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"In the past decade, it's become obvious that crime and mystery fiction has become the most popular form of entertainment for literary, television, and movie audiences alike. From traditional mystery stories with devious doings and a plot full of clues to terse thrillers with edge-of-the-seat climaxes to the nail-biting tale of psychological suspense, no field of popular fiction can match contemporary crime writing in diversity, excitement, cunning, or satisfaction. In this stunning collection of the year's best offerings in the genre, armchair detectives, suspense addicts, and crime solvers alike can thrill to these new stories in the unique way only mystery fiction can provide."--BOOK JACKET.
The story that you have asked me to tell you does not begin with the pitiful ugliness of Lloyd’s death. It begins on a long-ago day in August when the sun seared my blistered face and I was nine years old and my father and mother sold me to a strange man. Memory, the narrator of Petina Gappah’s The Book of Memory, is an albino woman languishing in Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison in Harare, Zimbabwe, after being sentenced for murder. As part of her appeal, her lawyer insists that she write down what happened as she remembers it. The death penalty is a mandatory sentence for murder, and Memory is, both literally and metaphorically, writing for her life. As her story unfolds, Memory reveals that she has been tried and convicted for the murder of Lloyd Hendricks, her adopted father. But who was Lloyd Hendricks? Why does Memory feel no remorse for his death? And did everything happen exactly as she remembers? Moving between the townships of the poor and the suburbs of the rich, and between past and present, the 2009 Guardian First Book Award–winning writer Petina Gappah weaves a compelling tale of love, obsession, the relentlessness of fate, and the treachery of memory.
When her younger brother is in danger, fifteen-year-old Maddie runs out of the house she has not left since she was two years old when the evil town librarian threatened to harm her.
The Seven Sins of Memory by Daniel L. Schacter Pdf
A New York Times Notable Book: A psychologist’s “gripping and thought-provoking” look at how and why our brains sometimes fail us (Steven Pinker, author of How the Mind Works). In this intriguing study, Harvard psychologist Daniel L. Schacter explores the memory miscues that occur in everyday life, placing them into seven categories: absent-mindedness, transience, blocking, misattribution, suggestibility, bias, and persistence. Illustrating these concepts with vivid examples—case studies, literary excerpts, experimental evidence, and accounts of highly visible news events such as the O. J. Simpson verdict, Bill Clinton’s grand jury testimony, and the search for the Oklahoma City bomber—he also delves into striking new scientific research, giving us a glimpse of the fascinating neurology of memory and offering “insight into common malfunctions of the mind” (USA Today). “Though memory failure can amount to little more than a mild annoyance, the consequences of misattribution in eyewitness testimony can be devastating, as can the consequences of suggestibility among pre-school children and among adults with ‘false memory syndrome’ . . . Drawing upon recent neuroimaging research that allows a glimpse of the brain as it learns and remembers, Schacter guides his readers on a fascinating journey of the human mind.” —Library Journal “Clear, entertaining and provocative . . . Encourages a new appreciation of the complexity and fragility of memory.” —The Seattle Times “Should be required reading for police, lawyers, psychologists, and anyone else who wants to understand how memory can go terribly wrong.” —The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “A fascinating journey through paths of memory, its open avenues and blind alleys . . . Lucid, engaging, and enjoyable.” —Jerome Groopman, MD “Compelling in its science and its probing examination of everyday life, The Seven Sins of Memory is also a delightful book, lively and clear.” —Chicago Tribune Winner of the William James Book Award
