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"Cyrus Haven and Evie Cormac return in Robotham's latest page-turning, psychological thriller in this "gripping and eerie" (Karin Slaughter) series, reaffirming why Stephen King has proclaimed this author "an absolute master." If I could tell you one thing about my brother, it would be this. Two days after his nineteenth birthday, he killed our parents and twin sisters because he heard voices in his head. As defining events go, nothing else comes...
2) Ship sooner
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Envision an imaginary dial with which you can turn all sounds from your everyday experience onto the highest level of volume: that is the world of 13–year old Ship Sooner whose incredible ability to hear sounds normally indiscernible to the human ear defines her life–"Carson McCullers meets Alice Hoffman" (Baltimore Sun).
Ship Sooner hears everyone and everything in her sleepy Massachusetts town. Sounds of frost forming on glass; a rabbit hopping...
3) Prodigy
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English
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A thriller set in the future at an ultra-elite prep school that asks: what is the price of perfection?
In the year 2036, the world's best boarding school is the Stansbury School. The students, better known as specimens, are screened at a young age and then given twelve years of the finest education - and developmental drug regiment -available.
Stansbury graduates - physically and mentally - are in a class all by themselves. Four out of five go on...
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SAINT JOAN OF NEW YORK is a novel about a math prodigy who becomes obsessed with discovering the Theory of Everything. Joan Cooper, a 17-year-old genius traumatized by the death of her older sister, tries to rebuild her shattered world by studying string theory and the efforts to unify the laws of physics. But as she tackles the complex equations, she falls prey to disturbing visions of a divine being who wants to help her unveil the universe's mathematical...
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WordFire Press, LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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This book tells the story of a precocious young girl who uses her intelligence and accelerating technology to solve humanity's grandest challenges. Now if only we can find more courageous visionaries like Danielle. Written as an alternative history, Danielle's journey as a driven young girl brings her face to face with many important figures from recent history and our modern world. Told through the eyes of Danielle's equally remarkable sister Claire,...
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Dark Horse Manga
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"YOUR FIRST DAY OF CLASS WILL BE...MURDER!!! Welcome to Hope's Peak Academy, which selects only the elite...plus one ordinary student, chosen by lottery. Makoto Naegi was that lucky person--or so he thought! When he shows up for class, he finds the students are a bizarre cast of oddballs under the ruthless authority of a robot teddy bear principal, Monokuma. The bear lays down the school rules: the only way out of Hope's Peak is to not only murder...
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Morning Glories volume 1
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
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"Morning Glory Academy. One of the most prestigious prep schools in the country. But behind its hallowed doors something sinister and deadly lurks. When six brilliant but troubled new students arrive, they find themselves trapped and desperately seeking answers-- and escape from a place where nothing is what it seems to be!"--Jacket.
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Image Comics, Incorporated
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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"One of the most prestigious prep schools in the country-- But behind its hallowed doors something sinister and deadly lurks. When six brilliant but troubled new students arrive they find themselves trapped and desperately seeking answers-- and escape from a place where nothing is what it seems to be. The critically acclaimed series continues with this collection of the third arc, 'P.E.'. The first days were just the beginning. When the faculty cancels...
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Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"Pixel has lived a pretty sheltered life so far, but when she gets a scholarship to Redstone Junior High, that all changes quickly. As the first one to leave her village in centuries, Pixel sets out for school armed with an outdated mob encyclopedia and a chest of hand-me-down tools and supplies that are no match for the tasks her tough teacher, Mr. Craft, has set out for her."--Provided by publisher.
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Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"Final exams are looming at Battleworld's Institute for Gifted Youths, a prestigious school in the planet's capital. But the new class doesn't react so well when they discover that the school's beloved headmaster is actually a diabolical super villain...and their final exam is a brutal deathmatch between students! Faced with harsh lessons and an even harsher truth, the students take to the road--and end up in the Wild West domain of 1872!"--Page 4...