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A mysterious child teaches two strangers how to love and trust again. After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove that her recent hardships have not broken her. When a mysterious child who shows up at her cabin, barefoot and covered in bruises, Joanna enlists the help of her reclusive neighbor, Gabriel Nash, to solve the mystery...
63) Fuera de mí
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Melody es la chica más inteligente en la escuela, pero nadie lo sabe. La mayoría de las personas, incluyendo a sus profesores y médicos, creen que ella está cognitivamente desafió y le han colocado en educación especial. Si ella sólo podía compartir lo que piensa y lo sabe, pero la melodía no puede hablar, caminar o escribir. Los lectores serán movidos por su unidad y perseverancia.
"Eleven-year-old Melody has a photographic memory. Her...
65) Music stalker
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Kayla Covo is a child piano prodigy. In mid-1970's New York City, she vaults to fame, holding audiences in awe with her uncanny musical ability and warm smile. But deep within her lie the seeds of destruction: the paranoid fear of being stalked by a murderous fan. The Music Stalker closely examines how genius and love might survive in a close-knit family torn by trauma, insanity, and jealousy.
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Michael's days as a happy underachiever are over when he accidentally eats a nanochip loaded with information and becomes his own worst nightmare: a know-it-all, held up as an example by his teachers, and hated by everyone in the student body. What has happened to the old Michael? Is the underachiever gone for good?
68) KidGlovz
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KidGlovz is a musical genius. His gift is so precious that he's kept under lock and key. But when a young thief helps him escape, Kid must embark on a perilous journey through which he will discover the terrifying nature of his talent. A spellbinding graphic fable about friendship and freedom.
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Victims. In New York, ten-year-old boys from the city's most exclusive schools are being brutally attacked, before their mutilated corpses are found washed up in the river. Target. Benjamin Winslow is a ten-year-old child genius who has just been accepted to Harvard. He is just like all the other murdered boys. In fact, he is more like them than he, or anyone else, imagines. Saviour. Detective Alex Hemingway is on the hunt for the killer. But as he...
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Young Miss Holmes volume 3
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Young Miss Holmes, the all-ages manga series for fans of Sherlock Holmes and Nancy Drew, concludes in this extra long three-volumes-in-one omnibus edition. Young Miss Holmes was selected for the 2013 YALSA Great Graphic Novels for Teens list. Christie Holmes is a prodigy. At ten years old, she's as familiar with the sciences and classics as any older student at Cambridge or Oxford. And her facility with logic is reminiscent of her uncle, the eminent...
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Michael Vey volume 4
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Michael, Taylor, Ostin and the rest of the Electroclan head to China in search of a girl who may have discovered why Michael and his friends became electric. Her name is Lin Julung, or Jade Dragon, and she's a child prodigy with an IQ higher than Einstein's -- and Ostin's.
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Your lie in April volume 1
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"Kosei and Nagi's duet has carried their thoughts and feelings to the most precious people in the musicians' lives. The words, "please play with me again," from Kosei give Kaori a small ray of hope. As Kosei competes to qualify for the East Japan Piano Competition in December, Kaori begins her difficult rehabilitation. Each of them begins their difficult walk forward, but will the coming winter bring healing or hardship?"--Back cover.
73) Schronisko
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" Trzynastoletnia Elissa, utalentowana młoda szachistka, bierze właśnie udział w najważniejszym wydarzeniu swojego życia: Ogólnoangielskim Młodzieżowym Grand Prix w Szachach. W trakcie turnieju zostaje porwana i budzi się w podziemnej celi gdzieś w Lesie Pamięci. Elijah ma dwanaście lat, ale zna całą okolicę jak własną kieszeń - właśnie dzięki temu wpada na Elissę. Kiedy pojawia się w jej celi, Elissa liczy na to, że chłopiec...
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"Katya never wanted to look after Gretchen. Now she's the young girl's only hope of survival. 1937. Katya Komarovsky is studying medicine in Glasgow, living among friends and eager to begin her career as a doctor. But when her spendthrift parents announce that they've run out of money and are facing ruin--and that she'll now have to support them by working as a governess in Vienna--the life she's dreamed of goes up in smoke. Furiously resentful, Katya...
75) Akili
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Durante una conferencia de prensa en Washington DC, el Presidente es informado de una amenaza a la seguridad nacional: un nino de tres anos llamado Akili, es el ser mas inteligente en el planeta. Representando el siguiente paso en la evolucion humana, Akili puede percibir patrones y predecir eventos futuros mejor que la mayoria de los supercomputadores, y es capaz de manipular los eventos de gran escala como piezas en un tablero de ajedrez. Y, sin...
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