This thrilling YA fantasy debut follows seventeen-year-old Etta Lark as she navigates the underworld of Craewick to pull off the heist of a lifetime. A YALSA (The Young Adult Library Services Association) Teens' Top Ten Book for 2020, Mansy crafts a grim reality where memories are worth their weight in gold. In the city of Craewick, memories reign. The power-obsessed ruler of the city, Madame, has cultivated a society in which memories are currency, citizens are divided by ability, and Gifted individuals can take memories from others through touch as they please. Seventeen-year-old Etta Lark is desperate to live outside of the corrupt culture, but she grapples with the guilt of an accident that has left her mother bedridden in the city's asylum. When Madame threatens to put her mother up for auction, a Craewick practice in which a "criminal's" memories are sold to the highest bidder before being killed, Etta will do whatever it takes to save her. Even if it means rejoining the Shadows, the rebel group she swore off in the wake of the accident years earlier. To rescue her mother, Etta must prove her allegiance to the Shadows by stealing a memorized map of the Maze, a formidable prison created by the bloodthirsty ruler of a neighboring Realm. Etta faces startling attacks, unexpected romance, and, above all, her own past as she uncovers a conspiracy that challenges everything she knew about herself and the world around her. In a place where nothing is what it seems, can Etta ever become more than a memory thief? Perfect for fans of high-stakemagical heists such as: Leigh Bardugo (Six of Crows) Victoria Aveyard (Red Queen) Roshani Chokshi (The Gilded Wolves) "Mansy's debut will delight fantasy readers who revel in fully developed settings and unusual powers."- Booklist "A welcome addition to the YA fantasy canon, The Memory Thief is a suspenseful page-turner, delightfully chock full of unexpected twists and turns."- Shelf Awareness
Prison Pens by Timothy Joseph Williams,Evan Kutzler Pdf
Prison Pens presents the memoir of a captured Confederate soldier in northern Virginia and the letters he exchanged with his fiancee during the Civil War. Wash Nelson and Mollie Scollay's letters, as well as Nelson's own manuscript memoir, provide rare insight into a world of intimacy, despair, loss, and reunion in the Civil War South. The tender voices in the letters combined with Nelson's account of his time as a prisoner of war provide a story that is personal and political, revealing the daily life of those living in the Confederacy and the harsh realities of being an imprisoned soldier. Ultimately, through the juxtaposition of the letters and memoir, Prison Pens provides an opportunity for students and scholars to consider the role of memory and incarceration in retelling the Confederate past and incubating Lost Cause mythology. This book will be accompanied by a digital component: a website that allows students and scholars to interact with the volume's content and sources via an interactive map, digitized letters, and special lesson plans.
Finalist for the International Booker Prize and the National Book Award A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor. On an unnamed island, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses. . . . Most of the inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few able to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten. When a young writer discovers that her editor is in danger, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her f loorboards, and together they cling to her writing as the last way of preserving the past. Powerful and provocative, The Memory Police is a stunning novel about the trauma of loss. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR THE NEW YORK TIMES * THE WASHINGTON POST * TIME * CHICAGO TRIBUNE * THE GUARDIAN * ESQUIRE * THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS * FINANCIAL TIMES * LIBRARY JOURNAL * THE A.V. CLUB * KIRKUS REVIEWS * LITERARY HUB American Book Award winner
"Prison: Cultural Memory and Dark Tourism discusses decommissioned Australian prisons currently or potentially functioning as tourist attractions. In particular, it addresses a fundamental question: Do the interpretations and presentations of the sites include and fairly represent the personal stories and experiences associated with those prisons? The author argues that the conventional understanding of most of Australia's historical prisons fosters a radical "othering" of inmates, and with it the exclusion, distortion and historical neglect of their narratives." "This book examines avenues via which neglected narratives may be glimpsed or inferred, presenting a number of examples. This remedies the imbalance in some degree - and tests such avenues' potential as resources for inclusive interpretations by public historians and curators. The book also focuses on the influence of "celebrity prisoners", whose links to the penal system are exploited as promotional features by the sites and in some cases by the individuals themselves. Their narratives provide broad, if unwitting, support for the system and for the othering of the more general inmate population." "The ramifications of the above with regard to aspects of Australian identity mean that certain facets of the "Australian character" traditionally held to be emblematic are affected. These effects have subtle but tangible consequences for modern Australians' collective memory and deleterious consequences for current popular attitudes to penal practice."--BOOK JACKET.
