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Aphasia / by Cardenas, Mauro Javier,author.(CARDINAL)413710;
"Antonio works making spreadsheets for Bank of America, but not-so-secretly wants to be a great writer-or indeed to do anything that will help him avoid thinking about his sister, a paranoid schizophrenic on the run from the police. Antonio's attempts to write a novel become an ekphrastic performance of avoidance and evasion, darting between the past and the present to consider relationships erotic and familial, the worlds of architecture and literature, and how these languages might affect our lives"--
Subjects: Fiction.; Colombian Americans; Dysfunctional families; Immigrants;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 8
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Talking about aphasia : living with loss of language after stroke / by Parr, Susie,1953-(CARDINAL)642929; Byng, Sally,1956-(CARDINAL)642930; Gilpin, Sue.(CARDINAL)642931; Ireland, Chris.(CARDINAL)642932;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-144).
Subjects: Case studies.; Aphasia.; Aphasia; Cerebrovascular disease;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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My sunshine [large print] / by Anderson, Catherine(Adeline Catherine),author.(CARDINAL)346006;
Laura Townsend's life was nearly destroyed when a head injury impaired her ability to use language and forced her to abandon a brilliant career. But now she has a great new job at an animal clinic - and a handsome new boss who fills her heart with longing. Battling her feelings, Laura decides that veterinarian Isaiah Coulter deserves a woman who can meet all his needs - and that sometimes a woman must love a man enough to walk away.
Subjects: Large print books.; Romance fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Man-woman relationships; Aphasia; Veterinarians;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 9
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Nell [videorecording] / by Apted, Michael.; Clark, James,1931-; Foster, Jodie.(CARDINAL)361370; Handley, Mark,1956-; Hutman, Jon.; Isham, Mark.(CARDINAL)505604; Libertini, Richard.; Lyall, Susan.; Missel, Renée.; Neeson, Liam.(CARDINAL)344074; Nicholson, William.(CARDINAL)505253; Richardson, Natasha.(CARDINAL)356394; Spinotti, Dante.; Egg Pictures.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.(CARDINAL)340075; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.(CARDINAL)137420;
MARCIVE 10/05/10Director of photography, Dante Spinotti ; editor, Jim Clark ; music, Mark Isham ; costume designer, Susan Lyall ; production designer, Jon Hutman.Jodie Foster, Liam Neeson, Natasha Richardson, Richard Libertini.The backwoods of North Carolina is where Nell lives, all alone. She has her own form of language and no idea of a world beyond her small plot of land. When civilization enters her life, Nell's life will never be the same again.MPAA rating: PG-13.DVD, region 1, widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital.
Subjects: Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Aphasia; Speech and social status; Speech therapy;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 9
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Always Jane / by Bennett, Jenn,author.;
Ages 14 up.Grades 10-12.When eighteen-year-old chauffer's daughter Jane Marlow falls for Fen while still dating his brother Eddie, she lands in the middle of a longstanding competition between the two brothers that eventually threatens the future of their father's music empire.HL640L
Subjects: Novels.; Young adult fiction.; Dating (Social customs); Household employees; Sibling rivalry; Music trade; Brothers; Aphasia; Fathers; Fathers.;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 11
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One hundred names for love : a memoir / by Ackerman, Diane,1948-(CARDINAL)322999;
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Ackerman, Diane, 1948-; West, Paul, 1930-2015; Aphasia.; Aphasic persons; Aphasic persons; Cerebrovascular disease;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Walking through twilight : a wife's illness--a philosopher's lament / by Groothuis, Douglas R.,1957-author(CARDINAL)748280;
