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The Light of the World
by
Elizabeth Alexander
Call Number: PS3551.L3494 Z46 2016
ISBN: 9781455599868
Publication Date: 2016
This Old Man
by
Roger Angell
Call Number: PS3551.N46 A6 2015
ISBN: 9780385541138
Publication Date: 2015
Somewhere Towards the End
by
Diana Athill
Call Number: PR6051.T43 Z47 2009
ISBN: 9780393338003
Publication Date: 2009
Alive, Alive Oh!
by
Diana Athill
Call Number: PR6051.T43 Z463 2016
ISBN: 9780393253719
Publication Date: 2016
View from Here
by
Joan Bakewell
Call Number: PN5123.B26 A3 2006
ISBN: 9781843545149
Publication Date: 2006
Levels of Life
by
Julian Barnes
Call Number: PR6052.A6657 L48 2013
Publication Date: 2013
Nothing to Be Frightened Of
by
Julian Barnes
Call Number: PR6052.A6657 Z46 2008
ISBN: 9780307269638
Publication Date: 2008
A Very Easy Death
by
Simone de Beauvoir
Call Number: PQ2603.E362 M613 1973
Publication Date: 1964
Translated from the French by Patrick O'Brian
My Song
by
Harry Belafonte
Call Number: ML420.B32 A3 2011
ISBN: 9780307272263
Publication Date: 2011
Guiding Autobiography Groups for Older Adults
by
James E. Birren and Donna E. Deutchman
Call Number: RC953.5 .B57 1991
Publication Date: 1991
In Love
by
Amy Bloom
Call Number: RC523.3 .B66 2022
ISBN: 9780593243947
Publication Date: 2022
Everything Happens for a Reason and Other Lies I've Loved
by
Kate Bowler
Call Number: RC280.C6 B68 2018
ISBN: 9780399592065
Publication Date: 2018
Sixty
by
Ian Brown
Call Number: CT310.B758 A3 2016
ISBN: 9781615193509
Publication Date: 2016
Intoxicated by My Illness
by
Anatole Broyard
Call Number: PS29.B76 A3 1993
Publication Date: 1993
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?
by
Roz Chast
Call Number: NC1429.C525 A2 2014
ISBN: 9781608198061
Publication Date: 2014
Life Writing
by
Carole Angier and Sally Cline
Call Number: CT21 .C555 2010
Publication Date: 2010
When Everything Changed
by
Gail Collins
Call Number: HQ1421 .C64 2009
Publication Date: 2009
The View from Eighty
by
Malcolm Cowley
Call Number: HQ1061 .C663 1980
ISBN: 9780670746149
Publication Date: 1980
Aurelia, Aurélia
by
Kathryn Davis
Call Number: PS3554.A934923 Z46 2022
ISBN: 9781644450789
Publication Date: 2022
The Year of Magical Thinking
by
Joan Didion
Call Number: PS3554.I33 Z63 2005
Publication Date: 2005
In Gratitude
by
Jenny Diski
Call Number: RC265.6.D57 A3 2016
ISBN: 1632866862
Publication Date: 2016
There Are No Grown-Ups
by
Pamela Druckerman
Call Number: HQ1059.5.U5 D78 2018
ISBN: 9781594206375
Publication Date: 2018
Reaching Ninety
by
Martin Duberman
Call Number: HQ75.8.D82 A3 2023
ISBN: 9781641608800
Publication Date: 202
Left on Tenth
by
Delia Ephron
Call Number: PS3555.P48 Z46 2022
ISBN: 9780316267656
Publication Date: 2022
Dancing in the Dash: My Story of Empowerment, Diplomacy, and Resilience
by
Lauri Fitz-Pegado
Call Number: GV1785.F58 F58 2021
ISBN: 9781954805040
Publication Date: 2021
Don't Let Them Bury My Story
by
Viola Ford Fletcher
Call Number: F704.T92 F54 2023
ISBN: 9781737168409
Publication Date: 2023
Roth after Eighty
by
David Gooblar
Call Number: PS3568.O855 Z882 2016
ISBN: 9781498514651
Publication Date: 2016
Coming into the End Zone
by
Doris Grumbach
Call Number: PS3557.R83 Z462 1993
ISBN: 9780393309447
Publication Date: 1993
Extra Innings
by
Doris Grumbach
Call Number: PS3557.R83 Z645 1995
