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The last days of Roger Federer : and other endings / by Dyer, Geoff,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."When artists and athletes age, what happens to their work? Does it ripen or rot? Achieve a new serenity or succumb to an escalating torment? As our bodies decay, how do we keep on? In this beguiling meditation, Geoff Dyer sets his own encounter with late middle age against the last days and last works of writers, painters, footballers, musicians, and tennis stars who've mattered to him throughout his life. With a playful charm and penetrating intelligence, he recounts Friedrich Nietzsche's breakdown in Turin, Bob Dylan's reinventions of old songs, J. M. W. Turner's paintings of abstracted light, John Coltrane's cosmic melodies, Bjorn Borg's defeats, and Beethoven's final quartets -and considers the intensifications and modifications of experience that come when an ending is within sight. Throughout, he stresses the accomplishments of uncouth geniuses who defied convention, and went on doing so even when their beautiful youths were over. Ranging from Burning Man and the Doors to the nineteenth-century Alps and back, Dyer's book on last things is also a book about how to go on living with art and beauty--and on the entrancing effect and sudden illumination that an Art Pepper solo or Annie Dillard reflection can engender in even the most jaded and ironic sensibilities"--
Subjects: Artists; Athletes; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Gifted older people.; Gifted persons.; Older artists.; Older athletes.;
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Still mine [videorecording] / by Bujold, Geneviève.; Cromwell, James.; McGowan, Michael.; Mongrel Media.; Métropole Films Distribution.;
James Cromwell, Geneviève Bujold.Based on true events and laced with wry humour, Still Mine tells the heartfelt tale of Craig Morrison, who comes up against the system when he sets out to build a more suitable house for his ailing wife Irene. Although Morrison uses the same methods his father, an accomplished shipbuilder, taught him, times have changed. He quickly gets blindsided by local building codes and bureaucratic officials. As Irene becomes increasingly ill - and amidst a series of stop-work orders - Craig races to finish the house. Hauled into court and facing jail, Craig takes a final stance against all odds in a truly inspirational story.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, widescreen (1.85:1) presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1 or 2.0.
Subjects: Feature films.; Married people; Older couples;
© c2013., Distributed by Mongrel Media,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Bonnie Jack / by Hamilton, Ian,1946-author.;
As a boy, Jack Anderson was abandoned by his mother in a Glasgow movie theatre. Now living in the United States and facing his impending retirement, Jack and his wife Anne travel to Scotland to track down his long-lost sister. Their journey takes them from their home in a quiet Boston suburb to the impoverished mill towns of Ayrshire, the gray cobbled streets of Glasgow, and the majestic Scottish Highlands. Along the way, Jack gets entangled in local affairs and must confront uncomfortable truths about family, legacy, and the wife he thought he knew.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Abandoned children; Families; Married people; Older people; Self-realization;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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The accidental further adventures of the hundred-year old man / by Jonasson, Jonas,1961-author.; Willson-Broyles, Rachel,translator.; Jonasson, Jonas,1961-Hundraettåringen som tänkte att han tänkte för mycket.English.;
It all begins with a hot air balloon trip and three bottles of champagne. Allan and Julius are ready for some spectacular views, but they're not expecting to land in the sea and be rescued by a North Korean ship, and they could never have imagined that the captain of the ship would be harboring a suitcase full of contraband uranium, on a nuclear weapons mission for Kim Jong-un. Soon Allan and Julius are at the center of a complex diplomatic crisis involving world figures from the Swedish foreign minister to Angela Merkel and President Trump. Needless to say, things are about to get very, very complicated.
