A new start – a new life. So why is it just like high school all over again? A novel about growing old, growing up and trying to find your way, no matter how old you are. Having moved with his daughter and grandson from his farm in Montana to a senior’s home in small-town North Carolina, Paul Carter finds himself mighty surprised when, after a long and independent life, he’s suddenly being told by the officious owner of Shady Acres what he can and can’t do. Not to mention the gossiping Queen Bee’s and the past-their-prime jocks complicating his life as the ‘new kid.’ Even worse, his grandson, Devon, is dealing with the same issues across town at his new high school. For Paul, too many rules mean it’s time for stealthy rebellion and youthful high jinks. But when past tragedies come back to complicate the present, in ways no one would have imagined, lives are thrown into turmoil. Shady Acres owner clamps down on everyone’s freedoms, forcing Paul to take a hard look at his life, realize what it means to be alive and fight for all their rights before it’s too late. Full of heart and soul, teenaged and octogenarian rebellion, practical jokes and secret fishing trips, ‘Senior’s High’ asks us, Who Said Growing Old Meant Growing Up?
Jamie has got it made. A great apartment, an excellent job flying all over the world selling something he would rather not talk about - accounting software. When he comes home to Seattle, the love of his life is waiting for him - a mint condition 1972 Faema one group espresso machine. Jamie loves coffee. Good coffee. Really good coffee. Oh, and he lives with a great girl named Ellen who loves him for exactly who he is. Except Jamie is rarely who he says he is.Jamie gives everyone in his life exactly what they want to see - Sensitive Boyfriend, Caring Son, Crazy Friend, Brilliant Salesguy - but only lets the real Jamie out over coffee with strangers...who he will never see again.The only trouble is as Jamie tries to make sense of his life, one espresso at a time, everyone else seems to be getting on with theirs.Funny and fearlessly self-reflective, the book perks along and makes readers thirsty for more.
~Imagine you met someone who did something so amazing, so mind-blowingly awesome, so incredible, that you didn’t have any choice but to believe them when they said they were a super-charged version of a human from a future dimension. ~Imagine that same someone claimed to have the power to destroy the world in the palms of his hands. ~Imagine they were also a complete asshole. That’s exactly what Beth and her twin brother, Gavin, have gotten themselves into. Now they’ve got to stop the end of the world or at least find out if they’re getting off the planet before the Big Bang Part Two. In their way are a psychotic zealot or two, a TV preacher with a heart of gold and their own doubts about what they’ve stumbled into the middle of.
A new start – a new life. So why is it just like high school all over again? A novel about growing old, growing up and trying to find your way, no matter how old you are. Having moved with his daughter and grandson from his farm in Montana to a senior’s home in small-town North Carolina, Paul Carter finds himself mighty surprised when, after a long and independent life, he’s suddenly being told by the officious owner of Shady Acres what he can and can’t do. Not to mention the gossiping Queen Bee’s and the past-their-prime jocks complicating his life as the ‘new kid.’ Even worse, his grandson, Devon, is dealing with the same issues across town at his new high school. For Paul, too many rules mean it’s time for stealthy rebellion and youthful high jinks. But when past tragedies come back to complicate the present, in ways no one would have imagined, lives are thrown into turmoil. Shady Acres owner clamps down on everyone’s freedoms, forcing Paul to take a hard look at his life, realize what it means to be alive and fight for all their rights before it’s too late. Full of heart and soul, teenaged and octogenarian rebellion, practical jokes and secret fishing trips, ‘Senior’s High’ asks us, Who Said Growing Old Meant Growing Up?
Dave Egger's parents died from cancer within a month of each other when he was 21 and his brother, Christopher, was 7. They left the Chicago suburb where they had grown up and moved to San Francisco. This book tells the story of their life together.
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