The personal and professional lives of low-budget filmmaker Mimi and septuagenarian erotica writer Eleanor intersect in the wake of Eleanor's partner's death, Mimi's drug-dealer boyfriend's disappearance, and an illegal immigrant's murder.

"Drawing from 167 examples of decorative needlework -- primarily samplers and quilts from 114 collections across the United States -- made by individual women aged 40 and over between 1820 and 1860, this exquisitely illustrated book explores how women experienced social and cultural change in antebellum America. The book is filled with individual examples, stories, and over eighty fine color photographs that illuminate the role that samplers and needlework...

"A twist on the classic tale of "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly" takes the story even further as the lady goes about swallowing up a variety of items related to Easter, including an egg, a basket, and jellybeans."--

Provides a portrait of a friendship that spans generations, between Margaret Oliver, a ninety-year-old wheelchair-bound resident of a Manhattan nursing home, and Elvis Checo, a poor, Hispanic teenage volunteer.

"Posy Montague se aproxima a su setenta cumpleaños. Todavía vive en la encantadora casa familiar, Admiral House, entre los magníficos paisajes de Suffolk en los que transcurrió su idílica infancia cazando mariposas con su padre y donde crio a sus propios hijos. Pero Posy sabe que debe tomar una angustiosa decisión. A pesar de los recuerdos que alberga y del exquisito jardín que ha pasado veinticinco años creando, la casa se cae a pedazos a...

"Ichinoi, a 75-year-old woman living a peaceful life, unwittingly buys a Boy's Love manga one day...and is fascinated by what she finds inside. When she returns to the bookstore to buy the next volume, the high school girl working there--Urara, a seasoned BL fan--notices a budding fangirl when she sees one. When Urara offers to help Ichinoi explore this whole new world of fiction, the two dive into BL fandom together, and form an unlikely friendship...