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Love to Travel? Don’t Let Aging or a Disability Stop You July 11, 2018 
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Cinema
As Good as It Gets - 1997, USA, 139 min. Melvin Udall (Jack Nicholson) is sewn to the routine he’s set up as a manic obsessive-compulsive. The permanently angry and unpleasant novelist holes up in his …
The Straight Story - A chasm, caused by slights long forgotten, separates Alvin Straight (Richard Farnsworth in an Oscar-nominated performance) and his brother, Lyle (Harry Dean Stanton).
Fiction
The Story of Arthur Truluv: A Novel - If it seems as though the bookshelves are full of crotchety-old-people stories, and you’re left aching to believe that all people don’t end up curmudgeons, Elizabeth Berg’s The Story of …
The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ Years Old - Do you ever imagine a typical day in a care home? According to 83-year-old resident Hendrik Groen, there is no such thing.
Nonfiction
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century - The American dream of a secure, leisurely retirement is simply not reality for many people.
Happiness Is a Choice You Make: Lessons from a Year Among the Oldest Old - John Leland undertook a project to research old age, not from those studying it but from those living it.
Children’s Books
The Orphan Boy - This Maasai tale from Africa is about a magical secret that will be ruined if found out—and the consuming curiosity to discover it anyway.
Bread and Roses, Too - This absorbing novel takes place during the infamous 1912 “Bread and Roses” strike in the textile mills of Lawrence, Massachusetts.