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Series
Chicago Stars volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Outrageous, heartwarming, wonderfully sensual...I loved it!"
—Jayne Anne Krentz
"For sheer fun, nobody beats Nobody's Baby But Mine."
—Detroit Free Press
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune writes, "Next to Tracy and Hepburn, no one does romantic comedy better than Susan Elizabeth Phillips." For proof, you need to look no further than Nobody's Baby But Mine. This classic comic love story from perennial New York Times
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Language
English
Description
A funny, uplifting novel about a boy's journey through New York in the aftermath of September 11th from one of today's most celebrated writers.
Nine-year-old Oskar Schell embarks on an urgent, secret mission that will take him through the five boroughs of New York. His goal is to find the lock that matches a mysterious key that belonged to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11. This seemingly...
Nine-year-old Oskar Schell embarks on an urgent, secret mission that will take him through the five boroughs of New York. His goal is to find the lock that matches a mysterious key that belonged to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11. This seemingly...
4) The prodigy
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Barrett Conyors thrillers volume 1
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
395 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
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Series
Publisher
Imprint
Language
English
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Description
In an alternate 19th-century Italy, Elsa has an incredible gift: she can craft new worlds with precise lines of script written in books. But political extremists have stolen the most dangerous book ever scribed--one that can rewrite the Earth itself. Now Elsa must track down the friend who betrayed her and recover the book before its destructive power is unleashed. Can she handle the secrets she'll uncover along the way--including the ones hiding...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Ah Boon is born into a fishing village amid the heat and beauty of twentieth-century coastal Singapore in the waning years of British rule. He is a gentle boy who is not much interested in fishing, preferring to spend his days playing with the neighbor girl, Siok Mei. But when he discovers he has the unique ability to locate bountiful, movable islands that no one else can find, he feels a new sense of obligation and possibility--something to offer...
Author
Series
Rune of unmaking volume 1
Publisher
Eos
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
424 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
10) Hedwig and Berti
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
12) By darkness hid
Author
Series
Blood of kings volume 1
Publisher
Marcher Lord Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
490 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An unapologetic filmmaker uses the stories of those around her to create movies that bring her both critical acclaim and ire from the people whose secrets she has exposed. By the author of America Pacifica.
15) Regenesis
Author
Publisher
Doubleday Canada
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
vi, 324 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
An asteroid has hit the Earth: the end of the world is just beginning. Billy and his companions have been taking refuge in outer space to avert this catastrophe. But what will it take to survive? --Publisher
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Milo Andret, the genius who solved the Malosz Conjecture and won the Fields Medal for mathematics, had an unusual, even eerie mind from birth, but not until he moves to Berkeley in the 1970s to pursue a Ph. D. does he realize the extent of his singular talents. From the drug-soaked enclaves of beatnik California to the verdant lawns of Princeton University, from turbo-charged Wall Street to the quiet woods of Michigan, his reputation as one of the...
18) The perfect girl
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Zoe Maisey is a seventeen-year-old musical prodigy with a genius IQ. Three years ago, she was involved in a tragic incident that left three classmates dead. She served her time and now her mother, Maria, has resolved to keep that devastating fact tucked far away from their new beginning, hiding the past even from her new husband and demanding that Zoe do the same. Tonight Zoe is giving a recital that Maria has been planning for months. It needs to...
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Series
Publisher
Imprint
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition, 2018.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Elsa's world was written into creation--her mother, a noted scriptologist, constantly alters and expands their reality. When her mother is kidnapped, Elsa is forced to cross into the real world and use her own scriptology gifts to find her mother. In an alternative version of Victorian Italy, Elsa finds a secret society of young scientists with gifts for mechanics, alchemy, and scriptology--and she meets Leo, a mechanist with a smart mouth and tragic...
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Language
English
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"A former prodigy refuses to believe her best years are behind her in this sparkling debut about second chances, unexpected joys, and the miraculous healing power of art and connection. It's a lot of pressure being compared to Mozart. Especially when you're only five. Prudence Childs was once the most famous kindergartner on the planet. She played at the White House, appeared on talk shows, and inspired a generation of children to take up piano. But...
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