The Sheridan Rondeau Interview
Marion Agnew interviews Sheridan Rondeau about her new book, Dear Braveheart: A Caregiver's Loving Journey Through Alzheimer's Dementia.
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The End of Her: Racing Against Alzheimer’s to Solve a Murder by Wayne Hoffman
Who was behind the brutal murder of my great-grandmother? wondered Wayne Hoffman, a New York City-based journalist and novelist. The crime wasn't just a family legend-it made headlines across Canada in 1913-but her killer had never been found. In The End of Her, Hoffman meticulously researches this century-old tragedy, while facing another: his mother's decline from Alzheimer's.
Excerpt: Dear Braveheart – A Caregiver’s Loving Journey Through Alzheimer’s Dementia by Sheridan Rondeau
An excerpt from Dear Braveheart – A Caregiver’s Loving Journey Through Alzheimer’s Dementia by Sheridan Rondeau, published by Crossfield Publishing.
Still Waters – Kamal Parmar
Still Waters is a Poetic Memoir of the sorrows and stress of a loving daughter watching her mother deteriorate into the throes of the dreaded ‘disease of the decades’, Alzheimer's Disease.
September is World Alzheimer’s Month/The Smallest Objective by Sharon Kirsch
The Smallest Objective is a story about the decline of a parent, and of the author’s reflection on this passage in life; as the narrator struggles with her mother’s failing memory, unexpected secrets come into focus and a layered legacy … Continue reading
Bill Arnott’s Beat: Dementia, Depression, and Other Feel-Good Stories
I have a friend (acquaintance, really) – Gunnar Thor Gunnarsson. Best name EVER, I thought. Until I met Lorenz von Fersen. Now THAT’S a name. The kind of name I’d choose for myself, assuming Max Power’s already been taken. Turns … Continue reading
Waiting for Still Water by Susan White
Award-winning New Brunswick author Susan White’s newest young adult/middle-grader novel is Waiting for Still Water, a book centred around an extended family composed of foster children, past and present, who have been under the care of the redoubtable Amelia … Continue reading