This anthology investigates the turn in art not only towards archives & histories the relics of modernities past but toward the phenomena in themselves of haunting" & the activation of memory. It looks at a wide array of artistic relationships to memory association repetition & reappearance as well as forms of "active" forgetting. Its discussions encompass artworks from the late 1940s onward ranging from reperformances such as Marina Abramovic's Seven Easy Pieces (embodied resurrections of decades-removed performance pieces by her contemporaries) to the inanimate trace of "memory" Robert Morris assigns to his free-form felt pieces which "forget" in their present configurations their previous slides & falls. Contextualizing memory's role in visual theory & aesthetic politics
- from Marcel Proust's optics to Bernard Stiegler's analysis of memory's "industrialization"
- this collection also surveys the diversity of situations & registers in which contemporary artists explore memory. Art that engages with memory embodied in material & spatial conditions is examined beside works that reflect upon memory's effects through time & yet others that enlist the agency of remembrance or forgetting to work through aspects of the numerous pasts by which the present is always haunted. Artists surveyed include: Marina Abramovic Eija-Liisa Ahtila Kutlug Ataman Uta Barth Tom Burr Sophie Calle Joseph Cornell Tacita Dean Stan Douglas Cheryl Dunye Kota Ezawa Hans-Peter Feldmann Felix Gonzalez-Torres Rodney Graham Richard Hamilton Sharon Hayes Susan Hiller Roni Horn Pierre Huyghe Amar Kanwar William Kentridge Idris Khan Zoe Leonard Ilan Lieberman Glenn Ligon Elizabeth Manchester Robert Morris Rabih Mroue Uriel Orlow Walid Raad Anri Sala Fazal Sheikh Lorna Simpson Vivan Sundaram Jane & Louise Wilson. Writers include Gaston Bachelard Daniel Birnbaum Andre Breton Nicolas Bourriaud Victor Burgin Johanna Burton Tom Burr Helene Cixous Joseph Cornell T.J. Demos Gilles Deleuze Ollivier Dyens Okwui Enwezor Briony Fer Hal Foster Maurice Halbwachs Richard Hamilton Margaret Iversen Martin Jay Siegfried Kracauer Abigail Levine Tom Mc Donough Roger Malbert Robert Morris Rabih Mroue Michael Newman Pierre Nora Georges Perec Peggy Phelan Pil & Galia Kollectiv Megan Ratner Hans Rudolf Reust Paul Ricoeur Lisa Saltzman Lauren Sedofsky Roger Shattuck Michael Sheringham Bernard Stiegler Peter Suchin Margaret Sundell & Jan Verwoert."

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Catherine's mother died when Catherine was just a baby girl leaving nothing but her perfect reputation to live up to. Or so she thought. But then Catherine finds a box addressed to her filled with objects seemingly without meaning
- three feathers an exotic seashell a painting a mirror two prints an address book a map a hat a rucksack & a necklace. & while she's busy playing detective trying to find out who her mother was she finds out more about herself than she ever really wanted to know. Secrets are discovered truths uncovered & Catherine realises that maybe there was something more to her mother something that her familiy has kept from her. How long a shadow can a dead woman cast?
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Alexs beloved grandfather is sick. His memory is failing & Alexs parents want to put him in a home. Alex has promised Grandad that he wont let that happen But Alex has broken promises before. When he was growing up in the Bosnian War he swore that he would protect his brother. It was a promise that he couldnt keep Alex cant fail again. ...

A pulse-pounding race-against-time thriller featuring forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett. Forensic psychiatrist Jo Becketts speciality is the psychological autopsy
- an investigation into a persons life to determine whether a death was natural accidental suicide or homicide. When Jo is asked to do a psychological autopsy on a living person
- one with a suspect memory who cant be trusted to participate in his own medical care
- she knows all her skills will be put to the test. Jo is called to the scene of an aircraft inbound from London to help deal with a passenger who is behaving erratically. She figures out that Ian Kanan has got anterograde amnesia & cant form new memories. Jo finds herself racing to save a patient who can walk & talk & yet cant help Jo figure out just what happened to him. Suddenly a string of clues arises something to do with a super deadly biological agent code-named Slick" a kidnapping & a secret partnership gone horribly wrong. Jo realises Kanans addled mind may hold the key to preventing something terrible from happening in her beloved San Francisco. With time running out she will have to get deeper into the life of a patient than she ever has before hoping the truth emerges from the fog of his mind in time to save her city
- & herself."



