elderly women

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elderly women

Annie Dunne

2002
Annie Dunne and her cousin Sarah live and work on a small farm in a remote Irish village, where a calmer sense of life prevails, but when Annie agrees to watch her nephew's two children for the summer, her peaceful life is turned upside-down and Annie begins to learn that sometimes change is a good thing.

Can't wait to get to heaven

a novel
2006
Elderly Elner Shimfissle's fall from a tree while picking figs sets off a chain of events that leaves the residents of small Elmwood Springs, Missouri, pondering the meaning of life.

Three tall women

a play in two acts
1995
The play lays "bare the truths of our lives--how we live, how we love, what we settle for, and how we die"--Flyleaf.

Effie's image

2004
An elderly woman finds new meaning for her life when she volunteers at an elementary school.

Petty magic

being the memoirs and confessions of miss Evelyn Harbinger, temptress and troublemaker
2010
Evelyn Harbinger uses her skills as a witch to transform herself from an old woman into the beautiful girl she once was, and when she meets Justin, she believes she has been reunited with her soul mate from World War II but must prove it is really him before her coven will accept Evelyn's love for a mortal, and her quest for the truth is threatened when her sister is accused of killing her husband sixty years earlier.

The stone angel

1993
Ninety-year-old Hagar Shipley, in a final struggle for independence, escapes from her nursing home and tries to come to terms with her tumultuous past.

The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

2009
Presents the life story of Miss Jane Pittman, who was born a slave on a Louisiana plantation before the Civil War and who lived to be 110 years old.

The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

1972
A 110-year-old African-American woman reminisces about her life, which has stretched from the days of slavery to the black militancy and civil rights movements of the 1960s.

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