Memento Nora

Memento Nora PDF Author: Angie Smibert
Publisher: Skyscape
ISBN: 9781477816240
Category : Dystopias
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"In Nora's world you don't have to put up with nightmares. Nora goes with her mother to TFC -- a Therapeutic Forgetting Clinic. There, she can describe her horrible memory and take a pill to erase it so she can go on like nothing ever happened. But at TFC a chance encounter with a mysterious guy changes Nora's life. She doesn't take the pill. And when Nora learns the memory her mother has chosen to forget, she realizes that someone needs to remember." --page [4] of cover.

The Forgetting Curve

The Forgetting Curve PDF Author: Angie Smibert
Publisher: Skyscape
ISBN: 9781477810484
Category : Government, Resistance to
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Tells, in separate voices, of a near future in which Winter Nomura has had a psychotic break, and her friend Velvet and cousin Aiden, who is visiting from his Swiss boarding school, try to uncover and fix what is seriously wrong with their society, city, and even Aiden's family.

The Meme Plague

The Meme Plague PDF Author: Angie Smibert
Publisher: Skyscape
ISBN: 9781477816608
Category : Dystopias
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
In the final installment in the Memento Nora series, Micah and Nora piece their memories together as Aiden, Velvet, and Winter continue the the work of the MemeCast. The teens all band together to get the word out about the new ID chipsNand how the government and TFC are using the chips to manipulate the public remotely.

Creating Memory and Cultural Identity in African American Trauma Fiction

Creating Memory and Cultural Identity in African American Trauma Fiction PDF Author: Patricia San José Rico
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004364102
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description
How do contemporary African American authors relate trauma, memory, and the recovery of the past with the processes of cultural and identity formation in African American communities?

Death, Memory and Material Culture

Death, Memory and Material Culture PDF Author: Elizabeth Hallam
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000181014
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 217

Book Description
- How do the living maintain ongoing relationships with the dead in Western societies? - How have the residual belongings of the dead been used to evoke memories? - Why has the body and its material environment remained so important in memory-making? Objects, images, practices, and places remind us of the deaths of others and of our own mortality. At the time of death, embodied persons disappear from view, their relationships with others come under threat and their influence may cease. Emotionally, socially, politically, much is at stake at the time of death. In this context, memories and memory-making can be highly charged, and often provide the dead with a social presence amongst the living. Memories of the dead are a bulwark against the terror of forgetting, as well as an inescapable outcome of a life's ending. Objects in attics, gardens, museums, streets and cemeteries can tell us much about the processes of remembering. This unusual and absorbing book develops perspectives in anthropology and cultural history to reveal the importance of material objects in experiences of grief, mourning and memorializing. Far from being ‘invisible', the authors show how past generations, dead friends and lovers remain manifest - through well-worn garments, letters, photographs, flowers, residual drops of perfume, funerary sculpture. Tracing the rituals, gestures and materials that have been used to shape and preserve memories of personal loss, Hallam and Hockey show how material culture provides the deceased with a powerful presence within the here and now.

The Internet

The Internet PDF Author: Angie Smibert
Publisher: North Star Editions, Inc.
ISBN: 1635174309
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35

Book Description
Introduces readers to the science that makes the Internet possible. Accessible text, helpful diagrams, and a “How Does It Work?” feature make this book an exciting introduction to understanding technology.

Spaces and Places in Motion

Spaces and Places in Motion PDF Author: Nicole Schröder
Publisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN: 9783823362531
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Book Description


Lingering Echoes

Lingering Echoes PDF Author: Angie Smibert
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
ISBN: 1684377048
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178

Book Description
Twelve-year-old Bone uses her Gift, which allows her to see the stories in everyday objects, to try to figure out why her best friend, Will Kincaid, suddenly lost his voice at age five. This supernatural historical mystery is the second title in the acclaimed and emotionally resonant Ghosts of Ordinary Objects series. In a southern Virginia coal-mining town in October 1942, Bone Phillips is learning to control her Gift: Bone can see the history of a significant object when she touches it. When her best friend, Will Kincaid, asks Bone to "read" the history of his daddy's jelly jar--the jelly jar that was buried alongside his father during the mine cave-in that killed him--Bone is afraid. Even before Bone touches it, she can feel that the jar has its own strange power. With her mother dead, her father gone to war, and Aunt Mattie's assault looming over Bone, she can't bear the idea of losing Will too. As Will's obsession with the jelly jar becomes dangerous, Bone struggles to understand the truth behind the jar and save him Featuring a beautiful, compelling voice, this novel weaves a story of mystery, family, and ultimately, love.

Bone's Gift

Bone's Gift PDF Author: Angie Smibert
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
ISBN: 1629798509
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252

Book Description
Twelve-year-old Bone possesses a Gift that allows her to see the stories in everyday objects in this supernatural historical mystery. The first title in the Ghosts of Everyday Objects series — now in paperback! In southern Virginia coal-mining town in 1942, Bone Phillips has just reached the age when most members of her family discover their Gift. Bone has a Gift that disturbs her; she can sense stories when she touches an object that was important to someone. She sees both sad and happy--the death of a deer in an arrowhead, the pain of a beating in a baseball cap, and the sense of joy in a fiddle. There are also stories woven into her dead mama's butter--yellow sweater--stories Bone yearns for and fears. When Bone receives a note that says her mama's Gift is what killed her, Bone tries to uncover the truth. Could Bone's Gift do the same? Here is a beautifully resonant coming-of-age tale about learning to trust the power of your own story.

When Skies Are Gray

When Skies Are Gray PDF Author: Lindsey M. Henke
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1647426316
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 271

Book Description
Lindsey Henke is freshly married and a newly practicing psychotherapist when she finds out she is pregnant with her first child. Nine months later, on a cold Minnesota night in December 2012, after a perfect pregnancy, Lindsey goes into labor—only to be told upon arrival at the hospital that her baby has no heartbeat. After the stillbirth of her daughter, Lindsey grapples with the unbearable agony of losing a child. Unprepared to cope with a sorrow this deep, she uses the only tools she has—her skills as a therapist—to plot her own path through grief. Over the next year and half, as Lindsey mourns the loss of one child while simultaneously trying to hold space for the joy of expecting another baby, she learns that grief can live side by side with joy. When Skies Are Gray offers a poignant message to any mother who is grieving: Your pain is real. The sharp ache of the grief you feel will soften over time, though your love for the child you lost will always remain. And it’s okay to feel that love; it’s a mother’s love, and like lullabies, a mother’s love never dies.