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Cantankerous octogenarian Paul Jacobson must solve a series of murders while struggling with the problems of his short-term memory loss. Paul learns about the homeless community, disreputable art dealers and the beach scene in Venice Beach, California, and must dance a geezer two-step to stay out of the clutches of the police and the bad guys.
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Boxcar children volume 155
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"A local shop owner lost his memory after an accident. But someone from his past is holding a grudge. Can the Aldens help piece together the man's past?"--Provided by publisher.
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[2018]
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English
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One woman is about to discover everything she believes--knows--to be true about her life...isn't. After hitting her head, Lucy Sparks awakens in the hospital to a shocking revelation: the man she's known and loved for years--the man she recently married--is not actually her husband. In fact, they haven't even spoken since their breakup four years earlier. The happily-ever-after she remembers in vivid detail--right down to the dress she wore to their...
24) Losing brave
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[2018]
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English
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"More than a year has passed since seventeen-year-old Payton Brave's twin sister went missing; and Payton, in her desperate attempt to hold on to what's left of Dylan's memory, is starting to crack"--Amazon.com.
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[2020]
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"When a man is found on a British beach, drifting in and out of consciousness, with no identification and unable to speak, interest in him is sparked immediately. From the hospital staff who find themselves inexplicably drawn to him, to international medical experts who are baffled by him, to the national press who call him Mr. Nobody, everyone wants answers. Who is this man? And what happened to him? Some memories are best forgotten. Neuropsychiatrist...
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2015.
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"How did Arlene Santana -- happy wife, successful business owner, young grandmother -- get here, a rehabilitation center surrounded by old people? Her new friends make her laugh, and the days speed by, marked by holidays on which her two sons and their wives come to visit her. But when will her husband, whose love she feels every moment of every day, come to see her? Then one Christmas the confusing pieces of Arlene's life start to click into place,...
29) Virgil wander
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2018.
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Midwestern movie house owner Virgil Wander is "cruising along at medium altitude" when his car flies off the road into icy Lake Superior. Virgil survives but his language and memory are altered and he emerges into a world no longer familiar to him. Awakening in this new life, Virgil begins to piece together his personal history and the lore of his broken town, with the help of a cast of affable and curious locals--from Rune, a twinkling, pipe-smoking,...
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[2019]
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At the age of ninety-something, Beryl Dusinbery is forgetting everything - including her own children. Her tongue, meanwhile, remains as sharp as ever. She spends her days stitching macabre messages into her needlework and tormenting her two long-suffering carers with tangled stories of her love affairs. Shimi Carmelli can do up his own buttons, get around without the aid of a walking frame, and speak without spitting. Among the widows of North London,...
31) Vessel: a novel
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2019.
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"An astronaut returns to Earth after losing her entire crew to an inexplicable disaster, but is her version of what happened in space the truth? Or is there more to the story?"--
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A riveting memoir, Making Bipolar Lemonade, tells the stunningly brave and powerful true account of one man's descent into major depressive and manic episodes and how he found lifesaving therapy and medication to overcome and triumph.When thirty-five-year-old John Medl is involuntarily admitted to a psychiatric hospital, he is sure it is a mistake. A graduate from the University of Dayton with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, John's life appears...
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2019.
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"Working as a dedicated forensic psychiatrist for many years, Emma is not shocked so easily. Then she is assigned to work with Connie, a wife and mother accused of a despicable crime. Connie is suffering from dissociative amnesia--or at least seems to be. Now it is up to Emma to decide whether Connie can stand trial for her sins. But there is something about Connie that inexorably pulls Emma into her orbit. Perhaps it is the way she seems to see right...
34) Cuando el día llega a su fin: Guía para cuidar a personas con demencia y alzhéimer en etapa terminal
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Español
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"¿Qué haría si se tratara de su familiar?", es la pregunta que muchos le hacen al médico que atiende su caso. ¿Cómo decidir por alguien más? ¿Cómo elegir lo mejor en tratamientos médicos, temas financieros, legales y sobre la vida de otra persona?
Cuando el día llega a su fin responde a estos cuestionamientos y acompaña a la familia y a cuidadores detrás de un diagnóstico de alzhéimer u otra enfermedad por demencia. La doctora Kenny...
35) A witch in time
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2020.
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"A young witch is cursed to relive a doomed love affair through many lifetimes, as both troubled muse and frustrated artist, in this beautiful debut novel. In 1895, sixteen-year-old Juliet LaCompte has a passionate, doomed romance with the married Parisian painter Auguste Marchant. When her mother -- a witch -- botches a curse on Marchant, she unwittingly binds Juliet to the artist through time, damning her to re-live her affair and die tragically...
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2011.
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Español
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Most people think there is little you can do to avoid Alzheimer's, but scientists now know this is not true. After best-selling author Jean Carper discovered that she had the major susceptibility gene for Alzheimer's, she was determined to find all the latest scientific evidence on how to escape it. She discovered 100 simple, scientifically-tested ways to cut the odds of Alzheimer's, memory decline, and other forms of dementia. These range from vinegar...
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2018.
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English
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"Fifteen years ago, Lilith Wade was arrested for the brutal murder of six women. After a death row conviction, media frenzy, and the release of an unauthorized biography, her thirty-year-old daughter Edie Beckett is just trying to survive out of the spotlight. She's a recovering alcoholic with a dead-end city job and an unhealthy codependent relationship with her brother. Edie also has a disturbing secret: a growing obsession with the families of...
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Brain imaging research demonstrates that memory loss actually starts in the brain decades before you have any symptoms. Learn the actions you can take to help not just prevent memory loss later in life ... but to begin restoring the memory you may have already lost.
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Was it something that happened in the past? Suddenly without warning, Carol shuts herself away from husband, family and friends. She makes no explanation, she says nothing to anyone. One day she simply does not get out of her bed. To her husband Mark she is civil but distant.
Inexplicably she is heard talking to herself. She seems gripped by some strange ennui that is increasingly gaining hold over her.
It started the day she screamed for help —...
40) Parenthesis
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The story of a 20-year epileptic who has experienced memory loss and has to begin again as seen through her eyes and her parents.
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