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The Saturday Night Ghost Club / by Davidson, Craig,1976-author.;
"A charismatic cast of misfits, losers, and bruisers animate this winning novel set in Niagara Falls, a.k.a. Cataract City--a slightly seedy, slightly magical, slightly haunted place, where seemingly ordinary lives are steeped in secrets, desires, troubled histories, and the occasional splash of mayhem. Like Ilium, New York, in the novels of Kurt Vonnegut, or Castle Rock, New England, in the fiction of Stephen King--or even Hawkins, Indiana, in the Netflix sensation Stranger Things, Cataract City is an invented world where lost innocence mingles with the darker shades and sharper corners of humanity. Saturday Night Ghost Club is a short, irresistible, and bittersweet coming-of-age story about a small group of kids who, under the leadership of an eccentric uncle, spend one summer investigating the validity of local ghost stories and macabre urban myths--in almost every instance getting in way over their heads. With warmth, skill, and striking, cinematic imagery, and a rare gift for conjuring totally original, unexpected, and unforgettable set pieces and tableaus that strike the reader as immediately iconic--Davidson draws us into his gritty world, reminding us that life's strange intensity and occasional magic is all around us."--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Parapsychology; Urban folklore; Children; Uncles; Eccentrics and eccentricities; Memories; Family secrets; Neurosurgeons;
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Cam Jansen and the green school mystery / by Adler, David A.; Allen, Joy.;
On Green Day, Cam and her classmates discuss ways to protect the environment, but when money collected for the school's new skylights disappears, Cam uses her photographic memory to solve the mystery."Ages 7 up"--P. [4] of cover.LSC
Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Detective and mystery stories.; Jansen, Cam (Fictitious character); Green movement; Environmental protection; Theft; Memory;
© 2009, c2008., Puffin Books,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Fencing with the king : a novel / by Abu-Jaber, Diana,author.;
"A mesmerizing breakthrough novel of family myths and inheritances by the award-winning author of Crescent. Amani is hooked on a mystery-a poem on airmail paper that slips out of one of her father's books. It seems to have been written by her grandmother, a refugee who arrived in Jordan during the First World War. Soon the perfect occasion to investigate arises: her Uncle Hafez, an advisor to the King of Jordan, invites her father to celebrate the king's sixtieth birthday-and to fence with the king, as in their youth. Her father has avoided returning to his homeland for decades, but Amani persuades him to come with her. Uncle Hafez will make their time in Jordan complicated-and dangerous-after Amani discovers a missing relative and is launched into a journey of loss, history, and, eventually, a fight for her own life. Fencing with the King masterfully draws on King Lear and Arthurian fable to explore the power of inheritance, the trauma of displacement, and whether we can release the past to build a future"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Emigration and immigration; Family secrets; Fencing; Identity (Psychology); Kings and rulers; Memory; Refugees; Poetry;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A summer to remember / by Montgomery, Erika,author.;
"For thirty-year-old Frankie Simon, selling movie memorabilia in the shop she opened with her late mother on Hollywood Boulevard is more than just her livelihood--it's an enduring connection to the only family she has ever known. But when a mysterious package arrives containing a photograph of her mother and famous movie stars Glory Cartwright and her husband at a coastal film festival the year before Frankie's birth, her life begins to unravel in ways unimaginable. What begins is a journey along a path revealing buried family secrets, betrayals between lovers, bonds between friends. And for Frankie, as the past unlocks the present, the chance to learn that memories define who we are, and that they can show us the meaning of home and the magic of true love."--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Family secrets; Souvenirs (Keepsakes); Self-realization in women; Memory; Summer;
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Before the ever after / by Woodson, Jacqueline.;
ZJ's friends Ollie, Darry and Daniel help him cope when his father, a beloved professional football player, suffers severe headaches and memory loss that spell the end of his career.LSC
Subjects: Novels in verse.; Football stories.; Brain; Best friends; Friendship; Fathers and sons; Memory; African Americans;
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Oral traditions and storytelling / by Yasuda, Anita.;
Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.Discusses the role that storytelling plays in indigenous culture and how they are keeping their oral traditions alive for the next generations.LSC
Subjects: Oral tradition; Oral history; Native peoples; Storytelling; Folklore; Collective memory; Indigenous peoples;
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Robert Ludlum's The Bourne shadow / by Freeman, Brian,1963-author.; Ludlum, Robert,1927-2001,creator.;
When he meets a woman who recognizes him as David Webb, Bourne is forced to confront the dangerous ghosts of a past he doesn't event remember.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Political fiction.; Spy fiction.; Novels.; Bourne, Jason (Fictitious character); United States. Central Intelligence Agency; Amnesia; Amnesiacs; Assassins; Betrayal; Memory; Terrorism; Undercover operations;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Pure life : (or, Rip blue ride x lucky smash zero naked grace set go) / by Marten, Eugene,author.;
After experiencing holes in his mind and memory from a career of punishment on the field become too large and frightening to ignore, retired pro-football star Nineteen travels to the Mosquito Coast of Honduras in search a miracle brain damage treatment forbidden in the U.S. Instead, he finds himself on a journey that plunges him into a darkness more violent and horrific than he could have possibly imagined--at once a fight for his life and to hold onto the shards and fragments of the life hes fighting for.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Sports fiction.; Novels.; Brain damage; Ex-football players; Football injuries; Medical tourism; Memory; Voyages and travels;
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The frugal wizard's handbook for surviving medieval England / by Sanderson, Brandon,author.; Argyle, Steve,illustrator.;
"A man awakes in a clearing in what appears to be medieval England with no memory of who he is, where he came from, or why he is there. Chased by a group from his own time, his sole hope for survival lies in regaining his missing memories, making allies among the locals, and perhaps even trusting in their superstitious boasts. His only help from the "real world" should have been a guidebook entitled The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England, except his copy exploded during transit. The few fragments he managed to save provide clues to his situation, but can he figure them out in time to survive?"--
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Time-travel fiction.; Novels.; Amnesia; Amnesiacs; Magic; Memory; Survival; Time travel; Wizards;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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National treasure. [videorecording (DVD)] / by Aviv, Oren; Bartha, Justi; Bruckheimer, Jerr; Burrell, Ty,1967; Cage, Nicolas,1965; Elliott, Ted,1961; Greenwood, Bruce,1956; Harris, Ed,1950; Keitel, Harve; Kouf, Jim; Kruger, Diane,1976; Maize, Michael; Mirren, Hele; Murphy, Timothy V; Poirier, Gregory; Segars, Charles; Turteltaub, Jo; Voight, Jon,1938; Wibberley, Corma; Wibberley, Mariann; Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm; Jerry Bruckheimer Films; Junction Entertainment (Firm; Saturn Films; Sparkler Entertainment (Firm; Walt Disney Home Entertainment (Firm; Walt Disney Picture;
Director of photography, Amir Mokri, John Schwartzman ; editors, William Goldenberg, David Rennie ; music, Trevor Rabin ; costume designer, Judianna Makovsky ; production designer, Dominic Watkins ; visual effects supervisor, Mitchell S. Drain, Christopher James Hall.Nicolas Cage, Justin Bartha, Diane Kruger, Jon Voight, Helen Mirren, Ed Harris, Harvey Keitel, Bruce Greenwood, Ty Burrell, Michael Maize, Timothy V. MurphyWhen a missing page from the diary of John Wilkes Booth surfaces, Ben Gates' great-great grandfather is suddenly implicated as a key conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The page is one of 18 pages missing from Booth's diary. When doing more research, the conspiracy takes Ben, Abigail, and Riley from Buckingham Palace to the White House - both places they break into - and even stealing a page from a secret book. But in order to see more from the book, their choice is either get elected president or kidnap the President of the United States. So, Ben kidnaps the president. The conspiracy then crosses to Mount Rushmore. Now, Ben will have to clear his family's name so they will no longer be linked to the assassinationCanadian Home Video Rating: PGDVD ; widescreen (2.35:1) presentation
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Adventure film; Conspiracies; Diaries; Feature film; Official secrets;
© c2008., Walt Disney Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video,
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