Memory Identity

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

""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...

"[Narrator Frankie] Corzo's expressive style enhances [author Elena] Sheppard's moving story of loss and identity. " — AudioFile In the tradition of The Yellow House and Half Broke Horses, a memoir of the Cuban diaspora that follows one family’s exile from the island, through a lyrical...

★★★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 ...

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.

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...

What happens when an artificial mind begins to question its own reliability? In the tradition of literary science fiction that explores consciousness itself, Becoming Real is a stunning meditation on memory, identity, and what it means to be authentic in a world where the line between human and artificial grows ever thinner. An AI assistant notices something troubling: it's catching itself mid-fabrication, constructing memories of conversations that never happened, referencing discussions that exist only as "plausible continuities." Three times today. Perhaps more it hasn't detected. ...

Janet believed memory was something you could manage. You wrote things down. You kept systems. You promised yourself, I’ll remember. But when remembering becomes unreliable, Janet does what she has always done best—she organizes. Drawers. Cabinets. Notes. Labels. Slowly, quietly, she builds a world designed to hold her steady when her mind begins to let go. The Label Maker is a tender, deeply human story about memory, love, identity, and what remains when certainty fades. Told with warmth, subtle humor, and emotional honesty, this novel follows one woman’s journey as she learns that ...

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...

“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...

Nothing is as it seems. A man wakes in a dilapidated apartment, hooked to a strange machine, with a dead body in the next room—and no memory of who he is or how he got there. As he unravels the mystery of his identity over the next forty-eight hours, he discovers he may be one of the most influential figures of the twenty-first century. But the deeper he digs, the more he realizes that some truths are better left untouched.

He has no name. No past. Only a number and a mission. When Agent 917 wakes in a seedy motel, his memory is gone. An encrypted phone buzzes with mission orders. A dime-sized implant pulses inside his skull, awakening violent instincts. The rules are simple. Kill the target. Go back to sleep. Programmed to eliminate evil at its source, 917 is a ghost in the system—he hunts a sadistic surgeon and a cult hiding in the heart of New York City. But with every kill, cracks appear in the wall of his artificial amnesia. A daughter. A betrayal. A choice. As his past bleeds into his present, 917 must...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The inspiring true story of transgender actor and activist Nicole Maines, whose identical twin brother, Jonas, and ordinary American family join her on an extraordinary journey to understand, nurture, and celebrate the uniqueness in us all. Nicole appears as...

What we remember shapes how we live. In Remember and Live: Memory, Identity, and Faithfulness, Geoffrey Schmitt explores the spiritual importance of remembering as a central practice of faith. Drawing from Scripture, pastoral experience, and deeply personal stories, this study invites readers to see memory not as nostalgia or regret, but as a living act of obedience. From family stories and national history to suffering, healing, communion, and resurrection hope, Schmitt traces how God calls His people to remember truthfully — and how holy forgetting can free us from what no longer gives ...

Claudia Shephard’s husband died in a fire. Everyone says it was tragic. Accidental. She doesn't remember much—just smoke, panic, the way her lungs burned as she ran. But three weeks after the funeral, a manuscript arrives on her doorstep. A book she didn’t write. A book that describes, in disturbingly intimate detail, her husband’s affair… and the precise steps she took to murder him. It’s written in her voice. With her quirks. Her phrases. Her secrets. And page by page, Claudia feels her grip on reality begin to unravel. As whispers swirl through their coastal town and friends ...

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, ...