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In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platforms that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even self-propagate. The technology has an almost limitless capacity for good—but in the wrong hands, it could have an equally boundless capacity for evil. In the same year, the CBS network re-aired a program about the effects of propranolol on...
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Bob Comet is a retired librarian, isolated but not lonely, living out his quiet days in a mint-colored house in Oregon, surrounded by his books and small comforts. One morning, out on his daily walk, he performs an act of kindness that brings him into contact with a nearby senior center, where he soon begins volunteering. Here, as a community of peers and friends gathers around Bob, and following a happenstance brush with a painful complication from...
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Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
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217 pages ; 24 cm
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Life is story in motion. Each day, you add to your story, revise it, and view it from a different angle. You erase things. Tear pages out. And sometimes, in hindsight, wish you could put them back. A day is a story. A year is a story. A life is a story. You are a story. Ruta Sepetys is known for creating vivid characters and harrowing plots. After five award-winning works of historical fiction and countless hours of meticulous research, she can affirm...
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Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2023]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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"A loving, timeless ode to how the moon remembers each of us as babies and watches over all of us too--whether human, furred, feathered, or finned"--
6) Remind me
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Holiday House
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[2023]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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Eldon, a young elephant, accompanies and supports his grandmother, Big Ella, as she copes with memory loss.
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“At one point they tried to calculate when time began, when exactly the earth had been created,” begins Time Shelter’s enigmatic narrator, who will go unnamed. “In the mid–seventeenth century, the Irish bishop Ussher calculated not only the exact year, but also a starting date: October 22, 4,004 years before Christ.” But for our narrator, time as he knows it begins when he meets Gaustine, a “vagrant in time” who has distanced his life...
8) Cape
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Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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After losing the person in his life he loves more than anything, a young child holds onto a cape as a source of comfort and strength as he navigates the sadness and joy of his memories.
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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Doing everything with her best friend Loonie the yellow balloon, a young child finds the world silent and gray when it's time for Loonie to float away home, until spring arrives and brings with it big, bright flowers that help her feel hopeful again.
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2022.
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xix, 308 pages : map ; 21 cm
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An anthology of short, intimate second-person essays by a diverse range of writers, each honoring a fleeting encounter with a stranger met while traveling that left a profound and lasting impact; with a foreword by bestselling author Leslie Jamison.
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Tundra
Pub. Date
[2023]
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349 pages ; 22 cm
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When their friend Gabrielle is found covered in blood in front of their dead principal, with no recollection of what happened, Blythe, Tucker, and Tanya soon discover their lives are a lie as the walls built around their real memories come crashing down.
12) Do you remember?
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Neal Porter Books/Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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A mother and son trade reassuring memories during a time of change and upheaval.
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"For fans of Matt Haig and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue comes a big-hearted novel following a man who can never be remembered and his journey to become unforgettable... On an ordinary night in an ordinary year, Tommy Llewellyn's doting parents wake in a home without toys and diapers, without photos of their baby scattered about, and without any idea that the small child asleep in his crib is theirs. That's because Tommy is a boy destined to never...
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Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2022.
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608 pages ; cm.
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""Canto que emiten los pájaros: trino. Encadenamiento fatal de sucesos: destino." Una mujer combate la soledad haciendo crucigramas. Una familia acomodada se entera de que su hijo se ha hecho amigo del hijo de un narco. Un hombre sufre impotencia y acude a un inefable urólogo. Otro ve cómo su tranquila vida de jardinero se altera fortuitamente. Todo un pueblo es masacrado en Guatemala por un contingente del ejército al que habían convidado a...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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320 pages ; 24 cm
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"That place has been my whole life. Everything I thought I knew about myself was constructed in those few months I spent within touching distance of the sea. Everything I am is because Alistair loved me." Rachel has been in love with Alistair for fifteenyears. Even though she's now married to someone else. Even though she was a teenager when they met. Even though he is twenty years older than her. Rachel and Alistair's summer love affair on a remote,...
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Would you like to enjoy the benefits of having a better memory?Having a great memory can help you to achieve success in school as well in your career and in life overall. A good memory can make it easier for you to learn faster as well as make more money.It is often thought that some people are simply born with a good memory, but that is not at all the case. If you are committed to improving your memory and you are willing to make some changes in...
17) Mastering Memory and Learning: A Guide for Senior Adults: Unlocking Cognitive Vitality: Advanced
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Mastering Memory and Learning: A Guide for Senior AdultsUnlocking Cognitive Vitality: Advanced Memory and Learning Techniques for Elderly CitizensThis book provides detailed content which expands on each lesson within the five modules, offering a comprehensive guide for senior adults seeking to:• Understand ageing and memory,• enhance your learning skills,• prioritise cognitive health, and senior skills development• leverage the latest...
19) Midnight strikes
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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440 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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Seventeen-year-old Anaïs just wants tonight to end. As an outsider at the kingdom’s glittering anniversary ball, she has no desire to rub shoulders with the nation’s most eligible (and pompous) bachelors—especially not the notoriously roguish Prince Leo. But at the stroke of midnight, an explosion rips through the palace, killing everyone in its path. Including her. The last thing Anaïs sees is fire, smoke, chaos . . . and then she wakes up...
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