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1) Later
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Jamie Conklin, a boy born with an unnatural ability to see and learn things no one else can, is enlisted to help an NYPD detective pursue a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave.
Author
Language
English
Description
In her third novel, Moore (Heft) delivers a striking examination of family, memory, and technology. Leaping from the 1980s to the early 2000s, this is the story of young Ada Sibelius and her brilliant computer scientist father, David, who runs a lab at a prestigious college in Boston, working to develop a lifelike artificial intelligence program, ELIXIR. Ada is being raised nontraditionally-educated by David and his lab colleagues, treated as one...
3) Small fry
Author
Language
English
Description
"A frank, smart and captivating memoir by the daughter of Apple founder Steve Jobs. Born on a farm and named in a field by her parents--artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs--Lisa Brennan-Jobs's childhood unfolded in a rapidly changing Silicon Valley. When she was young, Lisa's father was a mythical figure who was rarely present in her life. As she grew older, her father took an interest in her, ushering her into a new world of mansions, vacations,...
Author
Series
Explorer Academy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Cruz Coronado leaves his home in Hawaii to study and travel with other young people invited to attend the elite Explorer Academy in Washington, D.C., but a family connection to the organization could jeopardize his future.
Author
Series
Story of life on the golden fields volume 2
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
Second in the trilogy of first love and second chances.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"'A stirring, vividly told story of a young woman's quest to find the family she lost...an impressive debut'-Peter Balakian; Born into poverty in southern New Jersey and raised in a commune of single mothers, Mary Anna King watched her mother give away one of her newborn sisters every year to another family. All told, there were seven children: Mary, her older brother, and five phantom sisters. Then one day, Mary was sent away, too. Living in Oklahoma...
Author
Series
Story of life on the golden fields volume 1
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
11) Little man Tate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The struggle to lead and maintain a normal life is at the core of this dramatic and often funny tale. At the center of this struggle is Fred Tate, a seven-year-old child with an IQ bordering on genius. Allowing Fred to enroll in a summer camp for gifted children, Dede, Fred's single mom, soon finds herself in a battle with the camp psychologist, Jane Grierson, a former prodigy herself, over what is best for Fred.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
It's hardly newsworthy when a man walks out on his family. But it's rather unusual for a mother to walk out, leaving the father to bring up their sixteen-year-old daughter-and downright scandalous for said Irish Catholic mother to move into the house next door to start a new life with a bunch of hot male students at the age of sixty. No one can accuse Diane Danvers Simmons of telling a familiar story. Instead she offers a wickedly witty, candid, irreverent,...
15) Mom's new friend
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A young boy is reluctant to accept his mom's new friend, Dan. However, when they all go on a road trip together, he finds that Dan is not as bad as he imagined.
16) Breathe
Author
Series
Edition
First Simon Pulse edition.
Language
English
Description
"It was only supposed to be a summer job, not a summer fling. Just a quick way for seventeen-year-old Sadie to earn some money to support her very helpless--and very pregnant--single mother. But even with the help of her cute and friendly coworker, Marcus, Sadie learns firsthand that working as a domestic servant is tough, especially when the house is owned by none other than Jax Stone, one of the hottest teen rock stars in the world."--P. [4] of...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"After seven years on the semi-pro wrestling circuit, Ricky Twohatchet, a.k.a. Richard Powell, needs one last match before he gets called up to the big leagues. Unlike some wrestlers who only play the stereotype, Ricky believes he comes by his persona honestly--he's half white and half Native American--even if he's never met his father. But the night of the match in Omaha, Nebraska, something askew in their intricate choreography sets him on a course...
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