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Personal Narratives






Alzheimer's : another opportunity to love / Grayce Bonham Confer. -- Kansas City, Mo. : Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City, c1992.

Alzheimer's disease : accepting the loss with spirit: (a guide for those who care) / by Virginia Malachowski. -- Ludlow, MA : Blisswood, c1987.

Am I old yet? / Leah Komaiko. - New York, N.Y. : St. Martin's Press, c1999.

Another name for madness / Marion Roach. -- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1985.

Beating Alzheimer's : a step towards unlocking the mysteries of brain diseases / Tom Warren. -- Garden City Park, N.Y. : Avery Pub. Group, c1991.

Between two worlds : special moments of Alzheimer's & dementia / Ellen P. Young. - Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1999.

The Caregiver : a life with Alzheimer's / Aaron Alterra. - South Royalton, Vt. : Steerforth Press, c1999.

Catch a falling star : living with Alzheimer’s / by Betty Baker Spohr with Jean Valens Bullard. -- Seattle, Wash. : Storm Peak Press, c1995.

Daddyboy : a memoir / Carol Wolfe Konek. -- Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, c1991.

The Diminished mind : one family's extraordinary battle with Alzheimer's : the Jean Tyler story / by Harry Anifantakis ; foreword by Jay M. Ellis. -- Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Tab Books, c1991.

The Dying of the light: living with Alzheimer's disease / Arthur Olson. - Ontario, Canada: General Store Publishing House, c1992.

Do I know you? : an anthology / edited by Jeannette Steinitz ; illustrated by Priscilla Halpern. -- San Dieto : Alzheimer's Association of San Diego, c1991. [Poetry]

Elegy for Iris / John Bayley. - New York : Picador USA, 1999.

Facing Alzheimer's : family caregivers speak / Patricia Brown Coughlan. -- New York : Ballantine Books, c1993.

Finding the joy in Alzheimer's: caregivers share the joyful times / Brenda Avadian. - Lancaster, Calif.: North Star Books, c2002.

For Sasha, with love : an Alzheimer's crusade : the Anne Bashkiroff story / Gail Bernice Holland. -- New York : Dembner Books, c1985.

Ginny: a love remembered / Bob Artley. - - Ames, Iowa. : Iowa State University Press, c1993.

A Glass full of tears : dementia day-by-day / June Lund Shiplett. -- Cleveland, Ohio : Writer's World Press, c1996.

Gone without a trace / by Marianne Dickerman Caldwell. -- Forest Knolls, Calif. : Elder Books, c1995.

Gramp/ photographs by Mary Jury and Dan Jury ; narrative text by Mark Jury. -- New York : Grossman, 1976.

Grandma's soup / Nancy Karkowsky. -Rockville, Md. : Kar-Ben Copies, Inc., c1989.

He used to be somebody : a journey into Alzheimer's disease through the eyes of a caregiver / Beverly Bigtree Murphy. -- Boulder, Ohio : Gibbs Associates, c1995.

I can't remember / Esther Strauss Smoller. - Philadelphia, Pa.. : Temple University Press, c1997.

I choose to continue / Bobbie Glaze Custer. -- Bloomington, MN : BGC Pub. Co., [199-]

I love you too!/ Woodrow Wirsig. -- New York : M. Evans & Co., c1990.

I want to remember : a son's reflection on his mother's Alzheimer journey / David Dodson Gray. -- Wellesley, Mass. : Roundtable Press, c1993.

If you don't laugh, you'll cry : a portrait of Alzheimer's / by Mary Ann Millard. -- San Bernardino, Calif. : Western Graphics of San Berdardino, 1994.

In a tangled wood : an Alzheimer's journey / Joyce Dyer ; foreword by Ian Frazier. - Dallas : Southern Methodist University Press, 1996.

In sickness & in health : caring for a loved one with Alzheimer’s / William M. Grubbs. -- Forest Knolls, Calif. : Elder Books, c1997.

In sickness and in health : a diary of one family's struggle with Alzheimer's disease / Alfred C. Wooll. -- Ann Arbor : Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Association, c1985.

Journey with grandpa : our family's struggle with Alzheimer's disease / by Rosalie Walsh Honel. -- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Press, c1988.

Life with Charlie : coping with an Alzheimer spouse or other dementia patient and keeping your sanity / by Carol Heckman-Owen. -- Venture, CA : Pathfinder Pub. of California, c1992.

