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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Is your memory normal? To answer that question we need to start with a different question: What is normal memory? In Step 1 we will learn about the problems that are part of normal memory. One thing that makes memory loss tricky, however, is that the difference between normal and abnormal memory isn't necessarily the type of problems that occur but rather the frequency and severity of those problems. Nonetheless, in order for us to begin to help...
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Series
Secret projects volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"A man awakes in a clearing in what appears to be medieval England with no memory of who he is, where he came from, or why he is there. Chased by a group from his own time, his sole hope for survival lies in regaining his missing memories, making allies among the locals, and perhaps even trusting in their superstitious boasts. His only help from the "real world" should have been a guidebook entitled The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval...
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Series
Kamogawa food detectives volume 1
Language
English
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"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...
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English
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"Margaret Murphy is a weaver of fantastic tales, growing up in a world where the truth is too much for one little girl to endure. Her first memory is of the day her friend Agnes died. No one blames Margaret. Not in so many words. Her mother insists to everyone who will listen that her daughter never even left the house that day. Left alone to make sense of tragedy, Margaret wills herself to forget these unbearable memories, replacing them with imagined...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"For fans of Matt Haig and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue comes a big-hearted novel following a man who can never be remembered and his journey to become unforgettable... 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...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"One of us (Elizabeth) had the opportunity to conduct research with a gentleman named Henry Molaison (better known by his initials, H.M.1), who had the interior portion of his left and right temporal lobes (the part of your brain next to your temples) removed in 1953 because of epileptic seizures that were difficult to control. From a technical standpoint, the surgical procedures went fine. But, as he recovered, the doctors and researchers soon noticed...
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Publisher
HarperCollins México
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
Un secuestro detona la reaparición de hechos olvidados por la mente de Mariano. Su captura se torna doble: física y emocional. El recorrido a pie del Estado de México a Guerrero es también un andar duplicado.
A kidnapping triggers the reappearance of events forgotten by Mariano's mind. His capture becomes twofold: physical and emotional. The journey on foot from the State of Mexico to Guerrero is also a double walk.
11) Cape
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
After losing the person in his life he loves more than anything, a young child holds onto a cape as a source of comfort and strength as he navigates the sadness and joy of his memories.
12) Memory garden
Author
Publisher
Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A lively afternoon together in Nana's garden is full of laughter, discovery, and connection. In lyrical text that blends past and present"--
13) Remind me
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"This poignant story about a young elephant and his grandma is an eloquent account of the all too familiar tragedy of memory loss, and the love of family that never leaves. Eldon the elephant's beloved Big Ella has always had a knack for memory, so when she starts to forget little things, Eldon happily returns the favor. But when she starts to forget where she lives, Eldon's name, and even her own name, he starts to worry. Yet Eldon always remembers...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Determined to finish her final book and reverse her fortunes before her mind goes, Dora Frenhofer uses fascinating real characters from her own life, including her missing brother, her estranged daughter, her erstwhile lover, and her last remaining friend, that results in an unforeseen twist.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Paul Auster's brilliant eighteenth novel opens with a scorched pot of water, which Sy Baumgartner-phenomenologist, noted author, and soon-to-be retired philosophy professor-has just forgotten on the stove. Baumgartner's life had been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna, who was killed in a swimming accident nine years earlier. Now 71, Baumgartner continues to struggle to live in her absence as the novel sinuously unfolds into spirals...
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Series
Publisher
Debate
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"La memoria y la vida es una obra clave para entender la perfecta simbiosis que se trenza entre los recuerdos y las experiencias vitales. Al fin y al cabo, no somos sino la historia que vamos construyendo mientras nos debatimos entre la fugacidad temporal y el trabajo del cerebro por neutralizarla. La vida es una narración que desarrollamos cada día en el territorio de la memoria, en esa factoría personal de los recuerdos gracias a la cual somos...
17) Oma's bag
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Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The five Lim children -- Jessica, Jocelyn, Jeffrey, Jacob, and Kenzie -- are thrilled when their parents tell them that Oma and Opa, their beloved grandparents, are coming to town for a visit. But this time, things seem different -- grandmother Oma's cooking doesn't taste the same, and she's started asking the same questions over and over, even while talking about specific moments from her past. Then things around the house begin to go missing: keys,...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
¿Cómo se reordena el mundo tras una muerte? ¿Cuánto hay en toda existencia de reparación de quienes la precedieron? ¿Qué voces nos habitan? Adriana, la protagonista de esta historia, afronta varios duelos mientras cuida de su padre enfermo. También se ha convertido en una voraz espectadora de la vida de los demás gracias a las redes sociales y en una tímida consumidora de experiencias amorosas a través de una app de citas, pero eso solo...
19) Do you remember?
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Tucked in bed at a new apartment, a boy and his mother trade favorite memories. Some are idyllic, like a picnic with Dad, but others are more surprising: a fall from a bike into soft piled hay, the smell of an old oil lamp when a rainstorm blew the power out. Now it's just the two of them, and the house where all those memories happened is far away. But maybe someday, this will be a favorite memory, too: happy and sad, an end and a beginning intertwined....
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Essentials
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Alexander Batthyány's Threshold is the first major account of terminal lucidity: the remarkable return of clarity and cognition at the end of life. Terminal lucidity is a relatively common but poorly understood phenomenon. Near the end of life, many people--including those who are comatose, or have suffered brain injuries or strokes, or have been silenced by mental illness or deep dementia--experience what seems a miraculous return. They regain...
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