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383) The lookout
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
An admired high school hockey player with a bright future, drives in the night with his girl friend and two other friends with his headlights off with devastating results. The former athlete is left with a brain injury that prevents him from remembering many things for extended periods of time. To compensate, he keeps notes in a small notebook to aid him in remembering what he is to do. He also lives with a blind friend who aids him. He is unable...
384) Smile
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A breakout from the Booker-prize-winning novelist Roddy Doyle. A psychological suspense novel unlike any he's written before, about how we contend with the past, trauma, guilt and regret, and the uncertainty of memory. Who is unreliable? Just moved in to a new apartment, alone for the first time in years, Victor Forde goes every evening to Donnelly's pub for a pint, a slow one. One evening his drink is interrupted. A man in shorts and pink shirt...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A graphic novel adaptation of the book, in which twelve-year-old Sophie discovers the abilities that have always caused her to stand out are because she is actually an elf and, after she is brought to Eternalia where she can hone her skills, Sophie learns she harbors certain secrets that others would kill to learn.
386) Eventown
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The world tilted for Elodee this year, and now it's impossible for her to be the same as she was before. Not when her feelings have such a strong grip on her heart. Not when she and her twin sister, Naomi, seem to be drifting apart. So when Elodee's mom gets a new job in Eventown, moving seems like it might just fix everything. Indeed, life in Eventown is comforting and exciting all at once. Their kitchen comes with a box of recipes for Elodee to...
388) Remember me gone
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Lucy Miller's family has been erasing people's heartaches and tragic memories for decades, but after an encounter with Marco Warman--a local boy Lucy has always wondered about and who seems to know more than he should--Lucy begins to question her family's legacy and her role in it.
People come to Memory House in Tumble Tree, Texas-- to forget. Lucy Miller's father can literally erase folks' heartache and tragic memories, and she...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A noted neuroscientist reveals groundbreaking research on how fitness and exercise can combat mental health conditions such as anxiety, dementia, ADHD, and depression, and offers a plan for improving focus, creativity, and sleep.
"Jennifer Heisz shares paradigm-shifting research on how exercise affects the brain, finding that intervals of intense workouts, or even leisurely walks, help stop depression and dementia, lessen anxiety and ADHD, and encourage...
Author
Series
Chester Raccoon (Picture books) volume 5
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
After his mother explains why his classmate is not returning to school, she teaches Chester Raccoon how to make a memory.
391) Still mine
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
An exquisitely mounted and deeply affecting story about one man's determination to create a home for his ailing wife as they enter their twilight years. Based on actual events, that proves love is the ultimate triumph.
392) Our last echoes
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
People have been vanishing from an island called Bitter Rock for decades, Sophie learns after her own mother disappears in 2003 and she receives a mysterious phone call. Following the trail, the oddly-familiar place seems to explain her impossible dream -- memory? -- of drowning and being rescued as an infant. There may be other answers here, and Sophie may be the only one who can unlock them...or she may just be the next victim.
395) Afterward
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Dylan Anderson is kidnapped, his subsequent rescue leads to the discovery of Ethan Jorgensen, who had disappeared four years earlier, and now Dylan's sister Caroline befriends Ethan and wants to learn the truth about her autistic brother's captivity.
396) Breaking beautiful
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Allie is overwhelmed when her boyfriend, Trip, dies in a car accident, leaving her scarred and unable to recall what happened that night, but she feels she must uncover the truth, even if it could hurt the people who tried to save her from Trip's abuse.
Author
Series
Agatha girl of mystery volume 4
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Agatha Mistery, a twelve-year-old detective with a photographic memory, and her cousin Dash are summoned to Niagara Falls to investigate a jewel heist.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"On an ordinary night in an ordinary year, Tommy Llewellyn's doting parents wake in a home without toys and diapers, without photos of their baby scattered about, and without any idea that the small child asleep in his crib is theirs. That's because Tommy is a boy destined to never be remembered. On the same day every year, everyone around him forgets he exists, and he grows up enduring his own universal Reset. That is until something extraordinary...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the author of the highly acclaimed The Railwayman's Wife, called a "literary and literate gem" by Psychology Today, comes an emotionally resonant and profound new novel of two families, interconnected through the house that bears witness to their lives. When Elsie Gormley leaves the Brisbane house in which she has lived for more than sixty years, Lucy Kiss and her family move in, eager to establish their new life. As they settle in, Lucy and...
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