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2012., General, Coach House Books Call No: QWF Fic Sau Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Tom and Charlie have decided to live out the remainder of their lives on their own terms, hidden away in a remote forest, their only connection to the outside world a couple of pot growers who deliver whatever they can't eke out for themselves. But one summer two women arrive. One is a young photographer documenting a a series of catastrophic forest fires that swept Northern Ontario early in the century; she's on the trail of the recently deceased Ted Boychuck, a survivor of the blaze. And then the elderly aunt of the one of the pot growers appears, fleeing one of the psychiatric institutions that have been her home since she was sixteen. She joins the men in the woods and begins a new life as Marie-Desneige. With the photographer's help, they find Ted's series of paintings about the fire, and begin to decipher the dead man's history. A haunting meditation on aging and self-determination, 'And the Birds Rained Down', was the winner of the Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie, the first Canadian title to win this honour. It was winner of the Prix des lecteurs Radio-Canada, the Prix des collégiens du Québec, the Prix Ringuet 2012 and a finalist for the Grand Prix de la ville de Montréal.
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2015., Alfred A. Knopf ; Alfred A. Knopf of Canada Call No: Bio S119g Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In July 2013, Oliver Sacks turned eighty and wrote [a] ... piece in The New York Times about the prospect of old age and the freedom he envisioned for himself in binding together the thoughts and feelings of a lifetime. Eighteen months later, he was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer--which he announced publically in another piece in The New York Times. Gratitude is Sacks's meditation on why life [continued] to enthrall him even as he [faced] the all-too-close presence of his own death, and how to live out the months that [remained] in the richest and deepest way possible"--
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2018., William Morrow, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: Bio M956h Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In this profoundly honest and examined memoir about returning to Iowa to care for her ailing parents, the star of Orange Is the New Black and New York Times bestselling author of Born with Teeth takes us on an unexpected journey of loss, betrayal, and the transcendent nature of a daughter's love for her parents. They say you can't go home again. But when her father is diagnosed with aggressive lung cancer and her mother with atypical Alzheimer's, New York-based actress Kate Mulgrew returns to her hometown in Iowa to spend time with her parents and care for them in the time they have left. The months Kate spends with her parents in Dubuque -- by turns turbulent, tragic, and joyful -- lead her to reflect on each of their lives and how they shaped her own. Those ruminations are transformed when, in the wake of their deaths, Kate uncovers long-kept secrets that challenge her understanding of the unconventional Irish Catholic household in which she was raised. How to Forget is a considered portrait of a mother and a father, an emotionally powerful memoir that demonstrates how love fuses children and parents, and an honest examination of family, memory, and indelible loss."--
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[2014], Adult, Blue Rider Press Call No: 818.6 G981i Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A collection of humorous essays about aging by actress and comedian Annabelle Gurwitch"--From publisher.
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By Arden, Jann2020., Adult, Random House Canada Call No: Bio A676i Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Jann Arden--bestselling author, recording artist and late-blooming TV star--is back with this funny, heartfelt and fierce memoir on becoming a woman of a certain age. The power, gravity and freedom she's found at fifty-seven are superpowers she believes all of us can unleash. Digging deep into her strengths, her failures and her losses, Jann Arden brings us an inspiring account of how she has surprised herself, in her fifties, by at last becoming completely her own person. Like many women, it took Jann a long time to realize that trying to be pleasing and likeable and beautiful in the eyes of others was a loser's game. Letting it rip, and damning the consequences, is not only liberating, it's a hell of a lot of fun: "Being the age I am--that so many women are--is just the best time of my life." Jann weaves her own story together with tales of her mother, grandmother, and great grandmother, and the father she came close to hating, to show her younger self--and all of us--that fear and avoidance is no way to live. "What I'm thinking about now aren't all the ways I can try to hang on to my youth or all the seconds ticking by in some kind of morbid countdown to death," she writes, "but rather how I keep becoming someone I always hoped I could be. If I'm lucky one day a very old face will look back at me from the mirror, a face I once shied away from. I will love that old woman ferociously, because she has finally figured out how to live a life of purpose--not in spite of but because of all her mistakes and failures.
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-- I am not as old as I used to be1997., Thorndike Press Call No: LP 305.26 W363i Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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1998., Ballantine Books Call No: 305.26 H466l Edition: 1st Ballantine Books ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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By Homel, David2021., Linda Leith Publishing Call No: QWF Bio H765l Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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c1995., HarperCollins Publishers Call No: 940.1092 C232m Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2015., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: BLK Bio S662o Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A memoir about the author's coming of age as she grapples with her identity as an artist, her family's racial history, and her mother's death from cancer"--Provided by publisher.
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2011., General, Random House Call No: Bio F673p Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Jane Fonda, #1 bestselling author, actress, and workout pioneer, gives us a blueprint for living well and for making the most of life, especially the second half of it. Covering sex, love, food, fitness, self-understanding, spiritual and social growth, and your brain. In Prime Time, she offers a vision for successful living and maturing, A to Z.
