hallucinations and illusions

"Alif had exciting summer plans: working on her father's archaeological dig site in the desert with four close friends . . . and a very cute research assistant. Then the sandstorm hit. Their camp wiped away, Alif and the others find themselves lost on the sands, seemingly doomed . . . until they find the oasis. It has everything they need: food, water, and shade--and mysterious ruins that hide a deadly secret. As reality begins to shift around them, they question what's real and what's a mirage. The answers turn Alif and her friends against each other, and they begin to wonder if they've truly been saved"--OCLC.

"To save her kidnapped best friend and crush, Zadie must complete an enchanted deadly labyrinth riddled with illusions"--Provided by publisher.

"Flynn is stuck--depressed, recently dumped, and living at his mom's house. The supermarket was supposed to change all that. An ordinary job, routine hours, a steady check. Work isn't work when it's saving you from yourself. But things aren't quite as they seem in these aisles. Arriving to work one day to a crime scene, Flynn's world begins to crumble as the secrets of his tortured mind are revealed. And Flynn doesn't want to go looking for answers at the supermarket, because something there seems to be looking for him"--Back cover.

Collects issues seven through thirteen of "The Maxx" comics, which follow the adventures of Maxx, a huge purple homeless man who thinks he is a superhero and lives both in the real world, and in the dream world of the outback.

Maxx is a homeless man who lives in a cardboard box. As sexy Julie Winters, a freelance social worker, tries to help him, he has delusions about being a superhero called The Maxx, travelling to the "Outback, " fighting a villain named Mr. Gone, and saving Julie over and over. But are they really delusions?.

Bonus program: How to build a beating heart: "Scientists are using tissue engineering to harness the body's natural powers to grow skin, muscle, body parts and vital organs, even hearts." -- video.nationalgeographic.com.

Interactive games and intricate experiments designed to leave viewers rethinking how much faith they are willing to put in everything from memory to multitasking. Host Jason Silva and Deception Specialist Apollo Robbins are teaming up with some of the world's foremost neuroscientists to reveal the incredible inner-workings of the brain.

"One day, Declan Lynch, a regular teenager, starts hearing a girl's voice inside his head. Eventually, he even begins to see her. Though he's not certain the girl, Rebecca, is real, Declan finds himself falling for her. She shows him visions of places and people he has never seen -- places he feels compelled to find in hopes of meeting her. His quest takes him to County Sligo, Ireland, and its 'thin places,' spots where two worlds, two times or places, seem almost to touch. His slightly crazy Uncle Seamus takes him in, as Declan's search has him wondering which world he belongs in--his, or the one belonging to a girl who might not even be real."--OCLC.

While Rita Murray tried to lose weight her virtual-reality friend Rowena attempted to control every move she made until Rita found her true and independent self again.

" Sixteen-year-old Sorina has spent most of her life within the smoldering borders of the Gomorrah Festival. Yet even among the many unusual members of the traveling circus-city, Sorina stands apart as the only illusion-worker born in hundreds of years. This rare talent allows her to create illusions that others can see, feel and touch, with personalities all their own. Her creations are her family, and together they make up the cast of the Festival's Freak Show. But no matter how lifelike they may seem, her illusions are still just that-illusions, and not truly real. Or so she always believed-until one of them is murdered. Desperate to protect her family, Sorina must track down the culprit and determine how they killed a person who doesn't actually exist"--Amazon.com.