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Eve Dallas is one tough cop. She's got no problem dealing with a holiday reveler in a red suit who plunges 37 stories and gives new meaning to the term "sidewalk Santa". But when she gets back to the station and Trudy Lombard shows up, it's all Eve can do to hold it together.

With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm, steady hands, these shards tell the story of how a seemingly ordinary Jewish family somehow managed to survive the myriad persecutions and repressions of the last century.

With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm, steady hands, these shards tell the story of how a seemingly ordinary Jewish family somehow managed to survive the myriad persecutions and repressions of the last century. In dialogue with writers like Roland Barthes, W. G. Sebald, Susan Sontag, and Osip Mandelstam, In Memory of Memory is imbued with rare intellectual curiosity and a poetic voice.

In a place nobody goes, outside the cemetery fence, is a blank slab with no “In Memory Of.” Legend says it’s a symbol of unrequited love. Thomas loves Esther, but she isn’t accepted in Canaan because of her bastard birth. After discovering a family secret, Thomas fears he’ll be treated the same. IN MEMORY OF is another example of two teenagers struggling against an unforgiving society in rural Alabama 1933.

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On Easter weekend, a guest at a luxury ski lodge in Åre is stabbed to death in her plush suite. She’s Charlotte Wretlind, a property developer who planned to restore a nearby mountain hotel to its long-gone glory days. It was not a random attack. It was an act of pure aggression leveled against a woman with plenty of enemies. As the murder spreads panic among tourists and Åre residents alike, Detective Inspectors Hanna Ahlander and Daniel Lindskog face a shady staff, a dogged press, and multiple suspects.

The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, an Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.

Have you ever walked into a room and couldn't remember what you went there for? Have you ever grasped the hand of a potential client and then when the handshake broke, the name seemed to disappear from your memory? Or have you ever left a prospect or an important meeting and as you drove away remembered a key point that you should have shared with them? The problem is NOT with your memory. The problem is with the "Filing System" your brain currently uses to store and retrieve memory items.

Powerful And Effective Strategies To Improving Your Memory This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to improve your memory in five steps. Dementia and Alzheimer’s is a rising problem around the world. In the United States, five million people suffer from some form of Alzheimer’s. The Alzheimer’s Organization believes by 205o, the number of people with this disease or its similar disorder—dementia—could be sixteen million. The facts are Alzheimer’s is the sixth highest cause of death in the USA. In the list of top ten diseases that cause death, it is the only one ...

Memorize Anything in Just 24 Hours! Do you struggle to remember names, study for exams, or recall important details at work? Do you wish you could learn faster, retain information longer, and never forget key facts again? 📌 You don’t need a “better memory”—you just need the right system! In How to Memorize Anything in 24 Hours, you’ll discover a simple, science-backed method to train your brain to store and recall information effortlessly. Whether you're a student, professional, language learner, or just someone who wants to sharpen their memory, this book will show you how to ...

A haunting camping trip from the Twilight Zone. All he wants is to fish along the mighty Missouri River. Instead of relaxation, he discovers an unknown species lurking in the dark waters. As fear turns to familiarity, he strives to learn their ways... until disaster strikes. Now, it’s up to him to save them. Will he be able to rescue them in time, or will they be lost to mankind forever? Fans of Stephen King and Dean Koontz will enjoy this short, supernatural tale.

Race and Reunion is a history of how the unity of white America was purchased through the increasing segregation of black and white memory of the Civil War. Blight delves deeply into the shifting meanings of death and sacrifice, Reconstruction, the romanticized South of literature, soldiers' reminiscences of battle, the idea of the Lost Cause, and the ritual of Memorial Day. He resurrects the variety of African-American voices and memories of the war and the efforts to preserve the emancipationist legacy in the midst of a culture built on its denial.

A deft mixture of memoir and history, modern biology and behavior, In Search of Memory brings listeners from Kandel's childhood in Nazi-occupied Vienna to the forefront of one of the great scientific endeavors of the 20th century: the search for the biological basis of memory. Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel intertwines the intellectual history of the powerful new science of the mind - a combination of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and molecular biology - with his own personal quest to understand memory.

When Katherine wakes up out of a coma, she is unable to recall the last Seven years of her life. She finds herself married, not to Caleb her college boyfriend of two years, but to the man that she dislikes the most, Myles Manley. It would have been easy to distance herself from Myles, to walk away from their marriage, but Katherine is told that they have two children and a baby on the way. She is puzzled and struggles to find the answers that would shed some light to her actions, and is tormented with the thought of how she could have gone against her heart and married Myles...

In Dangerous Memory, renowned politician, author, and musician Charlie Angus undertakes a major rethink of the cultural and political shifts of the 1980s, an era that unleashed an unprecedented looting of the economy, the environment, and the common good that continues to haunt us today. Expertly weaving his story within the larger narrative of the times, Angus elucidates such key events as the Chernobyl disaster, the Digital Revolution, the AIDS epidemic, the fight against South African apartheid, the rise of neoliberalism, and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Ten years ago, Claire Hines lost her unborn child - and her short-term memory - following a heartrending tragedy. With notebooks, calendars, to-do lists, fractured pieces of the past, and her father’s support, Claire makes it through each day, hour by hour, with relative confidence. She also has a close-knit community of friends in the remote Alaskan town where she teaches guitar to the local children. It’s there, in the reminders. As determined as Claire is to regain all that’s disappeared, she’d prefer to live without some memories of her before life.

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Are you feeling like your memory is slipping, or are you experiencing dementia or Alzheimer's? This comprehensive activities book for adults and the elderly will improve your mind and brain power and boost your cognition. Is your brain not as sharp as it used to be? Do you need help to recall basic information or conversations you just had? If this sounds familiar, you may be experiencing early signs of memory loss. But don't panic! Targeted, therapeutic exercises and activities focused on strengthening cognition can help reverse the damage and keep your brain active well into your later ...

After losing his wife and infant son, Dallas Montana has been living a secluded life in a remote cabin away from, well… everything. He never anticipated having guests. More importantly, the cabin only has one bed. But everything changes during the blizzard. His entire world pivots when he meets her. Leaving Martina Carver out in the cold goes against his protective nature. Even if it makes him face his deepest darkest fears.

With vivid story-telling, extensive historical research, and on-the-ground reporting, Ghattas dispels accepted truths about a region she calls home. She explores how Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shia Iran, once allies and twin pillars of US strategy in the region, became mortal enemies after 1979. She shows how they used and distorted religion in a competition that went well beyond geopolitics. Feeding intolerance, suppressing cultural expression, and encouraging sectarian violence from Egypt to Pakistan, the war for cultural supremacy led to many events.