Showing results for "Memory" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

After two years and seven months biding her time on Anima, her home ark, it is finally time to act, to put what she has discovered in the Book of Faruk to use. Under an assumed identity, Ophelia travels to Babel, a cosmopolitan and thoroughly modern ark that is the jewel of the universe. Will her talent as a reader suffice to avoid being lured into a deadly trap by her ever more fearful adversaries? Will she ever see Thorn, her betrothed, again?

Seven orbs. One mission. One final chance. Captain Marik races his airship across the war-torn continent to reach the final orb of power; the faded myth is their last slim hope to tip the scales. For if Uun’s assassins recover the artifact first, the tyrant will have all he needs to bring the entire world under his rule. Trapped behind enemy lines, Grayden strives to wield his own orb, Beren chafes to return to battle, and Raisa struggles to cope with her new abilities.

Jessamine is heartbroken over an unexpected tragedy but has no time to grieve before the throne delivers an ultimatum: become a spy or face banishment. Laec is under house-arrest for his part in Çifta’s rescue but still keeping his eyes and ears open for his Seelie queen. He’s suspicious of the winter kingdom leaving their lands for the first time in forty years and arriving at the Scented Court… where dire predictions of darkness loom. Can he prove himself to the court, and maybe Çifta’s father?

After the fall of OmniJoy’s virtual-reality empire, seventeen-year-old Maya Thorne becomes the world’s most wanted terrorist. The world she tried to free has surrendered to a new creation—The Mesh, a system that links human minds into one collective consciousness, erasing pain and conflict to create perfect, lasting peace. It promises unity—and it works. But peace built on forgetting has a price.

A dark, atmospheric YA fairy tale about two girls whose fates become intertwined when an old family curse comes to collect its due — perfect for fans of THE THIRTEENTH CHILD and A SORCERESS COMES TO CALL. Every family buries secrets. Sixteen-year-old Briar Marlowe has lived her entire life...

In the realms of The Memory Thief, memories are currency that can be traded for goods, services, skills, and experiences. A group of people—the Gifted—can steal and redistribute memories. Etta is secretly one of them, but she hasn’t used her Gifted abilities since she left the rebel...

In the year since she cast her sunbolt, Hitomi has recovered only a handful of memories. But the truths of the past have a tendency to come calling, and an isolated mountain fastness can offer only so much shelter. When the High Council of Mages summons Brigit Stormwind to stand trial for treason, Hitomi knows her wrongfully accused mentor won't return—not with Arch Mage Blackflame behind the charges.

Memory will do anything to get back home, wherever that is, but unexplainable forces and dangerous secrets push her toward a fate darker than she ever imagined. Will she survive learning the truth?

"There are moments of true tenderness, hope, and grief in this haunting, magical tale, and the narrator makes it all convincing. Teenage listeners will be drawn into this enchanting story." -- Booklist, starred review When children start to go missing in the local woods, a teen girl must face...

In a kingdom where humans and the fae live side by side, secrets and manipulation reign. Memory struggles to make a new home in an unfamiliar, magical land, but the dark secrets from her past are catching up to her. Her only friends are being torn away by dark forces while a greater threat lies veiled in shadows. Memory fights to reclaim the stolen parts of her soul but when her past self starts haunting her, she knows her sanity could be the next thing she will lose. How can a girl on the edge save a kingdom from a cunning foe?

A dangerous mission into dark fae lands will destroy everything. Memory thinks she is finding herself, finding her home, and finding love, but she is being manipulated at every turn. Memory will break all the rules of her magical kingdom to save what is important to her. She will commit the ultimate crime. War will be declared. Worlds will be broken. How can just one girl save three whole dimensions from a fate worse than death? In the epic conclusion to the Memory’s Wake young adult fantasy trilogy, the truth will be unveiled.

An exceptionally-skilled thief, Ari lives deep in the forest with no one but her bobcat Jagger for company. She is determined to keep to herself as civil war drags on around her, but when a mysterious stranger appears with an unexpected job offer, she has no choice but to leave her quiet life behind.

In a grim not-so-distant future where debt and drugs run rampant, Margot Azenari studies memory editing alongside the offspring of the rich and famous. She dreams of erasing the bad memories from her childhood. Margot makes plans to escape the pain of her past, but her plans go awry when her mentor, Dr. Xander, asks for her help with a secret project.

Sixteen-year-old Rachel Abramson will do anything to protect her friends and family. It’s a tall order for a Jewish girl in Nazi-occupied Denmark, but Rachel is no ordinary girl. She has the ability to erase people’s memories, making German soldiers forget her face or easing her friends’ grief. When the Danish resistance attempts to smuggle Jews to neutral Sweden, her sister is forced to stay behind. Rachel delays her own escape to look after her, but they are caught and deported to the Terezin ghetto, where Rachel is confronted with more fear and grief than she could ever erase.

As Melany tries to figure out where the hell the Queen of Night sent her, she will have to use all of her powers for her most important battle yet - a fight for her life. What is worse, being lost in that unfathomable place will prove to have terrible consequences. Some, which will force her to face an old ally as a powerful enemy.

Somebody cursed Lucinda’s Abuelita. But who? And why? And why are the authorities and her family too frightened to investigate? When Lucinda recognizes she is Abuelita’s only hope for survival, she and her best friend enlist the help of the most unlikely ally, the son of the local gang boss… …the gang boss her family killed. Using bruja witchcraft, Lucinda and her friends open a gateway to relive Abuelita’s memories, only to discover terrible secrets and powerful enemies who pose an even greater danger than a single curse.

Vera has a nagging feeling that she's forgetting something. Not her keys or her homework-something bigger. Or someone. When she discovers her best friend Riven is experiencing the same strange feeling, they set out on a mission to uncover what's going on. Everyone in Vera's world has a special ability-a little bit of magic that helps them through the day. Perhaps someone's ability is interfering with their memory? Or is something altering their very reality?

A darkly magical novel about a mysterious family legacy, the bonds of sisterhood, and the strange and powerful ways we are shaped by the places we call home, from the critically acclaimed author of Shallow Graves. For the first eight years of her life, an unusual apple orchard in Vermont is...

“An eerie tale offering equal measures of fright, angst, and emotional catharsis.” —Kirkus, starred review A teenage girl must save her town from a memory-devouring monster in this piercing exploration of grief, trauma, and memory, from the author of The Valley and the Flood. For...

In this electric speculative YA sci/fi novel, the world treats memories like currency, so dreams can be a complicated business. Perfect for fans of Neal Stephenson and Philip K. Dick. In an alternative 1987, a disease ravages human memories. There is no cure, only artificial recall. The lucky...