Happiness is a choice you make : lessons from a year among the oldest old

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In 2015, journalist John Leland set out to meet members of America's fastest-growing age group: 85 and up. He anticipated learning of challenges, of loneliness, and of the deterioration of body, mind, and quality of life. But the elders he met took him in an entirely different direction. Despit...

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Main Author: Leland, John, 1959- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2018]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Happiness in old age.
Older people.
Conduct of life.
Wisdom.

MARC

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999 1 1 |l 511271  |s ISIL:US-MNWOP  |i Plum Creek Library System  |t BKS  |a ANF  |c 305.26 LEL  |d ddc  |b 31302001048332  |x BOOK  |p LOANABLE 
999 1 1 |l 511271  |s ISIL:US-MNWOP  |i Plum Creek Library System  |t BKS  |a ANF  |c 305.26 LEL  |d ddc  |b 31300000719432  |x BOOK  |p LOANABLE 
999 1 1 |l u696434  |s ISIL:US-MNWSPD  |i Dakota County Library  |t BKS  |a NF  |c 305.26 Lelan  |d DEWEY  |b 32087050349470  |x BOOK  |p LOANABLE 
999 1 1 |l u696434  |s ISIL:US-MNWSPD  |i Dakota County Library  |t BKS  |a NF  |c 305.26 Lelan  |d DEWEY  |b 32087050349488  |x BOOK  |p LOANABLE 
999 1 1 |l u696434  |s ISIL:US-MNWSPD  |i Dakota County Library  |t BKS  |a NF  |c 305.26 Lelan  |d DEWEY  |b 32087050349462  |x BOOK  |p LOANABLE 

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