Includes bibliographical references"Nothing is simple for a person suffering from dementia, and for those they love. When ordinary tasks of communication, such as using a phone, become complex, then difficult, and then impossible, isolation becomes inevitable. Helping becomes excruciating. In these pages philosopher Douglas Groothuis offers a window into his experience of caring for his wife as a rare form of dementia ravages her once-brilliant mind and eliminates her once-stellar verbal acuity. Mixing personal narrative with spiritual insight, he captures moments of lament as well as philosophical and theological reflection. Brief interludes provide poignant pictures of life inside the Groothuis household, and we meet a parade of caregivers, including a very skilled companion dog. Losses for both Doug and Becky come daily, and his questions for God multiply as he navigates the descending darkness. Here is a frank exploration of how one continues to find God in the twilight"--Amazon.comRage in a psych -- The year of learning things I did not want to know -- Things fall apart -- Interlude: the mensa card -- It is eerie -- Giving up -- Interlude: sunny -- The temptation to hate God -- Learning to lament -- Interlude: my worried ear -- Joy in lament -- Moses and our sadness -- Interlude: the red book -- Lamenting in the classroom -- Lamenting on line -- Interlude: at the museum -- Technology free -- Learning to lie to my wife (as little as possible) -- Gallows humor -- Dogs, dementia, and us -- Miss Becky and a way of speaking -- Interlude: snack and scalp -- Words fail us -- My escape into meaning -- Interlude: Becky as my student -- How is Becky? -- Interlude: resting -- Conclusion: from twilight into darkness
Subjects: Groothuis, Douglas R., 1957-; Groothuis, Rebecca Merrill; Caring; Anticipatory grief; Bereavement; Aphasia; Dementia;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Nell [videorecording] / by Apted, Michael,film director.; Missel, Renée,film producer.; Foster, Jodie,actor,film producer.(CARDINAL)361370; Nicholson, William,screenwriter.(CARDINAL)505253; Handley, Mark,1956-screenwriter.; Neeson, Liam,actor.(CARDINAL)344074; Richardson, Natasha,actor.(CARDINAL)356394; Libertini, Richard,actor.; Searcy, Nick,actor.; Davies, Jeremy,1969-actor.; Compton, O'Neal,actor.; Egg Pictures.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.(CARDINAL)340075; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.(CARDINAL)137420;
Director of photography, Dante Spinotti ; editor, Jim Clark ; music, Mark Isham ; costume designer, Susan Lyall ; production designer, Jon Hutman.Jodie Foster, Liam Neeson, Natasha Richardson, Richard Libertini, Nick Searcy, Jeremy Davies, O'Neal Compton.The backwoods of North Carolina is where Nell lives, all alone. She has her own form of language and no idea of a world beyond her small plot of land. When civilization enters her world, Nell's life will never be the same again.MPAA rating: PG-13.DVD; Dolby Digital.
Subjects: Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Handley, Mark, 1956-; Handley, Mark, 1956-; Aphasia; Speech therapy; Speech and social status; Feral children; Recluses; Social isolation;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 6
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A stitch of time : the year a brain injury changed my language and life / by Marks, Lauren,author.(CARDINAL)414219;
"An eloquent memoir of a 27 year old actress who suffered a massive brain aneurysm onstage at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and awoke to discover that she had aphasia, a rare condition in which one loses the ability to speak, read and write"--Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-358).
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Case studies.; Marks, Lauren.; Aphasic persons; Aneurysms; Aphasia; Aneurysms; Actresses;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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A brilliant loss : poems / by Healy, Eloise Klein,author.(CARDINAL)859426;
"Eloise Klein Healy's A Brilliant Loss is a poetic journey into the loss of language and the reclaiming of it. Healy had Wernicke's aphasia in 2013 when she was the first poet laureate of the City of Los Angeles, and the virus hit her the night of her reading with Caroline Kennedy at the Central Library. Also called fluent aphasia, Wernicke's aphasia affects language and the use of words. Healy's collection shows that her brain has access to its deepest unconscious, and that place is poetry. Her deepest language is poetry. It's as if a dancer was denied the ability to walk or run, and could only dance. Healy writes of losing her words and finding big love"--
Subjects: Poetry.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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