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1) Hunger
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Language
English
Description
Knut Hamsun believed that modern literature should express the complexity of the human mind and nowhere is that philosophy more evident than in this stunning modern masterpiece, "Hunger." First published in 1890 in Norwegian and based on Hamsun's own experiences with poverty prior to his success as an author, "Hunger" tells the story of an unnamed vagrant who stumbles around the streets of Norway's capital city of Kristiania (now Oslo) looking for...
2) Evil genius
Author
Series
Evil genius books volume 1
Language
English
Description
Child prodigy Cadel Piggot, an antisocial computer hacker, discovers his true identity when he enrolls as a first-year student at an advanced crime academy.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
To everyone who knows her now, Zoe Maisey - child genius, musical sensation - is perfect. Yet several years ago, Zoe caused the death of three teenagers. She served her time, and now she's free. Her story begins with her giving the performance of her life. By midnight, her mother is dead. The Perfect Girl is an intricate exploration into the mind of a teenager burdened by brilliance, and a past that she cannot leave behind.
Author
Series
The Genius Files volume 1
Language
English
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Description
On a cross-country vacation with their parents, twins Coke and Pepsi, soon to be thirteen, fend off strange assassins as they try to come to terms with their being part of a top-secret government organization known as The Genius Files.
Author
Series
The Genius files volume 2
Language
English
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Description
As their cross-country journey with their parents continues through the midwest, twins Coke and Pepsi, now thirteen, again face strange assassins at such places as the first McDonald's restaurant and Cedar Point amusement park.
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Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Still trapped at the Higher Institute of Villainous Education, or H.I.V.E., evil-genius-in-training Otto Malpense is nearly assassinated and must now not only try to escape, but also find out who murdered his best friend--and save himself.
Author
Series
Millicent Min series volume 1
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
In a series of journal entries, eleven-year-old child prodigy Millicent Min records her struggles to learn to play volleyball, tutor her enemy, deal with her grandmother's departure, and make friends over the course of a tumultuous summer.
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Series
Mysterious Benedict Society volume Prequel
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Nicholas Benedict, an orphan afflicted with an unfortunate nose and with narcolepsy, is sent to a new orphanage where he encounters vicious bullies, selfish adults, strange circumstances, and a mystery that could change his life forever.
10) Escape velocity
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011, c2008
Language
English
Description
After Dr. Nero, the leader of the Higher Institute of Villainous Education is captured by a ruthless security force, Otto Malpense, whose special powers are beginning to emerge, must escape the institute and rescue Dr. Nero, the only one who can explain what his powers mean.
11) Zero hour
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012, c2010
Language
English
Description
When Overlord resurrects with a chilling new ability to take over and then kill other bodies, Nero and his H.I.V.E. associates begin a desperate race against time to foil a G.L.O.V.E. plot to take over Otto and a secret military facility that is home to a vulnerable computer-controlled weapons system.
12) Null set
Author
Publisher
TOR/Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Cas Russel has decided to Fight Crime". She definitely doesn't have a cape, and she's working on the whole morals issue, but she does have a real-life superpower: with her extraordinary mathematical ability, she can disarm bombs or outshoot an army. But Cas's own power also has a history, one she can't remember--or control. One that's creeping into her mind and fracturing her sanity...just when she's gotten herself on the hit list of every crime lord...
13) One false move
Author
Publisher
Bantam Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
What value can be put on a human mind? How Joe Roberts does what he does is a mystery. He has a brain that seems able to outperform a computer. To a games company like Venstrom that promises big profits if his abilities can be properly exploited. So they send Nicole Nevinson to track him down and make him an offer too good to refuse. But Venstrom aren't the only people interested in Joe. His current boss, a shady businessman, is already making serious...
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Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Book for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Sophie Simon, a third-grade genius, wants a graphing calculator so she can continue to study calculus while she rides the bus to school, but her parents are more concerned that she does not have any friends.
16) Counting by 7s
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Language
English
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Twelve-year-old genius and outsider Willow Chance must figure out how to connect with other people and find a surrogate family for herself after her parents are killed in a car accident.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Socially awkward fifth-grade genius Nate Bannister recruits his classmate Delphine to help him reverse one of his many experiments (a dinosaur-sized, invisible cat) while foiling the schemes of the world's most dastardly organization, the Red Death Tea Society.
18) Rogue
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Language
English
Description
When missing agent Otto is suspected of leading the mysterious attacks on the leaders of the world's villainous forces, Raven and Wing race against time to find him before other G.L.O.V.E. assassins can locate him.
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Series
Victor Shmud total expert volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When Victor, total expert at everything, finds himself at the center of an intergalactic conflict, he'll need the help of his trusty sidekick Dumpylumps the duck, and his best friend Patti, to find his way out.