Annie Dunne and her cousin Sarah live and work on a small farm in a remote Irish village, where a calmer sense of life prevails, but when Annie agrees to watch her nephew's two children for the summer, her peaceful life is turned upside-down and Annie begins to learn that sometimes change is a good thing.

A collection of four short stories by award-winning author Tillie Olsen.

This is a novel about the tenacity of love, the perils of creativity, the mysteries of memory and the nature of the supernatural. Edgar Freemantle has taken up painting to help recover from an accident that cost him his right arm, and the order of his memory. Elizabeth Eastlake is a sick old woman. They meet on a Florida island where they discover that his paintings and her ghosts have devastating powers. [From publisher's description]

"Everybody has something to hide At 75-years-old, Ethel Fiona Crestwater is used to being underestimated. She looks like someone's grandma, though she's never married or had children; petite and a bit frail, she's not a threat to anyone. Or is she...? Ethel runs a boarding house for government agents, and when someone murders one of her boarders, she springs into action-much to the surprise of her distant cousin Jesse, who has recently come to stay...

In an attempt to recapture the happiness she knew in the past, an elderly woman journeys back to the small town where she raised her children. "Funny, adventurous, suspenseful...but ultimately uplifting as a demonstration of the human spirit."--Los Angeles Times "...perfect on just about every level."--Boxoffice "...the performance of a lifetime."--Variety

Nearing the end of her life, Mary returns to Bruny Island, where she and her lighthouse keeper husband raised a family, hoping to banish a secret that has haunted her for years which threatens to come to light.

"Daisy Phillips is tired of being treated like an old lady. Sure, there was that incident with the lawn mower and the mud. And she did get trapped at the top of a ladder. But that doesn't make her incapable of living on her own, as her son Dennis seems to think. Now Dennis is pushing her to sell the family home in Liverpool and move into a retirement community. To make matters worse, her best friend is going away for the summer and the new boss at...

When six-foot redhead ex-cop and Boston-based private investigator Carlotta Carlyle agrees to help an elderly recluse burglar-proof her apartment, the last thing she expected was that the woman would turn up dead. Now Carlotta must find out why the eccentric yet seemingly harmless Valentine Phipps isolated herself and needed protection.

Provides advice on marrying for life after thirty-five, and covers dating, family and friends, fitting in kids, money issues, and more.