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Sophie Go's lonely hearts club / by Lim, Roselle,author.;
"A new heartfelt novel about the power of loneliness and the strength of love that overcomes it by critically acclaimed author Roselle Lim. Newly minted professional matchmaker Sophie Go has returned to Toronto, her hometown, after spending three years in Shanghai. Her job is made difficult when she is revealed as a fraud: she never actually graduated from matchmaking school. In a competitive market like Toronto, no one wants to take a chance on an inexperienced and unaccredited matchmaker, and soon Sophie becomes an outcast. In dire search of clients, Sophie stumbles upon a secret club within her condo complex: the Old Ducks, seven septuagenarian Chinese bachelors who never found love. Somehow, she convinces them to hire her, but her matchmaking skills are put to the test as she learns the depths of loneliness, heartbreak, and love by attempting to make the hardest matches of her life"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Chick lit.; Novels.; Chinese Canadians; Chinese; Dating services; Homecoming; Man-woman relationships; Older men;
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Outsider : an old man, a mountain and the search for a hidden past / by Popplewell, Brett,1983-author.;
"When journalist Brett Popplewell first heard about Dag Aabye, an aging former stuntman who lived alone inside a school bus on a mountain, running day and night through blizzards and heat waves, he was intrigued and bewildered. Captivated by the seemingly implausible tale of a wild super-athlete aging more slowly than the rest of us, he was determined to meet the apocryphal white-haired man who was pushing the boundaries of the human mind and body beyond what anyone could dream was possible. What Popplewell witnessed on a secluded mountain perch led him on a six-year odyssey to uncover the true story of the 81-year-old man. Outsider takes readers on a remarkable journey from Nazi-occupied Norway to Argentina and British Columbia. The book chronicles how a child born under mysterious circumstances during World War II finds his way onto the big screen in Goldfinger, is heralded as the world's first extreme skier, and is later driven into the wilderness. Both joyful and tragic, Outsider presents a bold challenge to our notions of aging, belonging and human accomplishment."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Aabye, Dag, 1941-; Older athletes; Older men; Recluses; Runners (Sports); Skiers; Stunt performers;
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Much ado about dying [videorecording] / by Chambers, Simon,1960-film director,on-screen participant,screenwriter.; Gale, David N.,on-screen participant.; First-Run Features (Firm),publisher.;
Simon Chambers, David N. Gale.When the filmmaker Simon Chambers receives a call from his elderly gay uncle "I think I may be dying!" he takes it as a summons. As it turns out, eccentric Uncle David, a retired actor living alone in a cluttered, mouse-infested London house, is being dramatic, sort of: For the next five years, Chambers both cares for and documents him, through all his performative exuberance (constantly acting out passages of King Lear) and anarchic charisma (swinging from boisterous humor to short temper), as various people (including a sexy young hustler) possibly take advantage of him. As their lives become encumbered by hospital visits, a house fire, and Britain's inadequate eldercare system, the younger man (also single and queer) reflects with aching honesty on what may await him in the years to come, in this moving yet hilarious film.E.DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Biographical films.; Documentary films.; Nonfiction films.; Personal narratives.; Gale, David Newlyn.; Terminally ill; Older gay men; Older people; Shakespearean actors and actresses; Uncles.;
For private home use only.
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Last Vegas [videorecording] / by De Niro, Robert.; Douglas, Michael,1944-; Ealy, Michael.; Freeman, Morgan.; Harden, Noah.; Kline, Kevin.; Malco, Romany.; Steenburgen, Mary.; Turteltaub, Jon.; CBS Films.; Entertainment One (Firm : Canada);
Kevin Kline, Mary Steenburgen, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, Michael Douglas, Michael Ealy, Romany Malco, Noah Harden.Four best friends in their late-60s decide to escape retirement and throw a Las Vegas bachelor party for the only one of them who has remained single.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD (NTSC, region 1), widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1.
Subjects: Bachelor parties; Bachelors; Best friends; Comedy films.; Feature films.; Male friendship; Older men;
© c2014., CBS Films ; Distributed by Entertainment One,
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The Irishman [videorecording] / by Brandt, Charles,actor.; Cannavale, Bobby,actor.; De Niro, Robert,actor.; Graham, Stephen,1973-actor.; Huston, Jack,1982-actor.; Keitel, Harvey,actor.; Narducci, Katherine,1965-actor.; Pacino, Al,1940-actor.; Paquin, Anna,actor.; Pesci, Joe,actor.; Plemons, Jesse,1988-actor.; Romano, Ray,actor.; Scorsese, Martin,film director.; Criterion Collection (Firm),publisher.;
Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Harvey Keitel, Ray Romano, Bobby Cannavale, Anna Paquin, Stephen Graham, Jack Huston, Kathrine Narducci, Jesse Plemons.Left behind by the world, former hit man and union truck driver Frank Sheeran looks back from a nursing home on his life's journey through the ranks of organized crime: from his involvement with Philadelphia mob boss Russell Bufalino to his association with Teamsters union head Jimmy Hoffa to the rift that forced him to choose between the two.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Fiction films.; Feature films.; Gangster films.; Biographical films.; Historical films.; Bufalino, Russell, 1903-1994; Hoffa, James R. (James Riddle), 1913-; Sheeran, Frank; Assassins; Mafia; Mafiosi; Older men; Organized crime;
For private home use only.
