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2023., Adult, Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: NEW Fic For Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Frank Bascombe book. Volume: 5Summary Note: The final novel in the world of Frank Bascombe. Frank Bascombe is once more our guide to the great American midway. Now in the twilight of life, a man who has occupied many colorful lives-- sportswriter, father, husband, ex-husband, friend, real estate agent-- Bascombe finds himself in the most sorrowing role of all: caregiver to his son, Paul, diagnosed with ALS. On a shared winter odyssey to Mount Rushmore, Frank, in typical Bascombe fashion, faces down the mortality that is assured each of us, and in doing so confronts what happiness might signify at the end of days.
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By Pobi, Robertc2012., General, Touchstone/Simon & Schuster Call No: MYS QWF Fic Pob Edition: Touchstone export ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "FBI contractor Jake Cole deciphers the language of murderers by reconstructing three-dimensional crime scene models in his head, a talent that has left his nerves frayed and his psyche fragile. Jake returns to Montauk for the first time in a quarter of a century when his father, a renowned painter, lights himself ablaze and crashes through a plate-glass window. Once home, Jake is pulled into a gruesome local homicide investigation that echoes his mother's murder three decades earlier. As he sifts through the detritus of his father's madness, Jake discovers thousands of seemingly meaningless paintings stacked in the studio - a bizarre trail of dust-covered breadcrumbs the painter left as he tumbled down the rabbit hole of dementia - breadcrumbs that Jake believes lead to the killer. With the help of Sheriff Dan Hauser - a man scrambling to prepare the seaside community for the arrival of a catastrophic hurricane - Jake Cole sets out to find the seemingly unstoppable force of malevolence known as the Bloodman..."--Author's website.
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2021., Adult, The Overlook Press Call No: Fic Dos Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In her youth, Tara was wild. She abandoned her loveless marriage to join an ashram, endured a brief stint as a beggar (mostly to spite her affluent parents), and spent years chasing after a dishevelled, homeless 'artist'--all with her young child in tow. Now she is forgetting things, and her grown-up daughter is faced with the task of caring for a woman who never cared for her. This is a love story and a story about betrayal. But not between lovers--between mother and daughter.
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c2013., Adult, Doubleday Canada Call No: Fic Mul Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Tells the story of Leah, Maggie and Katie, the infamous Fox Sisters, who in the mid 1880s, convinced the world that they could communicate with spirits, until middle sister, Maggie confessed it had all been an elaborate hoax. In 1893, only Maggie is left alive. Ill, penniless and forgotten, a mysterious caregiver named Mrs. Mellon is her only lifeline to the world. Mrs. Mellon prompts Maggie into revealing her family's darkest secrets, but is Maggie confessing, or is she practicing her finely honed art one last time?.
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2011., Oak Tree Press Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: From the Prologue:Diagnosed with dementia in 1997, my husband, Jim, lived at home during his illness and died there in January 2006. I wish this story were fiction, but it is not. DIGNIFYING DEMENTIA is both a love story and an attempt to reach out to others who are living through or who will live through a similar tragedy. It is written in the hope that others might benefit from what I learned as the caregiver of a dementia victim. Only then will Jim s cruel affliction serve some purpose, because it might help others feel less lonely, bewildered, angry or frustrated than I did, shorten the dreadful learning curve, or encourage others to ask more questions and make fewer assumptions. And because it might remind members of the health care industry that dementia victims and their loved ones are human beings who deserve respect, kindness, empathy and patience, so often lost in our fast-paced society. The diagnostic process I describe was painful and disappointing; perhaps someone else s caregiving experience might be easier. Caring for Jim was exhausting; perhaps someone else s might be less draining. This is not a medical text; it is the story of our experience with dementia and the lessons I learned as I tried to be Jim s voice, to maintain his dignity and to care for him and for me.
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-- Us :2023., Adult, HarperCollins Call No: Fic Her Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: From the author of Canada Reads finalist Scarborough, a stunning new novel about the unbreakable bond of family and the magic that can happen when we meet in the middle Like many Overseas Filipino Workers, Mary Grace Concepcion has lived a life of sacrifices. First, she left her husband, Ale, to be a caregiver in Hong Kong. Now, she has travelled even farther, to Canada, in the hopes of one day sponsoring Ale and having children of their own. But when she arrives in Toronto, she must navigate a series of bewildering and careless employers and unruly children. Mary Grace seeks new employment as a Personal Support Worker and begins caring for Liz, an elderly patient suffering from Alzheimer's disease, whose health is as fragile as her rundown bungalow beside the Rouge River in Scarborough. While Mary Grace's time with her charge challenges her conservative beliefs, she soon becomes Liz's biggest ally, and the friendship that grows between them will turn out to be just as legendary as Liz's past. Beautifully narrated by the all-seeing eye of Mary Grace's newborn baby, The Story of Us is a novel about sisterhood, about blood and chosen family, and about how belonging can be found where we least expect it.
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By Grafton, Suec2007., G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: MYS Fic Gra Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Kinsey Millhone Volume: 20
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2014., Adult, Penguin Call No: Bio J66t Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "After almost twenty years of caring for elderly parents -- first for their senile father, and then for their cantankerous ninety-three-year-old mother -- author Plum Johnson and her three younger brothers experience conflicted feelings of grief and relief when their mother, the surviving parent, dies. Now they must empty and sell the beloved family home, which hasn't been de-cluttered in more than half a century. Twenty-three rooms bulge with history, antiques, and oxygen tanks. Plum remembers her loving but difficult parents who could not have been more different: the British father, a handsome, disciplined patriarch who nonetheless could not control his opinionated, extroverted Southern-belle wife who loved tennis and gin gimlets. The task consumes her, becoming more rewarding than she ever imagined. Items from childhood trigger memories of her eccentric family growing up in a small town on the shores of Lake Ontario in the 1950s and 60s. But unearthing new facts about her parents helps her reconcile those relationships with a more accepting perspective about who they were and what they valued. A funny, touching memoir about the importance of preserving family history to make sense of the past and nurturing family bonds to safeguard the future. Plum Johnson is an author and artist living in Toronto"--Provided by publisher.
