We’re excited to be participating in the tour for The Meme Plague, book three in the Memento Nora Series by Angie Smibert. In addition to all the awesome stops on the tour and the amazing giveaway, Angie is also hosting a virtual food drive. If you’d like to donate (as little as $1), just visit the the page on Feeding America.
The Meme Plague by Angie Smibert
Series: Memento Nora #3
Published by Skyscape on August 13, 2013
Pages: 178
It begins with the name JONAS W. on the side of a cardboard coffin—right before the funeral procession blows up. Then it’s the whisper in the back of Micah’s head: Your father betrayed his country. You can’t always trust your own brain. Not when you have one of the mayor’s mandatory chips in your skull. Micah knows that the chip developed by TFC (the corporation that runs the Therapeutic Forgetting Clinics) does more than just erase unpleasant memories—it implants new ones. The MemeCast warns citizens to “fight the hack.”
Micah and his friends have each lost something—a parent, a relationship, a home, maybe even their own identities as they remembered them to be. But together, they can make sure some things are never forgotten.
Election Day is coming, and Mayor Mignon is set to be elected to Congress. It’s time to build a new electronic frontier, one that’s not controlled by the mayor and his cronies. It’s time to get out the vote and shake up the system. It’s time to finally say enough.
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Title: Memento Nora (Memento Nora #1)
Published by Marshall Cavendish on April 1, 2011
Pages: 184
On an otherwise glossy day, a blast goes off and a body thuds to the ground at Nora’s feet. There are terrorist attacks in the city all the time, but Nora can’t forget.
In Nora’s world you don’t have to put up with nightmares. Nora goes with her mother to TFC–a Therapeutic Forgetting Clinic. There, she can describe her horrible memory and take a pill to erase it so she can go on like nothing ever happened. But at TFC a chance encounter with a mysterious guy changes Nora’s life. She doesn’t take the pill. And when Nora learns the memory her mother has chosen to forget, she realizes that someone needs to remember.
With newfound friends Micah and Winter, Nora makes a comic book of their memories called Memento. Memento is an instant hit, but it sets off a dangerous chain of events. Will Nora, Micah, and Winter be forced to take the Big Pill that will erase their memories forever?
Angie Smibert’s remarkable debut novel takes readers on a thrilling ride through a shadowy world where corporations secretly rule and consumerism is praised above all.
Learn More About Memento Nora by Angie Smibert
Read the First Chapter of Memento Nora
Teacher/Librariab Resources:
Please see the Memento Nora website (www.mementonora.com) for the following:
- Memento Nora Project – (Now closed, but you may be able adapt materials to your classroom or book club.)
- Resources for creating comics.
- Low-tech challenge.
- Science of TFC.
- Inspirations for elements of Memento Nora.
- Discussion questions.
Title: The Forgetting Curve (Memento Nora #2)
Published by Marshall Cavendish on May 1, 2012
Pages: 208
Aiden Nomura likes to open doors—especially using his skills as a hacker—to see what’s hidden inside. He believes everything is part of a greater system: the universe. The universe shows him the doors, and he keeps pulling until one cracks open. Aiden exposes the flaw, and the universe—or someone else—will fix it. It’s like a game.
Until it isn’t.
When a TFC opens in Bern, Switzerland, where Aiden is attending boarding school, he knows things are changing. Shortly after, bombs go off within quiet, safe Bern. Then Aiden learns that his cousin Winter, back in the States, has had a mental breakdown. He returns to the US immediately.
But when he arrives home in Hamilton, Winter’s mental state isn’t the only thing that’s different. The city is becoming even stricter, and an underground movement is growing.
Along with Winter’s friend, Velvet, Aiden slowly cracks open doors in this new world. But behind those doors are things Aiden doesn’t want to see—things about his society, his city, even his own family. And this time Aiden may be the only one who can fix things… before someone else gets hurt.
Learn More About The Forgetting Curve by Angie Smibert
Read the First Chapter of The Forgetting Curve
***About Angie Smibert***
Angie Smibert was born in Blacksburg, a once sleepy college town in the mountains of Southwest Virginia. She grew up thinking she wanted to be a veterinarian; organic chemistry had other ideas. But she always had stories in her head. Eventually, after a few degrees and a few cool jobs—including a 10-year stint at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center—she wrote some of those stories down.
She’s published many short stories, for both adults and teens. (You can read some of them on her website.) You can also catch her blogging as part of the LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY WRITERS, and check out her Amazon Author Central page.
***GIVEAWAY***
- Grand prize: (1) Kindle (courtesy of Amazon)—the basic 6” display / wifi one.
- (1)Complete set of the series. (MN, FC, MP). Signed if in US; unsigned and delivered through Book Depository if outside US.
- (3) Meme Plague (hard copy) plus swag.
Good luck and don’t forget to contribute to the Virtual Food Drive!
