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81) More than this
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seth cannot figure out if he is dead or alive. He cannot figure out where he is, though it seems as if he is in the English town he lived in as a child before his family moved to America.
82) Stay awake
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the vein of SJ Watson's Before I Go to Sleep and Christopher Nolan's cult classic Memento, Megan Goldin's Stay Awake is an electrifying novel that plays with memory and murder. Liv Reese wakes up in the back of a taxi with no idea where she is or how she got there. When she's dropped off at the door of her brownstone, a stranger answers--a stranger who now lives in her apartment and forces her out in the cold. She reaches for her phone to call...
83) Just like Jackie
Author
Language
English
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Description
Publisher Annotation: For as long as Robinson Hart can remember, it?s just been her and Grandpa. He taught her about cars, baseball, and everything else worth knowing. But Grandpa?s memory has been getting bad?so bad that he sometimes can?t even remember Robbie?s name. She?s sure that she?s making things worse by getting in trouble at school, but she can?t resist using her fists when bullies like Alex Carter make fun of her for not having a mom. Now...
Author
Series
Amulet (Kazu Kibuishi) volume 7
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
197 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Emily, Trellis, and Vigo visit Algos Island, where they can access and enter lost memories. They're hoping to uncover the events of Trellis's mysterious childhood -- knowledge they can use against the Elf King. What they discover is a dark secret that changes everything. Meanwhile, the Voice of Emily's Amulet is getting stronger, and threatens to overtake her completely"--
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
x, 300 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A mesmerizing breakthrough novel of family myths and inheritances by the award-winning author of Crescent. Amani is hooked on a mystery-a poem on airmail paper that slips out of one of her father's books. It seems to have been written by her grandmother, a refugee who arrived in Jordan during the First World War. Soon the perfect occasion to investigate arises: her Uncle Hafez, an advisor to the King of Jordan, invites her father to celebrate the...
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
241 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"With "a voice as clear, sincere, and wry as any I've read in current American fiction" (Joshua Cohen), Martin Riker's poignant and startlingly original novel asks how to foster a brave mind in anxious times, following a newly jobless academic rehearsing a speech on John Maynard Keynes for a surprising audience. In a hotel room in the middle of the night, Abby, a young feminist economist, lies awake next to her sleeping husband and daughter. Anxious...
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Margaret K. McElderry Books edition.
Physical Desc
981 pages 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cassel Sharpe comes from a family of curse workers, people who have the power to change emotions, memories, and luck with the slightest touch of their hands. And since curse work is illegal, they're also all criminals. Many become mobsters and con artists, but not Cassel. He doesn't have magic, so he's an outsider, the straight kid in a crooked family--except for the small detail that he killed his best friend, Lila, three years ago. Cassel has carefully...
89) Monarch: a novel
Author
Publisher
Soft Skull
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Soft Skull edition.
Physical Desc
244 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"After waking up with a strange taste in her mouth and mysterious bruises, former child beauty queen Jessica Clink unwittingly begins an investigation into a nefarious deep state underworld. Equipped with the eccentric education of her father, Dr. Clink (a professor of Boredom Studies and the founder of an elite study group on idleness, affect, and crime known as "The Devil's Workshop"), Jessica uncovers a disquieting connection between her former...
90) The Program
Author
Series
The Program. Main series volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st Simon Pulse hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
405 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Description
In this “gripping tale for lovers of dystopian romance” ( Kirkus Reviews ), true feelings are forbidden, teen suicide is an epidemic, and the only solution is The Program. Sloane knows better than to cry in front of anyone. With suicide now an international epidemic, one outburst could land her in The Program, the only proven course of treatment. Sloane’s parents have already lost one child; Sloane knows they’ll do anything to keep her alive....
91) The goldfinch
Author
Language
English
Description
"The author of the classic bestsellers The Secret History and The Little Friend returns with a brilliant, highly anticipated new novel. A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by a friend's family and struggles to make sense of his new life. In the years that follow, he becomes entranced by one of the few things that reminds...
92) Remember me gone
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 22 cm
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...
93) Bob
Author
Language
English
Description
Visiting her grandmother in Australia, Livy, ten, is reminded of the promise she made five years before to Bob, a strange, green creature who cannot recall who or what he is.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
American swimmer Sydney Stringfellow falls in love with the German son of a Nazi diplomat at the Berlin Olympics in 1936, but politics brings about the couple's end and, years after she returns the United States, Sydney is reminded of broken heart when she catches the eye of a local boy.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
192 pages : geneological chart ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A masterful new collection of interconnected stories, from the renowned National Book Award-winning author. In Natural History, Andrea Barrett completes the beautiful arc of intertwined lives of a family of scientists, teachers, and innovators that she has been weaving through multiple books since her National Book Award-winning collection, Ship Fever. The six exquisite stories in Natural History are set largely in a small community in central New...
96) The memory eater
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Alana Harlow must save her town from a memory-devouring monster.
For generations, a monster called the Memory Eater has lived in the caves of Whistler Beach, Maine, surviving off the unhappy memories of those who want to forget. And for generations, the Harlows have been in charge of keeping her locked up--and keeping her fed. After her grandmother dies, seventeen-year-old Alana Harlow inherits the family business. But there's...
Author
Series
Kamogawa food detectives volume 1
Language
English
Description
"What's the one dish you'd do anything to taste just one more time? Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very special restaurant. Run by Koishi Kamogawa and her father Nagare, the Kamogawa Diner serves up deliciously extravagant meals. But that's not the main reason customers stop by . . . The father-daughter duo are 'food detectives'. Through ingenious investigations, they are able to recreate dishes from a person's treasured memories - dishes...
98) Legacy
Author
Series
Keeper of the lost cities volume 8
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sophie Foster wants answers. But after a lifetime of lies, sometimes the truth is the most dangerous discovery. Even the smallest secret comes with terrifying new responsibilities. And Sophie's not the only one with blank spots in her past, or mysteries surrounding her family. She and her friends are part of something much bigger than they imagined--and their roles have already been chosen for them. Every clue drags them deeper into the conspiracy....
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
429 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"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....
Author
Language
English
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"When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition ... Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is [their center of gravity] Jude, ... by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body...
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