Follow Bill Bullock's ten year battle with Alzheimer's disease as chronicled in his daughter's journal. With all that Alzheimer's tossed Bill's way as he and his family struggles with this disease, his wife, Sylvia, stands out for her strength, courage and determination to take care of Bill to the end and against all odds. This story is an awareness and education for people interested in Alzheimer's disease with helpful tips for caregivers through out the book.
Follow Tom and Karen Brenner as they help people living with dementia, their families and caregivers navigate this challenging condition using techniques first developed by Maria Montessori. This positive and inspiring book values the person being cared for and offers methods and strategies to engage them and help families and caregivers connect.
Winner of the California Book Award for First Fiction Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist for First Fiction "A quietly brilliant disquisition . . . told in prose that is so startling in its spare beauty that I found myself thinking about Khong's turns of phrase for days after I finished reading."—Doree Shafrir, The New York Times Book Review Her life at a crossroads, a young woman goes home again in this funny and inescapably moving debut from a wonderfully original new literary voice. Freshly disengaged from her fiancé and feeling that life has not turned out quite the way she planned, thirty-year-old Ruth quits her job, leaves town and arrives at her parents’ home to find that situation more complicated than she'd realized. Her father, a prominent history professor, is losing his memory and is only erratically lucid. Ruth’s mother, meanwhile, is lucidly erratic. But as Ruth's father’s condition intensifies, the comedy in her situation takes hold, gently transforming her all her grief. Told in captivating glimpses and drawn from a deep well of insight, humor, and unexpected tenderness, Goodbye, Vitamin pilots through the loss, love, and absurdity of finding one’s footing in this life.
Try this first in the Stringbean Hooper Series. Sheriff Stringbean Hooper's description for the sheriff's job of Sully Town, Montana is relaxing with is feet on the his desk while he watches the town's citizens ride by. All that changes when the town's doctor's wife disappears. Hooper finds himself in a murder investigation, bushwhacked, threatened and in the middle of a family feud between cattle baron Mac Sullivan, the missing woman's father and his son-in-law, Doctor Strummer, the missing woman's husband. Hooper's only help is a nervous deputy/pig farmer, Whiskers Parker, and the gun toting woman owner of Rocking T ranch, Theodosia Sheffield. Hooper doesn't much care for a woman helping him fight his gun battles. Especially this one. She is set on marrying Stringbean if she can catch him. So he finds himself fighting for his life and his bachelorhood while he solves the mysterious disappearance of Mary Alice Strummer.
This late 1800's story was inspired by stories told me by Veder Bishop Bright, my grandmother, who lived a tale very much like this one in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Riner, Virginia. In her words, the family was as poor as church mice, but so was everyone else on the ridges. This historical book looks at the Bishop family's way of life.
This play is a tale of two sisters. After years of being in the middle of a family fued between their mother and aunt, Mary and Janet decide to visit Aunt Mabel in the nursing home. Mary wants to see how bad off Aunt Mabel's health is. Mary's knee deep in debt and thinks she will be in her aunt's will. Janet has been curious for years about what caused the rife between their mother and aunt. Before it's too late, she wants to see if Aunt Mable will tell them the family secret. Mary and Janet get the surprise of their life with this long over due visit. It turns out to be more of a revelation than they bargined for. A visit that gives them a new prospective on Alzheimer's disease, family and what's important in life.
Essays about Grandmothers, mothers and single women, born early in the twentieth century. Hard working, faith filled courageous women, each with a story to tell.
Short stories on a variety of subjects. Many of them suitable for Halloween. Such as a ghost in an Iowa barn, a mysterious teapot on a fireplace mantle, or a robot houseman that's hard to get rid of.
Fay Risner has brought Stringbean Hooper to life again with the second story in the Stringbean Hooper series about his adventures in the West. Looking forward to a journey across country to San Jose, California, Stringbean and his wife, Theo, have no idea just how much trouble they can get into. Mishaps, upset Indians, a flood, a mad bear, and more happen to the Hoopers. Through it all, Stringbean meets the challenges with his usual sense of humor, but he notices as the journey drags out that Theo is getting crankier by the minute. He sure hopes she lightens up by the time they get to her brother's wedding in San Jose. It didn't help to have warning advice freely handed out to Theo, known as Small Feet, by Indian shaman Matilda Vinci about being careful around Stringbean, Sioux name Walking Dead, so he doesn't get her killed.
"An American version of Miss Marple, Gracie Evans tries to resign herself to the fact that she now lives in Moser Mansion a rest home for women in Locked Rock, Iowa. She wrestles with feelings of boredom. Her only diversion is rocking on the front porch while she watches the neighbors. What starts out as harmless snooping turns into a dangerous past time."--Cover.
