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All the young men : a memoir of love, AIDS, and chosen family in the American South / by Burks, Ruth Coker,author.; O'Leary, Kevin Carr,author.;
"In 1986, twenty-six-year-old Ruth visits a friend at the hospital when she notices a door to one of the rooms is painted red. Nurses are drawing straws to see who will tend to the patient crying for his mother on the other side, all of them unwilling to help. Ruth immediately steps into the quarantined space herself, comforting the young man in his last moments. Before she realizes what she's done, word spreads in the community that Ruth is the only person willing to help these young men afflicted by AIDS, and is called upon to nurse them. Shuttling from patient to patient, Ruth forges deep friendships with the men she helps: Paul and Billy, Angel, Chip, Todd and Douglas, working tirelessly to find them housing and jobs, and burying their ashes in her own family's cemetery. She teaches sex-ed to drag queens after hours at secret bars and defies local pastors and nurses to help the men she cares for, ultimately advising then-Governor Bill Clinton on the national HIV-AIDS crisis and becoming a beacon of hope to an otherwise spurned group of ailing gay men on the fringes of an intensely conservative state. This moving and elegiac memoir honors the extraordinary life of Ruth Coker Burks and the beloved men with AIDS who fought valiantly for their lives during a most hostile and misinformed time in America"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Burks, Ruth Coker; AIDS (Disease); Caregivers; Gay men; AIDS (Disease);
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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The hope chest / by Shipman, Viola,author.;
"The Hope Chest is a deeply emotional novel about three people who have seemingly lost all hope until one woman's heirloom hope chest is rediscovered in the attic, along with its contents and secrets. Mattie is a fiercely independent woman battling ALS; Don, her deeply devoted husband is facing a future without his one true love; and Rose, their struggling caregiver, is a young, single mother who feels trapped in her life. With each item that is discovered--including a beloved doll, family dishes, an embroidered apron, and an antique Christmas ornament--the hope chest connects Mattie, Don and Rose to each other and not only helps them find hope again in the face of overwhelming life challenges but also brings new meaning to family"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Antiques; Caregivers; Chests; Spouses; Terminally ill;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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They left us everything : a memoir / by Johnson, Plum;
After the death of the author's senile father, and cantankerous ninety-three-year-old mother, she and her three younger brothers must empty and sell the beloved family home. Twenty-three rooms full of history, antiques, and oxygen tanks. The author remembers her loving but difficult parents who could not have been more different: the British father, a handsome, disciplined patriarch who nonetheless could not control his opinionated, extroverted Southern-belle wife who loved tennis and gin gimlets. The task consumes her, becoming more rewarding than she ever imagined. Items from childhood trigger memories of her eccentric family growing up in a small town on the shores of Lake Ontario in the 1950s and 60s. But unearthing new facts about her parents helps her reconcile those relationships with a more accepting perspective about who they were and what they valued. LSC
Subjects: Johnson, Plum; Caregivers; Adult children of aging parents; Aging parents; Parent and adult child.;
© 2014., Penguin Canada Books,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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T is for trespass / by Grafton, Sue;
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories; Caregivers; Millhone, Kinsey (Fictitious character); Insane, Criminal and dangerous; Women private investigators; Mystery fiction;
© c2007., G. P. Putnam's Sons,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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I see you try / by Kris, Deborah Farmer.; Massey, Jane,1967-;
In rhyming text, a caregiver lovingly validates their young one's endeavors to try new things.
Subjects: Stories in rhyme.; Board books.; Resilience (Personality trait); Perseverance (Ethics);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Now that you're here / by Brantz, Loryn.;
"Featuring bold black-and-white artwork, this board book presents a sweet love poem from caregiver to baby"--
Subjects: Stories in rhyme.; Board books.; Love; Parent and child;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Canadian home care handbook / by Caller, Russell,author.; Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc.;
Subjects: Caregivers; Older people with disabilities; Older people; Older people;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Be mine / by Ford, Richard,1944-author.;
From Richard Ford comes the final novel in the world of Frank Bascombe. Now in the twilight of life, Bascombe finds himself as the caregiver to his son, Paul, diagnosed with ALS. On a shared winter odyssey to Mount Rushmore, Frank faces down the mortality that is assured each of us, and in doing so confronts what happiness might signify at the end of days.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Older men; Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Automobile travel; Caregivers; Fathers and sons; Voyages and travels;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A perfect life : a novel / by Steel, Danielle.;
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Blind; Interpersonal relations; Male caregivers; Mothers and daughters; Teenage girls; Women television news anchors;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Watching you without me / by Coady, Lynn,1970-author.;
After her mother's sudden death, Karen finds herself back in her childhood home in Nova Scotia for the first time in a decade, acting as full-time caregiver to Kelli, her older sister. Overwhelmed with grief and the daily needs of Kelli, who was born with a developmental disability, Karen begins to feel consumed by the isolation of her new role. On top of that, she's weighed down with guilt over her years spent keeping Kelli and their independent-to-a-fault mother, Irene, at arm's length. And so when Trevor-- one of Kelli's support workers-- oversteps his role and offers friendly advice and a shoulder to cry on, Karen gratefully accepts his somewhat overbearing friendship. When she discovers how close Trevor was to Irene, she comes to trust him all the more. But as Trevor slowly insinuates himself into Karen and Kelli's lives, Karen starts to grasp the true aspect of his relationship with her mother-- and to experience for herself the suffocating nature of Trevor's "care.".
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Mothers and daughters; Interpersonal relations; Caregivers; People with disabilities; Sisters; Trust;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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