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Lamorna Cove
- a tiny bay in Cornwall picturesque unspoilt. A hundred years ago it was the haunt of a colony of artists. Today
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Cold rimmed her belly frosted its way up to her throat. She couldn't breathe through the ice of it. Fear scratched at her throat. ' How did you find me?' Nothing shocks Eve Dallas. As New York's most prominent & headstrong homicide Lieutenant she's seen everything. But when someone from her past shows up
- someone sickly sweet & viciously cruel
- Eve panics. Foster carer Trudy Lombard spent years traumatising the young & the vulnerable. To the tough aggressive Eve these memories cut deep. So when Trudy is found lying dead in a pool of her own blood days after their meeting Eve feels nothing. But the cop inside her vows to find the killer. & all the while her memories torment her...' Gut-searing emotional drama' David Baldacci

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The multi-million copy bestseller Kim Edwards' The Memory Keeper's Daughter" is a moving & poignant novel about grief family & betrayal. Families have secrets they hide even from themselves... It should have been an ordinary birth the start of an ordinary happy family. But the night Dr David Henry delivers his wife's twins is a night that will haunt five lives for ever. For though David's son is a healthy boy his daughter has Down's syndrome. & in a shocking act of betrayal whose consequences only time will reveal he tells his wife their daughter died while secretly entrusting her care to a nurse. As grief quietly tears apart David's family so a little girl must make her own way in the world as best she can. " Crafted with language so lovely you have to reread the passages just to be captivated all over again.. .this is simply a beautiful book". (Jodi Picoult). "I loved this riveting story with its intricate characters & beautiful language". (Sue Monk Kidd author of the best-selling " The Secret Life of Bees"). Kim Edwards is the author of the short-story collection " The Secrets of the Fire King" which was an alternate for the 1998 PEN/ Hemingway Award & has won the Whiting Award & the Nelson Algren Award. Her second novel " The Lake of Dreams" is available from Penguin. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Kentucky." ...

Jimmy Magee whose extraordinary memory for sports trivia has led to his being dubbed the Memory Man has the distinction of being the longest-serving sports commentator in the English-speaking world. He started his career in 1956 the year that Ronnie Delany won the 1 500 metres gold medal at Melbourne. He has covered every Olympic Games since 1972 (the London 2012 games were his eleventh!) & every soccer World Cup since 1974. He achieved worldwide notice in Munich in 1972 when he managed to breach security in the Olympic village to cover the terrorist attack on Israeli athletes. This incredible scoop was picked up by CBS in the United States & then by every television station around the world. Jimmy Magee has been present at the most iconic sporting moments in both world & Irish sport & gives his unique insight into these major sporting moments. He tells how he played five-a-side football with Gert Muller how he almost came to blows with Nigel Benn & why he thinks Katie Taylor is Ireland's greatest contemporary sportsperson. But what is perhaps the most striking aspect of such an accomplished career is how Jimmy managed to find the strength to keep up his cheerful persona on air as he endured immeasurable sorrow in his personal life. His beloved wife Marie died unexpectedly in 1989 & his son Paul himself a footballer & sports broadcaster tragically lost his battle with motor neurone disease in 2008 at the early age of fifty-one. Full of anecdotes humour & poignancy Memory Man tells all these things & more. This is a frank open & honest book by one of Ireland's most beloved national treasures. ...

' And it came to pass in those days as it had come before & would come again that the Dark lay heavy on the land & weighed down the hearts of men & the green things failed & hope died.'
- Charal Drianaan te Calamon The Cycle of the Dragon. In the Field of Merrilor the rulers of the nations gather to join behind Rand al' Thor or to stop him from his plan to break the seals on the Dark One's prison
- which may be a sign of his madness or the last hope of humankind. Egwene the Amyrlin Seat leans toward the former. In Andor the Trollocs seize Caemlyn. In the wolf dream Perrin Aybara battles Slayer. Approaching Ebou Dar Mat Cauthon plans to visit his wife Tuon now Fortuona Empress of the Seanchan. All humanity is in peril
- & the outcome will be decided in Shayol Ghul itself. The Wheel is turning & the Age is coming to its end. The Last Battle will determine the fate of the world... For twenty years The Wheel of Time has enthralled more than forty million readers in over thirty-two languages. A Memory of Light brings this majestic fantasy creation to its richly satisfying conclusion. Working from notes & partials left by Robert Jordan when he died in 2007 & consulting with Jordan's widow who edited all of Jordan's books established fantasy writer Brandon Sanderson has recreated the vision Jordan left behind.


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