Wiggs, Susan
Summary: There is a book for everything. Somewhere in the vast Library of the Universe, as Natalie thought of it, there was a book that embodied exactly the things she was worried about. In the wake of a shocking tragedy, Natalie Harper inherits her mother's charming but financially strapped bookshop in San Francisco. She also becomes a caretaker for her ailing grandfather Andrew, her only living...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WIGGenova, Lisa
Summary: An accomplished concert pianist, Richard received standing ovations from audiences all over the world in awe of his rare combination of emotional resonance and flawless technique. Richard now has ALS, and his entire right arm is paralyzed. He knows his left arm will go next. When Richard becomes increasingly paralyzed and is no longer able to live on his own, his distant wife Karina becomes his...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GENBrantz, Loryn
Summary: "Blowing bubbles, enjoying messy ice cream cones, settling in for a bedtime story, and more are celebrated in this irresistible love poem from caregiver to child."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperFestival, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: BOARD BRADeveraux, Jude
Summary: In the early days of the pandemic, Etta is stranded in Kansas City and takes refuge with an old man in need of a caretaker. She finds his library and begins having vivid dreams of the city in the 1870s.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DEVSummary: When Sarah starts a job in a nursing home, to her surprise she is really good at it. She's a natural with the residents, and begins to form a special bond with Tony, a younger resident who has early onset dementia. The home is chronically underfunded and when the Covid pandemic hits, it suffers from understaffing, sickness and heart-breaking losses.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HELCarr, Robyn
Summary: Now that their parents are gone, the future has changed dramatically for sisters Adele and Justine. Neither woman knows how to start life over, but both realize they can and must support each other the way only sisters can. Together they find the strength to accept their failures and overcome their challenges. Happiness is within reach, if only they have the courage to fight for it.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CARWilliams, Ian
Summary: "Felicia, a nineteen-year-old student from a Caribbean family, and Edgar, the lazy-minded and impetuous heir of a wealthy German family, meet by chance when their ailing mothers are assigned the same hospital room. After the death of Felicia's mother and the recovery of Edgar's, Felicia drops out of high school and takes a job as caregiver to Edgar's mother. The odd-couple relationship between...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILWinfrey, Kerry
Summary: "What happens when your life is a rom-com ... but you don't even believe in true love? Chloe Sanderson is an optimist, and not because her life is easy. As the sole caregiver for her father, who has early onset Alzheimer's, she's pretty much responsible for everything. She has no time-or interest-in getting swept up in some dazzling romance. Not like her best friend Annie, who literally wrote a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jove 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WINSummary: A sad, poignant love story set against the social upheaval of the Vietnam war. Set in 1968, the story concerns a woman who, while her husband is serving in Vietnam, falls in love with a paraplegic while performing volunteer work at a San Diego veterans hospital.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Video 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COMCopeland, Lori.
Summary: In 1887 rural Missouri, Lyric Bolton lives a life of isolation to care for her mother when Ian Cawley bursts into her life on a runaway stallion.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COPGrafton, Sue.
Summary: Private investigator Kinsey Millhone searches for sociopath Solana Rojas, an identity she stole that gives her access to private caregiving jobs.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRALewis, Beverly
Summary: "Susie Mast's Old Order life has been shaped more by tragedy than her own choices. But when she decides to accept another's invitation and stop waiting on her childhood friend, she soon realizes her mistake. Will family secrets and missed opportunities dim Susie's hopes for the future? Or is what seems like the end only the beginning?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Lewis 2021Steel, Danielle.
Summary: Blaise is a famous anchor on morning news and a legend in her field. In order to rise to the top, she had to place her blind daughter, Salima, in a boarding school. When tragedy hits, Salima is forced to move in with Blaise. They both have to contend with a new caretaker who has little patience for indulging Salima's handicap. Blaise can't deny that Salima seems to be improving under Simon's...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STEWiggs, Susan
Summary: "When caregiver Faith McCallum arrives at the enchanted lakeside estate of Avalon's renowned Bellamy family, she's intent on rebuilding her shattered life and giving her two daughters a chance at a better future. But she faces a formidable challenge in the form of her stubborn and difficult new employer, Alice Bellamy. While Faith proves a worthy match for her sharp-tongued client, she often...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mira Books 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Wiggs 2015Zusy, Jeannie
Summary: "Every family has its fault lines, and when Maggie gets a call from the ER in Maryland where her older sister lives, the cracks start to appear. Ginny, her sugar-loving and diabetic older sister with intellectual disabilities, has overdosed on strawberry Jell-O. Maggie knows Ginny really can't live on her own, so she brings her sister and her occasionally vicious dog to live near her in upstate...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZUSBostwick, Marie
Summary: "An uplifting story of three grief support group dropouts--women united in loss and rescued through friendship. An accident has left Grace's husband in a vegetative state. Nan, a widow for twenty years, is feeling the emptiness now that her children are grown. Monica is reeling over her husband's sudden death and the revelation of his infidelity"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Bostwick 2018Grafton, Sue.
Summary: "T is for Trespass", dealing with the issues od identity theft, elder abuse, betrayal of trust, and the breakdown in the institutions charged with caring for the weak and the dependent, could not be more timely. It targets an all-too-real rip in the social fabric.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M GraOakley, Colleen
Summary: "A wildly entertaining road trip novel featuring a college dropout and an eighty-four-year-old woman off on the adventure of their lives, full of tremendous heart, wit, and wisdom from the USA Today bestselling author of The Invisible Husband of Frick Island Twenty-three-year-old Tanner Quimby needs a place to live. Preferably one where she can continue sitting around in sweatpants and playing...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction OakleyPeterson, Tracie
Summary: 1871, Duluth Minnesota. Kirstin Hallberg came to care for her elderly grandmother Lena Segerson only to discover Lena very full of life and full of secrets. When Kirstin opens their front door one day, she finds the brother she long thought dead on the other side. Domar begs his sister to say nothing to their parents, viewing their grief as payment for falsely accusing him of bad behavior years...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PETShipman, Viola
Summary: "The Hope Chest is a deeply emotional novel about three people who have seemingly lost all hope until one woman's heirloom hope chest is rediscovered in the attic, along with its contents and secrets. Mattie is a fiercely independent woman battling ALS; Don, her deeply devoted husband is facing a future without his one true love; and Rose, their struggling caregiver, is a young, single mother...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Shipman 2017Smith, Lee
Summary: "Herb's charmed life with his dear wife, Susan, in their Key West house is coming undone. Susan, in her seventies, now needs constant care, and Herb is in denial about his own ailing health. The one bright spot is the arrival of an endlessly optimistic manicurist calling herself Renee. She sings to Susan during manicures, gets her to paint, and brings her a much-needed sense of contentment. But...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMISummary: Louisa 'Lou' Clark lives in a quaint town in the English countryside. With no clear direction in her life, the quirky and creative 26-year old goes from one job to the next in order to make ends meet. Taking a job at the local 'castle' she becomes caregiver and companion to Will Traynor, a wealthy young banker who became wheelchair bound in an accident. Embarking together on a series of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Me 2016Douglas, Claire
Summary: After the devastating death of her mother, Una Richardson becomes a ladies' companion for Mrs. Elspeth McKenzie, garnering the wrath of Elspeth's cold and bitter daughter, which leads to the discovery that there were two companions before her, never to beseen again.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOUMessud, Claire
Contents: Simple tale -- Hunters.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2001