gifted persons

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gifted persons

In the blood

2014
Lana Granger lives a life of lies. She has told so many lies about where she comes from and who she is that the truth is like a cloudy nightmare she can't quite recall. About to graduate from college and with her trust fund almost tapped out, she takes a job babysitting a troubled boy named Luke. Expelled from schools all over the country, the manipulative young Luke is accustomed to controlling the people in his life. But, in Lana, he may have met his match. Or has Lana met hers? When Lana's closest friend, Beck, mysteriously disappears, Lana resumes her lying ways - to friends, to the police, to herself. The police have a lot of questions for Lana when the story about her whereabouts the night Beck disappeared doesn't jibe with eyewitness accounts. Lana will do anything to hide the truth, but it might not be enough to keep her ominous secrets buried: someone else knows about Lana's lies. And he's dying to tell.

Discover your genius

how to think like history's ten most revolutionary minds
2002
Presents biographies of ten individuals, each of whom possesses a special "genius" characteristic as identified by the author, and offers advice to readers on how to integrate those characteristics into their own lives to enhance creativity.

Life after genius

2008
Theodore "Mead" Fegley disappoints and surprises everyone when he drops out of his university, and his work on the Riemann Hypothesis, to return home to rural Illinois, where he was known as "the young Fegley genius, " and learns the family business--selling furniture and embalming the dead.

The interestings

2013
Follows six artists from youth through middle age, exploring the roles that art, money, and envy can play in close friendships.

Zaregoto

2008
Nineteen-year-old college student Ii-chan, visiting at the elaborate island home of Akagami Iria, the exiled daughter of a powerful family, is feeling a bit overwhelmed by the intellect of the other guests in residence, but he finds he has a special talent for discovering the truth when someone is murdered.

Flores para algernon

2004
Mentally handicapped Charlie Gordon participates in an experiment which turns him into a genius temporarily.

The beautiful miscellaneous

a novel
2007
Seventeen-year-old Nathan Nelson awakens from a two-week coma and finds he has an extraordinary memory, but even with his new ability and a change of schools he cannot live up to his genius father's high expectations.

The Smithsonian Institution

a novel
1999
T., a thirteen-year-old math prodigy, is summoned to the Smithsonian on Good Friday 1939, where scientists are working furiously to develop the atomic bomb, and discovers that he holds the key to both the secrets of nuclear fission and time travel.

How to be a genius

2001
Cartoon illustrations and text provide information about geniuses from many walks of life, offering readers advice on how to test their own brain power, predict the likelihood of their becoming geniuses, and think up brilliant ideas, and explaining intelligence tests, computers, and what makes a person a genius. Includes experiments.

Discover your genius

how to think like history's ten most revolutionary minds
2003
Provides a guide to releasing your creativity with biographies of ten influential scientists and thinkers.

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