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The premise on the book jacket of Recursion is intriguing: people are being flooded with false memories. Blake Crouch's story goes further than you could possibly imagine — and it will keep you turning pages long into the wee hours of the morning. NYPD Detective Barry Sutton comes face-to-face with a person afflicted with False Memory Syndrome as she contemplates her own demise from the side of a high rise building in Manhattan. For her, the memories are real, vivid, and heartbreaking. But how can they be, when reality provides different facts?  Sutton isn't convinced she is right — but he also is not convinced she is wrong. On a hunch, he pursues the case to Long Island, a decision that changes his life. Time is running out for Helena Smith's neuroscience research: her mother is losing all of her memories due to advancing Alzheimer's. She wants to find a way to save her mother's memories and halt the devastation of the disease. One night, she is offered ...

Evvie Drake lives a life of layers, mostly hidden from everyone — including herself. She is a local, the wife of a beloved local doctor, the daughter of an adoring lobsterman, and the best friend to Andy. (Some may say "too" best.) But she is none of these. She is a woman who, when she finds the strength to do what's right, receives an awful gift that takes away her power and replaces it with something insidious: expectation. Linda Holmes ' amazing, compelling, and powerful novel Evvie Drake Starts Over  shows readers how someone can evolve from what she was into what she intended to be all along — with a little unexpected help from unexpected people in her life. Evvie (which rhymes with "Chevy") has taken the literal first step to leaving her life when she gets a surprise phone call from the hospital where her husband works. She isn't leaving after all. As Evvie rattles around her huge house in her hometown, trying to avoid well-meaning people...