Kiowa County Public Library District

Includes index. Nuts and bolts approach to more comfortable living.

Presents key findings from the twenty-five-year Okinawa Centenarian Study that provides insights into why Okinawans are the healthiest and longest-lived population in the world, and features a four-week plan for adopting a similar lifestyle, including nearly one hundred recipes.

Anthropologist Jasmina Praprotnik met Helena Zigon while running. Over the course of an icy Slovenian winter, the two marathon runners got together frequently, and Zigon told Praprotnik about her life. Here, Praprotnik tells Zigons captivating story in Zigons own voice. Each chapter is marked by a kilometer of the half-marathon Zigon ran along the Adriatic Sea on her eighty-sixth birthday, shortly after losing her husband of sixty years, Stane.Zigons...

"This classic captures the endearing relationship between a man and his grandson as they fish and hunt the lakes and woods of North Carolina. All the while the Old Man acts as teacher and guide, passing on his wisdom and life experiences to the boy, who listens in rapt fascination."--Publisher's description.

Martha gives her beloved grandfather, now living in a home for the aged, a birthday gift to remember.

Jennifer Egan's spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other's pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs. (Bestseller)

Explores the increasing numbers of abuse cases in the United States involving children and teens and discusses important topics relevant to teens including hazing and bullying, substance abuse, sexual harassment and assault, and more.

An eminent psychologist and a gerontologist explain how to cope with the problems of aging and how to get the most out of one's later years.

Four Florida seniors sharing a house, their dreams, a whole lot of cheesecake, and their lives, provide hours of laughter.