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(0)Gabrielle Zevin
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Language
English
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"A modern love story about two childhood friends, Sam, raised by an actress mother in LA's Koreatown, and Sadie, from the wealthy Jewish enclave of Beverly Hills, who reunite as adults to create video games, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry"--
On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits...
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Language
English
Description
"A.J. Fikry's life is not what he expected it to be. His wife has died, his bookstore is failing, and his prized possession, a rare collection of Poe poems, has been stolen. He is isolating himself from all the people of Alice Island and from Amelia, the Knightley Press sales rep who refuses to be deterred by A.J.'s bad attitude. And then a mysterious package appears at the bookstore that gives A.J. the ability to see everything anew. It doesn't take...
3) Elsewhere
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
After fifteen-year-old Liz Hall is hit by a taxi and killed, she finds herself in a place that is both like and unlike Earth, where she must adjust to her new status and figure out how to "live." Is it possible to grow up while getting younger? Welcome to Elsewhere. It is warm, with a breeze, and the beaches are marvelous. It's quiet and peaceful. You can't get sick or any older. Curious to see new paintings by Picasso? Swing by one of Elsewhere's...
Author
Publisher
LUMEN
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Español
Formats
Description
La conmovedora historia de un librero en la cuarentena que rehace su vida y busca de nuevo la felicidad.
A pesar de ser el único librero de Alice Island, a A.J. Fikry no le gustan ni la posmodernidad ni el realismo mágico. Tampoco pierde el tiempo con historias sobre el Holocausto, libros infantiles o novelas románticas. Sus planes nocturnos consisten en encerrarse en un destartalado apartamento y acompañar un buen cuento clásico de comida basura...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Young Jane Young's heroine is Aviva Grossman, an ambitious Congressional intern in Florida who makes the life-changing mistake of having an affair with her boss who is beloved, admired, successful, and very married and blogging about it. When the affair comes to light, the Congressman doesn't take the fall, but Aviva does, and her life is over before it hardly begins. She becomes a late night talk show punchline; she is slut shamed, labeled as fat...
Author
Series
Birthright (Gabrielle Zevin) volume 1
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
From Gabrielle Zevin—the author of the critically acclaimed Elsewhere—comes the first book in the Birthright series, All These Things I've Done, a masterful novel about an impossible romance, a mafia family, and the ties that forever bind us.
In 2083, chocolate and coffee are illegal, paper is hard to find, water is carefully rationed, and New York City is rife with crime and poverty. And yet, for Anya Balanchine,
Author
Series
Birthright (Gabrielle Zevin) volume 2
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In 2083, seventeen-year-old Anya Balanchine seeks a way to make Balanchine Chocolate legitimate, and although a trip to Mexico gives her new insights and ideas, escaping her mobster family's legacy of violence may prove impossible
Publisher
Hart Sharp Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Two apparent strangers at a New York City wedding reception become entangled in a sexually charged battle of wits. As the night carries on, however, the passion of their two-decades-past love affair is revealed. Unfolds entirely in split-screen