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1) The notebook; a novel

Author

Sparks, Nicholas

Series

Calhoun Family Saga volume 1
Notebook

Appears on list

Read-A-Romance Month

Formats

Book, CD, eAudiobook, Large Print

Description

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Noah Calhoun, recently returned from World War II in 1946, buys an old plantation home in rural North Carolina, where he contents himself with memories of his first love, a girl he met fourteen years earlier, but then she unexpectedly arrives at his door.

2) Alzheimer's disease

Author

Barber, C. E

Series

Fact sheet. Consumer series. Family volume no. 10.233

3) Colorado's senior housing needs

Series

Advances

4) A spool of blue thread: a novel

Author

Tyler, Anne

Formats

Book, Book Club Kit, CD, eBook, Large Print

Description

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"From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author--now in the fiftieth year of her remarkable career--a brilliantly observed, joyful and wrenching, funny and true new novel that reveals, as only she can, the very nature of a family's life. "It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon." This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The whole family--their two daughters and two...

5) Nutrition and aging

Author

Anderson, Jennifer E. L

Series

Food and nutrition series. Health volume no. 9.322
Service in action volume no. 9.322

6) Angle of repose

Author

Stegner, Wallace

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pulitzer
Pulitzer Winners Fiction

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Stegner's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is the story of four generations in the life of an American family. A wheelchair-bound retired historian embarks on a monumental quest: to come to know his grandparents, now long dead. The unfolding drama of the story of the American West sets the tone for Stegner's masterpiece. Four generations in the life of an American family are chronicled as retired historian Lyman Ward, confined to a wheelchair, decides...

7) The years ahead: life for the aging in northwest Colorado

Pub. Date

[1978]

8) Frauds that target older adults

Author

Zimka, K

Series

Fact sheet. Consumer series. Family volume no. 10.254

Pub. Date

2002.

9) Care for the elderly

Author

Barber, C. E

Series

Fact sheet. Consumer volume no. 10.232

Pub. Date

[1996]

10) Respecting our elders: a statewide action plan to combat senior fraud

Pub. Date

[1999]

11) Colorado older adult resource kit: implementation guide for the Colorado physical activity and nutrition state plan 2010

Pub. Date

[2005?]

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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 saying about her that she's "not making it through the week," Rose...