The abduction of a man from his secluded vacation cabin is featured in this autobiography by author Whitley Strieber. Strieber, a man on Christmas vacation with his family, goes skiing, eats holiday leftovers with his wife and son, then goes to bed early. But strange things happen during the night. Strieber’s effort to reconstruct bizarre memories of floodlights in the bedroom, owls, and strange dreams trigger an exploration into Strieber’s buried past. As Strieber begins to unlock hidden memories, he learns the truth about what happened to him on December 26, 1985 in upstate New York, USA.
Winner of the Nobel Prize, Naipaul has traveled throughout the world, looking at its varied cultures and seeking out others' stories, recording and transforming them. His engagement with postcolonial cultures informs his novels, such as Guerrillas and A Bend in the River. However, it is his documentaries (such as Among the Believers and Beyond Belief) and his works that combine actual and fictional histories and memories (Finding the Center, The Enigma of Arrival, and A Way in the World) that best exhibit a growing awareness of the complexities of cultural difference
Hemingway's nostalgic, remorseful, boozy, and sometimes bitter and unkind recollections of his years in Paris as an expatriate in the 1920's with his first wife Hadley, of whom he has nothing but fond memories.
An outstanding collection of poems that appeal to both boys and girls, compiled by a teacher who believed in the formative power of learning poetry by heart. “Children,” she maintains, “should build for their future — and get, while they are children, what only the fresh imagination of the child can assimilate. They should store up an untold wealth of heroic sentiment; they should acquire the habit of carrying a literary quality in their conversation; they should carry a heart full of the fresh and delightful associations and memories connected with poetry hours to brighten mature years. They should develop their memories while they have memories to develop.”
Allison Beckstrom's magic has taken its toll on her, physically marking her and erasing her memories - including those of the man she supposedly loves. But lost memories aren't the only things preying on Allie's thoughts. Her late father, the prominent businessman - and sorcerer - Daniel Beckstrom, has somehow channeled himself into her very mind. With the help of The Authority, a secret organization of magic users, she hopes to gain better control over her own abilities - and find a way to deal with her father.