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The Irishman [videorecording] / by Brandt, Charles,actor.; Cannavale, Bobby,actor.; De Niro, Robert,actor.; Graham, Stephen,1973-actor.; Huston, Jack,1982-actor.; Keitel, Harvey,actor.; Narducci, Katherine,1965-actor.; Pacino, Al,1940-actor.; Paquin, Anna,actor.; Pesci, Joe,actor.; Plemons, Jesse,1988-actor.; Romano, Ray,actor.; Scorsese, Martin,film director.; Criterion Collection (Firm),publisher.;
Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Harvey Keitel, Ray Romano, Bobby Cannavale, Anna Paquin, Stephen Graham, Jack Huston, Kathrine Narducci, Jesse Plemons.Left behind by the world, former hit man and union truck driver Frank Sheeran looks back from a nursing home on his life's journey through the ranks of organized crime: from his involvement with Philadelphia mob boss Russell Bufalino to his association with Teamsters union head Jimmy Hoffa to the rift that forced him to choose between the two.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic wide screen format (1.85:1 aspect ratio) ; Dolby Atmos.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Fiction films.; Feature films.; Gangster films.; Biographical films.; Historical films.; Bufalino, Russell, 1903-1994; Hoffa, James R. (James Riddle), 1913-; Sheeran, Frank; Assassins; Mafia; Mafiosi; Older men; Organized crime;
For private home use only.
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The intern [videorecording (BLURAY)] / by De Niro, Robert,actor.; Hathaway, Anne,1982-actor.; Holm, Anders,1981-actor.; Meyers, Nancy,film producer,screenwriter,film director.; Shapiro, Theodore,1971-; Warner Home Video (Firm);
Cinematography, Stephen Goldblatt ; production design, Kristi Zea ; editor, Robert Leighton ; music, Theodore Shapiro.Robert De Niro, Anne Hathaway, Anders Holm, Rene Russo, Zack Pearlman.Ben Whittaker is a 70-year-old widower who has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format (1.85:1 aspect ratio); DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (English), English desccriptive audio 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1 (French, Spanish).
Subjects: Business education (Internship); Businesswomen; Comedy films.; Feature films.; Interns; Older men; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Widowers;
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How to age disgracefully / by Pooley, Clare,author.;
The quirky members of the Senior Citizen's Social Club join forces with the tiny members of the daycare next door to thwart the city council's planned sale of the building housing both centers.
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Novels.; City councils; Community centers; Day care centers; Dogs; Interpersonal relations; Older men; Older people; Older women; Secrecy; Senior centers; Subversive activities; Teenage fathers;
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The bezzle / by Doctorow, Cory,author.;
The year is 2006. Martin Hench is at the top of his game as a self-employed forensic accountant, a veteran of the long guerrilla war between people who want to hide money, and people who want to find it. He spends his downtime on Catalina Island, where scenic, imported bison wander the bluffs and frozen, reheated fast food burgers cost twenty-five dollars. Wait, what? When Marty disrupts a seemingly innocuous scheme during a vacation on Catalina Island, he has no idea he's kicked off a chain of events that will overtake the next decade of his life. Martin has made his most dangerous mistake yet: trespassed into the playgrounds of the ultra-wealthy and spoiled their fun. To them, money is a tool, a game, and a way to keep score, and they've found their newest mark--California's Department of Corrections. Secure in the knowledge that they're living behind far too many firewalls of shell companies and investors ever to be identified, they are interested not in the lives they ruin, but only in how much money they can extract from the government and the hundreds of thousands of prisoners they have at their mercy. A seething rebuke of the privatized prison system that delves deeply into the arcane and baroque financial chicanery involved in the 2008 financial crash, The Bezzle is a sizzling follow-up to Red Team Blues.
Subjects: Science fiction.; Novels.; California. Department of Corrections; Accountants; Criminals; Cryptocurrencies; Forensic accounting; Hackers; International finance; Money laundering; Older men; Prisons;
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Death need not be fatal [sound recording] / by McCourt, Malachy,1931-author,narrator.; McDonald, Brian(Brian Vincent),author.; Hachette Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by the author."Before he runs out of time, Irish bon vivant Malachy McCourt shares his views on death--sometimes hilarious and often poignant--and on what will or won't happen after his last breath is drawn. During the course of his life, Malachy McCourt practically invented the single's bar; was a pioneer in talk radio, a soap opera star, a best-selling author; a gold smuggler, a political activist, and a candidate for governor of the state of New York. It seems that the only two things he hasn't done are stick his head into a lion's mouth and die. Since he is allergic to cats, he decided to write about the great hereafter and answer the question on most minds: What's so great about it anyhow? In Death need not be fatal, McCourt also trains a sober eye on the tragedies that have shaped his life: the deaths of his sister and twin brothers; the real story behind Angela's famous ashes; and a poignant account of the death of the man who left his mother, brothers, and him to nearly die in squalor. McCourt writes with deep emotion of the staggering losses of all three of his brothers, Frank, Mike, and Alphie. In his inimitable way, McCourt takes the grim reaper by the lapels and shakes the truth out of him. As he rides the final blocks on his Rascal scooter, he looks too at the prospect of his own demise with emotional clarity and insight. In this beautifully rendered memoir, McCourt shows us how to live life to its fullest, how to grow old without acting old, and how to die without regret"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Audiobooks.; McCourt, Malachy, 1931-; McCourt, Malachy, 1931-; McCourt, Malachy, 1931-; Irish Americans; Older men; Death; Aging; Quality of life;
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