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Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The creator of Yale University's popular "Genius Course" examines how fourteen key habits of genius, from curiosity and creative maladjustment to rebelliousness and obsession, have been effectively demonstrated by history's most influential and change-promoting intellectuals
Pablo Picasso couldn't pass a 4th grade math test. Steve Jobs left high school with a 2.65 GPA. Yet they are considered geniuses, and their cultural contributions have helped...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: 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 procedure takes effect, Charlie's intelligence expands until it surpasses that of the doctors...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
5) The calling
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The first in a new series featuring DCI John Luther takes us into his past and his mind. It is the story of the serial killer case that tore his personal and professional relationships apart and propelled him over the precipice beyond fury, beyond vengeance, all the way to the other side of the law.
6) Real genius
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col., stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a group of crazy college geniuses put their heads together, their plan culminates in an incredible scheme that outsmarts the military and convinces the professor that it doesn't pay to fool with real genius.
7) Harbinger
Author
Series
Elfhome novels volume 5
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
434 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The war against the oni heats to a flashpoint even as Tinker learns that the enemy has a dangerous new weapon, the nactka. What's more, the Stone Clan has sent its most famous warlords, the Harbingers, to take control of the allied war effort. Are these elves friends or foes? Tinker's newfound baby siblings are up for grabs. The babies, though, are wood sprites and aren't going to take things lying down. Team Mischief go!"--
9) Luther: 2
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (240 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
John Luther, the near-genius detective struggling with his own demons, returns with two distinctive, thrilling crime stories. Devastated by the brutal murder of his wife, John Luther returns to policing in a different world. His old unit has gone and he's working in the newly created Serious and Serial unit, headed by former police complaints officer Martin Schenk. Luther quickly gathers together his team, rescuing his old partner Detective Justin...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A sweeping novel set in Singapore during the years leading up to its independence from British colonial powers, about one young boy from a rural fishing family and the love story that will shape his life and complicate the fate of his larger community"--
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,...
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First Seven Stories Press edition.
Physical Desc
464 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Absolute is a sprawling historical novel about the Deliuskin-Scriabin family, made up of six generations of geniuses and madmen. Beginning in the mid-18th century in Russia, across Europe and ending in late 20th-century Argentina, the characters' lives play out in different branches of art, politics and science in such radical ways that they transform the world and its reality. The narrator's ancestor, Frantisek Deliuskin, invents a new form...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"He was history's most creative genius. What secrets can he teach us? The author of the acclaimed bestsellers Steve Jobs, Einstein, and Benjamin Franklin brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography. Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo's genius was based on skills...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Overturn everything you knew about history's greatest minds in this raucous and hilarious book, where it turns out there's a finer line between "genius" and "idiot" than we've previously known. As Albert Einstein almost certainly never said, everyone is a genius - but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." So begins Katie Spalding's spunky takedown of the Western canon, and how...
15) Wood sprites
Author
Series
Elfhome novels volume 4
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
481 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Book 4 in the Romantic Times Sapphire award winning Elfhome series. Even though they attend a school of gifted students in New York City, child geniuses Louise Mayer and her twin sister Jillian have always felt alone in the world, isolated by their brilliance. Shortly before their ninth birthday, they make an amazing discovery. They're not alone. Their real mother was astronaut Esme Shenske and their father was the famous inventor, Leonardo Dufae....
16) Cosmos Camp
Author
Series
Epic Ellisons volume 1
Publisher
Versify, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
265, 6 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"School's out, and Wiki and Leen Ellison are facing a new challenge... their first summer apart! Genius inventor Leen has been accepted to Petey Thunkle's world-famous summer training program for STEM prodigies with their eyes on the stars. Meanwhile, Wiki is looking forward to her first summer on her own, running the family corn stand and outclassing Otto and Sheed Alston. But the night before Leen's departure, the twins find out that Wiki has also...
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (198 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jettison the gingerbread. Nix The Nutcracker. Your yuletide just got exponentially funnier! We've gathered 9 beloved holiday-themed episodes of The Big Bang Theory in one prodigious package. Relive all the laughs with Leonard, Sheldon, Penny, Howard, Raj, Bernadette, and Amy as they put their unique spin on the season's festivities. Experience Sheldon's extreme gift protocol. Celebrate Thanksgiving when a mistake from Penny's past comes back to haunt...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
19) Norn9: Last era
Publisher
Aksys Games
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Nintendo Switch.
Physical Desc
1 computer chip cartridge : sound, color ; 1 1/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Past, present & future converge in Norn9: Last era's three different story modes. Twelve espers with superhuman powers brought together on a floating ship by a mysterious multinational entity know only as The World... Their story together may have ended, but their own tales are just beginning.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
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...
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