Old Friends

Author : Margaret Aitken
Publisher : Feiwel & Friends
ISBN 13 : 1250890942
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Friends written by Margaret Aitken and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paired with colorful and vibrant art by Lenny Wen, Old Friends by Margaret Aitken is an inventive and heartfelt debut picture book that celebrates found family, caregiving, and the value of intergenerational friendships. Marjorie wants a friend who loves the same things she does: baking shows, knitting, and gardening. Someone like Granny. So with a sprinkle of flour in her hair and a spritz of lavender perfume, Marjorie goes undercover to the local Senior Citizens Group. It all goes well until the Cha-Cha-Cha starts and her cardigan camouflage goes sideways. By being true to herself, Marjorie learns that friends can be of any age if you look in the right places.

Author : Tracy Kidder
Publisher : Rosetta Books
ISBN 13 : 079533768X
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Friends written by Tracy Kidder and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s “touching, funny and inspiring” true story of daily life in a New England nursing home (The New York Times). Ninety-year-old Lou quit school after the eighth grade, worked for the rest of his life, and stayed with the same woman for nearly seventy years. Seventy-two-year-old Joe was chief probation officer in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, holds a law degree, and has faced the death of a son and the raising of a mentally challenged daughter. Now, the two men are roommates in a nursing home. Despite coming from very different backgrounds, the two become close friends. Focusing on these two men as well as introducing us to the other aging residents of Linda Manor in Northampton, Massachusetts, literary journalist Tracy Kidder examines the sorrows and joys of growing older and the universal struggle to find meaning in the face of mortality. From the New York Times–bestselling author and National Book Award–winning author of The Soul of a New Machine, this is an extraordinary look inside an often-hidden world. “As in his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Soul of a New Machine, House, and the best-selling Among Schoolchildren, Kidder reveals his extraordinary talent as a storyteller by taking the potentially unpalatable subject of life in a nursing home and making it into a highly readable, engrossing account.” —Library Journal “Rich detail and true-to-the-ear dialogue let the brave and determined elderly speak for themselves—and for the continually surprising potential of the human spirit.” —Kirkus Reviews

Author : Andrew Daddo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780733338144
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Friends New Friends written by Andrew Daddo and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-06 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the first day of school, and none of my old friends are in my new class! Making new friends can be hard, but in this gorgeous new picture book, it can also be a whole lot of fun!

Author : Joanne Ryder
Publisher : Golden Books
ISBN 13 : 9780307102577
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Friends, New Friends written by Joanne Ryder and published by Golden Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grace begins to feel left out when her best friend, Laura, gets a part in the school play and spends all her time rehearsing with a new friend.

Author : Natasha Bouchard
Publisher : RH/Disney
ISBN 13 : 0736440127
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Friends, New Friends (Disney/Pixar Toy Story 4) written by Natasha Bouchard and published by RH/Disney. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Toy Story 4 deluxe Step into Reading leveled reader is based on the exciting new Disney/Pixar movie hitting theaters June 21, 2019! Disney/Pixar's Toy Story 4 opens a new chapter in the lives of Woody, Buzz Lightyear, and the rest of the Toy Story gang. Directed by Josh Cooley (Riley's First Date?) and produced by Jonas Rivera (Inside Out and Up) and Mark Nielsen (associate producer for Inside Out), Toy Story 4 opens in theaters on June 21, 2019. Step 1 readers feature big type and easy words. Rhymes and rhythmic text paired with picture clues help children decode the story. For children who know the alphabet and are eager to begin reading on their own.

Author : Barbara D. Livingston
Publisher : Eclipse Press
ISBN 13 : 9781581500837
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Friends written by Barbara D. Livingston and published by Eclipse Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbara Livingston shares her love of aging thoroughbreds in this book of photos of elderly thoroughbreds that once raced.

Author : Joseph Morella
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780709047797
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Simon and Garfunkel written by Joseph Morella and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jane Gardam
Publisher : Europa Editions
ISBN 13 : 1609451120
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Last Friends written by Jane Gardam and published by Europa Editions. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The satisfying conclusion to Gardam’s Old Filth trilogy offers exquisite prose, wry humor, and keen insights into aging and death” (The New Yorker). While Old Filth introduced readers to Sir Edward Feathers, his dreadful childhood, and his decades-long marriage, The Man in the Wooden Hat was his wife Betty’s story. Last Friends is Terence Veneering’s turn. His beginnings were not those of the usual establishment grandee. Filth’s hated rival in court and in love is the son of a Russian acrobat marooned in the English midlands and a local girl. He escapes the war and later emerges in the Far East as a man of panache and fame. The Bar treats his success with suspicion: Where did this handsome, brilliant Slav come from? This exquisite story of Veneering, Filth, and their circle tells a bittersweet tale of friendship and grace and of the disappointments and consolations of age. They are all, finally, each other’s last friend as this magnificent series ends with the deep and abiding satisfaction that only great literature provides. “[Gardam’s] prose sparkles with wit, compassion and humor. She keeps us entertained, and she keeps us guessing. Be thankful for her books. Be thankful for this trilogy, which is ultimately an elegy, created with deep affection.” —The Washington Post “Restores us to an era rich in spectacle and bristling with insinuation and intrigue. Vivid, spacious, superbly witty, and refreshingly brisk . . . the story (and the author) will endure.” —The Boston Globe “All three Gardam books are beautifully written but it’s a pleasure to note that Last Friends is the most enjoyable, the funniest and the most touching.” —National Post

Author : Stephen Dixon
Publisher : Melville House Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Friends written by Stephen Dixon and published by Melville House Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a literary scene gone dull with novel after novel about young up-scale New Yorkers with drug/sex/alcohol/attitude problems, leave it to the old master of the American avant-garde, two-time National Book Award-nominee Stephen Dixon, to write the most innovative, absorbing, and moving book of the season, OLD FRIENDS. It starts with a chance meeting –- the wife of one shifty writer, in an effort to get him out of the house a little more, introduces him to another shifty writer whose wife would like to see him leave the house every now and then, too. Dixon then presents a stunning tour-de-force, tracing their friendship from its stumbling beginning –- visiting at each other's houses, of course –- through its sometimes hysterical, sometimes heart-wrenching lifetime . . . until the very end. It's a virtuoso work, with the masterful Dixon at the height of his skills, mixing trenchant humor with blunt observation. But this book also shows off –- perhaps better than any of his previous books –- how Dixon manages to be both innovative and accessible at once, writing in clear prose that nonetheless seems to be etched in his own unique language. The end result is an absolutely beautiful work of art -- a moving homage to the writing life, to friendship and love -- that's certain to be recognized as one of the celebrated author's very best books, and bound to win him a whole new generation of readers.

Author : Walter Crane
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 9781429070003
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alphabet of Old Friends written by Walter Crane and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Alphabet of Old Friends was published originally by George Routledge and Sons in London and New York as part of the Walter Crane's Toy Book series. With beautiful illustrations by Walter Crane (1845-1915), the book features old friends from nursery rhymes such as the black sheep from "Ba, ba, black sheep," the mouse who ran up the clock, Jack Sprat, and more. Each letter of the alphabet is illustrated by a portion of a famous nursery rhyme, an illuminated letter, and a stylish illustration.