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1) Yue lao yue kuai le: Zuohe chao ji a ma X gao xiao Ou ji sang xing fu lao nian de ren sheng zhi hui
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Da zhong xin li guan volume 330
Pub. Date
2011.
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中文(繁體)
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Traditional Chinese edition of Shimada yoshichi no oite masumasu omoroi jinsei : kokoro ga karuku naru oi o waratte ikiru chie. The older the happier: the wisdom of an elderly woman who faces everything in life with optimism, humor and smile. Shimada is a bestselling writer, actor, and screenwriter.
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Confined to a nursing home and about to turn 100, Allan Karlsson, who has a larger-than-life back story as an explosives expert, climbs out of the window in his slippers and embarks on an unforgettable adventure involving thugs, a murderous elephant and a very friendly hot dog stand operator.
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Shu huo jia xi lie volume HD2032
Pub. Date
2013.
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中文(繁體)
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Traditional Chinese edition of an enormously popular anti-aging exercise book by Japan's geriatric medicine authority Dr. Akira Kubo: Meii ga oshieru issho netakiri ni naranai ugokeru karada no tsukurikata. One minute exercises on your less active muscles will improve your overall wellness and say goodbye to stiffness and ward off aging.
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Deutsch
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Android Tablets und Smartphones erfreuen sich großer Beliebtheit: Sie sind handliche, leichte und doch leistungsfähige Geräte mit einem eigenen Betriebssystem - Android. So praktisch diese mobilen Geräte auch sind, ihre Bedienung ist zunächst ungewohnt - insbesondere für weniger geübte Nutzer.Mit diesem praktischen Ratgeber finden Sie sich schnell zurecht und können Schritt für Schritt nachvollziehen, wie Sie Ihr Android-Handy oder...
5) The notebook
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Rediscover the unforgettable, heart-wrenching romance set in post-World War II North Carolina, about a young socialite who can't forget the boy who once stole her heart. Every so often a love story so captures our hearts that it becomes more than a story-it becomes an experience to remember forever. The Notebook is such a book. It is a celebration of how passion can be ageless and timeless, a tale that moves us to laughter and tears and makes us believe...
7) From strength to strength: finding success, happiness, and deep purpose in the second half of life
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"Drawing on social science, philosophy, biography, theology, and eastern wisdom, as well as dozens of interviews with everyday men and women, Brooks shows us that true life success is well within our reach. By refocusing on certain priorities and habits that anyone can learn, such as deep wisdom, detachment from empty rewards, connection and service to others, and spiritual progress, we can set ourselves up for increased happiness"--
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"A lively, deeply reportedtour of the latest in fitness science and technology, revealing the strategies of elite and amateur athletes as they stay fit longer than ever before. Age and sports: try talking about one without the other. At their core, sports are about challenging our physical limits. Age is the final and most stubborn of those limits. It's through sports and exercise that many of us first experience the reality of aging. Yet as the American...
10) Mu yang jie tao
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2016.
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中文(繁體)
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A novel written by Chinese author Chen Xi. The story depicts that real life is a series of snares to trap people in money, power, desire, emotion, work, and family. Positioning in the middle of balance is the way to freedom, as soon as traps are removed.
少年时代有诸种版本的梦,唯独没有作家梦。质疑多思的性格,生活总在忧郁灰色长廊中徘徊。多维的感知就像一粒粒种子在悄然发酵,始终没有一个出口。鬼使神差中蚀开了一个口子,蓦然回首,原来那是一个文学的通道。文学就像揉面,得在生活的历练中将面揉好醒到,用智慧的清泉搓洗,最后端出来的是一碗酸辣飘香的面筋。...
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Jack Reacher novels volume 24
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"In the next highly anticipated installment of Lee Child's acclaimed suspense series, Jack Reacher comes to the aid of an elderly couple...and confronts his most dangerous opponents yet. This isn't one of those times. Reacher is on a Greyhound bus, minding his own business, with no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there. Then he steps off the bus to help an old man who is obviously just a victim waiting to happen. But you...
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Thursday Murder Club novels volume 2
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Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron, and Ibrahim - the Thursday Murder Club - are still riding high off their recent real-life murder case and are looking forward to a bit of peace and quiet at Cooper's Chase, their posh retirement village. But they are out of luck. An unexpected visitor - an old pal of Elizabeth's (or perhaps more than just a pal?) - arrives, desperate for her help. He has been accused of stealing diamonds worth millions from the wrong men, and...
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Lü du yu cong shu volume YLK95
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2016.
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中文(繁體)
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"My turn to take care of you" is a collection of essays about role reversal. Lessons of life an adult child learns when he/she becomes the caregiver for his/her parents. Wu Ruoquan is a family and relationship writer with more than 25 books under his belt, a frequently requested motivation speaker and a host of a popular radio program.
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Based on the best-selling My iPad book, My iPad for Seniors helps you quickly get started with iOS 9 on your iPad, and use its features to look up information and perform day-to-day activities from anywhere, any time. Covers iOS 9 for all models of iPad Air, iPad mini, iPad Pro, iPad 3rd/4th generation, and iPad 2 Step-by-step instructions for the tasks you care about most Large, full-color, close-up photos show you exactly what to do Common-sense...
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2019.
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For more than 5,000 years, "old" has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That means most people alive today will spend more years in elderhood than in childhood, and many will be elders for 40 years or more. Yet at the very moment that humans are living longer than ever before, we've made old age into a disease, a condition to be dreaded, denigrated, neglected, and denied. Reminiscent of Oliver Sacks, noted Harvard-trained geriatrician...
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2024.
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As she approached her fiftieth birthday, Debra Whitman, a globally recognized expert on aging, wanted to delve deeper into why so many Americans struggled to live well as they aged. And she began to wonder what was in store for her own second fifty. Suddenly, the questions she'd been studying for years became personal: How long will I live? Will I be healthy? Will I lose my memory? How long will I work? Will I have enough money? Where will I live?...
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Thursday Murder Club novels volume 1
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"In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves The Thursday Murder Club"--
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[2012]
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When Edward Schuyler, a modest and bookish sixty-two-year-old science teacher, is widowed, he finds himself ambushed by female attention. There are plenty of unattached women around, but a healthy, handsome, available man is a rare and desirable creature. Edward receives phone calls from widows seeking love, or at least lunch, while well-meaning friends try to set him up at dinner parties. Even an attractive married neighbor offers herself to him....
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Former Wall Street Journal "Love and Money" columnist presents a valuable and compassionate guide for adult children helping their elderly parents manage their money that covers such topics as estate planning, understanding Medicare, nursing homes, and elder fraud.
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[2009]
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Baby boomers who care for elderly parents even as they raise their own families face a doubly challenging set of circumstances: meeting the needs of the ill and aging while still aging gracefully themselves. In this book, Linda Altoonian draws from her own experience to address the problems faced by other members of the "sandwich" generation. She first describes her basic premise -- that it's possible to be in control of the aging process, and that...
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