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Alphabetical by Author
The End of Old Age
by
Marc E. Agronin
Call Number: QP86 .A378 2018
ISBN: 9780738219981
Publication Date: 2018
How We Age
by
Marc Agronin
Call Number: HQ1061 .A485 2011
ISBN: 9780738215587
Publication Date: 2012
This Chair Rocks
by
Ashton Applewhite
Call Number: BF724.85.S45 A77 2019
ISBN: 9781250311481
Publication Date: 2019
Elderhood
by
Louise Aronson
Call Number: RA564.8 .A76 2021
ISBN: 9781620405475
Publication Date: 2021
Composing a Further Life
by
Mary Catherine Bateson
Call Number: HQ1060.5 .B38 2011
Publication Date: 2011
Aging for Beginners
by
Ezra Bayda
Call Number: BQ5435 .B39 2018
ISBN: 9781614294771
Publication Date: 2018
The Coming of Age
by
Simone de Beauvoir
Call Number: HV1451 .B413 1996
ISBN: 9780393314434
Publication Date: 1996
Patrick O'Brian (Translator)
The Art of Growing Older
by
Wayne Booth
Call Number: PN6071.A48 A78 1992
ISBN: 9780671781927
Publication Date: 1992
The View in Winter
by
Ronald Blythe
Call Number: HQ1064.G7 B58 1979
ISBN: 0151936382
Publication Date: 1979
Roadmap to 100
by
Walter M. Bortz and Randall Stickrod
Call Number: RA776.75 .B674 2010
Publication Date: 2010
Age Ain't Nothing but a Number
by
Carleen Brice
Call Number: PS509.N4 A35 2003
ISBN: 9780807028230
Publication Date: 2003
Overtreated
by
Shannon Brownlee
Call Number: RA395.A3 B785 2007
ISBN: 9781582345802
Publication Date: 2007
The Blue Zones
by
Dan Buettner
Call Number: RA776.75 .B84 2012
Publication Date: 2008
The Blue Zones Solution
by
Dan Buettner
Call Number: RA784 .B75 2015
ISBN: 9781426211928
Publication Date: 2015
The Longevity Revolution
by
Robert N. Butler
Call Number: QP85 .B88 2008
Publication Date: 2008
The Longevity Prescription
by
Robert N. Butler
Call Number: RA776.75 .B88 2010
Publication Date: 2010
The Gift of Years
by
Joan Chittister
Call Number: HQ1061 .C455 2010
Publication Date: 2010
How to Grow Old
by
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Call Number: PA6308.C2 F7 2016
ISBN: 9780691167701
Publication Date: 2016
Philip Freeman (Translator)
Still Here
by
Ram Dass
Call Number: HQ1061 .R285 2001
Publication Date: 2001
The Art of Growing Old
by
Marie De Hennezel
Call Number: BF724.55.A35 H46 2012b
Publication Date: 2012
Lastingness
by
Nicholas Delbanco
Call Number: BF724.85.C73 D45 2012
Publication Date: 2012
Don't Let an Old Person Move into Your Body
by
Jim Donovan
Call Number: HQ1061 .D66 2010
Publication Date: 2010
Eightysomethings
by
Katharine Esty
Call Number: QP86 .E75 2019
ISBN: 9781510743120
Publication Date: 2019
Ageless Women, Timeless Wisdom
by
Lois P. Frankel
Call Number: HQ1061 .F654 2017
ISBN: 9781510716247
Publication Date: 2017
How to Live Forever
by
Marc Freedman
Call Number: HM726 .F74 2018
ISBN: 9781541767812
Publication Date: 2018
The Fountain of Age
by
Betty Friedan
Call Number: HQ1064.U5 F753 2006
Publication Date: 2006
The Longevity Project
by
Howard S. Friedman and Leslie R. Martin
Call Number: RA776.75 .F75 2012
Publication Date: 2012
Eat for Health
by
Joel Fuhrman
Call Number: RM222.2 .F835 2012
ISBN: 9780983795223
Publication Date: 2012-
Super Immunity
by
Joel Fuhrman
Call Number: QR185.2 .F845 2012
Publication Date: 2013
Being Mortal
by
Atul Gawande
Call Number: R726.8 .G39 2014
Publication Date: 2014
Spring Chicken
by
Bill Gifford
Call Number: RA776.75 .G55 2016
ISBN: 9781455527434
Publication Date: 2016
Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People
by
Margaret Morganroth Gullette
Call Number: HQ1061 .G86334 2017
ISBN: 9780813589299
Publication Date: 2017
I Feel Great about My Hands
by
Shari Graydon
Call Number: HQ1061 .I44 2011
Publication Date: 2011
The Wonder of Aging
by
Michael Gurian
Call Number: RA564.8 .G88 2013
Publication Date: 2013
Life Reimagined
by
Barbara Bradley Hagerty
Call Number: HQ1059.4 .H324 2017
ISBN: 9780399573323
Publication Date: 2017
The Bitch Is Back: Older, Wiser, and (Getting) Happier
by
Cathi Hanauer
Call Number: HQ1421 .B525 2016
ISBN: 0062389513
Publication Date: 2016
Thrive
by
Arianna Huffington
Call Number: HF5386 .H9125 2014
Publication Date: 2014
Old Age: A Beginner's Guide
by
Michael Kinsley
Call Number: PS3611.I655 A6 2016
ISBN: 1101903767
