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MEternally Favorite Things Memory Kits
Through reminiscence, we find comfort in our favorite things and form connections with people and the past. Favorite Things DVDs were created for the enjoyment of those with dementia, their caregivers, and family in order to provide comfort and inspire connections and conversation through reminiscence. Can be used for individual or group reminiscence. Check out the list of available kits here.
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"After hitting her head, Lucy Sparks awakens in the hospital to find the man she's known and loved for years and recently married is not actually her husband. Her doctors call it false memory: recollections Lucy's mind made up to fill in the blanks from the coma. Faced with reality, Lucy must now decide which life she wants to lead"--From the publisher's web site.
5) The giver
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Series
Giver quartet volume 1
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English
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Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
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English
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"Rosie Cooke is in between consciousness and oblivion. Life and death. And though some say that when you're near death your entire life flashes before your eyes, Rosie can't even remember how she ended up in a coma. At least not at first. Then something strange starts to happen. Rosie finds herself revisiting moments from her past: a beach vacation, a play rehearsal, the day her brother was born. Why these memories? What do they mean? As each...
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This "touching, insightful, and gripping story" (Sophie Kinsella, New York Times bestselling author) from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone follows a young woman searching for answers about her mysterious past.
When she was a child, Melody Browne's house burned down, destroying all her family's possessions and her memories. Ever since this tragic event, Melody has had no recollection of her...
When she was a child, Melody Browne's house burned down, destroying all her family's possessions and her memories. Ever since this tragic event, Melody has had no recollection of her...
9) Great house
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English
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Connected solely by a desk of enormous dimension and many drawers that exerts a power over those who possess it or give it away, three people--a lonely American novelist clinging to the memory of a poet who has mysteriously vanished in Chile, an old man in Israel facing the imminent death of his wife of 51 years, and an esteemed antiques dealer tracking down the things stolen from his father by the Nazis--struggle to create a meaningful permanence...
11) The fallen
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Series
Amos Decker novels volume 4
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English
Description
Amos Decker and his journalist friend Alex Jamison are visiting the home of Alex's sister in Barronville, a small town in western Pennsylvania that has been hit hard economically. When Decker is out on the rear deck of the house talking with Alex's niece, a precocious eight-year-old, he notices flickering lights and then a spark of flame in the window of the house across the way. When he goes to investigate he finds two dead bodies inside and it's...
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"As a child, Eliza Spalding Warren was taken hostage by Indians during a massacre in 1847. Now the young mother of two children, Eliza faces a different kind of dislocation; her husband wants to move, which will mean returning to the land of her captivity. Eliza must face her childhood trauma and find peace with what's left"--
13) Recursion
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English
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"New York City cop Barry Sutton is investigating the devastating phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndrome--a mysterious affliction that drives its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived. Meanwhile, neuroscientist Helena Smith has dedicated her life to creating a technology that will let people preserve their most precious memories. The Syndrome, however, attacks not only minds, but the very fabric of the past. As its...
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
Description
Joshua Pearl comes from a world that we no longer believe in ? a world of fairy tale. He knows that his great love waits for him there, but he is stuck in an unfamiliar time and place ? an old-world marshmallow shop in Paris on the eve of World War II. As his memories begin to fade, Joshua seeks out strange objects: tiny fragments of tales that have already been told, trinkets that might possibly help him prove his own story before his love is lost...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Throughout our life, we look for ways to keep our mind sharp and effortlessly productive. Now, globetrotting neurosurgeon Dr. Sanjay Gupta offers insights from top scientists all over the world, whose cutting-edge research can help you heighten and protect brain function and maintain cognitive health at any age. Keep Sharp debunks common myths about aging and cognitive decline, explores whether there's a "best" diet or exercise regimen for the brain,...
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English
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Jules is confronted headlong and all at once by a series of challenges to his principles, livelihood, and home, forcing him to grapple with his complex past and find a way forward. He risks fraud to save his terminally ill infant grandson, matches wits with a renegade insurance investigator, is drawn into an act of savage violence, and falls deeply, excitingly in love with a young cellist a third his age. He forges a denouement that is staggering...
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From New York Times bestselling author Kate White comes a gripping novel about one woman's dangerous quest to recover lost memories someone would rather she never find.
The key to her missing memories could bring relief-or unlock her worst nightmares.
On a cold, rainy morning, finance journalist Ally Linden arrives early to work in her Manhattan office, only to find that she's forgotten her keycard and needs to have a colleague she's never met...
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