Search Results: Returned 7 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 7
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2014., Books on Tape, : Books on Tape Call No: CD Fic Doc Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Speaking from an unknown place and to an unknown interlocutor, Andrew is thinking, Andrew is talking, Andrew is telling the story of his life, his loves, and the tragedies that have led him to this place and point in time. And as he confesses, peeling back the layers of his strange story, we are led to question what we know about truth and memory, brain and mind, personality and fate, about one another and ourselves. Written with psychological depth and great lyrical precision, this suspenseful and groundbreaking novel delivers a voice for our times ... funny, probing, skeptical, mischievous, profound.
![Andrew's brain [CD] : a novel](/Library/images/~imageCT76347.JPG "Andrew's brain [CD] : a novel")
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1966., General, Harcourt Call No: Fic Key Edition: 2004. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Following his doctor's instructions, engaging simpleton Charlie Gordon tells his own story in semi-literate "progris riports." He dimly wants to better himself, but with an IQ of 68 can't even beat the laboratory mouse Algernon at maze-solving: I dint feel bad because I watched Algernon and I lernd how to finish the amaze even if it takes me along time. I dint know mice were so smart. Algernon is extra-clever thanks to an experimental brain operation so far tried only on animals. Charlie eagerly volunteers as the first human subject. After frustrating delays and agonies of concentration, the effects begin to show and the reports steadily improve: "Punctuation, is? fun!" But getting smarter brings cruel shocks, as Charlie realizes that his merry "friends" at the bakery where he sweeps the floor have all along been laughing at him, never with him. The IQ rise continues, taking him steadily past the human average to genius level and beyond, until he's as intellectually alone as the old, foolish Charlie ever was--and now painfully aware of it. Then, ominously, the smart mouse Algernon begins to deteriorate...
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2014., Faber & Faber Call No: Fic McB Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Eimear McBride's acclaimed debut tells the story of a young woman's relationship with her brother, and the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumor, touching on everything from family violence to sexuality and the personal struggle to remain intact in times of intense trauma.
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2005., Adolescent, Hutchinson Call No: Fic Fau Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Relationships. Historical.
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2019., 04:49:39, Macmillan Audio Edition: Unabridged. Click to access digital title. Summary Note: The postman's days are numbered. Estranged from his family, living alone with only his cat Cabbage to keep him company, he was unprepared for the doctor's diagnosis that he has only months to live. But before he can tackle his bucket list, the Devil appears to make him an offer: In exchange for making one thing in the world disappear, our narrator will get one extra day of life. And so begins a very bizarre week... With each object that disappears the postman reflects on the life he's lived, his joys and regrets, and the people he's loved and lost. Genki Kawamura's timeless tale is a moving story of loss and reconciliation, of one man's journey to discover what really matters most in life.
![If cats disappeared from the world [eAudiobook]](/Library/images/~imageCT103393.JPG "If cats disappeared from the world [eAudiobook]")
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c2013., General, William Morrow Call No: Fic Sib Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "After an accident leaves his wife Elle brain dead, Matt Beaulieu, resolving to take her off life support, changes his mind when the doctors discover that she is pregnant - a decision that results in a controversial legal battle with Elle's family."--Publisher.
