Having achieved the seemingly unachievable -- becoming a U.S. Memory Champion -- Foer shows how anyone with enough training and determination can achieve mastery of their memory.

Examines the physiological mechanisms underlying memory, the study of which has enabled scientists to explain and even control memory. Looks at the malleability of memory and the possible realities of implanting and erasing individual memories.

After being missing for twenty years, Tara Martin appears on her parents doorstep barely a day older than when she vanished.

Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives. Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian...

The CEO of the Happiness Institute explores how we can learn to create happy memories and do better at holding onto them.

"A hypnotic, sinister debut mystery about a seemingly good cop who is secretly the daughter of a notorious serial killer who must, against all the rules, insert herself into a new investigation when ritually killed bodies start appearing in her father's old territory. Anna Koray has shut the door on her past. The records of her childhood -- and the troubling memories -- are sealed away thanks to a controversial hypnosis treatment. She's a police lieutenant...

"On the Fourth of July, Hallie Evers dies at a rooftop party in Las Vegas. Hours later, she wakes up in the hospital, disoriented but alive. Why can't she find the doctor who revived her? Why does her head feel crowded and loud? Why do her memories feel both foreign and familiar? Her self-doubt spirals into crippling paranoia. Hallie knows that mental illness runs in her family -- her mother suffered from delusions that led to an early death. But...

"Activity books are a medically recommended intervention for memory-impaired adults. The book is designed with two-page spreads, which pair a picture on one page and instructions on the other page for prompting recall. New features include all new images, references to online resources, and a multicultural approach. The introductory chapter now has suggestions for how the book can be used at home and in institutional settings"--

"A deeply personal how-to book for aspiring writers, encouraging them to look inward and excavate their own memories in order to discover the authentic voices and compelling details that are waiting to be put on the page"--

"Yetu holds the memories for her people -- water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners -- who live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly, is forgotten by everyone, save one -- the historian. This demanding role has been bestowed on Yetu. Yetu remembers for everyone, and the memories, painful and wonderful, traumatic and terrible and miraculous, are destroying...