Living in the labyrinth : a personal journey through the maze of Alzheimer's/ Diana Friel McGowin. -- San Francisco : Elder Books, c1993.

Living with Alzheimer's : Ruth's story/ by Art Danforth ; forewords by Peter V. Rabins, Lin Noyes. -- Falls Church, VA : Prestige Press, c1984.

Learning to sit in the silence: a journal of caretaking / Elaine Marcus Starkman.-Watsonville, CA. : Papier-Mache Press, c1993.

Losing Lou-Ann / Clinton A. Erb. -Brandon, Vermont : Holistic Education Press, c1996.

Losing my mind: an intimate look at life with Alzheimer's / Thomas DeBaggio. -New York, New York : The Free Press, c2002.

Lucy's (completely COOL and totally true) E-Journal / Jane Harrington. - New York, New York. : Scholastic Inc., c2001.

Mainstay : for the well spouse of the chronically ill / Maggie Strong. -- Boston : Little, Brown, c1988.

My father forgets / by Lynn McAndrews. -- Maple City, Mich. : Northern Pub., c1990.

My mother's descent into Alzheimer's: death in slow motion / Eleanor Cooney. - New York, New York: Harper Collins Publishers, c2003.

My journey into Alzheimer's disease / Robert Davis with help from his wife, Betty. -- Wheaton, Ill. : Tyndale House, c1989.

The Notebook / Nicholas Sparks. -- New York, NY : Warner Books, c1996. [Fiction]

One family's journey through Alzheimer's / Mary B. Walsh. - Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers, c2000.

Only with the heart / Sherri Szeman. - New York, N.Y.: Arcade Publishing, c2000.

Painted diaries : a mother and daughter’s experience through Alzheimer’s / Kim Howes Zabbia. -- Minneapolis : Fairview Press, 1996.

Partial view : an Alzheimer's journal / text by Cary Smith Henderson : photographs by Nancy Andrews ; edited by Jackie Henderson Main, Ruth D. Henderson, and Nancy Andrews. - Dallas : Southern Methodist University Press, 1998.

Past forgetting : my memory lost and found / Jill Robinson. - New York, NY : Cliff Street Books, c1999.

The rest of my life / by Laura Russell Hunter with Polly Hunter Memhard. -- Stamford, CT : Growing Pains Press, c1981.

Shades of Grace / Barbara Delinsky. -- New York : HarperPaperbacks, 1997. [Fiction]

Show me the way to go home / by Larry Rose. -- Forest Knolls, Calif. : Elder Books, c1996.

Speaking our minds: personal reflections from individuals with Alzheimer's / Lisa Snyder. - New York, New York. : W.H. Freeman and Company, c1999-2000.

Stolen mind: the slow disappearance of Ray Doernberg / by Myrna Doernberg; with an introduction by Barry W. Rovner. - Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, c1986.

The Story of my father / Sue Miller. - - New York, NY. : Alfred A. Knopf, c2003

Surviving Grace / Trish Vradenburg. - - New York, NY. : Broadway Play Publishing Inc., c2003.

Tales from my teachers on the Alzheimer’s unit : poetry / by Sue Silvermarie ; photography by Andi McKenna. -- Milwaukee, Wis. : Families International, Inc., c1996.

Through the wilderness of Alzheimer's : a guide in two voices / Robert & Anne Simpson. - Minneapolis : Augsburg, 1999.

A View from within: living with early onset Alzheimer's / Thaddeus M. Raushi. - Albany, N.Y. : Northeastern New York Chapter, Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Assoc., Inc., c2001.

When Alzheimer's hits home / Jo Danna. -- New York : Palomino Press, c1995.

When Meme came to live at my house / Mary Janine Langdon. - Martinsville, N.J. : Phoenix Home Life Insurance Co., c1998.

Whilst thy tower crumbles / Opal Alumbaugh Doubleday. -- New York : Vantage Press, c1984.

Will I be next? : the terror of living with familial Alzheimer's disease : Bea Gorman's life story / by Lois Bristow. -- Acampo, Calif. : HopeWarren Press, c1996.

The Worst day of my life, so far / M.A. Harper. - Athens, Georgia: Hill Street Press, c2001.

Your name is Hughes Hannibal Shanks : a caregiver's guide to Alzheimer's / Lela Knox Shanks ; with a foreword by Steven H. Zarit. - Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, c1996.


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