reminiscing in old age

Seventeen-year-old Lev Beniov, having been arrested for looting the corpse of a German paratrooper, is given the opportunity to be released from jail if he, along with a soldier imprisoned for desertion, can secure twelve eggs to be used in the colonel's daughter's wedding cake by traversing the dangerous streets of Leningrad.

Grace Bradley went to work at Riverton House as a servant when she was just a girl, before the First World War. For years her life was inextricably tied up with the Hartford family, most particularly the two daughters, Hannah and Emmeline. In the summer of 1924, at a glittering society party held at the house, a young poet shot himself. The only witnesses were Hannah and Emmeline and only they--and Grace--know the truth. In 1999, when Grace is ninety-eight years old and living out her last days in a nursing home, she is visited by a young director who is making a film about the events of that summer. She takes Grace back to Riverton House and reawakens her memories--From publisher description.

When seven former bunkmates at Willow Lake Camp reunited for the camp's one hundredth anniversary, they discover that despite the different paths their lives have taken, they all face the same regrets.

Ninety-two-year-old Emmett Conn, suffering from a brain tumor, starts to recall suppressed memories of his participation in the Armenian genocide during World War I, and sets out to find a woman named Araxie who was among the refugees, with the hope she will forgive him.

Seventeen-year-old Lev Beniov, having been arrested for looting the corpse of a German paratrooper, is given the opportunity to be released from jail if he, along with a soldier imprisoned for desertion, can secure twelve eggs to be used in the colonel's daughter's wedding cake by traversing the dangerous streets of Leningrad.

A fictionalized diary of Marie Sharp, a divorced woman who is turning sixty, expecting a grandchild, starting a new relationship with a man, and beginning to think that there are advantages to getting older.

In 1956, toward the end of his life, Reverend John Ames begins a letter to his young son, sharing the story of his life and explaining how his faith influenced his choices and actions.

At the end of his life, an old man regresses into his memories of his New England youth, where he is reunited with his father--who was an epileptic traveling salesman--and revisits old wounds, feelings of love, and melancholy.

Ex-slave Sadie Watson reveals to her granddaughter her experiences while in bondage and the love she had for her husband, Jim, who escaped down the Mississippi with Huck Finn when he learned he was to be sold.