Memory Identity

Hannah doesn’t remember her life before Peter. And in this quiet Victorian neighborhood, that’s exactly how he wants it. The house is charming. The marriage seems perfect. The neighbors are polite in a way that feels rehearsed. But inside this carefully controlled world, one thing stands out—the locked upstairs room Peter insists she never open. He tells her it’s a utility space with dangerous wiring. He tells her her memory loss comes from “a traumatic past” she’s not ready to face. He tells her she’s safe now, that he’s the only one she can trust. But the late-night ...

HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE EVOLUTION --- This book provides an in-depth exploration of the processes that have shaped human language over millennia, integrating linguistic, archaeological, cognitive, and sociocultural evidence to illuminate the evolution of languages. Anchoring its analysis in historical linguistics, the book goes into the profound effects of migration, educational systems, trade, and technological innovations on language transformation. The bookunfolds with an examination of migration's necessary place in shaping linguistic territory, from the spread of Indo-...

Myfanwy Thomas awakens in a London park surrounded by dead bodies. With her memory gone, she must trust the instructions left by her former in order to survive. She quickly learns that she is a Rook, a high-level operative in a secret agency that protects the world from supernatural threats. But...

Visiting home in her small Oklahoma town, Claire looks up and sees an alien disk hanging in the sky—and then everything goes black. When she wakes, it’s in a different body in California, with a new family, and flashes of someone else’s memories that don’t quite fit. Mirrors show a face that feels wrong, strange men seem to be following her, and she can’t shake the question: which life is real—the one she remembers in Oklahoma, or the one everyone insists she’s always had in California? Teaming up with the local librarian who knows more than he should, Claire is pulled into a ...

She looks exactly like me. Same face, same scar, same life. And now she's stealing everything that's mine. When Madisyn Holmes moves in across the street, I can't shake the feeling that this isn't coincidence. She copies my garden design, my home décor, even my professional strategies. It's like watching someone erase me in real time. My husband thinks I'm paranoid. My neighbors think I'm losing it. But I know what I'm seeing. I start gathering evidence—photos, notes, proof of her systematic theft. Because someone has to stop her before she takes everything. The question is: how far will...

In New York, ClearMind Industries promises a clean miracle: erase the worst memories, replace pain with peace, and give people their lives back. For some, it works. For others, the side effects don’t look like healing at all. A community organizer returns from “treatment” calmer—too calm—steering protests into silence. A battered woman can’t remember why she ran. A therapist who asks the wrong questions disappears. An engineer finds proof the system isn’t optimizing wellness…it’s optimizing usefulness. A journalist publishes what no one is supposed to see, and suddenly the...

We live under the comforting assumption that the digital world is permanent — that what we upload, store, and share online will remain accessible forever. Digital Memory & Identity challenges this illusion by exploring the fragility, decay, and impermanence of our modern digital archives. This book examines how our personal histories, cultural artifacts, creative works, and collective knowledge are increasingly stored on technological foundations that are far more vulnerable than traditional physical records.

Revisiting the antisemitism that led to Auschwitz is the only way to understand the one rising today. And sometimes, the path to understanding who we are begins by walking through history — with our children beside us. A father travels to Poland with his son and daughter, carrying a shoebox filled with fragments of a life erased: Artur, his own father, deported and lost in the Holocaust. What begins as a family journey becomes an unexpected revelation — a new way of looking at antisemitism, not as a relic of the past but as a pattern repeating itself in silence. In Kraków, Kazimierz, ...

She profiles killers for a living. She knows their patterns, their tells, their lies. But one predator has found the perfect way inside her mind. Dr. Emma Walters has spent her career dissecting the psychology of murder. But when a string of women is found dead across Chicago—each believing they’d finally found love—Emma is pulled into a case that feels disturbingly personal. Her new relationship with Alex, the charming artist who seems too good to be true, offers comfort she desperately needs… until his insights feel a little too precise. And Claire, Emma’s closest friend—the ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the New York Times bestselling author of American Psycho and Less Than Zero comes a chilling tale that combines reality, memoir, and fantasy to create a fascinating portrait of this most controversial writer but also a deeply moving novel about love and loss, parents...

The World Fantasy Award-winning thriller about a girl no one can remember, from the acclaimed author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August and 84K. My name is Hope Arden, and you won't know who I am. But we've met before -- a thousand times. It started when I was sixteen years old. A father...

"Ma’s brilliantly inventive These Memories Do Not Belong to Us weaves worlds around a central question: What happens when technology enables a totalitarian government to break into the last private frontiers of the internal mind? Chilling, poignant, and uncomfortably timely, Ma’s braided...

Brought to you by Penguin. The Hotel Lutetia is a Paris institution, the only ‘grand’ hotel on the city’s bohemian Left Bank. Ever since it opened, it has served as a meeting place for artists, musicians and politicians. André Gide took his lunch here, James Joyce lived in one of its...

The Shatter That Called Itself an Unraveling is not a guidebook, a solution, or a roadmap. It is a soft dismantling of the scaffolding we call identity—a poetic meditation on the myth of coherence, the architecture of memory, and the quiet unraveling that begins when we stop performing who we think we are.

“A remarkable and gifted debut novel” (Colson Whitehead) about two outsiders—a lonely scientist in the Arctic and an astronaut trying to return to Earth—as they grapple with love, regret, and survival in a world transformed. THE INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX ORIGINAL FILM THE MIDNIGHT...

Neuro-Forensic Duality Theory proposes that identity doesn't collapse under stress– it reorganizes. Through dynamic triangular clusters of self, observer, and memory, the mind preserves coherence even in fragmentation. Blending psychology, philosophy, and speculative neuroscience, A.C. Zito offers a bold new lens on resilience, identity, and the geometry of consciousness.

They called her mad. But she might be the only one still telling the truth. Inside a cold mental institution where silence is enforced and truth is dismissed, Emily begins to recover memories no one wants her to remember. Labeled unstable, her voice is ignored and her story quietly erased. But buried beneath the diagnosis is something far more dangerous than madness: the possibility that she is right. Told through the mind of an unreliable narrator, Emily: The Girl They Unwrote explores what happens when identity fractures, memory fades, and a woman fights to reclaim her story from those ...

In this spellbinding and provocative novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Miracles, a young mother is struck by sudden and puzzling psychological symptoms that illuminate the mysterious dimensions of the human mind—and of love. A Belletrist Book Club Pick A year after...

★★★FINALIST AUTHOR OF THE 2025 KINDLE STORYTELLER AWARD★★★ What do readers say? ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ We are looking at the Spanish-language writer who currently handles suspense better than anyone… in my humble opinion… he hooks you and never lets go. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ His stories always manage to surprise me, no matter how hard I try to avoid it. The facts confirm that we are facing a great new promise in the publishing world.(Diario Información) In The Secret of the Lake, Oriol Duarte wakes up in a wooden cabin, surrounded by silence and cold. He has no memory of how he got ...

He is not imprisoned. He is not accused. He is not denied care. He is processed. In a world that believes certain histories are finished, one man remains. He insists on identifying as Palestinian. The system is patient. It offers food, shelter, medical care, and assistance. It offers alternatives. Regional. Former. Unspecified. Everything needed to move forward is available, except recognition. Because recognition would mean continuity. As files circulate and committees meet, his case becomes an anomaly. Not dangerous. Not urgent. Just incompatible. While the system delays, time does what ...