The Chronicles of Old Guy

The Chronicles of Old Guy
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 190
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ISBN-10 : 0985295627
ISBN-13 : 9780985295622
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis The Chronicles of Old Guy by : Timothy J. Gawne

The Old Man

The Old Man
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Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Total Pages : 347
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ISBN-10 : 9780802189769
ISBN-13 : 0802189768
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis The Old Man by : Thomas Perry

Coming soon, an original series from FX series from FX starring Jeff Bridges, John Lithgow, and Amy Brennaeman Edgar Award-winning author Thomas Perry writes thrillers that move “almost faster than a speeding bullet” (Wall Street Journal). The Old Man is his latest whip-smart standalone novel. To all appearances, Dan Chase is a harmless retiree in Vermont with two big mutts and a grown daughter he keeps in touch with by phone. But most sixty-year-old widowers don’t have multiple driver’s licenses, savings stockpiled in banks across the country, and a bugout kit with two Beretta Nanos stashed in the spare bedroom closet. Most have not spent decades on the run. Thirty-five years ago, as a young hotshot in army intelligence, Chase was sent to Libya to covertly assist a rebel army. When the plan turned sour, Chase reacted according to his own ideas of right and wrong, triggering consequences he could never have anticipated. And someone still wants him dead because of them. Just as he had begun to think himself finally safe, Chase must reawaken his survival instincts to contend with the history he has spent his adult life trying to escape. Armed mercenaries, spectacularly crashed cars, a precarious love interest, and an unforgettable chase scene through the snow—this is lethal plotting from one of the best in crime fiction.

The Old Man and the Sea

The Old Man and the Sea
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Publisher : DigiCat
Total Pages : 65
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ISBN-10 : EAN:8596547117650
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis The Old Man and the Sea by : Ernest Hemingway

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Old Guy

Old Guy
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Publisher : Red Hen Press
Total Pages : 123
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ISBN-10 : 9781597098427
ISBN-13 : 1597098426
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis Old Guy by : William Trowbridge

“When has geezerhood been handled so appealingly? . . . A true American hero is born.” —Albert Goldbarth, National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author of Saving Lives Meet Oldguy: your regular aging superhero whose powers have dwindled over the years, and whose very mechanics are seriously fizzling. In seriocomic misadventures, Oldguy valiantly attempts to continue his former heroism in a somewhat wry version of Faulknerian endurance, defeating his enemies time and again—if not through superhuman abilities, then at least by “outliving the sons-a-bitches.” With its comic book-style illustrations, Oldguy inhabits a space all to itself—not strictly a poetry collection, not quite a graphic novel, but a hybrid sure to delight. “An exhilarating read that I didn’t want to put down except to laugh and to shake my seventy-eight-year-old head in admiration.” —Ron Koertge, author of Shakespeare Makes the Playoffs

Oldguy: Superhero

Oldguy: Superhero
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1597097411
ISBN-13 : 9781597097413
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis Oldguy: Superhero by : William Trowbridge

Another giggle-inducing, heartwarming smash--this time in a comic-chapbook blend, featuring washed up superhero Oldguy and his Quixotic misadventures through aging.

The Old Guy Goes

The Old Guy Goes
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Publisher : Outskirts Press
Total Pages : 403
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ISBN-10 : 9781478760580
ISBN-13 : 1478760583
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis The Old Guy Goes by : Keith Elkins

On his 40th birthday, community college teacher Eldred Duker feels he’s getting older faster and faster. Childless, he and his wife Marie visit the orphanage he and his now-estranged sister Anne lived in as small children and, as Marie has long wanted to do, end up adopting six-year-old Hope. Hope is sexually assaulted at age 16. Herself molested by one of their mother’s male friends as a child, Anne comes for a visit to help. After Hope is on her own, Marie is killed in a car accident. Slowly at first, Duke starts losing his grip on reality. He seeks revenge on the man whose vehicle killed Marie, looks for relief of his pain by taking a yoga class, falls in love with the instructor Rachel, marries her, sees his daughter Hope married to Dirk and helps Rachel bury her mother. During these years, Duke’s judgment deteriorates. He causes a car accident that kills Rachel, starts drinking regularly and tracks down the man who killed Marie to forgive him and thus himself. Hope and Anne eventually realize that he is no longer capable of taking care of himself and place him a Continuing Care Retirement Community. There, when ER tests given after he breaks a leg reveal that he has a fast-acting fatal disease, they move him back to his old home. Having separated from Dirk, Hope moves in to take care of him and arranges for hospice care. Along with her now-adult children, she and Anne attend his death.

No Country for Old Men

No Country for Old Men
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 320
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ISBN-10 : 9780307390530
ISBN-13 : 0307390535
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis No Country for Old Men by : Cormac McCarthy

From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road comes a "profoundly disturbing and gorgeously rendered" novel (The Washington Post) that returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of the famed Border Trilogy. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law—in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell—can contain. As Moss tries to evade his pursuers—in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives—McCarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning’s headlines. No Country for Old Men is a triumph. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.

This Old Man

This Old Man
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Publisher : Anchor
Total Pages : 321
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ISBN-10 : 9781101971390
ISBN-13 : 1101971398
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis This Old Man by : Roger Angell

Roger Angell, the acclaimed New Yorker writer and editor, steps up with a selection of writings that celebrate a view from the tenth decade of an engaged, vibrant life. Whether it’s a Fourth of July in rural Maine, the opening game of the 2015 World Series, editorial exchanges with John Updike, a letter to a son, or his award-winning essay on aging, “This Old Man,” what links the pieces is Angell’s unique perceptions and humor, his utter absence of self-pity, and his appreciation of friends and colleagues encountered over a fruitful career unlike any other.

An Old Guy's Guide to Living Young

An Old Guy's Guide to Living Young
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Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
Total Pages : 162
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ISBN-10 : 9780736952750
ISBN-13 : 0736952756
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis An Old Guy's Guide to Living Young by : Bob Barnes

Bestselling author Bob Barnes shares the secrets to a vibrant and faith-filled life with readers of all ages. Drawing from his experience as a husband--married more than 57 years to Emilie Barnes--and a respected patriarch, businessman, author, and man of faith, Barnes provides brief, inspiring chapters about how to be young at heart by strengthening a heart for God let hope influence trials and daily routine live out devotion to God with discipline and commitment model compassion and generosity in practical ways build an influential foundation with humor and wisdom Readers will be encouraged by these life-transforming attitudes, actions, and priorities that will make an eternal impression on their quality of life and on those they love.

A Penny for the Old Guy

A Penny for the Old Guy
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Publisher : Gaylord Dold
Total Pages : 169
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ISBN-10 : 9781938582899
ISBN-13 : 1938582896
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis A Penny for the Old Guy by : Gaylord Dold

hen Amanda’s young son is drowned in the River Cam in Cambridge, Roberts goes to work. But, surprisingly, the mystery takes Roberts to Amsterdam where political intrigue complicates the case. Gaylord Dold is the author of fifteen works of fiction including the highly acclaimed private detective series featuring Mitch Roberts, a well as numerous contemporary crime thrillers. Many of his novels have been singled out for awards and praise by a number of critics and writer’s organizations.