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Jill Price has the first diagnosed case of a memory condition
called "hyperthymestic syndrome" -- the continuous, automatic,
autobiographical recall of every day of her life since she was
fourteen. Give her any date from that year on, and she can almost
instantly tell you what day of the week it was, what she did on
that day, and any major world event or cultural happening that took
place, as long as she heard about it that day. Her memories are
like scenes from home movies, constantly playing in her head,
backward and forward, through the years; not only does she make no
effort to call her memories to mind, she cannot stop them.
"The Woman Who Can't Forget" is the beautifully written and moving
story of Jill's quest to come to terms with her extraordinary
memory, living with a condition that no one understood, including
her, until the scientific team who studied her finally charted the
extraordinary terrain of her abilities. Her fascinating journey
speaks volumes about the delicate dance of remembering and
forgetting in all of our lives and the many mysteries about how our
memories shape us.
As we learn of Jill's struggles first to realize how unusual her
memory is and then to contend, as she grows up, with the unique
challenges of not being able to forget -- remembering both the good
times and the bad, the joyous and the devastating, in such vivid
and insistent detail -- the way her memory works is contrasted to a
wealth of discoveries about the workings of normal human memory and
normal human forgetting. Intriguing light is shed on the vital role
of what's called "motivated forgetting"; as well as theories about
childhood amnesia, the loss of memory for the first two to three
years of our lives; the emotional content of memories; and the way
in which autobiographical memories are normally crafted into an
ever-evolving and empowering life story.
Would we want to remember so much more of our lives if we could?
Which memories do our minds privilege over others? Do we truly
relive the times we remember most vividly, feeling the emotions
that coursed through us then? Why do we forget so much, and in what
ways do the workings of memory tailor the reality of what's
actually happened to us in our lives?
In "The Woman Who Can't Forget," Jill Price welcomes us into her
remarkable life and takes us on a mind-opening voyage into what
life would be like if we didn't forget -- a voyage after which no
reader will think of the magical role of memory in our lives in the
same way again.
Winner of the 2021 World Literacy Award! The Morning Tribe is a
middle grade action-adventure graphic novel that showcases young
people protecting our critical environment and teaches that we are
all part of the struggle to save the Earth's future and sustain the
human race. When twins Dawn and Dusk, young members of the Amazon
rain forest's Morning Tribe, discover that their homeland is being
threatened by Global Agricorp mercenaries, they gather their
friends and rise to the challenge of protecting it. Though they're
naturally smart, strong, and quick, the twins also each have
special abilities. Dusk is stronger, faster, and more powerful as
the sun sets. Dawn is farther-sighted, a better swimmer, and a
gifted acrobat as the sun rises. They are at the height of their
power together at midnight. But young Tom Toll, estranged son of
Agricorp's boss, ventures alone into the forest intent on
destroying the people of the Morning Tribe, and finds himself in
danger. He is saved by Dusk and Dawn and a deep bond forms between
them as Tom gains an understanding not only of the forest, but of
shared values and a greater global mission. When the trio of
youngsters save Tom's father and the Agricorp crew, who are
attempting to burn the rain forest, it changes the relationship
between father and son into a positive one forever. The Morning
Tribe's theme and content derive from the work of the White Feather
Foundation created in 2007 by Julian Lennon-recipient of the UNESCO
2020 Cross Cultural and Peace Crafter Award-that has been active in
the rain forest for more than a decade. A portion of the proceeds
from book sales will go to support the environmental and
humanitarian efforts of The White Feather Foundation.
On the morning of 9/11, the Port Authority Police Department was
the first uniformed service to respond to the attack on the World
Trade Center. When the towers collapsed, thirty-seven of its
officers were killed -- the largest loss of law enforcement
officers in U.S. history. That afternoon, Lieutenant William Keegan
began the work of recovery. The FDNY and NYPD had the territory,
but Keegan had the map. PAPD cops could stand on top of six stories
of debris and point to where a stairwell had been; they used PATH
tunnels to enter "the pile" from underneath. Closure shares many
never-before-told stories, including how Keegan and his officers
recovered 1,000 tons of gold and silver from a secret vault to keep
the Commodities Exchange from crashing; discovered what appeared to
be one of the plane's black boxes; and helped raise the
inspirational steel beam cross that has become the site's icon. For
nine brutal months, the men at Ground Zero wrestled with 1.8
million tons of shattered concrete, twisted steel, body parts,
political pressure, and their own grief. Closure tells the
unforgettable story of their sacrifice and valor, and how Keegan
led the smallest of all the uniformed services at the site to
become the most valuable.
A vintage attack sub rises from the grave to torpedo a deadly
terrorist plot
Admiral Peter MacKenzie has stood at the helm of the most
advanced submarines in the world -- the U.S. Navy's nuclear-powered
lords of the sea. Now, when Hawaii and America's Pacific coast are
at risk, he has but one vessel under his command: the H.M.S.
"Storm, " a World War II sub salvaged from the bottom of the
sea.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington have assigned Admiral
MacKenzie to oversee the transfer of a shipment of plutonium from
Russia to Japan. But fanatic Japanese terrorists have hijacked the
deadly cargo in mid-ocean. Isolated on a South Seas island,
MacKenzie and a small band of survivors are determined to raise the
"Storm" and sink the terrorists before they unleash a ring of
deadly fire.
Success could come at a terrible price: The terrorists have
taken hostages, among them Peter MacKenzie's CIA agent wife,
bearing their unborn child. The "Storm" is underway -- and it's a
voyage into hell.
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