Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Bullet Park, a township in which even the most buttoned-down gentry sometimes manage to terrify themselves simply by looking in the mirror. In these exemplary environs John Cheever traces the fateful intersection of two men: Eliot Nailles, a nice fellow who loves his wife and son to blissful distraction, and Paul Hammer, a bastard named after a common household tool, who, after half a lifetime of drifting, settles down in Bullet Park with...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Examining key traits of genius, from curiosity to creative maladjustment to obsession, Professor Craig Wright, creator of Yale's popular "Genius Course," explores what we can learn from brilliant minds that have changed the world.
Author
Language
English
Description
He was history's most creative genius. What secrets can he teach us? The [bestselling biographer] brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography. Drawing on thousands of pages from Leonardo's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo's genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves, such as passionate curiosity,...
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
Oskar Schell, the nine-year-old son of a man killed in the World Trade Center bombing who searches the city for a lock that fits a black key his father left behind. Jonathan Safran Foer emerged as one of the most original writers of his generation with his best-selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated. Now, with humor, tenderness, and awe, he confronts the traumas of our recent history. What he discovers is solace in that most human quality,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The creator of Public Radio International's "Studio 360" examines some of the greatest minds featured on the show--including novelists Joyce Carol Oates and Isabel Allende; director Ang Lee; and musicians Rosanne Cash, Yo-Yo Ma, and Robert Plant--lookingat their sources of inspiration.
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
"Milo Andret, the genius who solved the Malosz Conjecture and won the Fields Medal for mathematics, had an unusual, even eerie mind from birth, but not until he moves to Berkeley in the 1970s to pursue a ph.D. does he realize the extent of his singular talents. From the drug-soaked enclaves of beatnik California to the verdant lawns of Princeton University, from turbo-charged Wall Street to the quiet woods of Michigan, his reputation as one of the...
11) Jet fusion
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Follows Jimmy Neutron, his faithful robotic dog, Goddard, and his eclectic friends and family as they experience life in Retroville. Jimmy is a typical kid, who just happens to be a genius. He creates gadgets to improve his everyday life, but his inventions go awry more often then not, and hilarious trouble ensues.
12) Cosas que pasan
Author
Series
A la orilla del viento volume 117
Publisher
Fondo de Cultura Económica
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
Español
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Clementine is a lab mouse and a genius, but she's lonely. Only with Rosie, a chimpanzee who visits late at night, does she find friendship. When a lab technician frees Clementine, she discovers an outside world and goes in search of a real home--and a way to free her old friends.
14) D.A.R.Y.L
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
A young boy is found wandering without any memory of who he is. A family takes him in and begin to look for clues to help him find his way home.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Follows Jimmy Neutron, his faithful robotic dog, Goddard, and his eclectic friends and family as they experience life in Retroville. Jimmy is a typical kid, who just happens to be a genius. He creates gadgets to improve his everyday life, but his inventions go awry more often then not, and hilarious trouble ensues.
20) The Callers
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Elipsom the ability to call, or summon objects, is a coveted skill, and Quintus Octavius is from a family of powerful Callers, but Quin does not have the gift, and he is mortified when his mother and sister cheat for him at his test; but in a moment of frustration Quin makes something disappear and discovers that the all the objects that Callers summon are not conjured out of air, but come from a place called Evantra, which his people have been...
In Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Orem Public Library can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup. NOTE: WILL REQUIRE A POSTAGE FEE
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? You can put in a request for us to add it to the collection. Submit Request