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Pub. Date
2014
Description
Maud, an aging grandmother, is slowly losing her memory - and her grip on everyday life. Yet she refuses to forget her best friend Elizabeth, whom she is convinced is missing and in terrible danger. When no one will listen to Maud, she resolves to discover the truth and save her beloved friend. This singular obsession forms a cornerstone of Maud's rapidly dissolving present. But the clues she discovers seem only to lead deeper into her past, to another...
5) Being Toffee
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
416 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Allison runs away and, in what she thinks is an abandoned house, finds a home with Marla, an elderly woman with dementia who believes her to be an old friend named Toffee.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Widower Mitch Jensen is at a loss with how to handle his mother's odd, forgetful behaviors, as well as his daughter's sudden return home and unexpected life choices. Little does he know Grandma June has long been keeping a secret about her past--but if she doesn't tell the truth about it someone she loves will suffer, and the lives of three generations will never be the same"--
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Description
"From the bestselling author of The Things We Cannot Say comes a poignant post-WWII novel that explores the expectations society places on women set within an engrossing family mystery that may unravel everything once believed to be true. With her father recently moved to a care facility, Beth Walsh volunteers to clear out the family home and is surprised to discover the door to her childhood playroom padlocked. She's even more shocked at what's behind...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Gretel, a lexicographer by trade, grew up on a houseboat with her mother, wandering the canals of Oxford and speaking a private language of their own invention. Her mother disappeared when Gretel was a teen, abandoning her to foster care, and Gretel has tried to move on, spending her days updating dictionary entries. When her mother phones, Gretel will have to recover buried memories of her final, fateful winter on the canals. A runaway boy had found...
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"Raised by a widowed mother, Connie, Jill has come a long way from her difficult youth. But while she may not have had money, Jill never doubted she was rich in love. Now, even though she has a young family of her own, it's Jill's turn to care for her ailing mother. When early dementia begins to set in, Connie starts talking about Jill's 'other life.' Jill assumes it's just rambling confusion. Still, Connie's stories about Jill's childhood and her...
Author
Pub. Date
©2018
Physical Desc
237 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Alden Forth was raised to believe that she could never have true love. So each year, when the peaches ripen on her farm, she takes a lover, only to let him go after a few short weeks. This is until the summer she finds her simple way of life threatened as her grandfather, her last surviving relative, descends into dementia. The arrival of a revivalist minister further upsets the balance in Alden's rural hometown, for the minister's vehemence to save...
11) Obscura
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"In the near future, an aggressive and terrifying new form of dementia is affecting victims of all ages. The cause is unknown, and the symptoms are disturbing. Dr. Gillian Ryan is on the cutting edge of research and desperately determined to find a cure. She's already lost her husband to the disease, and now her young daughter is slowly succumbing as well. After losing her funding, she is given the unique opportunity to expand her research. She will...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
236, 5 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"It started as a dream vacation in Spain, with Fay and Paul Agarra enjoying all the delights of a European holiday. A respected New York City judge, Paul has always been the man Fay can rely on no matter what. When he inexplicably disappears from a Granada street corner, Fay knows something is terribly wrong. Once they are reunited, Paul shrugs off the episode as a simple misunderstanding -- but Fay suspects her almost perfect life has taken a dark...
13) The line between
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
443 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Description
When Wynter Roth is turned out of New Earth, a self-contained doomsday cult on the American prairie, an outbreak of rapid early onset dementia is spreading across the nation. As Wynter finds herself face-to-face with the apocalypse she's feared all her life, her sister arrives with a set of medical samples. There is something far more sinister at play-- and these samples are key to understanding the disease. To get the samples to a lab in Colorado,...
14) The lost ticket
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"Strangers on a London bus unite to help an elderly man find his missed love connection in the heartwarming new novel from the acclaimed author of The Last Chance Library. When Libby Nicholls arrives in London, brokenhearted and with her life in tatters, the first person she meets on the bus is elderly Frank. He tells her about the time in 1962 that he met a girl on the number 88 bus, with beautiful red hair just like hers. They made plans for a date...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 21 cm
Description
""An uplifting, bittersweet story with a page-turning mystery at its heart. Emily Critchley writes about aging and memory with huge warmth and compassion. A beautifully atmospheric and endearing book.'' --Freya Sampson, author of The Last Chance Library. For readers of Elizabeth is Missing with notes of The Maid comes a dual-timeline novel that balances heartfelt tenderness with a suspenseful mystery as elderly Edie Green uncovers the clues behind...
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