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Cinema
The Automat - The Automat, a Philadelphia and New York dining fixture for decades, was all ornate chrome, marble and enchantment. …
News of the World - In hardscrabble, quick-to-anger, post-Civil War America, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd (Tom Hanks) travels to isolated outposts to read from newspapers for audiences hungry for information. …
Fiction
The Old Woman with the Knife: A Novel - It seems ageism in the workplace is rampant, even for contract killers like Horn Claw. At 65, Horn Claw knows she’s not as spry as she once was …
Oh William!: A Novel - Elizabeth Strout is a favorite of ours. We loved Olive Kitteridge (2008) and My Name is Lucy Barton (2016); now we rejoin Lucy in Oh William!. …
Nonfiction
The Beauty of Dusk: On Vision Lost and Found - Frank Bruni awoke one morning to find the vision in his right eye was blurred and he had no idea why. …
The Bubbe Diaries: true tales of grandparenting - Veteran journalist Paula Span is known her column "The New Old Age." where she writes about the challenges faced by our rapidly growing older population. …
Children’s Books
Unbecoming - Three generations of redheaded women have secrets that are holding them back from happiness. …
Grandmother’s Visit - This sweetly sad story is about the relationship between a girl and her grandmother, who comes to live with the family. …