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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Twenty years after a baby is stolen from a stroller, a woman is murdered in a care home. The two crimes are somehow linked, and a good bad girl may be the key to discovering the truth. Edith may have been tricked into a nursing home, but at eighty-years-young, she's planning her escape. Patience works there, cleaning messes and bonding with Edith, a kindred spirit. But Patience is lying to Edith about almost everything. Edith's own daughter, Clio,...
4) Others
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
First Forge edition.
Physical Desc
502 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
5) We spread
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Penny, an artist, has lived in the same apartment for decades, surrounded by the artifacts and keepsakes of her long life. She is resigned to the mundane rituals of old age, until things start to slip. Before her longtime partner passed away years earlier, provisions were made, unbeknownst to her, for a room in a unique long-term care residence, where Penny finds herself after one too many "incidents." Initially, surrounded by peers, conversing,...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"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 is convinced that if she's to survive, she has to get out of the nursing home. She avoids taking...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Death isn't unexpected in a nursing home. But murder is. Freddy leads a life of little responsibility. His mother is dead, his sisters are far-flung across the globe, and he can't quite work up enough motivation to find himself a girlfriend. Freddy has been forced to place his beloved grandmother, now deep in dementia, in a nursing home. Freddy visits her often, cherishing and also hating the time he spends with the grandmother he always adored,...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
265 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After being assigned to perform community service at a nursing home, sixteen-year-old Alex befriends a cantankerous old man who has some lessons to impart about jazz guitar playing, love, and forgiveness.
Author
Series
Man at the helm novels (Nina Stibbe) volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Helping her unconventional mother through the events of Man at the Helm, 15-year-old Lizzie takes a job as a junior nurse at a ramshackle refuge for the elderly, where she encounters a colorful host of characters and begins to experience the first sense of belonging in her young life.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Audrey has never been as academically inclined as her professor parents and scholarly siblings, and as her senior year of high school ends, she feels only trepidation about college. She's supposed to attend her beach town's local university, where her parents teach, but she isn't sure that's the right path for her--she just wants to live and work in Seattle. After she applies to work nights at the local nursing home, Audrey starts spending time with...
13) Death on demand
Author
Series
Publisher
Creme De La Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
220 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the newspapers turn up to cover Ruby Bright's 100th birthday, they find her seaside care home is a murder scene. Someone spirited Ruby away by wheelchair down to the water's edge on the idyllic north Norfolk coast, and strangled her. But why kill a harmless centurion? As Detective Inspector Shaw and Detective Sergeant Valentine investigate, it's clear Ruby wasn't the first victim, and nor is she the last. All trails seem to lead back to the old...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
227 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A story inside a story inside a story. A man visits his aging father in a nursing home, where his father writes the novel he imagines his son would write. Or is it the novel that the son imagines his father would imagine, if he were to imagine the kind of novel the son would write? Let's simplify: a woman seeks an apprenticeship with a painter, claiming to be his long-lost daughter. A contractor-for-hire named Murphy can't distinguish between the...
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