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Pub. Date
2013
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English
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The summer that Nixon resigns, six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts become inseparable. Decades later the bond remains powerful, but so much else has changed. In The Interestings, Wolitzer follows these characters from the height of youth through middle age, as their talents, fortunes, and degrees of satisfaction diverge. The kind of creativity that is rewarded at age fifteen is not always enough to propel someone through life at age thirty;...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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When brain surgery makes a mouse into a genius, dull-witted Charlie Gordon wonders if it might also work for him. With more than five million copies sold, Flowers for Algernon is the beloved, classic story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse. In poignant diary entries, Charlie tells how a brain operation increases his IQ and changes his life. As the experimental...
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How did Richard Ford's cat influence his work as a novelist? How is Chuck Close's portraiture driven by his inability to remember faces? What pivotal moment helped Rosanne Cash understand the healing power of the stage? Creativity is an elusive subject. We enjoy its fruits--movies, novels, paintings, songs--but rarely are we privy to what happens in the creative process. In Spark, journalist Julie Burstein traces the roots of some of the twenty-first...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2023 BY TIME, THE WASHINGTON POST, OPRAH DAILY, BUSTLE, ELECTRIC LITERATURE AND MORE! Set against a changing Singapore, a sweeping novel about one boy’s unique gifts and the childhood love that will complicate the fate of his community and country 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...
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The story of Joan, a ballerina whose life has been shaped by her relationship with the world-famous dancer Arslan Ruskov, whom she helps defect from the Soviet Union to the U.S. While Arslan's career takes off in New York, Joan's slowly declines, ending when she becomes pregnant and decides to marry her longtime admirer, a PhD student named Jacob. As the years pass, Joan settles into her new life in California, teaching dance and watching her son,...
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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"Genius. The word connotes an almost unworldly power: the power to create, to grasp universal secrets, even to destroy. As renowned intellectual historian Darrin McMahon explains in Divine Fury, the concept of genius can be traced back to antiquity, when men of great insight were thought to be advised by demons. The modern idea of genius emerged in tension with a growing belief in human equality; contesting the notion that all are created equal, geniuses...
8) Charly
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Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
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A mentally retarded man becomes a genius after experimental brain surgery, developing a romance with his former special-education teacher before lapsing back into retardation.
9) Luther: 4
Publisher
BBC Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Pitted against his most chilling adversary yet, Luther is haunted by past ghosts and hellbent on revenge as the Serious Crime Unit faces its most challenging psychological duel to date. There is no question he will come close to the edge, but will he finally go over?
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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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.
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Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
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The Pulitizer Prize winning author of "Perfect enough" reveals the secrets used by talent scouts to recognize future stars in such areas as Hollywood, finance and the military, drawing on research findings in a variety of disciplines to explain how today's business leaders can identify high achievers.
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Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
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The most brilliant mind at America's top university isn't a student, he's the kid who cleans the floors! Will Hunting is a headstrong, working-class genius who's failing the lessons of life. After one too many run-ins with the law, Will's last chance is a psychology professor, who might be the only man who can reach him.
A young working-class genius is hauled back from the brink of self-destruction by a gifted counselor.
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"Stephen Leeds is perfectly sane. It's his hallucinations who are mad ... A genius of unrivaled aptitude, Stephen can learn any new skill, vocation, or art in a matter of hours. However, to contain all of this, his mind creates hallucinatory people--Stephen calls them aspects--to hold and manifest the information. Wherever he goes, he is joined by a team of imaginary experts to give advice, interpretation, and explanation. He uses them to solve problems...
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Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
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"Einstein. Beethoven. Picasso. Trabajos. La palabra genio evoca a estas figuras iconicas, cuyas contribuciones han transformado de forma irreversible a la sociedad. Sin embargo, Beethoven no sabia multiplicar, Picasso reprobo Matematicas en la primaria y Jobs dejo la universidad despues del primer semestre. Que dice esto sobre como medimos el exito en la actualidad? Por que nos ensenan a comportarnos segun las reglas, cuando los genios han hecho todo...
Author
Publisher
Toromítico
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
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"La genialidad y la sensibilidad están presentes en todo ser humano sano y se han convertido en un importante valor; a decir verdad, en una necesidad para afrontar con garantías los procelosos tiempos que vivimos, el umbral de una época difícil que solo solucionará cada uno, siendo más humano y recurriendo a lo que fue en su infancia: una persona sensible y genial. Este libro defiende la necesidad de descubrir y salvaguardar la genialidad y...
20) The hidden stars
Author
Series
Rune of unmaking volume 1
Publisher
EOS
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
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