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1) Redemption
Author
Series
Amos Decker novels volume 5
Language
English
Description
Decker is visiting his hometown of Burlington, Ohio, when he's approached by a man named Meryl Hawkins. Hawkins is a convicted murderer. In fact, he's the very first killer Decker ever put behind bars. But he's innocent, he claims. Now suffering from terminal cancer, it's his dying wish that Decker clear his name. It's unthinkable. The case was open and shut, with rock solid forensic evidence. But then Hawkins later turns up dead with a bullet in...
Author
Series
House of secrets (Brad Meltzer) volume 1
Language
English
Description
When Hazel Nash was six years old, her father taught her: mysteries needed to be solved. Hazel's father is Jack Nash, the host of America's favorite conspiracy TV show, The House of Secrets. Now, years later, Hazel wakes up in the hospital and remembers nothing. She's told she's been in a car accident that killed her father and injured her brother. Then a man from the FBI shows up, asking questions about her dad - and about his connection to the...
4) The Elizas
Author
Publisher
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Unable to convince anyone that she was pushed before she was rescued from the bottom of a hotel pool, a rising author struggling with depression and memory loss begins to question her sanity as elements from her debut novel mix up with events in her real life.
When novelist Eliza Fontaine is found at the bottom of a hotel pool, her family assumes it's another failed suicide attempt. But Eliza swears she was pushed, and her rescuer is the only witness....
Author
Language
English
Description
"A lone astronaut. An impossible mission. An ally he never imagined. Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission--and if he fails, humanity and Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions...
6) The fallen
Author
Series
Amos Decker novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
"Amos Decker and his journalist friend Alex Jamison are visiting the home of Alex's sister in Barronville, a small town in western Pennsylvania that has been hit hard economically. When Decker is out on the rear deck of the house talking with Alex's niece, a precocious eight-year-old, he notices flickering lights and then a spark of flame in the window of the house across the way. When he goes to investigate he finds two dead bodies inside and it's...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
New York Times Bestseller
"An exceptional thriller. It left my nerves jangling for hours after I finished the last page." —Dennis Lehane, New York Times bestselling author of Shutter Island
"Imagine drifting off every night knowing that your memories will be wiped away by morning. That's the fate of Christine Lucas, whose bewildering internal world is rendered with chilling intimacy in
...Author
Language
English
Description
Internationally best-selling author Umberto Eco is a master stylist whose books, including Baudolino, have been savored by millions around the world. Now, with The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, he crafts another ambitious and breathtaking novel. When book dealer Yambo suffers amnesia, his only remaining memories are books, poems, songs, and movies. Steeped in nostalgia and filled with vivid imagery, this work is a magnificent addition to Eco's...
Author
Language
English
Description
A girl with recurring memory loss chases down the boy she loves based on the one memory she is able to hold onto.
For the past seven years Flora Banks has no short-term memory. Her mind resets itself several times a day, and has since the tumor was removed from her brain at the age of ten. Then when she kisses Drake, her best friend's boyfriend, the night before he leaves town, this one memory breaks through Flora's fractured mind and sticks. She's...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A renowned neurologist explains why our routine forgetting-of names, dates, even house keys-is not a brain failure but actually, when combined with memory, one of the mind's most beneficial functions. Who wouldn't want a better memory? Dr. Scott Small has dedicated his career to understanding why memory forsakes us. As director of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at Columbia University, he focuses largely on patients who experience pathological...
11) The woman inside
Author
Series
Detective Dan Riley volume 4
Publisher
Bookouture, an imprint of Storyfire Ltd
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Daisey shouldn't be alive but against all odds, she's survived an ordeal most would never recover from. But Daisey's mind is broken. She's on edge, drinking too much and, despite the painful breakup, finds herself in bed with her ex, Luke. And while she desperately tries to keep herself together, she can't shake the feeling that she is being watched. Yet the missing pieces of that fateful summer night are beginning to surface ... The lies she told...
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problem-ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory.She is an astute young Housekeeper-with a ten-year-old son-who is hired to care for the Professor. And every morning, as the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and beautiful relationship blossoms between them. Though he cannot hold memories for long (his brain...
15) Memory
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Hospitalized after a liaison with another man's wife ends in violence, Paul Cole has just one goal: to rebuild his shattered life. But with his memory damaged, the police hounding him, and no way even to get home, Paul's facing steep odds--and a bleak fate if he fails."--P. [4] of cover
16) High-octane brain: 5 science-based steps to sharpen your memory and reduce your risk of Alzheimer's
Author
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A Harvard- and Yale-trained neuropsychologist outlines a research-supported program for bolstering the memory and protecting the brain from Alzheimer's, drawing on cutting-edge approaches from eight brain-health experts to discuss related nutritional, fitness and preventative therapy options.
Braun presents a program to boost memory and dramatically decrease the risk of Alzheimer's. It features five practical steps: exercise; healthy food; engagement;...
17) Behind every lie
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"If you can't remember it, how do you prove you didn't do it? Eva Hansen wakes in the hospital after being struck by lightning and discovers her mother, Kat, has been murdered. Eva was found unconscious down the street. She can't remember what happened but the police are highly suspicious of her. Determined to clear her name, Eva heads from Seattle to London--Kat's former home--for answers. But as she unravels her mother's carefully held secrets,...
18) Virgil Wander
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Midwestern movie house owner Virgil Wander is "cruising along at medium altitude" when his car flies off the road into icy Lake Superior. Virgil survives but his language and memory are altered and he emerges into a world no longer familiar to him. Awakening in this new life, Virgil begins to piece together his personal history and the lore of his broken town, with the help of a cast of affable and curious locals--from Rune, a twinkling, pipe-smoking,...
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