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21) You can have an amazing memory : learn life-changing techniques and tips from the memory maestro
Author
Publisher
Watkins
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Never forget a name or a number again! Dominic O'Brien is legendary for winning the World Memory Championship eight times and outwitting the casinos of Las Vegas to win a fortune at blackjack. Here, for the first time, he reveals his secrets for memory mastery. Follow his brain-boosting techniques and turn your mind into a super-powered computer that will recall PIN numbers with ease, remember directions, and help bring you success in business, leisure,...
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Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
This informative guide is full of tips for remembering everything from math and spelling rules to tricky science, history, and geography facts. It's a learning companion to help any student who has ever struggled to remember his multiplication tables, the spelling of the word "Mississippi," or the names of the planets.
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Language
English
Description
Eighty-three-year-old Etta has never seen the ocean. So early one morning she takes a rifle, some chocolate, and her best boots and begins walking the 3,232 kilometers from rural Saskatchewan, Canada eastward to the sea. As Etta walks further toward the crashing waves, the lines among memory, illusion, and reality blur. Otto wakes to a note left on the kitchen table. "I will try to remember to come back," Etta writes to her husband. Otto has seen...
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"On the Fourth of July, Hallie Evers dies at a rooftop party in Las Vegas. Hours later, she wakes up in the hospital, disoriented but alive. Why can't she find the doctor who revived her? Why does her head feel crowded and loud? Why do her memories feel both foreign and familiar? Her self-doubt spirals into crippling paranoia. Hallie knows that mental illness runs in her family--her mother suffered from delusions that led to an early death. But now...
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
"He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problem -- ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. She is an astute young Housekeeper, with a ten-year-old son, who is hired to care for him. And every morning, as the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and beautiful relationship blossoms between them. Though he cannot hold memories for long (his brain is...
28) Gone tonight
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Language
English
Description
"Catherine Sterling thinks she knows her mother. Ruth Sterling is quiet, hardworking, and lives for her daughter. All her life, it's been just the two of them against the world. But now, Catherine is ready to spread her wings, move from home, and begin a new career. And Ruth Sterling will do anything to prevent that from happening. Ruth Sterling thinks she knows her daughter. Catherine would never rebel, would never question anything about her mother's...
29) Brainstorm
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A husband and wife scientist duo discover a way to record dreams, thoughts and fantasies. They play them back for others to experience, only to have devastating results.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"When Cohen Marah steps over the body of his dead father on a cold spring morning, he steps into a labyrinth of memory. In the week that follows, he must confront his traumatic past, a violent present, and the most frightening question of all--did he kill his father?"--
31) One station away
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Language
English
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Description
"An overlooked pianist who finally receives fraught success after decades of disappointment. An elusive dancer whose fiancé is desperate to untangle her untimely death. A mysterious patient who is comatose after a violent accident. These are the three women who animate Olaf Olafsson's brilliantly rendered One Station Away. Magnus, a New York neurologist -- son to one, lover to another, and doctor to a third -- is the thread that binds these women's...
33) Nine
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English
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Description
"Lucy doesn't remember anything, even whether or not she likes milkshakes. All she remembers is that Olivia told her to run. When she encounters Zoe, a waitress at a small town diner, who has her own hidden past, Lucy instinctively trusts her. Powerful people are after Lucy, though, and as the girls continue to flee from the unknown, it seems Lucy may not be an innocent child. Her skills are more fitting for a hardened military veteran than a young...
34) Late bloomer
Author
Language
English
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Description
Twenty years have passed since the incident involving six lonely children at a secret playground in Indigo Valley, Pennsyvannia, which left the town bully dead and ten-year-old Cadt Jordan seriously injured.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
日本語
Description
Adjusting to college life is hard enough for most students, but ever since Banri Tada lost all his memories he's literally being haunted by the spirit of the person he was before the accident. And now that the Banri-that-is has fallen in love with Koko instead of Linda, the girl his old self was in love with, the ghost of the Banri-that-was is stepping up its efforts to sabotage his new relationship with every power at its disposal. Contains episodes...
Author
Publisher
Oceano exprés
Pub. Date
2015
Language
Español
Description
"Dos hombres coinciden en un burdel clandestino del que se cuentan historias espantosas. Mientras intentan resolver los misterios del edificio, descubren que nada es lo que parece: una presencia extraña acecha en las escaleras, una bella mujer avanza con una misión secreta, hay un turbio negocio de juegos eróticos con animales, puertas que se abren a sitios y tiempos insospechados. Y en el último piso está el jardín, el más grande enigma de...
40) The Death Cure
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Series
Language
English
Description
As the third Trial draws to a close, Thomas and some of his cohorts manage to escape from WICKED, their memories having been restored, only to face new dangers as WICKED claims to be trying to protect the human race from the deadly FLARE virus.
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