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1) Still Alice
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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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.
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Language
English
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"Catherine West has spent her entire life surrounded by beautiful things. She owns an immaculate Manhattan apartment, she collects fine art, she buys exquisite handbags and clothing, and she constantly redecorates her home. And yet, despite all this, she still feels empty. She sees her personal trainer, she gets weekly massages, and occasionally she visits her mother and sister on the Upper East Side, but after two broken engagements and boyfriends...
Author
Publisher
Tyrus Books
Language
English
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Description
Jack Carson, an Alzheimer's sufferer, witnesses a murder, but cannot give the police more than a few scattered details. Late rain explores the fear that drives how far people are willing to go to find what they want, and the steps they'll take to get it.
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Language
English
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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. He’s suffering from Alzheimer’s and needs special care. Sarah has started to show tell-tale signs of the disease too. She’s been experiencing...
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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
Publisher
Wings Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (160 pages)
Language
English
Description
Two emotionally fraught and complex themes collide in this powerful, moving novel: Alzheimer's disease and the psychological aftermath for survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp. The story chronicles the intellectual decline of Renzo, a once-brilliant Roman writer and filmmaker. Aware that he is slipping ever deeper into the haze of Alzheimer's, Renzo keeps a journal in which he grapples with his complicated marriage to Hannah, an Auschwitz...
8) Once a spy
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
324 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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Discovering that his apartment has been blown up by would-be killers, gambler Charlie Clark figures out that his Alzheimer's patient father was once a spy for the CIA and was part of an operation that sold faulty nuclear technology to terrorists.
Author
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
1a edición.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
Alice Howland está orgullosa de la vida que tanto esfuerzo le ha costado construir. A los cincuenta, es profesora de psicología cognitiva en Harvard y una experta lingüista de fama mundial, con un marido exitoso y tres hijos adultos. Cuando empieza a sentirse desorientada y olvidadiza, un trágico diagnóstico cambia su vida, al tiempo que la relación con su familia y con el mundo, para siempre.
Fifty-year-old Alice Howland, a Harvard professor...
10) El profesor
Author
Series
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
1a edición.
Physical Desc
606 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
Español
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First Gallery Books trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
353, 4 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In this heartwarming story of love, family and baked goods, bakery owner Hope McKenna-Smith, the divorced mother of a surly preteen girl, is summoned by her aging grandmother who, ready to reveal the secret she has kept for 70 years, sends her on a journey across the world that will forever change her life.
12) Summer shift
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st Touchstone trade pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
315, [12] p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Forty-four-year-old Cape Cod clam bar owner Mary Hopkins struggles to find the peace, love, and human connection that have eluded her for decades as she copes with her beloved great-aunt's descent into Alzheimer's disease, the tragic accident of a young waitress, and her rekindled romance with Dan, a lost love.
13) Angels walking
Author
Series
Angels walking volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"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 be turning around, Tyler hits rock bottom. Across the country, Tyler's one true love Sami Dawson has moved on. A series of small miracles leads Tyler to a maintenance job at a retirement home and a friendship...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 338 pages ; 25 cm
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,...
17) Choke: a novel
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
293 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
18) Still Alice
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Anamorphic widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Harvard psychologist suddenly diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease struggles to find meaning and purpose in her life.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
196 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
""Incredibly poignant ... Rachel Khong's first novel sneaks up on you -- just like life ... and heartbreak. And love."--Miranda July A few days after Christmas in a small suburb outside of L.A., pairs of a man's pants hang from the trees. The pants belong to Howard Young, a prominent history professor, recently diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Howard's wife, Annie, summons their daughter, Ruth. Freshly disengaged from her fiance and still broken...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When, while renovating her grandmother Rose's cottage, she uncovers the remains of two bodies, pregnant Saffron Cutler must protect Rose who suffers from Alzheimer's from a murder inquiry, plunging her life in danger as she tries to piece together what Rose knows.
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