Describes different kinds of monuments from around the world while also explaining how and why they were built, how they are preserved, and their importance to one's memory.
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.
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.
Explains how memory works, covering such topics as short-term memory, working memory, learning, organizing and remembering, forgetting, repression, and eyewitness testimony, and includes tips for improving one's memory.
Portrait artist Annie Somerville's contented life hits a troubled patch when the death of a childhood friend she has not heard from in years stirs up memories best left undisturbed.
Emma and Pop have been tap dancing together since before she could talk, but Pop becomes very forgetful and can no longer dance until one special day when he hears Emma's steps and they find a way for him to join in.
When Cam Jansen and her friend Eric go the music store at the mall for the latest CD by the Triceratops Pops band, Cam uses her photographic memory to foil a crime.
When suicide becomes a worldwide epidemic, the only known cure is The Program, a treatment in which painful memories are erased, a fate worse than death to seventeen-year-old Sloane who knows that The Program will steal memories of her dead brother and boyfriend.
Chase is haunted by fragmented memories of the accident that changed his life and struggles to put the crash behind him, but first he must face the truth about what he has done and how it has changed him.
