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1) A beautiful mind: a biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, 1994
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Long before Oliver Sacks became a neurologist and one of our finest science writers, he was a small English boy fascinated by metals -- and also by chemical reactions, the louder and smellier the better. His curiosity was encouraged and abetted by brilliantly quirky relatives: Auntie Len, who taught him that the beauty of numbers can be found in the spiral face of a sunflower; Uncle Dave, who invited the boy to his light-bulb factory; and two older...
4) Gratitude
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
"In July 2013, Oliver Sacks turned eighty and wrote [a] ... piece in The New York Times about the prospect of old age and the freedom he envisioned for himself in binding together the thoughts and feelings of a lifetime. Eighteen months later, he was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer--which he announced publically in another piece in The New York Times. Gratitude is Sacks's meditation on why life [continued] to enthrall him even as he [faced] the...
5) Bird box
Author
Series
Bird Box novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
In Bird Box, brilliantly imaginative debut author Josh Malerman captures an apocalyptic near-future world, where a mother and her two small children must make their way down a river, blindfolded. One wrong choice and they will die. And something is following them -- but is it man, animal, or monster? Within these tracks, Malerman, a professional musician, discusses his love of horror and invokes an ethereal and atmospheric experience in an homage...
6) Buzz kill
Author
Publisher
New York
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Millie joins forces with her classmate, gorgeous but mysterious Chase Colton, to try to uncover who murdered head football coach "Hollerin' Hank" Killdare--and why.
9) Cruel beauty
Author
Series
Language
English
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Betrothed to the demon who rules her country and trained all her life to kill him, seventeen-year-old Nyx Triskelion must now fulfill her destiny and move to the castle to be his wife.
10) Wakefield
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Language
English
Description
A successful suburbanite commuter Howard Wakefield takes a perverse detour from family life: He vanishes without a trace. Hidden in the attic of his carriage house garage, surviving by scavenging at night, Howard secretly observes the lives of his wife and children and neighbors. Wakefield becomes a fraught meditation on marriage and identity, as Howard slowly realizes that he has not in fact left his family, he has left himself.
11) The Rithmatist
Author
Series
Rithmatist volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Wild Chalklings threaten the American Isles and Rithmatists are humanity's only defense, Joel can only watch as Rithmatist students learn the magical art that he would do anything to practice.
12) Water can be
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Language
English
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Description
"This picture book poetically explores the many things water can be--from home maker and ship breaker to cloud fluffer and fire snuffer. Backmatter provides additional explanations."--
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Series
Athlete vs. mathlete volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Language
English
Description
When their two worlds collide in seventh grade, fraternal twins and opposites Owen and Russell find themselves in direct competition at school, on the court, and at home.
15) Face bug: poems
Author
Publisher
WordSong
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
See close-up photos of insects next to poems written about them.
16) Sky jumpers
Author
Series
Sky jumpers volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Hope lives in a post World War III town called White Rock where everyone must participate in Inventions Day, though Hope's inventions always fail. Her unique skill set comes in hand when a group of bandits invades the town"--
17) More than this
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Description
A boy named Seth drowns, losing his life as the pounding sea claims him. But then he wakes. He is naked, thirsty, starving. But alive. How is that possible? He remembers dying. So how is he here? And where is this place? It looks like the suburban English town where he lived as a child, before an unthinkable tragedy happened and his family moved to America. But the neighborhood around his old house is overgrown, covered in dust, and completely abandoned....
18) The Nethergrim
Author
Series
Nethergrim trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Language
English
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Description
An evil force has been awakened from years of sleep and it's up to 14-year-old Edmund, an aspiring sorcerer, and his friends to stop it.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
Rescuing a squirrel after an accident involving a vacuum cleaner, comic-reading cynic Flora Belle Buckman is astonished when the squirrel, Ulysses, demonstrates astonishing powers of strength and flight after being revived.
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