THUR., MARCH 15, 6:30 PM - Book signing at Janke Book Store

Author: Catherine E. G. Gray, Softcover, 214 pages

This book is a hilarious work of fiction based on my experience as a nurse's aide. Some of the stories are from other nurse's aides in other parts of the country. However, the administrative issues and descriptions of the job itself are accurate.
Elderly people are entering nursing facilities all across America each day and are usually fearful because of what they know of nursing homes of the past. This book has been written to share their stories and give you insight into preparing your loved ones for their stay in a nursing home. There are many considerations when choosing a nursing facility for your loved one. If you have time to plan and choose where they will stay, there are many things you can decide right from the start on their behalf. If their stay with the facility was unplanned and sudden, there are still things you should know about life in a nursing home and the general atmosphere of these new homes that can set your mind at ease. Not everything about these places is negative and depressing anymore. People go into these homes with every bit of their old personality that they had when they were younger. Many times their sense of humor is just as active as it has ever been. There are many reasons to laugh and be filled with joy during these latter years of their lives. There are activities and entertainment provided in nursing homes to keep them busy.
Many of our elderly have moved into these homes and made the best of it. They make friends and get involved in activities that keep them busy. Not a day passes where they are not making us laugh or vice versa.

 

SAT., MARCH 17, 10 AM to 2 PM - Book signing at Janke Book Store

Doris comes home one day to find that her husband of over 20 years has started receiving instructions directly from God. Her routine life is changed overnight into a chaotic nightmare where she finds herself shunned by friends, her church, and a community that once respected them.
Prisoner of God is one woman’s true story about coping with the negative effects of mental illness. Through courage, bravery, and an uncompromising decision she finds her way back to sanity in this story of community and personal relationships.




 

TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 6:30 PM - Book talk and signing at Janke Book Store

Softover, 208 pages

A hot August afternoon and Midwest Clinic CEO John McNeil has been working late. Working on his latest conquest, that is. Jen Williams is twenty-six, in charge of graphics for the hospital's PR division—and quite attractive in a healthy, athletic kind of way. She is quick to laugh and a little too quick to fall for guys. She is no virgin. And she is one of three women—including his wife—intimately familiar with McNeil. When Jen's youthful body is found with a single stab wound through the heart, suspicion falls on both McNeil's wife, who insists she is being stalked, and the striking hospital physician with whom he had just ended an affair. Pressure to find the killer falls on Loon Lake Police Chief Lewellyn "Lew" Ferris and Dr. Paul "Doc" Osborne, the retired dentist and forensic dental expert whom she has deputized to help with the investigation—when they are not taking a break for fishing and other personal pursuits. When the mayor demands Lew take early retirement—and Doc has to babysit his teenage granddaughter who won't stop texting—the frustrations mount. Desperate for a few hours off—and persuaded by Ray Pradt (a fishing guide who wears a stuffed trout on his head, so they should have known better)—to try fly fishing from kayaks, Doc and Lew find themselves in life-and-death straits on the river. This leads to an unexpected and macabre discovery that just may break the case.