ISBN: 9780393313208
Publication Date: 1995
Late-Life Love
by
Susan Gubar
Call Number: HQ1064.U5 G83 2019
ISBN: 9780393609578
Publication Date: 2018
A Carnival of Losses
by
Donald Hall
Call Number: PS3515.A3152 Z46 2018
ISBN: 9781328826343
Publication Date: 2018
Essays after Eighty
by
Donald Hall
Call Number: PS3515.A3152 A6 2014
ISBN: 9780544287044
Publication Date: 2014
Old Poets
by
Donald Hall
Call Number: PS3515.A3152 O47 2021
ISBN: 9781567926958
Publication Date: 2021
Unpacking the Boxes
by
Donald Hall
Call Number: PS3515.A3152 Z478 2008
ISBN: 9780618990658
Publication Date: 2008
Poet Warrior
by
Joy Harjo
Call Number: PS3558.A62423 Z46 2021
ISBN: 9780393248524
Publication Date: 2021
The Last Gift of Time
by
Carolyn G. Heilbrun
Call Number: PS3558.E4526 Z465 1997
Publication Date: 1997
Disrupt Aging
by
Jo Ann Jenkins
Call Number: HQ1061 .J46 2016
ISBN: 1610396766
Publication Date: 2016
Exploring Our Lives
by
Francis E. Kazemek
Call Number: PE1408 .K36 2002
Publication Date: 2002
That Time of Year
by
Garrison Keillor
Call Number: PS3561.E3755 T53 2023
ISBN: 9781956763171
Publication Date: 2023
Travels with Epicurus
by
Daniel Klein
Call Number: B512 .K54 2012
ISBN: 9780143121930
Publication Date: 2012
The Wild Braid
by
Stanley Kunitz; Genine Lentine; Marnie Crawford Samuelson (By (photographer))
Call Number: PS3521.U7 Z478 2005
ISBN: 0393061418
Publication Date: 2005
Ammonites and Leaping Fish: A Life in Time
by
Penelope Lively
Call Number: PR6062.I89 Z46 2013
Publication Date: 2013
My Brilliant Friends
by
Nancy K. Miller
Call Number: HQ1421 .M55 2019
ISBN: 9780231190541
Publication Date: 2019
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited
by
Vladímir Nabokov
Call Number: PG3476.N3 Z5 1966
ISBN: 9780679723394
Publication Date: 1966
You Don't Look Your Age...And Other Fairy Tales
by
Sheila Nevins
Call Number: PN1992.4.N35 A3 2017
ISBN: 9781250111302
Publication Date: 2017
Why Religion?
by
Elaine Pagels
Call Number: BL43.P34 A3 2018
ISBN: 9780062368539
Publication Date: 2018
The Measure of a Man
by
Sidney Poitier
Call Number: PN2287.P57 A3 2000
ISBN: 9780062516084
Publication Date: 2001
Nanaville
by
Anna Quindlen
Call Number: PS3567.U336 Z85 2019
ISBN: 9780812996104
Publication Date: 2019
Diary of a Mad Diva
by
Joan Rivers
Call Number: PN2287.R55 A3 2014
ISBN: 9780425269022
Publication Date: 2014
Everyman
by
Philip Roth
Call Number: PS3568.O855 E94 2006
ISBN: 9780618735167
Publication Date: 2006
Patrimony
by
Philip Roth
Call Number: PS3568.O855 Z468 1996
ISBN: 0679752935
Publication Date: 1996
Senior Moments
by
Willard Spiegelman
Call Number: PS3619.P5432 Z46 2016
ISBN: 0374261229
Publication Date: 2016
Eighty Years and More
by
Elizabeth C. Stanton;
Call Number: JK1899.S7 A3 1971
ISBN: 0805203249
Publication Date: 1987
Darkness Visible
by
William Styron
Call Number: RC537 .S88 1992
Publication Date: 1992
Where the Past Begins
by
Amy Tan
Call Number: PS3570.A48 Z46 2017
ISBN: 9780062319296
Publication Date: 2017
Just As I Am
by
Cicely Tyson
Call Number: PN2287.T97 A3 2021
ISBN: 9780062931061
Publication Date: 2021
On Turning 70
by
Neil Waring
Call Number: B724.85.M67 W37 2018
ISBN: 9781983984501
Publication Date: 2018
Walking to Vermont
by
Christopher S. Wren
Call Number: F10 .W74 2004
Publication Date: 2004
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