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Older people; World politics; Diplomacy; Illegal arms transfers;
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MacOS Sierra for seniors : learn step by step how to work with MacOS Sierra / by Visual Steps (Firm);
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Subjects: Mac OS.; Macintosh (Computer); Computers and older people.; Operating systems (Computers);
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MacOS High Sierra for seniors : learn step by step how to work with macOS High Sierra / by Visual Steps (Firm);
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Subjects: Mac OS.; Macintosh (Computer); Computers and older people.; Operating systems (Computers);
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A Christmas legacy : a novel / by Perry, Anne,author.;
Thomas and Charlotte Pitt's former maid Gracie helps out a good friend who was unceremoniously fired. Gracie knows she has to find out what happened. At first, it seems that all is normal in the household between the couple and the elderly granny who mostly keeps to her bedroom upstairs. Gracie slowly realizes, though, that Granny is suffering from neglect--and rather than helping her, the husband and wife have decided she isn't dying fast enough.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Christmas fiction.; Employees; Friendship; Household employees; Older people;
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Queen bees [videorecording] / by Barnes, Matthew(Matthew P.),actor.; Burstyn, Ellen,1932-actor.; Caan, James,actor.; Curtin, Jane,actor.; Devine, Loretta,actor.; Gains, Courtney,1965-actor.; Lloyd, Christopher,1938-actor.; Mapa, Alec,actor.; Ann-Margret,1941-actor.; Mitchell, Elizabeth,1970-actor.; Muellerleile, Marianne,actor.; Stewart, French,1964-actor.; Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.;
Ellen Burstyn, James Caan, Ann Margret, Jane Curtin, Loretta Devine, Christopher Lloyd, Elizabeth Mitchell, Matthew Barnes, French Stewart, Alec Mapa, Marianne Muellerleile, Courtney Gains.While her house undergoes repairs, fiercely independent senior Helen temporarily moves into a nearby retirement community. Once behind the doors of Pine Grove Senior Community, she encounters lusty widows, cutthroat bridge tournaments and a hotbed of bullying 'mean girls' the likes of which she hasn't encountered since high school, all of which leaves her yearning for the solitude of home. But somewhere between flower arranging and water aerobics Helen discovers that it's never too late to make new friends and perhaps even find a new love.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Comedy films.; Romantic comedy films.; Feature films.; Older people; Man-woman relationships; Retirement communities; Female friendship;
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Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Time Passages. by Henry, Kyle,film director.; New Day Films (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by New Day Films in 2024.In the final months of his mother Elaine’s late-stage dementia, as a pandemic rages across the globe, filmmaker Kyle Henry time travels via his family archive and his own memories to heal past wounds. Theirs is a large Texan family, but as one of Elaine's primary caregivers, the gay son shares a unique and complicated bond with his mother. Charting his mother’s early life and dashed desires through to years of motherhood and self-sacrifice, and tracing their relationship to its inevitable end, TIME PASSAGES playfully reckons with feelings of grief, conflict and loss of control. Beneath the Kodachrome smiles and grainy Super-8 home movies, Henry unearths difficult truths as an act of intergenerational healing that becomes a testament to love, legacy and those things that carry us through life’s most challenging times. Major screenings: Chicago Int'l Film Festival, Austin Film Society Doc Days, Cinequest. “… puts a spotlight on how families grapple with dementia and care … opens the door for connections with other families.” - Remus Jackson, Film Critic, Hyperreal Film ClubMode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Health.; Social sciences.; Mental health.; Homosexuality.; Documentary films.; LGBTQ.; Older people--Mental health.; Gerontology.; Older people--Care.; Families.; Dementia.; Disabilities.;
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Maureen / by Joyce, Rachel,author.; revision of:Joyce, Rachel.Maureen Fry and the angel of the North.;
The final piece of the Harold Fry trilogy, revisiting the characters ten years on to tell a story about loss and love and forgiveness. Ten years after her husband, Harold Fry, made his extraordinary walk across England to try and save a dying friend, Maureen Fry makes her own pilgrimage, and although she packs a proper bag and takes the car, her trip will be equally transformative. Unlike her husband, Maureen does not make friends easily, and she is not entirely sure what she hopes to find at the end of the road, but this is a journey she knows she must make, whatever obstacles present themselves on the way.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Road fiction.; Novels.; Automobile travel; Older people; Voyages and travels; Women;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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