Inspiring True Stories for Seniors

Maybe you've wondered if it's too late to start something new. The twenty-four people in this book wondered too, and every one of them was past sixty when they began anyway.

These inspiring true stories for seniors follow real people who found their calling late in life. A grandmother walked the Appalachian Trail alone at sixty-seven, carrying a shower curtain instead of a tent. A retired bank worker in Japan built her first phone app at eighty-one. A railway worker earned his university degree at ninety-six, first in his class.

Famous late bloomers like Grandma Moses sit beside everyday people you may never have heard of. Every story is checked against news reports, museum records, and the subjects' own words. Nothing is made up, and no conversation is invented.

You'll finish each story in one sitting. And you may close the book with a few fresh ideas for your own next chapter.

Inside, you can:

Meet a farm widow who sold her first paintings from a drugstore window in her seventies
Follow a farmer who started first grade at eighty-four, the year after Kenya made school free
Cheer on a concert pianist who ran her first marathon at seventy-six and set a record at ninety-two
Discover a man who began his memoir at ninety-three and saw it published at ninety-six
Talk it over with a "Did You Know?" fact and two discussion questions after every story
Read with ease in large, clear 16-point print
Check any fact in the Sources section at the back

Written for readers in their sixties, seventies, eighties, and beyond, it also makes a thoughtful gift for parents and grandparents. The questions work well for book clubs, senior centers, and family reading time.

Scroll up and start the first story today.