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2) Faerie Lord
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Series
Language
English
Description
When a terrible plague takes over the faerie realm and causes its inhabitants to age unnaturally quickly, Henry and Blue must find a cure in order to save the realm.
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Language
English
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Description
Joining an anthropologist's 1950 expedition to discover a lost tribe on a remote Micronesian island, a young doctor investigates and proves a theory that the tribe's considerable longevity is linked to a rare turtle, a finding that brings worldwide fame and unexpected consequence.
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A married couple who originally agreed to not speak of their past failed relationships alternate reading from the memoirs they've written about their lives, in a novel that explores polyamory, bisexuality, aging, and love.
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Series
[Fatherless trilogy volume 2
Publisher
FaithWords
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Julia Davidson, a newly married journalist, finds herself torn between the influence she craves and the husband she loves. She wants significance. But he wants a child.
10) Autumn: a novel
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"From the Man Booker-shortlisted and Baileys Prize-winning author of How to be both: a breathtakingly inventive new novel--about aging, time, love, and stories themselves--that launches an extraordinary quartet of books called Seasonal. Readers love Ali Smith's novels for their peerless innovation and their joyful celebration of language and life. Her newest, Autumn, has all of these qualities in spades, and--good news for fans!--is the first installment...
11) Cygnet
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Language
English
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The Kid doesn't know where her parents are. They left with a promise to come back months ago, and now their seventeen-year-old daughter is stranded on Swan Island. Swan isn't just any island; it is home to an eccentric old age separatist community who have shunned life on the mainland for a haven which is rapidly sinking into the ocean. The Kid's arrival threatens to burst the idyllic bubble that the elderly residents have so carefully constructed...
12) Turnabout
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Language
English
Description
After secretly receiving injections at the age of 100 that are meant to reverse the aging process, Melly and Anny Beth grow younger until, as teenagers, they try to find a guardian to take care of them as they return to infancy.
13) 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.
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Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Deciding to commit suicide at the end of the day when he resolves to avoid the frailty and isolation of old age, psychiatrist Millar Salter attempts to wrap up loose ends with his loved ones, whose respective troubles compel him to rethink his plans.
Author
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.
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Publisher
Hummingbird Book House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Julia and Colette are life-long best friends who couldn't age more differently. Julia is a goody-two-shoes who embraces her gray hair, wrinkles, and geriatric sneakers. Colette is as tough as old boots and relentlessly chases after the elusive fountain of youth wearing stilettos. Growing up and growing old together, they clash decade by decade, starting when they're ten and are forced to write their own obituaries for homework. Their assignment? Live...
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
She still has all the time in the world to be who she wants to be.... Doesn't she? Olivia Strauss is turning thirty-nine. No major milestone. She still considers herself young. At least young enough to assume she has decades (emphasis on the plural) to check the unchecked boxes of her life's to-do list. Ballerina? Too late. But not too late for poet. Or for reigniting the romantic spark in her marriage, spending more quality time with her son, switching...
Author
Publisher
Forge/Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Milena Michiko Flašar's Mr Katō Plays Family is an eccentric second-lease-on-life novel for fans of A Man Called Ove and Beautiful World, Where Are You. Mr Katō-a curmudgeon and recent retiree-finds his only solace during his daily walks, where he wonders how his life went wrong and daydreams about getting a dog (which his wife won't allow). During one of these walks, he is approached by a young woman. She calls herself Mie, and invites him to...