Internationally best-selling author Umberto Eco is a master stylist whose books, including Baudolino, have been savored by millions around the world. Now, with The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, he crafts another ambitious and breathtaking novel. When book dealer Yambo suffers amnesia, his only remaining memories are books, poems, songs, and movies. Steeped in nostalgia and filled with vivid imagery, this work is a magnificent addition to Eco's...

"What Brynn Caldwell can't remember might get her killed. Brynn is a promising science student recovering from a major setback: Last year, a bad relationship sent her spiraling into depression. But as she puts the pieces of her life back together, a few don't fit. Soon Brynn starts having flashbacks--hazy memories of being abducted and possibly brainwashed. It's all connected to a wonder drug to treat PTSD that might actually be the ultimate weapon:...

"Wspomnienia nas definiują. Wyobraź więc sobie, że tracisz je za każdym razem, kiedy zapadasz w sen. Zapominasz, jak się nazywasz, kim jesteś. Nie pamiętasz wydarzeń z przeszłości, nie rozpoznajesz ludzi, których kochasz-- wszystko to znika w ciągu jednej nocy. A jedyna osoba, której ufasz, być może mówi ci jedynie połowę prawdy... Christine budzi się co rano w obcym łóżku u boku obcego mężczyzny. W lustrze widzi twarz...

"How do you forget the hottest night of your life?"--Page 4 of cover.

"She saved his life. He awakened her heart. Part of The Peveretts of Haberstock Hall. Nurse Thea Peverett saves an injured soldier in the Crimea - only to realise he can't remember who he is! She brings him home to England to help him recuperate. But as Thea warms to charming, irresistible Edward, who understands her as no other man ever has, she forces herself to resist him. For one day he might recall his true identity and leave her behind..."--...

"How did Arlene Santana -- happy wife, successful business owner, young grandmother -- get here, a rehabilitation center surrounded by old people? Her new friends make her laugh, and the days speed by, marked by holidays on which her two sons and their wives come to visit her. But when will her husband, whose love she feels every moment of every day, come to see her? Then one Christmas the confusing pieces of Arlene's life start to click into place,...

When an experimental memory-modification device goes awry and affects the president of the United States, the race is on to determine if someone has obtained the president's memories, including secret military plans.

An amnesiac attempts to reconstruct her past by keeping a journal and discovers the dangerous inconsistencies in the stories of her husband and the neurologist whom she is seeing secretly.

"Elín Jónsdóttir lives an isolated existence in Reykjavík, Iceland, making props and prosthetics for theatrical productions and Nordic crime flicks. In her early seventies, she has recently become fascinated with another loner, Ellen Álfsdóttir, a sensitive young playwright and illegitimate daughter of a famous writer. The girl has aroused maternal feelings in Elín, but she has also stirred discomfiting memories long packed away. Because their...