A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan,Brandon Sanderson Pdf
The Wheel of Time is now an original series on Prime Video, starring Rosamund Pike as Moiraine! With Robert Jordan’s untimely passing in 2007, Brandon Sanderson, the New York Times bestselling author of the Mistborn novels and the Stormlight Archive, was chosen by Jordan’s editor—his wife, Harriet McDougal—to complete the final volume in The Wheel of Time®, later expanded to three books. In A Memory of Light, the fourteenth and concluding novel in Jordan’s #1 New York Times bestselling epic fantasy series, the armies of Light gather to fight in Tarmon Gai’don, the Last Battle, to save the Westland nations from the shadow forces of the Dark One. Rand al’Thor, the Dragon Reborn, is ready to fulfill his destiny. To defeat the enemy that threatens them all, he must convince his reluctant allies that his plan—as foolhardy and dangerous as it appears—is their only chance to stop the Dark One’s ascension and secure a lasting peace. But if Rand’s course of action fails, the world will be engulfed in shadow. Across the land, Mat, Perrin, and Egwene engage in battle with Shadowspawn, Trollocs, Darkfriends, and other creatures of the Blight. Sacrifices are made, lives are lost, but victory is unassured. For when Rand confronts the Dark One in Shayol Ghul, he is bombarded with conflicting visions of the future that reveal there is more at stake for humanity than winning the war. Since its debut in 1990, The Wheel of Time® by Robert Jordan has captivated millions of readers around the globe with its scope, originality, and compelling characters. The last six books in series were all instant #1 New York Times bestsellers, and The Eye of the World was named one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. The Wheel of Time® New Spring: The Novel #1 The Eye of the World #2 The Great Hunt #3 The Dragon Reborn #4 The Shadow Rising #5 The Fires of Heaven #6 Lord of Chaos #7 A Crown of Swords #8 The Path of Daggers #9 Winter's Heart #10 Crossroads of Twilight #11 Knife of Dreams By Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson #12 The Gathering Storm #13 Towers of Midnight #14 A Memory of Light By Robert Jordan and Teresa Patterson The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time By Robert Jordan, Harriet McDougal, Alan Romanczuk, and Maria Simons The Wheel of Time Companion By Robert Jordan and Amy Romanczuk Patterns of the Wheel: Coloring Art Based on Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Nalini Singh returns to the Psy/Changeling world and its “breathtaking blend of passion, adventure, and the paranormal”* as a woman without a past becomes the pawn of a man who controls her future… Dev Santos discovers her unconscious and battered, with no memory of who she is. All she knows is that she’s dangerous. Charged with protecting his people’s most vulnerable secrets, Dev is duty-bound to eliminate all threats. It’s a task he’s never hesitated to complete…until he finds himself drawn to a woman who might yet prove the enemy’s most insidious weapon. Stripped of her memories by a shadowy oppressor, and programmed to carry out cold-blooded murder, Katya Haas is fighting desperately for her sanity itself. Her only hope is Dev. But how can she expect to gain the trust of a man who could very well be her next target? For in this game, one must die…
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The memories of an Anonymous political prisoner by Cornel GOIA Pdf
This book is not an adventure or horror novel, it is an account, as simple as the author of the memoirs. Personal events and experiences are written spontaneously and directly, the hero narrating the ordeal of the years spent in jail as if talking to his next door neighbour . The exceptions from the morphology and syntax rules only add to the authenticity of the story. As the reading of the text advances, a question arises, grows, then becomes overwhelming. How was it possible? How could these creatures thrust such suffering in the flesh and the spirit of a human being, a multiplied suffering, amplified on the scale of millions of people? The hero sees himself thrust in a moment in the hell of the Romanian political prisons and consequently treated as a political prisoner, with all the dark connotations that this title hides in its fatal folds. It is the "right" to be beaten up to the loss of conscience, the "right" to torment his comrades of suffering, only to escape torture himself, "the right" to starvation up to the point of dehumanization, the "right" to work over your powers , the "right" to die, or the "right" to find desperately that you have become a beast. And yet how close they were to success! They had crossed unnoticed the ploughed strip of the border separating them from freedom, or at least so they believed. Being in Yugoslavia they also dreamt of getting to America. But what disappointment and fear! A group of Serbian border guards cuts their way, arrests them, handcuffs them, and after an investigation they deliver them to the Romanian border guards; and the ordeal continues, or it has just begun. The horror of the story, which risks to slip the reader's attention, is that Popică is not a political criminal. His only "fault" is