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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,...
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Goodbye Summer is an unforgettable novel about daring to love, braving a loss, and setting yourself free, by Patricia Gaffney, the author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller, The Saving Graces. Poignantly exploring one woman's inner growth and self discovery over the course of a season of profound change, The Goodbye Summer is women's fiction at its finest-heartbreaking, healing, emotional, and real.
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
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Lizzie Vogel takes a job as an "auxiliary nurse" at Paradise Lodge, a home for the elderly, and learns that her job entails helping the patients (frequently) to the bathroom. What begins as a way to avoid school and earn some spending money (for the finer things in life, like real coffee and beer shampoo) quickly becomes the education of a lifetime as Lizzy wades through the day-to-day humdrum and drama of this ramshackle refuge for...
Author
Series
Fuchsia Minnesota mystery volume 5
Publisher
Cozy Cat Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
239 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Granny is at it again! When Granny accompanies her friend Mavis to the Next To The Last Resting Place nursing home to visit Mavis sister, Beulah, both women are shocked to find the new resident dead. Granny, being the amateur detective she is, suspects foul play, and soon she and her entire family concoct a plan to investigate possible shady doings at the nursing home. Granny will enter the home incognito and attempt to determine how Beulah met her...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
219 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
March 3, 1933, the day before Franklin Roosevelt's inauguration. Siblings Lily and Robert Brewster have agreed to help out at a nursing home next door to their own cottage, dubbed Grace & Favor. The convalescent home is full of colorful characters, including a cantankerous old man named Sean Connor. The day the Brewsters arrive, he slips into a coma and dies. No one is surprised at his passing-until it's revealed that he's been murdered. And Mr. Connor...
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A move into an old folks' home marks a new stage of life for both grandmother and granddaughter.
On one side of the Atlantic, Sophia Moore, an emotionally guarded film editor-troubled by her mother's long-ago suicide and her father's abandonment-overworks, incessantly contemplates her past, and continues an unfulfilling affair with the famous director of her latest movie.
But when she travels to the other side of the Atlantic to help her octogenarian...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Commissario Guido Brunetti is kicking his heels, pondering the recent lack of crime in Venice, when a beautiful young woman appears at his office door. Now calling herself Maria Testa, his visitor is more familiar to Brunetti as Suor' Immacolata, the nun who once cared for his mother at the Casa di Cura in Dolo. But Maria has recently left her convent after the unexpected deaths of five patients. Brunetti offers to make some inquiries but finds no...
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Lexile measure
570L
Physical Desc
88 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
After he is involved in a prank that led to an elderly woman's injury, twelve-year-old Mitchell must make amends by participating in a police program in which he chats online with a nursing home resident.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
760L
Physical Desc
437 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve year old Jack's grandpa lives in a rest home and often mistakes Jack for his World War II squadron commander, but when grandpa wants to escape his boring situation, Jack has to decide how he will help him.
Author
Publisher
Beaming Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Lexile measure
AD 590L
Physical Desc
1 volume : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Kiera and her grandmother have always been very close, so when Grandma's brain forgets how to remember and she must go to a nursing home, Kiera finds a new way to connect.
14) Death on demand
Author
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...
15) Claim to fame
Author
Series
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2013]
Lexile measure
570L
Physical Desc
80 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Summer is almost gone, and third-grader Abby Spencer and her friends, the Book Bunch, are spending their time working on a play for the local public library, and visiting Abigail Flynn at the Evergreen Nursing Home.
17) Eddie Whatever
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
760L
Physical Desc
258 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Eddie's Mitzvah Project takes him to Silver Brook retirement home, where his assumptions about the elderly are upended by a ghost, a thief, long-running disagreements, and unexpected romance.
Thirteen-year-old Eddie needs to do a community service project in preparation for his bar mitzvah. Against his better judgment, he ends up with a volunteering gig at Silver Brook Pavilion retirement home, where the residents call him "Eddie...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Berenson's engaging 12th canine cozy, trainer Melanie Travis is pleased to learn on enrolling one of her standard poodles in a class at the South Avenue Obedience Club that the club offers a visiting program at the Winston Pumpernill Nursing Home in Greenwich, Conn. A club member, Paul Lennox, started the program to cheer his Aunt Mary, a dog lover and resident at Winston Pumpernill. Unfortunately, during Melanie's first visit to the home, someone...
20) Oma's quilt
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Lexile measure
AD 590L
Physical Desc
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 26 cm
Language
English