youth is failing to live up to its promises, and when the Underground is blamed for releasing a deadly virus, the truth finally comes out.
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Series
Virago modern classics volume 391
Publisher
Virago
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
A divorcee who is having hallucinations involving her ex-husband is told by a doctor it's her age. To find out if she's really that old she visits her former lovers one by one, a journey accompanied by many disappointments. A study in not-so-graceful aging.
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
"We are each the love of someone's life." So begins The Confessions of Max Tivoli, a heartbreaking love story with a narrator like no other. Born with the physical appearance of an elderly man, Max grows older mentally like any child, but his body appears to age backwards, growing younger every year. And yet, his physical curse proves to be a blessing, allowing him to try to win the heart of the same woman three times as at each successive encounter...
10) Everyman
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English
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A successful commercial artist with three very different ex-wives, a daughter who adores him, and two sons who despise him, the protagonist finds his confidence, sense of independence, and well-being undermined by an attack of illness in middle age.
11) Typo & Skim
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Publisher
Val De Grace Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Living somewhere in our midst are little creatures who make it their business to cause a bit of chaos and make sure things age, become jumbled up, and get dirty. When Typo, one such elf, escapes from his school trip to a little girl's birthday party, his adventures in the human world are just beginning.
12) Henry, himself
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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
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...
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Publisher
Familius LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In an ordinary night in an ordinary house, a father's ordinary words do something extraordinary. Lulled to sleep by these whispered affirmations, his baby girl grows into a fun-loving child, a confident teen, and then a courageous young woman. As she ventures forth into the world on her own, her father's affectionate affirmations--now carried in memory--bolster her through life's challenges and, like whispers on the he night wind, come full circle...
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Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Sonja is ready to get on with her life. She's over forty now, and the Swedish crime novels she translates are losing their fascination. She sees a masseuse, tries to reconnect with her sister, and is finally learning to drive. But under the overbearing gaze of her driving instructor, Sonja is unable to shift gears for herself. And her vertigo, which she has always carefully hidden, has begun to manifest at the worst possible moments. Sonja hoped her...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Serafina is summoned from her village to the magical cottage of a great aunt she has never heard of and learns that she is meant to become the new Baba Yaga, whose magical role is answering the first question any stranger might ask her with the truth.
17) Air miles
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Miles the dog is growing older, but adventure still awaits when he takes to the skies.
Based on an idea by incomparable picture-book creator John Burningham, the text for Air Miles was completed by his longtime friend Bill Salaman and lovingly illustrated by Helen Oxenbury, John Burningham's wife.
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