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The inheritance of loss

While exploring the facets of romance with her Napali tutor, the Indian-Nepali insurgency reaches a frenzy, forcing Sai to revist her past and reconnect with her eccentric grandfather.
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Notes from the midnight driver

After being assigned to perform community service at a nursing home, sixteen-year-old Alex befriends a cantankerous old man who has some lessons to impart about jazz guitar playing, love, and forgiveness.

The five people you meet in heaven

A bitter eighty-three-year-old war veteran who believes his life is meaningless dies while trying to save a little girl's life and finds himself in heaven, where five people from his past--some loved ones, some strangers--explain what his years on Earth really meant, and whether or not he succeeded in saving the child.

Paris in the present tense

2017
"Set in...present-day Paris...seventy-four-year-old Jules Lacour--a ma?tre at Paris-Sorbonne, cellist, widower, veteran of the war in Algeria, and child of the Holocaust--must find a balance between his strong obligations to the past and the attractions and beauties of life and love in the present"--Dust jacket.

Mr. Paradise

2004
Kelly, a lingerie model, is faced with a choice between life and love when she falls for the detective who is investigating the murder of Kelly's roommate Chloe, a high-end call girl who was shot along with her steady client Tony Paradiso, an eighty-four-year-old retired lawyer known as Mr. Paradise.

A man called Ove

a novel
2014
When a new, chatty, young couple and their two daughters move in next door, Ove's well-ordered, solitary world turns upside down.

The old man and the sea

The story of an old Cuban fisherman and his battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream.

The old man and the sea

2005
Santiago, an aging fisherman who has gone eighty-four days without a catch, battles the sea and sharks to bring home the giant marlin he hooked.

The old man and the sea

2000
An old fisherman battles the sea and sharks to bring home the giant marlin he caught.

The memory of Old Jack

1999
Retired farmer, "Old Jack" Beechum, recalls his long life over the course of an autumn day in 1952.

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