that he wanted to live in America. The communist authorities had declared the illegal border crossing to be a political offense. Popică did not even know the fact that the Yugoslav authorities extradited the Romanians they captured crossing the border. Even if he had known it, Popică, honest, simple-minded and God-fearing as he was, could not have understood how it was possible for a free people like the Serbs whom their leader, Tito, let leave and return to their country anytime, to extradite the Romanian fugitives seeking freedom. A Romanian curse seemed to let Romania have no common border with any free country in Europe. Popică's first story contains the escape, the crossing of the ploughed strip of land, the great flashing joy of success, followed by the most bitter disappointment of their being captured by the Yugoslav border guards. The story, until crossing the border, seems trivial, because all over the world tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of people cross borders illegally, determined by political, social or economic injustices in their country, by unbearable climate changes, by war, or simply in the hope of a better life. The area of the Great Lakes in the United States is to this day full of the descendants of the 1920s Romanian emigrants , whom no one asked why they left, why they returned, whether they returned or why they stayed. These emigrants were not arrested by anyone on the border to be accused of intending to betray their homeland. From now on, Popică's story turns into a tragedy. As in a horror film, the action takes a dramatic, unreal turn, it turns into a nightmare, into a long and unbearable suffering that will chase him and which he will try to escape from with a wounded animal roar. This roar will be the present book. In other words, telling his suffering, he could wake up from the nightmare. Confessing his suffering, the book becomes the confession of a martyr. By telling it to everyone, the author hopes to get rid of it, or at least to alleviate it. Without Franz Kafka, the writer's talent, Popică manages to thrill us, making us plunge into the kafkian universe: van-wagons with metallic structures heated mercilessly by the burning sun of triage stations; wagons packed to capacity with detainees, some of them sick and suffocating, screaming for lack of air, feeling like dying; the cells at Jilava, overcrowded with detainees, even sleeping under the overlapped beds; buckets full of fetid human waste, placed near the pots of drinking water; that transport of old detainees who are simply overturned in the mud at the gate of the camp and who can no longer rise up from the mud because of exhaustion to the amusement of the guards, sinister onlookers in security guard uniforms watching the spectacle of human humiliation. Popică with his story opens up the gates of the hell built in Romania by the Romanian Security at Stalin's order and executed by his loyal servants from the Central Committee of the Romanian Workers' Party. Popică understood that Dumitrache had already been dead when they brought him the bread roll and the kettle with water, but he played the innocent for fear of punishment. He understood that he had to play the role all the way, thus facilitating the scenario of Dumitrache's escape attempt. Up to the moment of Dumitrache's attempt to escape, the destiny of the memoirs’ author resembled that of Dumitrache’s. Both of them had been arrested, investigated, beaten and then sent to the Peninsula or the Poarta Albă to die of cold, starvation and working rules impossible to accomplish. Here the likeness of the two destinies ceases. Popică had remained "inside" while Ion Dumitrache had dared to go "outside" and had become a victim of the temptation to correct his destiny. He fell into the hands of the security guards who beat him to death, then they hung him with wires at the corner of the barracks and left him there as an example to scare the other prisoners. Dumitrache's figure, hanging from the pillar, his fallen head and his bruised face, impressed him strongly. Dumitrache looked there, on the pillar, like Christ crucified on the cross. This likeness shook him to non-oblivion. The emotional shock he lived through made him write this testimony over the years. Certainly Popică did not notice the directorial talent of the security guards who staged the great misfortune. Indeed, in the forced labor colony where the drama happened, no other escape attempts were reported. The questions that have arisen, deeply human questions, are: "Who has "triumphed" in the Dumitrache case? The security guards who tortured and killed Dumitrache? Isn’t it Dumitrache the real winner, who succeeded by his death to exchange the ordeal of detention with eternity !? Is it Popică the winner who endured the ordeal to the end and confessed it by writing these memoirs?" The answer to these questions is personal, it is the answer that every reader will whisper to himself/herself. Post scriptum: I cannot put an end to this warning without expressing my profound sense of admiration to professor Cornel Goia for his tireless work as a chronicler of these incredible sufferings undergone in the Romanian political prisons to keep them away from this dreadful death that is OBLIVION.
