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Beyond the clouds

the girl who fell from the sky
2020
"Young Theo works as a mechanic, putting his knack for machines to use in the industrialized city where he lives. But when he finds an injured, amnesiac girl with wings, his life changes forever. Her name is Mia, and although Theo's talents make quick work of repairing her injured wing, their quest to find her home will take them beyond the clouds and further than they would ever have imagined"--Amazon.

All the broken pieces

Following a car accident, Liv comes out of a coma with no memory of her past and two distinct, warring voices inside her head and as she stumbles through her junior year, the voices get louder until Liv meets Spencer, whose own mysterious past also has him on the fringe but when the voices invade her dreams, and her dreams start feeling like memories, she and Spencer seek out answers, yet the deeper they dig, the less things make sense.
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Hans Brinker, or, The silver skates

1967
In 19th century Holland, A Dutch brother and sister work toward two goals, finding the doctor who can restore their father's memory and winning a race whose prize is silver skates.
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Permanent present tense

the unforgettable life of the amnesic patient, H.M
2013
"Permanent Present Tense tells the incredible story of Henry Gustave Molaison, known only as H. M. until his death in 2008. In 1953, at the age of twenty-seven, Molaison underwent a dangerous "psychosurgical" procedure intended to alleviate his debilitating epilepsy. The surgery went horribly wrong, and when Molaison awoke he was unable to store new experiences."--Provided by publisher.

The ghost in my brain

how a concussion stole my life and how the new science of brain plasticity helped me get it back
"The dramatic story of one man's recovery offers new hope to those suffering from concussions and other brain traumas. In 1999, Clark Elliott suffered a concussion when his car was rear-ended. Overnight his life changed from that of a rising professor with a research career in artificial intelligence to a humbled man struggling to get through a single day. At times he couldn't walk across a room, or even name his five children. Doctors told him he would never fully recover. After eight years, the cognitive demands of his job, and of being a single parent, finally became more than he could manage. As a result of one final effort to recover, he crossed paths with two brilliant Chicago-area research-clinicians--one an optometrist emphasizing neurodevelopmental techniques, the other a cognitive psychologist--working on the leading edge of brain plasticity. Within weeks the ghost of who he had been started to re-emerge. Remarkably, Elliott kept detailed notes throughout his experience, from the moment of impact to the final stages of his recovery, astounding documentation that is the basis of this fascinating book. The Ghost in My Brain gives hope to the millions who suffer from head injuries each year, and provides a unique and informative window into the world's most complex computational device: the human brain"--.

Blank

2015
Jessica wakes up from a coma with no recollection of the accident that put her there, her family, or her friends.

The Answer to the riddle is me

a memoir of amnesia
In 2002, at age twenty-eight, David MacLean "woke up" in a foreign land with his memory wiped clean. No money. No passport. No identity. Taken to a mental hospital by the police, MacLean then started to hallucinate so severely he had to be tied down. Soon he could remember song lyrics and scenes from television shows, but not his family, his friends, or the woman he loved. All of these symptoms were the result of the commonly prescribed malarial medication he was taking. Upon his return to the States, he struggled to piece together the fragments of his former life in a harrowing, absurd, and unforgettable journey back to himself.

What Alice forgot

2012
Alice Love, having woken up on the gym floor and been rushed to the hospital with a head injury, believes she is twenty-nine, expecting her first baby, and madly in love with her husband, but, after realizing she has forgotten ten years of her life and is actually thirty-nine, she is forced to try and piece together what occurred over the past decade to result in her marriage and life not being as she had hoped it would be.

The living unknown soldier

a story of grief and the Great War
2004

Fast forward

1997
A woman wakes up in a dark, ransacked room, discovers blood on her clothes, and stumbles to the mirror only to realize that she has no idea whose face is staring back at her.

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