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by Julie Otsuka
Published Jan 2023
Read ReviewsFrom the bestselling, award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and When the Emperor Was Divine comes a novel about what happens to a group of obsessed recreational swimmers when a crack appears at the bottom of their local pool - a tour de force of economy, precision, and emotional power.
by Camilla Grebe
Published Feb 2019
Read ReviewsBrought together by a brutal murder, a psychological profiler who's lost her memory and a teenage boy with a fiercely guarded secret become unwitting, unlikely partners in this race to stop a killer.
by Deborah Carol Gang
Published Sep 2018
Read ReviewsDavid and Kate are happily married fifty-somethings when she's diagnosed with early Alzheimer's. He has never been unfaithful, but after several years of losing Kate more each day, he wonders: What is a married widower supposed to do? Two strong-willed women intervene and everyone finds themselves making unexpected choices.
by Joseph Jebelli
Published Oct 2017
Read ReviewsFor readers of Atul Gawande, Siddhartha Mukherjee, and Henry Marsh, a riveting, gorgeously written biography of one of history's most fascinating and confounding diseases - Alzheimer's - from its discovery more than 100 years ago to today's race towards a cure.
by Phil Hogan
Published Jan 2016
Read ReviewsIn the tradition of Patricia Highsmith's Tom Ripley novels comes a deliciously unsettling tale of psychological suspense that delves into the mind of a man with a chilling double life.
by John Farrow
Published May 2015
Read ReviewsTwo policemen are called to an isolated farm house. Inside are two dead people. But there are no tracks in the snow leading either to the house or away. What happened here?
by Carol Cassella
Published Mar 2015
Read ReviewsA stranger's life hangs in the balance. What if you had the power to decide if she lives or dies?
by S.J. Watson
Published Feb 2012
Read ReviewsMemories define us. So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep? Welcome to Christine's life.
by Andrea Gillies
Published Oct 2011
Read ReviewsKeeper is a fiercely honest "glimpse into the dementia abyss" - an endlessly engrossing meditation on memory and the mind, on family, and on a society that is largely indifferent to the far-reaching ravages of this baffling disease.
The Housekeeper and the Professor
by Yoko Ogawa
Published Feb 2009
Read ReviewsOne of BookBrowse's Top 4 Favorite Books of 2009. He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problem--ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. She is an astute young Housekeeper, with a ten-year-old son, who is hired to care for him.
by Lisa Genova
Published Jan 2009
Read ReviewsStill Alice is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman's sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer's disease, written by first-time author Lisa Genova, who holds a Ph. D in neuroscience from Harvard University.
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