Rill, Eric.
Summary: A riveting new novel and book club pick from Eric Rill, is about a race against time. The ticking time bomb is Saul Reimer's sanity. His Alzheimer's is going to be the catalyst that will either bring his family together or tear it apart.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2015
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC RILSummary: Claire Smythson, wife of the famous abstract artist Richard Smythson, is plunged into a late-life crisis when her husband is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and is in danger of not completing the paintings for his last show.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ARTHuntley, Swan.
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUNCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUNDouglas, Claire
Summary: When pregnant Saffron Cutler moves into 9 Skelton Place with boyfriend Tom and sets about renovations, the last thing she expects is builders uncovering human remains of two bodies. Forensics indicate the bodies have been buried at least thirty years. The police launch a murder inquiry and ask to speak to the cottage's former owner-- Saffy's grandmother, Rose. In a nursing home, with...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOUGlines, Abbi
Summary: After being away for two years, Riley Young returns to Lawton, Alabama, with her fifteen-month-old daughter to help take care of her grandmother who has Alzheimers, even though it means she has to face the lies that forced her to leave town in the first place and a blossoming friendship with the high school football star Brady Higgens, who is dealing with his own family problems.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: Y FICTION GLISummary: Based on Paco Roca's award-winning graphic novel, the story opens with former bank manager Emilio being dispatched to a retirement home by his family. Like One Flew Over the Cuckoo₂s Nest in an old folks home, we are introduced to daily pill regimens, electric gates and an eccentric cast of characters who rebel against institutional authority, while doing everything in their power to avoid...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WRICleave, Paul
Summary: "In the exciting new psychological thriller by the Edgar-nominated author of Joe Victim, 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....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLEHays, Tommy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAYKingsbury, Karen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A couple who has been married for fifty years must face the challenges of Alzheimer's disease.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AWA1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF AWA
Summary: Adapted from the memoirs of literary critic John Bayley, the film recounts his courtship of and long marriage to British novelist Iris Murdoch. The scenario tacks back and forth from the young Iris--ready to seduce one and all with her coy command of words and sex appeal--to the elder Iris--slowly giving way to the cruel erasure of Alzheimer's.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2002
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA IRIChristie, Julie
Summary: A couple who has been married for fifty years must face the challenges of Alzheimer's disease.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie AwayKingsbury, Karen
Summary: "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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audioworks 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Kingsbury 2014Noblin, Annie England
Summary: Returning to her small, intrusive Ozark Mountain community, Caroline O'Conner cares for her Alzheimer's patient mother while navigating the challenges of her doctor father's frustrations, her brazen cousin's marital disasters, her deaf dog, a moonshining relative and a troubled ex-veteran.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION NOBRobinson, Roxana.
Summary: Settling into her parents' home in Maine hoping to help them with their respective health challenges, art professor Julie Lambert is shattered by the discovery of her son's heroin addiction.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBWright, Camron.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WRIDownham, Jenny
Summary: Life has just become very complicated for seventeen-year-old Katie; her father walked out a year ago, her mother is stressed out, her brother is a "special needs" teenager, and she is caring for the maternal grandmother she has never met, who is suffering from Alzheimer's--and Katie has a secret of her own that she cannot reveal.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: David Fickling Books/Scholastic Inc. 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC DOWLavigne, Michael.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAVIgnatieff, Michael.
Summary: A woman's decline and death from Alzheimer's disease, told by her philosopher son, chronicling its impact on the family: a heart attack for the father, depression for the one son, a marriage breakdown for the other. Lots of reflections on the process of aging and dying, including the thought that having inherited her genes he, too, may end that way. By the author of Aysa.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IGNGeye, Peter
Summary: "The dream of ski jumping haunts Jon Bargaard as his tale unfolds. As thrilling as those soaring flights, as precarious as his family's complicated love, as tender as Jon's backward gaze while disease takes him inexorably forward, Peter Geye's gorgeous prose brings Jon and his brother to the ultimate choice: each other, or the secrets they've held tightly for so long"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEYHepworth, Sally.
Summary: "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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEPCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION HEPKingsbury, Karen.
Summary: 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC KINKingsbury, Karen.
Summary: "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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Howard Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Kingsbury 2014Palahniuk, Chuck.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2001