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Language
English
Description
"Ashley Cordova, the mysterious gifted daughter of the reclusive film director Stanislas Cordova, is found dead in an abandoned warehouse in lower Manhattan. Her death is ruled a suicide, but veteran investigative journalist Scott McGrath suspects otherwise. What happened to Ashley? As McGrath tries to uncover the truth, he is drawn into a spell-binding quest in the underworld of the Cordova family's life. With breakneck pace and dazzling inventiveness,...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A group of teens who all attended the same elite prep school reunite a year after graduation. After a night on the town, the teens are faced with an impossible choice--only one of them can live and the decision must be unanimous" --
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
514 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Special Topics in Calamity Physics is a darkly hilarious coming-of-age novel and a richly plotted suspense tale told through the distinctive voice of its heroine, Blue van Meer. After a childhood moving from one academic outpost to another with her father (a man prone to aphorisms and meteoric affairs), Blue is clever, deadpan, and possessed of a vast lexicon of literary, political, philosophical, and scientific knowledge-and is quite the cineaste...