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• Still Alice

  a Novel

  Genova, Lisa

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  Alice Howard, a 50-year-old Harvard psychology professor, begins experiencing troubling memory lapses and is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. As her condition progresses, Alice struggles to keep up with her career, maintain her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Notebook

  Sparks, Nicholas

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  After returning home from World War II, Noah Calhoun restores an old plantation house while holding onto memories of Allie, the woman he fell deeply in love with fourteen years earlier. Their lives took separate paths, but when Allie unexpectedly…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Story of Arthur Truluv

  a Novel

  Berg, Elizabeth,

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  After losing his wife, Arthur spends his days visiting her grave and imagining conversations with her. There, he befriends Maddy, a lonely teenager hiding from school, and the two form an unexpected friendship. Along with Arthur's neighbor Lucille,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Things We Keep

  Hepworth, Sally,

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  Anna Forster, a 38-year-old woman in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, moves into an assisted living facility where she unexpectedly falls in love with Luke, another young resident with early-onset dementia. As Anna’s memory continues to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The House at Riverton

  a Novel

  Morton, Kate, 1976-

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  Set in England between the two World Wars, the story follows an aristocratic family and the servants who live at Riverton House as their privileged way of life begins to disappear. Told through the memories of a woman who witnessed the family’s…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

  a Novella

  Backman, Fredrik, 1981-

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  An elderly man struggles to hold on to his most precious memories as his memory begins to fade. While his family works to care for him, they must also learn to accept the changes that come with aging and find a way to let go while honoring the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Madonnas of Leningrad

  Dean, Debra, 1957-

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  As Marina grows older and experiences dementia, she struggles to retain recent memories of her family and everyday life while vivid memories of her youth during the Siege of Leningrad remain intact. As a young woman working at the Hermitage Museum…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Giver

  Lowry, Lois

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  In a seemingly perfect society where pain, conflict, and difficult emotions have been eliminated, twelve-year-old Jonas is chosen to become the Receiver of Memory—the one person responsible for preserving humanity’s memories of the past. As he…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Abuela, Don't Forget Me

  Ogle, Rex,

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  Rex Ogle reflects on his close relationship with his grandmother as she ages and begins experiencing memory loss. Through family memories and moments of connection, he explores the challenges of watching someone you love change while holding on to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Wilderness

  a Novel

  Harvey, Samantha, 1975-

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  Jake, a man in his mid-sixties with Alzheimer’s disease, struggles to hold on to his memories, identity, and understanding of his own life. As his condition progresses, memories of his wife, children, and past become fragmented and unreliable,…Read moreRead more of this annotation