The Fading of Lloyd embroils the reader in family history as members struggle through historic challenges: the end of the American frontier, the dawn of railroad travel that wove Midwest communities together, World War I, and the social mores of the 1920s and 1930s. The Huttleston family, whose son, Lloyd, is mentally retarded, struggles to cope with the difficulties encountered with his care. After he is diagnosed schizophrenic and institutionalized, Lloyd dies during shock therapy. The Fading of Lloyd poses many questions by revealing a family’s journey with mental retardation and the actions of an insane asylum in early 20th century. Armed with today’s knowledge, this journey is filled with tragic realizations and even horror at what were considered “norms” at the time.

The Fading of Lloyd

Literature & Fiction

Crumpton, Kit

Literary

Golden Word Books

Blood on the Risers is a song paratroopers sing about a comrade who is killed when his parachute does not open properly, risers being the shroud lines running from the harness up to the canopy. The song is gory, and usually sung over many drinks.In this novel, Phillip Dee, a young lieutenant reporting to an airborne unit in Germany on the eve of the Vietnam War, is shocked to see four troopers plummet to earth with their canopies tangled, their bodies crushed as they hit the ground.Dee is even more shocked when the officer who is guiding him to his unit urges him to join in singing the song after seeing the four hit the earth, leading Dee to wonder what kind of madhouse he has been assigned to--which is what this compelling new novel is all about.

Blood on the Risers

Doss, S.R.

Genre Fiction

Mindful Dementia Care is a book of stories and a book of love.It is a book without denial, without any papering over ofthe challenges that can be involved with being a caregiver, and thesadness, anger, and frustration they may bring. It is also a life-changingsource of information that can revolutionize relationships with oneof the most vulnerable populations in our midst. In her decades as acaregiver, Ruth Dennis witnessed the tragic results of the medicalizedand institutionalized way of caring for people with dementia. Andequally clearly, she saw a better way.Mindful Dementia Care illustrates alternative methods for makinga difference and achieving results through care that honors the wholeperson. The key is creating an environment with countless enrichingtouchstones to the inner person through facilities that are filled withart, animal companions, music, dance, books, laughter, and wholesomefood. It is an approach that embraces creative and artistic processes toshape a more loving, spiritual approach for elders and their families.

Mindful Dementia Care: Lost and Found in the Alzheimer's Forest

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Dennis, Ruth

Nachtrab, Luke

Arellano, Velma

Mental Health

The Earth is dying—its life forms bound for extinction—unless the most fundamental of changes is made: Carbon-based fuels must be abandoned.Chaos results—migrating hordes of starving people, abandoned hospitals and prisons (patients and inmates still inside), and deserted cities where only cockroaches still live.But then Jesse Forester, the U.N. scientist responsible for the changes that survival demands, finds hints that the data at the core of the new global policy may be flawed. And murders start happening.Rushing headlong into a frantic search for the truth, Jesse and his team discover pockets of people who are living rich and satisfying lives in Eden-like landscapes without any use of carbon fuels. As the plotters Jesse is seeking become more desperate, can these flourishing communities help avert humanity’s slow death from the poisonous fruits of climate change growing at its doorstep?

The Delicate Balance

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Turpen, Vicki

Horst, Shannon

Mystery

A World of Our Own Making: A Sequel to Walden Two

Shuler, Michael

Secrets of the Creative Life: A Book of Inspiration

Bannwart, Shanti Elke

Religion & Spirituality

The wide range of useful information contained in How My Brain Works can help the reader in many ways: basic understanding of this unique organ, advice for anyone concerned about the possibility of a cognitive problem, and the wisdom of the author’s experience in helping her many patients and others to keep their brains healthy and working at their highest level. Students with learning problems, young people considering varied career paths, victims of brain injuries or mental disorders, the middle-aged and elderly at risk of dementia—all can gain from the knowledge Dr. Barbara Koltuska-Haskin has gained in her many years as a practicing neuropsychologist. In easy-to-understand language, she explains the countless ways the evaluation process she uses can help people in a wide variety of situations, and how the results can be used for maximum benefit. Plus, building on this information, Dr. Koltuska-Haskin offers a wealth of advice and tips on how to build and maintain optimum brain health. Reaching widely into the physical, psychological, nutritional, and spiritual worlds, she pulls together new research as well as age-old treasured learning to create an everyday guide to harnessing our most powerful mental tools in shaping the healthful and successful lives we all seek.

How My Brain Works: A Guide to Understanding It Better and Keeping It Healthy

Koltuska-Haskin, Barbara

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Presence: Poems from Ghost Ranch

Stein, Howard F.

Poetry

Santa Fe police detective Pascal Ruiz becomes disenchanted with his job after solving the high-profile theft of a Stradivarius violin. That is until the captain asks him, off the record, to look into the disappearance of his niece's boyfriend, Bobby Pilot. Pilot, staying out at Diamond Tail Ranch south of Santa Fe while his girlfriend has a part in a TV western, has been struggling to write an article on the Penitentes, a religious order known for its Holy Week reenactments of Christ's last day on earth, while he also prepares for the upcoming Easter procession to Chimay . Ruiz finds Pilot alive but unconscious in an abandoned pueblo, clothed in a Jesus costume and tied to a cross. He suspects the Penitentes and believes the costume is one recently stolen from a Santa Fe Opera storage building. But the pueblo is on the San Felipe Reservation, not in Ruiz's jurisdiction. Tribal police take over the case, and Ruiz attempts to wheedle his way in by befriending the tribal police captain. In his desperation to link the two cases, he crosses the line and puts his career in jeopardy.

Rites & Wrongs

Harrison, Holly

A Game of Inches

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