Lisa Genova
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifty-year-old psychologist Alice Howland is content with life. Not only is she a revered Harvard professor, but she also has a successful husband and three grown kids. However, Alice's life is turned upside-down when she succumbs to a degenerative brain disease, leaving her perfect family reeling from her sudden memory loss.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Patrol officer Joe O'Brien is third-generation Irish in Charlestown. A tough cop with a soft interior, a loving wife and four adult children, Joe is diagnosed with Huntington's disease. As Joe's symptoms worsen and he's eventually stripped of his badge and more, Joe struggles to maintain hope and a sense of purpose, while his daughter Katie and her siblings must find the courage to either live a life "at risk" or learn their fate.
"From award-winning,...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A once accomplished concert pianist, Richard now has ALS. As he becomes increasingly paralyzed and is no longer able to live on his own, Karina becomes his reluctant caretaker. As Richard's muscles, voice, and breath fade, both he and Karina try to reconcile their past before it's too late. This is a masterful exploration of redemption and what it means to find peace inside of forgiveness" -- Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Two women meet by accident on a Nantucket beach and are drawn into a friendship. Olivia is a young mother whose eight-year-old severely autistic son has recently died. She comes to the island in a trial separation to try and make sense of the tragedy of her Anthony's short life. Beth, a stay-at-home mother of three, is also recently separated after discovering her husband's long-term infidelity.
7) Recuerda
Author
Publisher
Diana México
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
Contrario a lo que suele pensarse, olvidar es una función del cerebro humano, no un desperfecto. Se trata de un proceso para darle mayor fuerza a lo que sí recordamos. Una memoria sana es aquella que olvida y recuerda sin angustia. Lisa Genova, la afamada neurocientífica y autora de la novela Still Alice, retoma sus dos charlas TED —con más de 11 millones de vistas— para explicar los diferentes tipos de olvido y de remembranza con el propósito...