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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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Series
Keeper of the lost cities volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Language
English
Description
At age twelve, Sophie learns that the remarkable abilities that have always caused her to stand out identify her as an elf, and after being brought to Eternalia to hone her skills, discovers that she has secrets buried in her memory for which some would kill.
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Language
English
Description
"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"--
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Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Language
English
Description
"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...
10) What Rose forgot
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Language
English
Description
In New York Times bestselling author Nevada Barr's gripping standalone, a grandmother in her sixties emerges from a mental fog to find she's trapped in her worst nightmare Rose Dennis wakes up in a hospital gown, her brain in a fog, only to discover that she's been committed to an Alzheimer's Unit in a nursing home. With no memory of how she ended up in this position, Rose is sure that something is very wrong. When she overhears one of the administrators...
11) Great house
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Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A tale inspired by the World War II Hungarian Gold Train follows the 1945 American capture of a locomotive filled with riches and the efforts of a Jewish-American lieutenant's granddaughter to track down a mysterious woman seventy years later.
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Language
English
Description
"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.
17) Heart to Heart
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
Upset that he has forgotten a valentine for his friend Mole, Squirrel starts to make a fancy card but discovers a better gift.
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICKInstant New York Times Bestseller • Named one of the best books of 2023 by The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The Boston Globe, Time, The New Yorker, and more.
"Nothing short of epic, magical, and intensely moving." —Vogue"A novel of triumph." —The Washington Post "Harrowing, immersive, and other-worldly." ...
"Nothing short of epic, magical, and intensely moving." —Vogue
19) Recursion
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Language
English
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Description
"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...
20) Halcyon: a novel
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the best-selling author and National Book Award finalist, a chilling new novel that reimagines the United States emerging from a different outcome in a pivotal presidential election. Virginia, 2004. Gore is entering his second term as president. Our narrator, recently divorced, is living at Halcyon, the estate of renowned lawyer and World War II hero Robert Ableson. Ableson died a few years earlier. Or did he? When it becomes clear that scientists,...
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