Clare, Gwendolyn
Summary: 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CLACanin, Ethan
Summary: In this mesmerizing novel, Ethan Canin, the New York Times bestselling author of America America and other acclaimed works of fiction, explores the mysteries of a father, a son, and a family, as well as the nature of genius, jealousy, ambition, and love.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CANDragoon, Leigh
Summary: Teens June, a military prodigy born into wealth, and Day, a criminal from the slums, are brought together and face plague, war, and a powerful, common enemy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam' s Sons 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 LEGKeyes, Daniel.
Summary: A thirty-two-year-old mentally handicapped man takes part in an innovative scientific experiment to raise his intelligence.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1990
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION KeyesCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC KEYKeyes, Daniel.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall & Co. 1995
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KEYWolitzer, Meg
Summary: The kind of creativity that is rewarded at age fifteen is not always enough to propel someone through life at age thirty; not everyone can sustain, in adulthood, what seemed so special in adolescence. The summer that Nixon resigns, six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts become inseparable. The friendships endure and even prosper, but also underscore the differences in their fates, in what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: Book Club Kit FIC WolitzerBrowning, James
Summary: "The Fracking King follows Winston Crwth--a boarding-school kid, loner, and Scrabble prodigy--who becomes an unlikely hero in the fight to stop fracking in Pennsylvania. Truth is a rare commodity in politics, and the idea of "winning" a debate as cleanlyand simply as you'd win a Scrabble game can seem impossible. But with the truth on his side, a jar of toxic "frackwater," and the belief that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROKeyes, Daniel.
Summary: Charlie Gordon, a youth with limited mental capabilities, along with a laboratory rat named Algernon become the joint objects of a scientific alteration to see if Charlie can become "normal."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2004
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC KEYNorth, Anna
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NORFoer, Jonathan Safran
Summary: Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is a precocious Francophile who idolizes Stephen Hawking and plays the tambourine extremely well. He's also a boy struggling to come to terms with his father's death in the World Trade Center attacks. As he searches New York City for the lock that fits a mysterious key he left behind, Oskar discovers much more than he could have imagined.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FICTION FoerWolitzer, Meg.
Summary: The creativity that is rewarded at age fifteen is not always enough to propel one through life at age thirty, and in adulthood not everyone can sustain what seemed to be their adolescent specialness. Jules Handler, an aspiring comic actress, eventually resigns herself to a more practical occupation and lifestyle. But her two best friends, now married to each other, become shockingly successful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Wolitzer 2013Clare, Gwendolyn
Summary: A certain pen, a certain book, and a certain person can craft entirely new worlds through a branch of science called scriptology. Elsa comes from one such world that was written into creation by her mother a noted scriptologist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CLACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CLATeitelbaum, Michael.
Summary: Discover how a genius became the super hero Iron Man, and learn about some of his best battles.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2010
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED TEIKeating, Jess
Summary: Nikki Tesla is a genius, so mostly she finds school boring, and amuses herself by inventing things, like her mysterious missing father; trouble is most of her inventions have serious, lethal potential (like the death ray, which just blew a hole in her floor); so she and her ferret are hustled off to the special Genius Academy with classmates who are equally exceptional, although she still...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2019