Summary: Shaun Murphy, a young surgeon with autism and savant syndrome, relocates from a quiet country life to join a prestigious hospital surgical unit. Alone in the world and unable to personally connect with those around him, Shaun uses his extraordinary medical gifts to save lives and challenge the skepticism of his colleagues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOOSummary: Christian Wolff is a math savant who works as a freelance accountant for some of the world's most dangerous criminal organizations. With the Treasury Department's Crime Enforcement Division starting to close in, he takes on a legitimate client, a robotics company where an accounting clerk has discovered a discrepancy involving millions of dollars. But as Christian uncooks the books and gets...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER ACCSummary: The show is about a young surgeon with autism who is recruited to work at a pediatric unit of a hospital. The hospital is prestigious with many of the toughest cases a surgeon could ever see, but with autism comes clarity that most surgeons will never have. The television series focuses on the relationship between the doctor and patient, and how a man who cannot relate to the people who he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOOMcAnulty, Stacy
Summary: A lightning strike made Lucy, twelve, a math genius but, after years of homeschooling, her grandmother enrolls her in middle school and she learns that life is more than numbers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION MCABernhardt, William
Summary: As a killer stalks the streets of Las Vegas, using numerology to target his victims, outcast detective Susan Pulaski is reunited with autistic savant Darcy O'Bannon, who may be the only one who can understand the murderer's complex mathematical game.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERHaddon, Mark.
Summary: Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic, fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Circumstances propel a feeble-minded gardener, whose entire knowledge of life comes from watching television, into becoming adviser to the president of the United States and a powerful but dying tycoon.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BEIEverhart, Donna
Summary: For fourteen-year-old Wallis Ann Stamper and her family, life in the Appalachian Mountains is simple and satisfying, though not for the tenderhearted. While her older sister, Laci--a mute, musically gifted savant--is constantly watched over and protected, Wallis Ann is as practical and sturdy as her name. When the Tuckasegee River bursts its banks, forcing them to flee in the middle of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Everhart 2018Trussoni, Danielle.
Summary: It is the Year of the Wood Dragon, and the ingenious Mike Brink has been invited to Tokyo, Japan, to open the legendary Dragon Box. The box was constructed during one of Japan's most tumultuous periods, when the samurai class was disbanded and the shogun lost power. In this moment of crisis, Emperor Meiji locked a priceless Imperial secret in the Dragon Box. Only two people knew how to open the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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Trussoni, Danielle
Summary: "All the world is a puzzle, and Mike Brink--a celebrated and ingenious puzzle constructor--understands its patterns like no one else. Once a promising Midwestern football star, Brink was transformed by a traumatic brain injury that caused a rare medical condition: Acquired Savant Syndrome. The injury left him with a mental superpower--he can solve puzzles, calculate equations, and see patterns...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRUSummary: When a teenage boy with extraordinary abilities appears out of nowhere near Seattle, Washington, a kindhearted social worker and her family are the only people to offer him a home. The young man's capabilities and brilliance seem to grow stronger each day, but these talents are just one clue to the mystery of the boy they call Kyle, and the questions are starting to grow: Where did he come...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD KYLHighmore, Freddie
Summary: Follows a young autistic surgeon with savant syndrome and his colleagues at a busy prestigious hospital.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2020