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The chimes / by Smaill, Anna,1979-author.(CARDINAL)548761;
After the end of a brutal civil war, England is divided, and Oxford a city of elites walled off from the populace. Monk-like masters are selected from special schooling and shut away for decades, learning to write beautiful compositions for the Chimes, played citywide morning and night, to mute memory and keep the citizens trapped in ignorance. A young orphan named Simon arrives in London with nothing but the vague sense of a half-forgotten promise, to locate someone. What he finds is a new family--a gang of scavengers that patrols the underbelly of the city looking for valuable metal to sell. Drawn in by an enigmatic and charismatic leader, a blind young man named Lucien with a gift for song, Simon forgets entirely what originally brought him to the place he has now made his home. In this alternate London, the past is a mystery, each new day feels the same as the last, and before is considered "blasphony." But Simon has a unique gift--the gift of retaining memories--that will lead him to discover a great injustice and take him far beyond the meager life as a member of Lucien's gang. Before long he will be engaged in an epic struggle for justice, love, and freedom. --
Subjects: Dystopian fiction.; Synesthesia; Memory;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Break us : a Shade me novel / by Brown, Jennifer,1972-author.(CARDINAL)494236;
"Nikki Kill doesn't see the world in black and white. Her synesthesia shades everything in view, transforming numbers, words, and emotions into colorful clues. Which means she's a dangerous commodity to anyone with something to hide. Nikki has already taken on the Hollises--one of L.A.'s most powerful families--for murdering her half sister, Peyton. However, Nikki's next steps are clouded by the gray of uncertainty. Before she knows it, Nikki is on the trail of a cold case that couldn't be any more personal--the death of her mother. But when the web of lies and secrets she uncovers leads back to the people who have tried to silence her, Nikki must pursue the sunbeam gold of justice, or everything--including her life--will be lost."--Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Cold cases (Criminal investigation); Synesthesia;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Mirror touch : a memoir of synesthesia and the secret life of the brain / by Salinas, Joel,author.(CARDINAL)803222;
"Challenging our understanding of what it means to be human, Joel Salinas, a Harvard-trained researcher and neurologist at Massachusetts General, shares his experiences with mirror-touch synesthesia, a rare and only recently identified neurological trait that causes him to feel the emotional and physical experiences of other people. Performing a spinal tap, he feels the needle slowly enter his lower back. If a disoriented patient flies into a confused rage, Salinas slips into a similarly agitated physical state, and when a patient dies, he experiences an involuntary ruin--his body starts to feel vacant and lifeless, like a limp balloon. Susceptible to the pain and discomfort of his patients, most of whom suffer from a host of disorders and extreme injuries, Salinas uses his trait to treat their symptoms, almost as if they were his own. At the same time, in his personal life, his mirror touch blurs the boundaries between himself and those close to him until he ends up inextricably entangled, no longer able to differentiate where he ends and someone else begins. Salinas refers to his condition as a kind of compulsory mindfulness, a heightened empathic ability that offers him invaluable clues about how to see and live the world through other people's perspectives. This heightened sense of awareness is at the center of Mirror Touch. Through his experiences, both in his neurological practice and his personal life, Salinas offers readers insights about mirror-touch synesthesia and how the brain, in its endless wonder, can sometimes perform in a nearly superhuman, extrasensory way. In the process, Salinas reveals the full power and potential of his trait, as well as its thorny complications and often debilitating limitations.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Salinas, Joel.; Salinas, Joel; Synesthesia; Neurology.; Synesthesia.; Physician and patient.; Neurologists; Mental health.; Neurologists.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The girl who heard colors / by Harris, Marie.; Brantley-Newton, Vanessa,illustrator.;
Includes bibliographical references."Because she has a special extra sense called synesthesia, Jillian sees colors whenever she hears sounds"--AD480LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Fiction.; Senses and sensation; Synesthesia;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 13
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The name of this book is secret / by Bosch, Pseudonymous,author.(CARDINAL)353083; Ford, Gilbert,illustrator.(CARDINAL)352094;
Two eleven-year-old misfits try to solve the mystery of a dead magician and stop the evil Dr. L and Ms. Mauvais, who are searching for the secret of immortality.810LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Action and adventure fiction.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Immortality; Synesthesia; Magicians; Puzzles;
Available copies: 14 / Total copies: 23
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One + one = blue / by Auch, Mary Jane.(CARDINAL)756570;
Branded the class loser, twelve-year-old Basil reluctantly becomes friends with a bossy new girl who, like Basil, has synesthesia and comes to Basil's aid when his estranged mother returns and turns his life upside down.690LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Young adult fiction.; Fiction.; Synesthesia; Friendship; Mothers and sons; Synesthesia; Friendship; Mothers and sons; Friendships.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Tooth and claw / by McCrery, Nigel,1953-(CARDINAL)684399;
After a year of working at home in order to control his synaesthesia (the rare neurological condition that causes his brain to crosswire his senses), DCI Mark Lapslie gets a visit from Sergeant Emma Bradbury, summoning him back to active duty. A television reporter has been brutally murdered and the top brass think Lapslie is the man to investigate the crime. With no witnesses and no suspects, Lapslie finds himself facing one of the toughest cases of his career. Then he has a second murder on his hands: a man is found dead in a train-station bomb explosion. Lapslie begins to suspect that the two high-profile cases may be connected. Under pressure to produce results and with the media bearing down on him and his synaesthesia going wild, Lapslie approaches his breaking point, but the solution to what's beginning to look like the crimes of an especially evil and diabolically creative serial killer remains elusive.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Murder; Police; Serial murderers; Synesthesia; Police.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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The name of this book is secret [sound recording] / by Bosch, Pseudonymous.(CARDINAL)353083; Pittu, David.;
Read by David Pittu.Two eleven-year-old misfits try to solve the mystery of a dead magician and stop the evil Dr. L and Ms. Mauvais, who are searching for the secret of immortality.
Subjects: Children's audiobooks.; Children's stories.; Synesthesia; Adventure stories.; Immortality; Children's audiobooks.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 5
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The noisy paint box : the colors and sounds of Kandinsky's abstract art / by Rosenstock, Barb,author.; GrandPré, Mary,illustrator.;
Includes bibliographical references."In this exuberant celebration of creativity, Barb Rosenstock and Mary GrandPré tell the fascinating story of Vasily Kandinsky, one of the very first painters of abstract art. Throughout his life, Kandinsky experienced colors as sounds, and sounds as colors--and bold, groundbreaking works burst forth from his noisy paint box."--AD630LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Biographies.; Kandinsky, Wassily, 1866-1944; Painters; Artists; Synesthesia and the arts; Synesthesia;
Available copies: 71 / Total copies: 85
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Like light, like music / by Austin, Lana,author.;
"Emme McLean never imagined that in 1999 she would be living out the lyrics of the ancient murder ballads she grew up singing. But now she is back in Red River, Kentucky, using her skills as a journalist to prove her cousin did not kill her husband and to find out what is terrifying the town after many of its women went half-mad on the same night"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Murder; Women journalists; Synesthesia; Social justice;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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