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Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this visionary memoir, based on a groundbreaking New York Times Magazine story, award-winning journalist Katy Butler ponders her parents’ desires for “Good Deaths” and the forces within medicine that stood in the way. Katy Butler was living thousands of miles from her vigorous and self-reliant parents when the call came: a crippling stroke had left her proud seventy-nine-year-old father unable to fasten a belt or complete a sentence. Tragedy...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
297, 14 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
While serving in Iraq, veteran Leroy Kervin suffered a traumatic brain injury. Frustrated by the simplest daily routines, and unable to form new memories, he eventually attempts suicide. Lying in a coma, he retreats deep inside the memories locked in his mind. Freddie McCall works two jobs and still can't make ends meet. He's lost his wife and kids, and the house is next. Medical bills have buried him in debt, a situation that propels him to consider...
63) Old
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 49 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A family's tropical beach vacation turns sinister when they discover that they all seem to be aging rapidly.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alice Brill, a 51-year-old wife, mother, frustrated writer and "book doctor" wakes one morning with a disturbing pressure behind her sternum. The daughter of a once renowned but now senile surgeon, Alice initially thinks her symptom might be a sign of breast cancer, which took her mother's life 30 years before. Or could it be psychological: a reaction to being downsized as senior editor at a book publisher? or a premonition that the recent squabbling...
65) Our time machine
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
When prominent Chinese artist Maleonn learns that his father, the Peking Opera director, has Alzheimer's disease, he decides to preserve their memories in a collaborative stage project, a wondrous time-travel adventure featuring a mechanical puppet called "Papa's time machine."
Author
Series
Starvation Lake mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
A series of mysterious break-ins is plaguing the small town of Starvation Lake. Someone is slipping into the homes of elderly people when they're out playing Bingo. Oddly, the intruders take nothing, despite evidence that they rifle through personal files. Worry turns to panic when a break-in leads to the death of a beloved citizen. Phyllis Bontrager is found dead in the home of her best friend, Bea Carpenter, mother of Gus Carpenter. Bea, suffering...
Author
Language
English
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Description
The youngest of three daughters, Angela DeSaria Malone was always “the princess” of the family, a girl who thought she knew how her life would unfold. High School. College. Marriage. Motherhood. That was how it had gone for her sisters, her cousins, her friends. But it didn’t work out that way for Angie. She and her husband tried desperately to have a child; year after year, their perfectly decorated nursery remained empty. Finally, their marriage...
Author
Series
Seasonal volume 1
Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. That's what it felt like for Keats in 1819. How about Autumn 2016? Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. The United Kingdom is in pieces, divided by a historic once-in-a-generation summer. Love is won, love is lost. Hope is hand in hand with hopelessness. The seasons roll round, as ever. Ali Smith's new novel is a meditation on a world growing ever more bordered and exclusive,...
Publisher
Distributed by E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (82 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 reference guide (15 p. : ill., ports. ; 19 cm.)
Language
English
Description
King Lear of Britain has decided to divide his kingdom into three parts, and to hand over the responsibilities of ruling to his three daughters. The two oldest daughters, Goneril and Regan, flatter their father insincerely, and are rewarded. Cordelia, the youngest, sincerely loves her father, but she cannot match her sisters' skill at false adulation. The king takes away her portion of the kingdom, despite the pleadings of some of his most loyal nobles....
Author
Publisher
Utah Dept. of Human Services, Division of Aging and Adult Services
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
172 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
This highly practical and straight-talking book navigates you through legal topics that ate important to those 55 and over living in Utah. In question-and-answer format, this book guides you to the right information for your situation. You will discover how to: Avoid scams ; Recognize and prevent elder abuse ; Navigate Social Security ; Get grandparent visitation rights ; Express your end-of-life wishes ; Prepare a will ; Write a simple contract ;...
Author
Publisher
Trinity University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xiv, 200 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Dogs, like humans, have memories, instincts, fears, and loyalties. But, as far as we know, dogs do not get swept up in nostalgia, speculation, or self-analysis. Although they have hopes, they are not driven by regrets. In Crossing the Plains with Bruno, Annick Smith weaves together a memoir of travel and relationship, western history and family history, human love and animal love centering around a two week road trip across the Great Plains she and...
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