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2008., Adult, distributed exclusively in Canada by Alliance Films Call No: DVD Fic Romulus Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Developed with director Riachard Roxburgh over seven years, Romulus, My Father has been adapted for the screen by poet and playwright, Nick Drake. Based on Raimond Gaita's critically acclaimed memoir, it tells the story of Romulus, his beautiful wife, Christina, and their struggle in the face of great adversity to bring up their son, Raimond. It is, ultimately, a story of impossible love that celebrates the unbreakable bond between a father and a son."--Container.
![Romulus, my father [DVD] (2007). Directed by Richard Roxburgh.](/Library/images/~imageCT72260.JPG "Romulus, my father [DVD] (2007). Directed by Richard Roxburgh.")
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2016., Nonvella Publishing Inc Call No: Bio M479s Edition: ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: At age 17, Duncan McCue spent five months in a hunting cabin with a James Bay Cree family. His coming-of-age memoir of those days is frank, funny and evocative. Itœs also a beautiful sketch of the landscape and culture of the Cree a nation still recovering from massive hydroelectric projects that flooded over 11,000 square kilometres of their traditional territory.His story deftly entwines the challenges of identity for First Nations youth, the sexual frustration and hopeful confusion of the teenage years, and the realities of living in an enduring state of culture shock.
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-- 60 :2015., Adult, Random House of Canada Call No: Bio B877s Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "From the author of The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search for His Disabled Son comes a wickedly honest and brutally funny account of the year in which he realized that the man in the mirror was actually... sixty. A dispatch from the Maginot Line that divides the middle-aged from the soon to be elderly. As Ian writes, "It is the age when the body begins to dominate the mind, or vice versa, when time begins to disappear and loom, but never in a good way, when you have no choice but to admit that people have stopped looking your way, and that in fact they stopped twenty years ago." Ian began keeping a diary with a Facebook post on the morning of his sixtieth birthday. He explored what being sixty means physically, psychologically and intellectually. "What pleasures are gone forever? Which ones, if any, are left? What did Beethoven, or Schubert, or Jagger, or Henry Moore, or Lucien Freud do after they turned sixty?" And most importantly, "How much life can you live in the fourth quarter, not knowing when the game might end?" With formidable candour, he tries to answer this question: "Does aging and elderliness deserve to be dreaded--and how much of that dread can be held at bay by a reasonable human being? Ian Brown writes for the Globe and Mail newspaper. His previous books include Freewheeling, and the provocative examination of modern masculinity, Man Overboard. He lives in Toronto"--Provided by publisher.
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2009., Anchor Books Call No: 813.6 G453s Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A celebration of the indignities and consolations of modern domestic life describes the author's haphazard experiences after coming into a realization of her own mortality upon reaching her mid-forties, an awakening that prompted her efforts to find meaning in everyday activities.
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2022., Doubleday Call No: NEW Bio H873s Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art. In the eyes of 18-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken-with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity-is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for generations, is mainstream; for Hua, a first-generation Taiwanese American who has a 'zine and haunts Bay Area record shops, Ken represents all that he defines himself in opposition to. The only thing Hua and Ken have in common is that, however they engage with it, American culture doesn't seem to have a place for either of them. But despite his first impressions, Hua and Ken become best friends, a friendship built of late-night conversations over cigarettes, long drives along the California coast, and the textbook successes and humiliations of everyday college life. And then violently, senselessly, Ken is gone, killed in a carjacking, not even three years after the day they first meet. Determined to hold on to all that was left of his best friend-his memories-Hua turned to writing. Stay True is the book he's been working on ever since. A coming-of-age story that details both the ordinary and extraordinary, Stay True is a bracing memoir about growing up, and about moving through the world in search of meaning and belonging.
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-- Still fooling them.2013., Henry Holt and Company Call No: Bio C883s Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Billy Crystal is turning 65, and he's not happy about it. With his trademark wit and heart, he outlines the absurdities and challenges that come with growing old, from insomnia to memory loss to leaving dinners with half your meal on your shirt. In humorous chapters like "Buying the Plot" and "Nodding Off," Crystal not only catalogues his physical gripes, but offers a road map to his 77 million fellow baby boomers who are arriving at this milestone age with him. He also looks back at the most powerful and memorable moments of his long and storied life, from entertaining his relatives as a kid in Long Beach, Long Island, his years doing stand-up in the Village, up through his legendary stint at Saturday Night Live, When Harry Met Sally, and his long run as host of the Academy Awards. Readers get a front-row seat to his one-day career with the New York Yankees (he was the first player to ever "test positive for Maalox"), his love affair with Sophia Loren, and his enduring friendships with several of his idols, including Mickey Mantle and Muhammad Ali. He lends a light touch to more serious topics like religion ("the aging friends I know have turned to the Holy Trinity: Advil, bourbon, and Prozac"), grandparenting, and, of course, dentistry. As wise and poignant as they are funny, Crystal's reflections are an unforgettable look at an extraordinary life well lived"--
