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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agnès, receives the news in America, far from the French countryside where the two girls were raised--the place that Fabienne helped Agnès escape ten years ago. Now, Agnès is free to tell her story. As children in a war-ravaged, backwater town, they'd built a private world, invisible to everyone but themselves--until Fabienne hatched the plan that would change everything, launching Agnès on an epic...
Author
Series
Loveboat volume 1
Language
English
Appears on list
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When Ever Wong's parents sent her away for the summer, she's expecting Chien Tan: a strict, educational immersion program in Taiwan. Instead, she finds the infamous "Loveboat." There, Ever is surrounded by prodigies, like Rick Woo, Chinese American wonder boy and longtime bane of her existence; Ever's roommate, the confident and clever Sophia Ha, as glamorous as she is sharp; and the intimidatingly cool Xavier Yeh, heir to an international tech empire....
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Ella Fitswilliam takes care of her special needs son, Harry by herself, with husband Felix too focused on other things. But after Ella has a heart attack Harry is forced to face life alone and Felix must fight to keep the family together.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Minerva Promise claimed that her three "test tube" daughters--gifted pianist Joanie, artistic Meg, and storyteller Avery--were engineered and molded to be geniuses. Now twenty years later, the sisters reluctantly agree to take part in a documentary that will reveal secrets and spur them to forge their own extraordinary lives at last.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Raised by a single mother in Miami, Florida, Jenry Castillo, newly arrived at Brown University on a music scholarship, finds himself searching for information about his late father Jasper Patterson, an internationally recognized principal ballet dancer who died tragically when Jenry was two. Jenry thinks his estranged grandfather, Winston Patterson, a professor of African American history at Brown and a titan in his field, might have the answers...
Author
Series
Universe after volume 1
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Jane Kamali is an agent for the Justified. Her mission: to recruit children with miraculous gifts in the hope that they might prevent the Pulse from once again sending countless worlds back to the dark ages. Hot on her trail is the Pax--a collection of fascist zealots who believe they are the rightful rulers of the galaxy and who remain untouched by the Pulse. Now Jane, a handful of comrades from her past, and a telekinetic girl called Esa must...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"When two Depression-era migrant workers, Paul and Vern, find an abandoned baby in the woods, they take it upon themselves to care for the mysterious child. When fifteen-year-old Marigold, reviled by her family after an unwanted pregnancy, loses her baby in the forest, her whole world is painted black. She's still fraught with despair when she discovers what seems to be a miraculous power within her. Coot, a child preacher on the Kansas plains, escapes...
Author
Series
Universe after volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"For nearly a century, the Justified have been searching for gifted children to help prevent the return of the pulse. Until recently, they thought they were the only ones. Jane Kamali and her telekinetic protégé Esa, now seventeen, barely managed to claim victory against a Cyn-a being of pure energy-hell bent on hunting down the gifted. Now they face an army. The Cyn and their followers will stop at nothing to find Esa and the others. No one knows...
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
J is a student at a school deep in a forest far away from the rest of the world. J is one of only twenty-six students, all of whom think of the school's enigmatic founder as their father. J's peers are the only family he has ever had. The students are being trained to be prodigies of art, science, and athletics, and their life at the school is all they know-and all they are allowed to know. But J suspects that there is something out there, beyond...
10) Ender in exile
Author
Series
Ender Wiggin volume 6
Language
English
Description
At the close of Ender's Game, Andrew Wiggin, called Ender by everyone, is told that he can no longer live on Earth, and he realizes that this is the truth. He has become far more than just a boy who won a game: he is the Savior of Earth, a hero, a military genius whose allegiance is sought by every nation of the newly shattered Earth Hegemony. He is offered the choice of living in isolation on Eros, at one of the Hegemony's training facilities, but...
Author
Series
Universe after volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
It's been three years since Esa left her backwater planet to join the ranks of the Justified. Together, she and fellow agent Jane Kamali have been traveling across the known universe, searching for children who share Esa's supernatural gifts. On a visit to a particularly remote planet, they learn that they're not the only ones searching for gifted children. They find themselves on the tail of a mysterious being with impossible powers who will stop...
12) Viper game
Author
Series
Ghostwalkers volume 11
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
GhostWalker Wyatt Fontenot knows the price he paid for the secret military experiments that gave him his special abilities. After all, he left his bayou home a healer and came back a killer. While Wyatt and his GhostWalker brother Gator may have known exactly the sort of game they were getting into, Wyatt never anticipated where it would lead -- or to whom... The swamps hold many mysteries, but few are as sinuously seductive as Le Poivre de Cayenne....
Author
Series
Secret Explorers volume 4
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Español
Description
¡Viaja en el tiempo hasta la prehistoria y descubre cómo era la vida de los dinosaurios junto a los Exploradores Secretos! Ollie, Cheng, Leah, Connor, Roshni, Kiki, Tamiko y Gustavo. ¡Son los Exploradores Secretos! Un equipo de niños brillantes de todo el mundo se reúne para solucionar problemas, resolver misterios y recopilar conocimientos...¿te gustaría acompañarlos? En esta misión, volverás atrás en el tiempo con Tamiko (experta en dinosaurios)...
Author
Series
Ender saga volume 5
Publisher
B [de Bolsillo]
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
At the close of the novel Ender's game, Andrew Wiggin, called Ender by everyone, is told that he can no longer live on Earth, and he realizes that this is the truth. He has become far more than just a boy who won a game: he is the Savior of Earth, a hero, a military genius whose allegiance is sought by every nation of the newly shattered Earth Hegemony. He is offered the choice of living in isolation on Eros, at one of the Hegemony's training facilities,...
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