"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, careful observation, and an imagination so playful that it flirted with fantasy. His creativity, like that of other great innovators, came from standing at...

A funny, uplifting novel about a boy's journey through New York in the aftermath of September 11th from one of today's most celebrated writers.
Nine-year-old Oskar Schell embarks on an urgent, secret mission that will take him through the five boroughs of New York. His goal is to find the lock that matches a mysterious key that belonged to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11. This seemingly...

A thirty-two-year-old mentally handicapped man takes part in an innovative scientific experiment to raise his intelligence

A community of brilliant scientists known as the Jensen Project team up with two former Project members and their genius teenage son to prevent dangerous technology from falling into the wrong hands.

Jimmy and Cindy have to team up for a school science project. For his history report, Nick tells about the Phantom of Retroland. Then Jimmy needs some chemicals in order to finish an experiment. When Jimmy is elected the new hall monitor, he vows to bring hall monitoring into the 21st century. It's another invention mishap for Jimmy. Jimmy creates a "get out of school" patch that makes kids sick when they wear it. Jimmy develops a "Dream injector...

A certain pen, a certain book, and a certain person can craft entirely new worlds through a branch of science called scriptology. Elsa comes from one such world that was written into creation by her mother a noted scriptologist.

In Elipsom the ability to call, or summon objects, is a coveted skill, and Quintus Octavius is from a family of powerful Callers. 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 pillaging...