Gabrielle Zevin
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Two friends-often in love, but never lovers-come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn't heard him,...
Author
Series
Birthright (Gabrielle Zevin) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In a future where chocolate and caffeine are contraband, cellphone use is illegal, and water and paper are rationed, Anya Balanchine finds herself thrust into the spotlight as heir apparent to an important New York City crime family.
In 2083, chocolate and coffee are illegal, paper is hard to find, water is carefully rationed, and New York City is rife with crime and poverty. And yet, for Anya Balanchine, the sixteen-year-old daughter of the city's...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Young Jane Young's heroine is Aviva Grossman, an ambitious Congressional intern in Florida who makes the life-changing mistake of having an affair with her boss who is beloved, admired, successful, and very married and blogging about it. When the affair comes to light, the Congressman doesn't take the fall, but Aviva does, and her life is over before it hardly begins. She becomes a late night talk show punchline; she is slut shamed, labeled as fat...
Author
Series
Birthright (Gabrielle Zevin) volume 3
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Anya's new prominence brings out friends, foes, and ghosts from the past. Certain scores must be settled; certain debts must be paid. Surviving a crime-ridden New York City in the 2080s is looking harder and harder for Anya"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Birthright (Gabrielle Zevin) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In 2083, seventeen-year-old Anya Balanchine seeks a way to make Balanchine Chocolate legitimate, and although a trip to Mexico gives her new insights and ideas, escaping her mobster family's legacy of violence may prove impossible.
7) Elsewhere
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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After fifteen-year-old Liz Hall is hit by a taxi and killed, she must adjust to her new surroundings and figure out how to "live."
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Language
English
Description
Meet the Pomeroys: a church-going family of five living in a too-red house in a Texas college town. In an attempt to climb out of the holes they've dug, father Roger and mother Georgia make a series of choices that will have catastrophic consequences fortheir three children.
With The Hole We’re In—a bold, timeless, yet all too timely novel about a troubled American family navigating an even more troubled America—award-winning author and screenwriter,...
Author
Publisher
Asa
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Portuguese
Description
Num gélido dia de dezembro, Sam Masur está a sair de uma carruagem de metro quando vê, por entre a multidão na plataforma, a sua melhor amiga de infância, Sadie Green. A amizade entre ambos terminara abruptamente quase uma década antes. O que não o impede agora de chamar por ela. Por um momento, ela finge não ouvir, mas acaba por ceder e olhar para ele. É assim que tudo (re)começa. O que se segue é uma relação que se tornará lendária....
10) Margarettown
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Language
English
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry comes an enchanting story about love in its many forms, and a man's timeless journey into the unknowable territory of the woman he loves. From the moment they first sleep together-piled atop seven mattresses in her dorm room-N. is drawn into a rich and enchanted relationship with Margaret Towne, a woman who will introduce him to worlds...
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A modern love story about two childhood friends, Sam, raised by an actress mother in LA's Koreatown, and Sadie, from the wealthy Jewish enclave of Beverly Hills, who reunite as adults to create video games, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives"--
Two friends-often in love, but never lovers-come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity,...
Author
Publisher
AdN Alianza de Novelas
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
"Un gélido día de diciembre de su primer año en Harvard, Sam Masur sale de un vagón de metro y ve, entre la hordas de gente que esperan en el andén, a Sadie Green. La llama a gritos. Por un momento, ella hace como que no lo ha oído, pero entonces se vuelve y empieza la partida: una colaboración legendaria que los lanzará al estrellato. Piden dinero prestado, favores y, antes incluso de graduarse, firman su priemra superproducción: Ichigo,...
Publisher
Hart Sharp Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Two apparent strangers at a New York City wedding reception become entangled in a sexually charged battle of wits. As the night carries on, however, the passion of their two-decades-past love affair is revealed. Unfolds entirely in split-screen.