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Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The family story behind Abraham Zapruder's film footage of the Kennedy assassination and its lasting impact, told by Zapruder's granddaughter, draws on personal records and previously sealed archive sources to trace the film's role in the media, courts, government, and arts community.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007
Language
Swedish
Description
Smiles of a summer night: A sharp satire about eight Swedish aristocrats who become romantically and comically intertwined over a single weekend. Includes Director approved special edition features.
The seventh seal: In medieval Sweden a knight returns from war only to find a ravaged homeland. He meets up with a group of travelling players and eventually confronts the embodiment of death with whom he engages in a game of chess for his life. The knight...
504) Our last echoes
Author
Publisher
Viking Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
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.
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
An estimated fifty million people in the world suffer from dementia. Diseases such as Alzheimer's erase parts of one's memory but are also often said to erase the self. People don't simply die from such diseases; they are imagined, in the clichés of our era, as vanishing in plain sight, fading away, or enduring a long goodbye. In On Vanishing, Lynn Casteel Harper, a Baptist minister and nursing home chaplain, investigates the myths and metaphors...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In the busy, information-filled world in which we live, it's often easy to forget things and hard to keep track of how details get stored in our brain. The Complete Guide to Memory serves to provide a one-stop resource that covers the essentials on memory. World-renowned memory expert, Dr. Richard Restak, addresses the following topics in detail: how memories form; the different kinds of memory; changes in brain structure; the mind-body connection;...
Author
Series
Publisher
Editorial Almadía
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
"¿Quién mejor para descubrir las historias de los migrantes deportados que un periodista que ha encontrado su vocación en el nomadismo? A finales del gobierno de Barack Obama y principios del de Donald Trump, Leonardo Tarifeño viajó una otra vez a Tijuana para conocer a esos 'bad hombres' que de un momento a otro se quedaron sin nada. Perseguidos en Estados Unidos por un aparato judicial racista, los personajes que Tarifeño presenta en NON VEULVAS...
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. These conflicts have raged for well over a century--but they've never been as intense as they are today. In this eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate...
511) Batman: Damned
Publisher
DC Black Label, [an imprint of] DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The Joker is dead. There is no doubt about that. But whether Batman finally snapped his scrawny neck or some other sinister force in Gotham City did the deed is still a mystery. Problem is, Batman cant remember&and the more he digs into this labyrinthine case, the more he starts to doubt everything hes uncovering. So who better to set him straight than&John Constantine? The problem with that is as much as John loves a good mystery, he loves messing...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Award-winning, bestselling novelist and travel writer Colin Thubron returns to fiction with his first novel in more than a decade, a searing, poetic masterwork of memory. A house is burning, threatening the existence of its six tenants--including a failed priest; a naturalist; a neurosurgeon; an invalid dreaming of his anxious boyhood; and their landlord, whose relationship to the tenants is both intimate and shadowy. At times, he shares their preoccupations...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old musician Xue faces a lifetime of servitude until Duke Meng offers her freedom in exchange for serving as a musician in residence, but Xue soon discovers the Duke is a celestial ruler with ulterior motives and she must unlock her past toprevent an impending war in the Six Realms.
515) Also
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This moving story follows one family through generations of time spent together and shows readers that memories allow us to connect to the past, the present, and also to each other.
516) Awake
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"A car accident causes Scarlett to start remembering pieces of an unfamiliar past. When a new guy moves into town, Scarlett feels an instant spark. But Noah knows the truth of Scarlett's past, and he's determined to shield her from it ... because Scarlett grew up in a cult called Eternal Light, controlled by her biological parents. And they want her back"--
Series
Publisher
KaBOOM!
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"EVERYTHING STAYS, BUT IT STILL CHANGES& After surviving the aftermath of the Mushroom War and Simon s time as Ice King, Marceline and Simon have finally reunited after the events of the Adventure Time" finale. But when Simon s memory begins to fail, Marcy must work together with Finn, Jake, and Princess Bubblegum to save Simon and help him in his quest to make amends for his time as Ice King. To do that, Simon sets out with one goal in mind: save...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Among the most enduring themes in American history is the idea that the United States was founded as a Christian nation. A pervasive narrative in everything from school textbooks to political commentary, it is central to the way in which many Americans perceive the historical legacy of their nation. Yet, as Steven K. Green shows in this illuminating new book, it is little more than a myth. In Inventing a Christian America, Green, a leading historian...
520) Monarch: a novel
Author
Publisher
Soft Skull
Pub. Date
2022.
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...
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