Books tagged: alzheimers

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I BE DAMN    by Gusdavis Aughtry
Price: Free! 9020 words. Published on June 1, 2009. .

Cal Wallace is ocked into an unhappy marriage. His brothers feel his pain. Cal develops early alzheimers. In an uncanny sequence of events, with all the sugary existence and proper behavior that the South exhudes, Mary Lou Wallace puts her husband away. The brothers discover that their brother Cal is less gone "south" than thought.
Waves    by Ogan Gurel
Price: $29.95 USD. 173580 words. Published on November 13, 2009. .

Waves, a post-modern über-Faust, weaves together action, drama, romance, and science in global setting where the melding of good and evil yields shocking consequences. An epic, a technothriller, a psychological drama, a scientific dialogue: there’s something in Waves for everyone and, yes, something of everyone in Waves.
LOST LETTER    by Neil Mulligan 
Price: $4.99 USD. 86270 words. Published on December 30, 2009. .

RT Rating: 4½ Stars Category: MAINSTREAM FICTION Publisher: BOOKSURGE Published: March 2009 Type: Mainstream Fiction Mulligan's stunning debut is impossible to put down. Using a series of flashbacks, it tells a beautiful love story and builds to a dramatic conclusion that touches the heart and soul. Summary: When Mary's mother, Maggie, reveals that she has cancer and only a short time to l
Dementia Diary, A Caregiver's Journal    by Robert Tell
Price: $3.99 USD. 38820 words. Published on February 6, 2010. .

This full length memoir tells what it like to be the only son of a widowed Mom rapidly sinking into the fog of dementia, and who lives alone a plane trip away? Robert Tell tells this tale with compassion and humor. If you have watched helplessly as your parent, spouse or friend's identity vanished into the sinkhole of Alzheimer's Disease (or another dementia), "Dementia Diary" was written for you.
How to Communicate with Alzheimer's - A Practical Guide and Workbook for Families    by Susan Kohler
Price: $9.95 USD. 17490 words. Published on March 9, 2010. .

If you are living with someone who has Alzheimer's,other related dementias, confusion or memory loss, you know how difficult just the simple act of communication can be between you and your loved one. This book can help.
A Timely Death    by Genia  Stemper
Price: $2.99 USD. 53700 words. Published on April 11, 2010. .

Grace has a gorgeous home in the hills of Southern California, a loving husband and two grown daughters. But just as Grace begins to enjoy her newfound freedom, her kids and grandchildren move back into the house. Then, when her father dies suddenly, she must care for her ailing mother. Grace reaches her emotional brink, and the family is forced to make a controversial decision.
Stories of Hope & Courage: Alzheimer's Disease    by Joe Guse
You set the price! 10140 words. Published on May 20, 2010. .

The following stories are based on the author's experiences working with Alzheimer's patients and reflect the resilience he saw on a daily basis. Joe Guse is a former comedian from Chicago who now works with and cares for the elderly while pursuing a career in clinical psychology.
Forced Retirement    by Robert T. Jeschonek
Price: $0.99 USD. 8250 words. Published on May 26, 2010. .

What if Alzheimer's disease struck the World's Mightiest Hero? Gripped by dementia, godlike Epitome tears apart a city. Will his madness destroy the entire world? Not if his heroic daughter, Hericane, can recruit the one big gun who stands a chance in Hell of stopping him. But the battle of the century between the super-charged titans might just kick-start the Apocalypse instead of stopping it.
Down the Memory Hole    by Bonnie Turner 
Price: $4.99 USD. 41070 words. Published on May 29, 2010. .

Summer vacation sucks when 12-year-old Buzz shares his room with a grandpa who has Alzheimer’s disease and his parents forbid him to associate with his best friend. The idea of giving up Mitch is bad enough. But how can he relate to an old man who wears adult diapers and thinks dog biscuits are people cookies? Someone who could die in the night and scare Buzz right out of puberty! (Ages 12 & up)
Redemption and Ashes, Book One    by seamus o'bannion
Price: $2.29 USD. 52190 words. Published on July 25, 2010. .

Seven literary short stories of the dark side of life: a philosophy professor at the edge of madness married to a woman with Alzheimers; the biography of a mafia soldier; a man whose first affair is an incestuous encounter with his beloved aunt; the story of a fifty year "affair" that lasted just one summer; the story of a man who accidentally shoots himself and whose last thought is rape.