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Keating, Jess

Summary: "When Mary Shelley is kidnapped by a mad scientist, Nikki Tesla and the other members of the Genius Academy team are forced to agree to steal a priceless, lethal high-tech ring in order to free her; but Nikki also plans to use the heist to get closer to her long-lost father who claims he is not the criminal mastermind she believes him to be." --

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KEA

Lebrecht, Norman

Summary: "In a hundred-year period, a handful of men and women changed the way we see the world. Many of them are well known--Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Kafka. Others have vanished from collective memory despite their enduring importance in our daily lives. Without Karl Landsteiner, for instance, there would be no blood transfusions or major surgery. Without Paul Ehrlich, no chemotherapy. Without...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920.009 LEB

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "A tormented genius, drive by justice. Buckle your seatbelt for the turbulent career of London's DCI John Luther, starring Idris Elba, winner of Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards for his powerful performance in this gripping, smart and entertaining psychological thriller. As brilliant as he is impulsive, Luther wrestles with the darker side of humanity and with his own grim ghosts....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Studios 2019

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD LUT

Isaacson, Walter

Summary: Leonardo da Vinci created the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. But in his own mind, he was just as much a man of science and engineering. With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany, geology, and weaponry. His ability to stand at the crossroads of the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Audioworks, Simon & Schuster Audio 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 DA VINCI, LEONARDO ISA

Summary: Presently working in an oil field, talented pianist Robert Dupea spends most of his free time downing beers, playing poker and being noncommittal with his sexy but witless girlfriend Rayette. But when he is summoned to his father's deathbed, Dupea returns home with Rayette, where he meets and falls for a sophisticated woman. Now caught between his conflicting lifestyles, the gifted but troubled...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIV

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FIV

Wells, Rosemary

Summary: Baby Koko's head is similar to an inbox that holds everything he hears until it is so full his outbox kicks in and he starts to talk.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WEL

Summary: Worlds collide in Season 3! A love affair with Penny has opened a big, wide, wonderful world of romance for Leonard. But Sheldon likes the world just the way it was, thank you. All of which makes for a zany comic triangle with brainy, clueless Sheldon and practical, grounded Penny hilariously vying for the role of hypotenuse.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment Australia [distributor 2010

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BIG

Summary: 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?

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LUT

Keating, Jess

Summary: "Someone who goes by the name of "V" is planning to unleash a lethal virus that could destroy the human race, and it is up to Nikki Tesla and her friends from the Genius Academy (which has been blamed for an international incident and shut down), to uncover the villain (who is closer to them than they realize) and find a way to stop the biological attack--an effort that will cost Nikki her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KEA

Clare, Gwendolyn

Summary: After an experiment goes wrong, three science prodigies from two differnet time periods meet in a strange, seemingly adandonded city, and burdened with a glitchy time machine, an android time cop hot on their trail, and some tangled temporal mechanics to unravel, they set out to save the Earth.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel & Friends 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CLA

Dragoon, Leigh

Summary: Teens June, a military prodigy born into wealth, and Day, a criminal from the slums, are brought together and face plague, war, and a powerful, common enemy.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam' s Sons 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 LEG

Keating, Jess

Summary: Nikki Tesla is a genius, so mostly she finds school boring, and amuses herself by inventing things, like her mysterious missing father; trouble is most of her inventions have serious, lethal potential (like the death ray, which just blew a hole in her floor); so she and her ferret are hustled off to the special Genius Academy with classmates who are equally exceptional, although she still...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KEA

Summary: When the moonless shadows of London give birth to a new nightmare, John Luther (Idris Elba) once again confronts the depths of human depravity. As a series of monstrous killings becomes more audacious, Luther and new recruit DS Catherine Halliday (Wunmi Mosaku) are confounded by a tangle of misdirection that seems to protect an unspeakable horror. But as the case brings him closer than ever to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Studios 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LUT

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: Jarod is a Pretender, a genius whose exceptional intelligence allows him to assume various identities at will. He was taken from his parents at an early age and brought up in a think tank, where he believed his mind was being used to benefit mankind. When he learned that the simulations he solved were being sold to the highest bidder, he escaped. Now on the run, he searches for his true...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PRE

Edison, Chris

Summary: Young inventor Marie can't believe her luck - she's spending her summer holidays in California, at the high-tech headquarters of Vance Corps! She and the other super-clever campers get to build robots, do super-cool science experiments and test out awesome gadgets. But not everyone is a happy camper . . .

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kane Miller, a division of EDC publishing 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC EDI

Heng, Rachel

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "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"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Book 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEN

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEN

Isaacson, Walter

Summary: "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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio da Vinci

Syed, Matthew.

Summary: In this thoughtful, provocative book, a former Olympian persuasively demonstrates how sports offer powerful and often overlooked tools with which to explore fundamental subjects, including biology, morality, globalization, culture, gender, race, and economics.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.1 SYE

Summary: Socially challenged they remain, but the scientific geniuses of show always deliver hilarious results. Leonard returns from his North Sea expedition to find that his relationship with Penny involves more beta-testing than he's ever done in a lab. Howard's attachment issues with women in his life in particular and Raj's social breakthrough with women in general provide more laughs. Bernadette...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BIG

Clare, Gwendolyn

Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint 2018

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CLA

Foer, Jonathan Safran

Summary: 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.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOE

Syed, Matthew.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 650.1 SYE

Ueno, Haruki

Summary: "Hiro's a genius, but what he really wants is to be like his inventor big brother, Tadashi-but one day, Tadashi vanishes while saving Hiro's life. The only thing left behind to console the grief-stricken Hiro is Tadashi's last invention, the health-care companion robot Baymax. But the friendship that grows between the gentle bot and the lonely boy is only the beginning of their adventure" --

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2015

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J GRAPHIC BIG

Wolitzer, Meg.

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: The creativity that is rewarded at age fifteen is not always enough to propel one through life at age thirty, and in adulthood not everyone can sustain what seemed to be their adolescent specialness. Jules Handler, an aspiring comic actress, eventually resigns herself to a more practical occupation and lifestyle. But her two best friends, now married to each other, become shockingly successful...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOL

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Wolitzer 2013

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