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"How do our brains store-and then conjure up-past experiences to make us who we are? A twinge of sadness, a rush of love, a knot of loss, a whiff of regret. Memories have the power to move us, often when we least expect it, a sign of the complex neural process that continues in the background of our everyday lives. This process shapes us: filtering the world around us, informing our behavior and feeding our imagination. Psychiatrist Veronica O'Keane...
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"A luminous literary debut following two patients in recovery after an experimental memory drug warps their lives. Lucien moves to Los Angeles to be with his grandmother as she undergoes an experimental memory treatment for Alzheimer's using a new drug, Memoroxin. An emerging photographer, he's also running from the sudden death of his mother, a well-known artist whose legacy haunts him even far from New York. Sophie has just landed the lead in the...
44) Remind me
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Holiday House
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[2023]
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English
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Eldon, a young elephant, accompanies and supports his grandmother, Big Ella, as she copes with memory loss.
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Pantheon Books
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[2019]
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English
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"A deft and dark Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, things are disappearing. First, animals and flowers. Then objects--ribbons, bells, photographs. Then, body parts. Most of the island's inhabitants fail to notice these changes, while those few imbued with the power to recall the lost objects live in fear of the mysterious...
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Francia, 1714: en un momento de desesperación, una joven hace un trato fáustico para vivir para siempre y es maldecida a ser olvidada por todos los que conoce. Así comienza la extraordinaria vida de Addie LaRue, y una deslumbrante aventura que se desarrollará a lo largo de siglos y continentes, a través de la historia y el arte, mientras una joven descubre hasta dónde llegará para dejar su huella en el mundo. Pero todo cambia cuando, después...
48) The deep
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Saga Press
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2019
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English
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"The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underwater society -- and must reclaim the memories of their past to shape their future in this brilliantly imaginative novella inspired by the [...] song "The Deep" from Daveed Diggs's rap group clipping. Yetu holds the memories for her people -- water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners -- who live idyllic...
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Pertime Publishing
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[2018]
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English
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"Nathaniel Moon is called The Reluctant Messiah by the media. He gained complete consciousness in the womb, and has powers and abilities that define the word "miraculous." And yet, he only wants to live his quiet life in Middle Falls, Oregon, as a hospital janitor, where he helps patients come to grip with their own mortality. When his goddaughter's very life is threatened by a bomb-wielding madman, Nathaniel has to step forward and show the world...
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Pertime Publishing
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[2018]
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English
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"As a child, Scott Mckenzie watched his father kill his mother. In response, he vowed to become a police officer. Instead, he was drafted to serve in Vietnam, where he was badly wounded. After a year of recuperation in a nightmarish VA hospital, he is set free on the world. Unable to cope, he eventually takes his own life. He wakes up at an earlier point in his life, all memories intact. He seizes this opportunity to right many of the wrongs of the...
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Pertime Publishing
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[2018]
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English
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"Time Travel with a twist! Just before she dies, Veronica McAllister admits, "I wasn't very good at life." After she passes, she opens her eyes to find herself in her teenage body, all memories of her previous life still intact. Given the rarest of gifts, a second chance, can the woman who "wasn't very good at life" change that?" -- back cover.
52) Nightfall
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Keeper of the lost cities volume 6
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Aladdin
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English
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"Sophie must uncover the truth about the Lost Cities' insidious past, before it repeats itself and changes reality"--
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Scribner
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2022.
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English
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"What if you once had a painful memory removed? And what if you were offered the chance to get it back? Tell Me an Ending follows four characters grappling with the question of what to remember-and what they hoped to forget forever. Finn, an Irish architect living in the Arizona desert, begins to suspect his charming wife of having an affair. Mei, a troubled grad school drop-out in Kuala Lumpur, wonders why she remembers a city she's never visited....
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Hogarth
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[2019]
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English
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At the age of ninety-something, Beryl Dusinbery is forgetting everything - including her own children. Her tongue, meanwhile, remains as sharp as ever. She spends her days stitching macabre messages into her needlework and tormenting her two long-suffering carers with tangled stories of her love affairs. Shimi Carmelli can do up his own buttons, get around without the aid of a walking frame, and speak without spitting. Among the widows of North London,...
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"What happens when a girl who can't forget befriends a man who's desperate to remember?"--Jacket.
Grief-stricken over his partner Sydney's death, Gavin sets fire to every reminder in the couple's home before fleeing Los Angeles for New Jersey. There he hopes to find peace with the family of an old friend. Joan, the family's ten-year-old daughter, was born Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory, or HSAM: the rare ability to recall every day of her...
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Neuroscientist Dean Buonomano illuminates the causes and consequences of the brain's imperfections in terms of its innermost workings and its evolutionary purposes. He then examines how our brains function--and malfunction--in the digital, predator-free, information-saturated, special-effects-addled world we have built for ourselves.
59) Such dark things
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Dr. Corinne Cabot is a successful ER physician who lives in a charming house in the suburbs of Chicago and is married to a handsome husband. But appearances can be deceiving-and what no one can see is Corinne's dark past. Troubling gaps in her memory mean she recalls little about a haunting event in her life years ago that changed everything. She remembers only being in the house the night two people were found murdered. Her father was there, too....
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