older women

Olive Kitteridge, a retired teacher, begins navigating her next decade as she comes to terms with the changes, sometimes welcome, sometimes not, in her life.

An unlikely trio of women in New York find themselves banding together to escape the clutches of an unhinged Mafia enforcer.

In this adaptation of the traditional nursery rhyme, an astronaut swallows the Moon and other celestial objects, while two children ask questions about the Solar System and outer space.

"There was an old lady who swallowed a cake. I don't know why she swallowed the cake. It was a mistake! Scholastic's Old Lady is more popular than ever, and in celebration she's swallowing a cake... and a candle, and a sign, and some balloons, and a hat, and some gifts. Can you guess why? Consistently topping the USA Today and Bookscan bestseller lists at holiday time, this evergreen Cartwheel series continues to surprise and delight. With a brand-new spin-off series that launched in Spring 2018 alongside this first original 32-page fully illustrated board book, our Old Lady is poised to soar to even greater heights in 2019!" -- ONIX annotation.

Presents a variation on the classic rhyme about an old lady who swallowed a turkey and a series of other strange items before encountering a large surprise.

In this adaptation of the traditional nursery rhyme, a mermaid swims through the ocean swallowing various marine animals, starting with a shark, while two children ask questions and comment on the different creatures.

Presents a variation on the classic rhyme about an old lady who swallowed a clover and a series of other strange items before encountering a large surprise.

Patricia Cowan, living in a nursing home, forgets things that she should know and remembers things that seem impossible. She has memories from two lives and two worlds, with different versions of modern history, but is uncertain which life is real.

Presents the script of Horton Foote's 1953 drama in which aging widow Mrs. Watts, living a restricted life with her son and daughter-in-law in Houston, tries to return to her old home in the town of Bountiful in an attempt to regain her strength and dignity.