Publication Date: 2016
70-Something
by
Judy Kugel
Call Number: HQ1061 .K78 2017
ISBN: 9781938517686
Publication Date: 2017
The Upside of Aging
by
Paul Irving
Call Number: HQ1061 .U67 2014
Publication Date: 2014
Continued - Alphabetical by Author
Live Long Die Short
by
Roger Landry
Call Number: RA777.6 .L36 2014
Publication Date: 2014
Happiness Is a Choice You Make
by
John Leland
Call Number: HQ1061 .L45 2019
ISBN: 9780374538194
Publication Date: 2019
Fifty Is the New Fifty
by
Suzanne Braun Levine
Call Number: HQ1059.4 .L479 2010
Publication Date: 2010
Aging Our Way
by
Meika Loe
Call Number: HQ1061 .L64 2013
Publication Date: 2013
The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning
by
Margareta Magnusson
Call Number: TX324 .M324 2018
ISBN: 9781501173240
Publication Date: 2018
Aging Wisely
by
Viola Mecke
Call Number: BF724.85.S45 M43 2013
ISBN: 9781493114269
Publication Date: 2013
The Five Stages of the Soul
by
Harry R. Moody and David Carroll
Call Number: BL624 .M6623 1997
Publication Date: 1997
How We Die
by
Sherwin B. Nuland
Call Number: BD444 .N85 1994
Publication Date: 1994
The Art of Aging
by
Sherwin B. Nuland
Call Number: HQ1061 .N92 2007
Publication Date: 2007
Aging Thoughtfully
by
Martha C. Nussbaum and Saul Levmore
Call Number: BF724.55.A35 N87 2017
ISBN: 9780190600235
Publication Date: 2017
Stupid Things I Won't Do When I Get Old
by
Steven Petrow
Call Number: HQ1061 .P4137 2021
ISBN: 9780806541006
Publication Date: 2021
Women Rowing North
by
Mary Pipher
Call Number: HQ1061 .P48 2019
ISBN: 9781632869609
Publication Date: 2019
The Omnivore's Dilemma
by
Michael Pollan
Call Number: GT2850 .P65 2006
Publication Date: 2006
In Defense of Food
by
Michael Pollan
Call Number: RA784 .P643 2009
Publication Date: 2009
Food Rules
by
Michael Pollan
Call Number: RA784 .P6429 2009
Publication Date: 2009
Look Me in the Eye
by
Cynthia Rich and Barbara Macdonald
Call Number: HQ1061 .M23 1983
Publication Date: 1983
Aging as a Spiritual Practice
by
Lewis Richmond
Call Number: BQ5435 .R53 2012
Publication Date: 2012
Successful Aging
by
John W. Rowe and Robert L. Kahn
Call Number: QP85 .R69 1998
Publication Date: 1998
Rules for Aging
by
Roger Rosenblatt
Call Number: PN6231.A43 R67 2001
Publication Date: 2001
AgeLess
by
Edward Schneider and Elizabeth Miles
Call Number: RA776.75 .S33 2003
Publication Date: 2003
Measure of My Days
by
Florida Scott-Maxwell
Call Number: HQ1061 .S36 1979
ISBN: 9780140051643
Publication Date: 1979
Out of Time: The Pleasures and the Perils of Ageing
by
Lynne Segal
Call Number: HQ1061 .S418 2014
ISBN: 1781682992
Publication Date: 2014
Health in Old Age
by
Moyra Sidell
Call Number: RA564.8 .S55 1995
Publication Date: 1995
Master Class
by
Peter Spiers
Call Number: HQ1064.U5 S6775 2012
Publication Date: 2012
The war on the old
by
John Sutherland
Call Number: HQ1064.G7 S88 2016
ISBN: 9781785901713
Publication Date: 2016
Your Best Brain Ever
by
Michael S. Sweeney and Cynthia R. Green
Call Number: RC386.2 .S79 2014
Publication Date: 2013
What Are Old People For?
by
William H. Thomas
Call Number: HQ1061 .T473 2004
Publication Date: 2004
Second Wind: Navigating the Passage to a Slower, Deeper, More Connected Life
by
Bill Thomas
Call Number: HN58 .T46 2014
ISBN: 1451667566
Publication Date: 2014
My Time
by
Abigail Trafford
Call Number: HQ1059.4 .T7 2004
Publication Date: 2004
As Time Goes By
by
Abigail Trafford
Call Number: HQ1059.4 .T69 2009
Publication Date: 2009
Aging Well
by
George E. Vaillant
Call Number: HQ1064.U5 V35 2002
ISBN: 0316989363
Publication Date: 2002
Triumphs of Experience
by
George E. Vaillant
Call Number: HQ1090.3 .V35 2015
ISBN: 9780674059825
Publication Date: 2012
Healthy Aging
by
Andrew Weil
Call Number: QP86 .W445 2007
Publication Date: 2007
Selling the Fountain of Youth
by
Arlene Weintraub
Call Number: RA776.75 .W45 2010
Publication Date: 2010
Age of Miracles
by
Marianne Williamson
Call Number: HQ1059.4 .W57 2008
Publication Date: 2008
Aging and Its Discontents
by
Kathleen M. Woodward
Call Number: PQ307.A47 W66 1991
ISBN: 9780253366405
Publication Date: 1991
Figuring Age
by
Kathleen Woodward
Call Number: HQ1061 .F52 1999
Publication Date: 1999
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