Gabrielle Zevin
Author
Language
English
Description
"A modern love story about two childhood friends, Sam, raised by an actress mother in LA's Koreatown, and Sadie, from the wealthy Jewish enclave of Beverly Hills, who reunite as adults to create video games, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry"-- Provided by publisher.
On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Young Jane Young's heroine is Aviva Grossman, an ambitious Congressional intern in Florida who makes the life-changing mistake of having an affair with her boss who is beloved, admired, successful, and very married and blogging about it. When the affair comes to light, the Congressman doesn't take the fall, but Aviva does, and her life is over before it hardly begins. She becomes a late night talk show punchline; she is slut shamed, labeled as fat...
Author
Series
Publication Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In a future where chocolate and caffeine are contraband, teenage cellphone use is illegal, and water and paper are carefully rationed, sixteen-year-old Anya Balanchine finds herself thrust unwillingly into the spotlight as heir apparent to an important New York City crime family.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In 2083, seventeen-year-old Anya Balanchine seeks a way to make Balanchine Chocolate legitimate, and although a trip to Mexico gives her new insights and ideas, escaping her mobster family's legacy of violence may prove impossible.
7) Elsewhere
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After fifteen-year-old Liz Hall is hit by a taxi and killed, she finds herself in a place that is both like and unlike Earth, where she must adjust to her new status and figure out how to "live."
8) Margarettown
Author
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry comes an enchanting story about love in its many forms, and a man's timeless journey into the unknowable territory of the woman he loves. From the moment they first sleep together-piled atop seven mattresses in her dorm room-N. is drawn into a rich and enchanted relationship with Margaret Towne, a woman who will introduce him to worlds...
Author
Language
English
Description
With The Hole We're In-a bold, timeless, yet all too timely novel about a troubled American family navigating an even more troubled America-award-winning author and screenwriter, Gabrielle Zevin, delivers a work that places her in the ranks of our shrewdest social observers and top literary talents.
Meet the Pomeroys: a church-going family living in a too-red house in a Texas college town. Roger, the patriarch, has impulsively gone back to school,...
Author
Language
Deutsch
Description
A.J. Fikry, der Besitzer der einzigen Buchhandlung auf Alice Island, durchlebt eine schwere Zeit: Seit dem Tod seiner Frau zieht er sich völlig zurück, der Buchladen läuft schlechter denn je, und zu allem Überfluss wurde auch noch sein wertvollster Besitz, eine seltene Erstausgabe von Edgar Allan Poe, gestohlen. Doch als A.J. eines Tages eine überraschende Entdeckung im Laden macht, löst das eine Kette von Ereignissen aus, die sein Leben völlig...
Author
Language
Deutsch
Description
Ostküste, Mitte der 90er: Sam hat gerade sein Harvard-Studium aufgenommen, als er Kindheitsfreundin Sadie wiedertrifft. Seine frühere Super-Mario-Gegnerin designt heute Computerspiele, und schnell zeigt sich, dass die beiden auch auf kreativer Ebene ein gutes Team sind. Doch als ihr erstes gemeinsames Spiel zum Hit wird, brechen sich Rivalitäten Bahn, die ihre Verbundenheit zu bedrohen scheinen.
Über die Magie der Freundschaft, über Popkultur,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Publication Date
2013
Language
English
Description
In the Age of Love and Chocolate is the story of growing up and learning what love really is. It showcases the best of Gabrielle Zevin's writing for young adults: the intricate characterization of Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac and the big-heartedness of Elsewhere.
All These Things I've Done, the first novel in the Birthright series, introduced us to timeless heroine Anya Balanchine, a plucky sixteen year
13) Love Is Hell
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Publication Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Sure, love is hell. But it,s totally worth it. In these supernatural stories by five of today's hottest writers--Melissa Marr ( Wicked Lovely ), Scott Westerfeld ( Specials ), Justine Larbalestier ( Magic or Madness ), Gabrielle Zevin ( Elsewhere ), and Laurie Faria Stolarz ( Blue is for Nightmares )--love may be twisted and turned around, but it's more potent than ever on its quest to conquer all. From two students who let the power of attraction...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner, Elektra, Atlantic
Publication Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Two apparent strangers at a New York City wedding reception become entangled in a sexually charged battle of wits. As the night carries on, however, the passion of their two-decades-past love affair is revealed. Unfolds entirely in split-screen.
15) Tuck everlasting
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing any older.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A new edition of the timeless, structure-bending classic that explores how actions of individual lives impact the past, present and future—from a postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in fiction
Features a new afterword by David Mitchell and a new introduction by Gabrielle Zevin, author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
One of the New York Times’s 100...
Features a new afterword by David Mitchell and a new introduction by Gabrielle Zevin, author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
One of the New York Times’s 100...
17) Love Is Hell
Author
Language
English
Description
Sure, love is hell. But it,s totally worth it. In these supernatural stories by five of today's hottest writers-Melissa Marr (Wicked Lovely), Scott Westerfeld (Specials), Justine Larbalestier (Magic or Madness), Gabrielle Zevin (Elsewhere), and Laurie Faria Stolarz (Blue is for Nightmares)-love may be twisted and turned around, but it's more potent than ever on its quest to conquer all. From two students who let the power of attraction guide them...



