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Author
Publisher
Odd Dot
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Ace history tests by memorizing dates, feel confident about remembering people's names, kick butt at card games by memorizing entire decks, and hang on to happy memories for a lifetime. This ultimate memory guide for kids is full of memory building techniques, fun challenges, and hilarious art"--
43) Nancy knows
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Nancy the elephant knows many things with her remarkable memory--but she also knows that she has forgotten something very important.
46) More than this
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
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.
Author
Publisher
Adams Media Corporation
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
If you'd like to study for exams efficiently, speak a foreign language, memorize a speech, learn to play a new musical instrument, or improve your general knowledge, memory-training expert Tansel shows you how to do it quickly and effectively with the aid of a few memory tricks. Packed with practical exercises for honing memory and training your brain to learn well and learn fast, this is the ultimate book for sharpening your mind and expand your...
Author
Language
English
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2023 Reading Challenge: A Book in Translation
2024 Reading Challenge: Book in translation or by an author from outside the United States
2024 Reading Challenge: Book in translation or by an author from outside the United States
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"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 'memory police,' who are committed to ensuring that the disappeared remain forgotten. When a young novelist realizes that more than her...
49) I just forgot
Author
Publisher
Golden Books
Pub. Date
[1988]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Though he always seems to forget something that he's supposed to do, Little Critter always remembers to ask his mother to read a bedtime story.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
What if everything you remember is a lie? Freya Izquierdo and Fletcher Cohen believe they're done with top-secret memory knifing. After successfully hacking a terrorist's memories and foiling the Memory Ghosts' next attack, they spend their school break intending to clear Fletcher's dad of being accused of colluding with the radical group. Exposing the truth should be straightforward, if not easy. But Fletcher's house is robbed, and Freya makes a...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"There are many ways to break someone's heart, but Rabih Alameddine is one rare writer who not only breaks our hearts but gives every broken piece a new life."-Yiyun Li Following the critical and commercial success of An Unnecessary Woman, Alameddine delivers a spectacular portrait of a man and an era of profound political and social upheaval. Set over the course of one night in the waiting room of a psych clinic, The Angel of History follows Yemeni-born...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"An award-winning international sensation-with a second-act dystopian twist-Time Shelter is a tour de force set in a world clamoring for the past before it forgets. "At one point they tried to calculate when time began, when exactly the earth had been created," begins Time Shelter's enigmatic narrator, who will go unnamed. "In the mid-seventeenth century, the Irish bishop Ussher calculated not only the exact year, but also a starting date: October...
Author
Series
Next together volume 1
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
Katherine and Matthew are destined to be born again and again, century after century. Total strangers thrust together under unusual circumstances, but each time their presence changes history for the better. And each time they fall hopelessly in love, only to be tragically separated. Maybe the next together will be different....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
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Description
France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever, and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world. But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across...
Author
Publisher
Feminist Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In 1969, in the wake of Malaysia's deadliest race riots, a woman named Du Li An secures her place in society by marrying a gangster; in a parallel narrative, a critic known as the Fourth Person explores the work of a writer also named Du Li An; in a third storyline, "you" are reading a novel titled The Age of Goodbyes in the wake of your mother's death. Li Zi Shu's debut novel THE AGE OF GOODBYES explores what happens to memory when official accounts...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"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
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
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
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Everything I Don't Remember is a gripping tale about love and memory. But it is also a story about a writer who, by filling out the contours of Samuel's story, is actually trying to grasp a truth about himself. In the end, what remains of all our fleeting memories? And what is hidden behind everything we don't remember?"--
60) Void star
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Although the seas have risen and the central latitudes are emptying, it's still a good time to be in San Francisco, where weapons drones patrol the skies to keep out the multitudinous poor. Irina isn't rich, but she does have an artificial memory that gives her perfect recall and lets her act as a medium between her various employers and their AIs, which are complex to the point of opacity. It's a good gig, paying enough for the annual visits to the...
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