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1) Still Alice
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory begins to fail her, she receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer's disease.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Language
English
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Description
"The “beautifully complex” (Woman’s Day) classic that made Kristin Harmel a superstar follows a woman who must travel from Cape Cod to Paris to uncover a family secret for her dying grandmother that could change everything. Updated with a new author’s note and recipes for this 10th anniversary edition! At thirty-six, Hope McKenna-Smith is no stranger to bad news. She lost her mother to cancer, her husband left her, and her bank account is...
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"From acclaimed author Marita Golden comes a moving African-American family drama of love and devotion in the face of Alzheimer's disease. You just can't plan for this kind of thing. Diane Tate certainly hasn't. She never expected to slowly lose her talented husband to the debilitating effects of early-onset Alzheimer's disease. As a respected family court judge, she's spent her life making tough calls, but when her sixty-eight-year-old husband's...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Bookshop at Waters End, here is a lush, heart-wrenching novel about the power of memory, the meaning of family, and learning to forgive.Ten years ago, Lena Donohue experienced a wedding-day betrayal so painful that she fled the small town of Watersend, South Carolina, and reinvented herself in New York City. Though now a freelance travel writer, the one place she rarely goes is homeuntil she learns...
Author
Publisher
Entangled Amara
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Claire Ventura is nothing like the poised and perfect heroines she reads about in her favorite romance novels. She’s a quirky, people-pleasing bookworm with a loving yet obliviously intrusive family and a passion for cookie decorating―all rolled into a five-foot-two Filipina American fueled by chamomile tea. Then she meets Nate, billionaire CEO of a global tech company, the modern-day Prince Charming who sweeps her off her feet. Though he does...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"As the holiday season begins, Laurel McCullough could use some good news. She and her husband, Zach, have been praying for a baby that seems more and more like an impossible dream, and they've had to move in with her beloved grandmother, Helen, who's having trouble taking care of herself. But when Laurel contacts a local home-care organization for help, there are no caregivers available. Then Mrs. Miracle appears at the door. No stranger to lending...
Author
Language
English
Description
The Investigation . . . Forensics indicate the bodies have been buried at least thirty years. Saffy has nothing to worry about—until the police launch a murder inquiry and ask to speak to the cottage’s former owner. Her grandmother, Rose. The Witness . . . Rose is in a nursing home and Alzheimer’s means her memory is increasingly confused. She can’t help the police, but its’ clear she remembers something. The Killer . . . As Rose’s fragmented...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Feeling empty in spite of the wealth that affords her a luxurious Manhattan apartment, designer accessories, and fine art, Catherine West pursues a relationship with the son of a family friend who her Alzheimer's patient mother only remembers negatively.
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
"Anna Forster, in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease at only thirty-eight years old, knows that her family is doing what they believe to be best when they take her to Rosalind House, an assisted living facility. She also knows there's just one another resident her age, Luke. What she does not expect is the love that blossoms between her and Luke even as she resists her new life at Rosalind House. As her disease steals more and more of her memory,...
12) Blind faith
Author
Series
Jigsaw files volume 3
Language
English
Description
Private eye Charlie Dodge searches for a teenager who goes missing on a camping trip, while an elusive shadow organization continues to threaten his ailing wife in the third novel of the series following Second Sight.
13) Here for you
Author
Series
Family Is forever volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Rachel Knicely has put her own life on hold for six months to take care of her great aunt, who has Alzheimer's. Putting her aunt first was an easy decision, but accepting the fact that Aunt Tweet is nearing the end of her battle is too difficult. Nicholas Adams has been visiting the sick and comforting those in need for years, but when he meets Rachel and Aunt Tweet, he's surprised to realize that Rachel is the one who needs him most. He's falling...
14) Choke: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
Medical school dropout Victor Mancini comes up with a complicated but ingenious scam to pay for his mother's elder care, cruises sex addiction groups for action, and visits his zany mother, whose Alzheimer's disease hides the bizarre truth about his parentage.
15) Angels walking
Author
Series
Angels walking volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
After suffering a career-ending injury, Tyler Ames finds a maintenance job at a retirement home where he meets Virginia Hutcheson, a patient with Alzheimer's who seems to have the answers he is seeking.
When former national baseball star Tyler Ames suffers a career-ending injury, all he can think about is putting his life back together the way it was before. He has lost everyone he loves on his way to the big leagues. Then just when things seem to...
16) The forgettery
Author
Publisher
Farshore
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Amelia’s granny forgets lots of things. Little things, like where she put her glasses, and big things like people and places. But everything anyone has ever forgotten is stored in The Forgettery, and there Amelia and her granny learn the power of making memories. Chosen by The Guardian for Book of the Month! Filled with warmth and gentle humour, The Forgettery is a beautifully written, sensitive look at dementia and memory loss. Over 850,000...
18) Geneva
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
A bold and unpredictable debut thriller set in the biotech world (and deceptive beauty) of Switzerland, by acclaimed actor Richard Armitage. Nobel Prize-winning scientist Sarah Collier has taken a step back from work to spend more time with her family. Movie nights with her husband Daniel and their daughter Maddie are a welcome respite from the scrutiny of the world’s press. As much as it hurts, it’s good to be able to see her father more too....
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A famous crime writer struggles to differentiate between his own reality and the frightening plot lines he's created for the page. Jerry Grey is known to most of the world by his crime writing pseudonym, Henry Cutter, a name that has been keeping readers at the edge of their seats for more than a decade. Recently diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's at the age of forty-nine, Jerry's crime writing days are coming to an end. His twelve books tell...
20) Remember
Author
Series
Baxter family series. Redemption volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Winner of Christian Retailings 2005 Retailers Choice Award for Best Series. A deep regret.... Though Ashley vowed to start a new life when she came back from Paris, the mistakes she made there continue to haunt her. She has locked up her heart, convinced that no oneincluding Godcould forgive her. But four unlikely peopleAlzheimers patientsfind the cracks in Ashleys heart and slowly help her heal. An unthinkable tragedy.... Then comes the nightmare...
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