![]() ![]() Misfit teen, absent dad, dead mom, quirky friends, jerky ex the main character is hung up on - check. We chem nerds are used to seeing formulas everywhere, and from the get-go, this book seemed like it had all the right ingredients. ![]() She works at the same lab as her recently-departed mother, and she has a couple of friends there - Yael and Kyle - which is good, because her boyfriend Whit breaks up with her as the book opens. He never would have actually let me apply there.) Maya lives with her athletic, mostly-absent father, Kirk. (MIT's respectable enough - I toured the campus with my family back in the day - but Dad's a Georgia Tech alum. Seventeen-year-old Maya Leschinsky is interning at MIT the summer before her freshman year there. Finally! A super nerdy female main character I can connect with! And a plot with a romantic twist? Fun! Sign me up! I may be a writer and performer now, but I graduated from USC with a degree in chemistry - so when Meredith Goldstein's Chemistry Lessons popped up on my radar, I was immediately intrigued. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Chemistry Lessons Author Meredith Goldstein ![]()
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The premise is that a high school girl obsessed with a certain kind of video game dies, and is reincarnated as the antagonist of her favorite dating video game. ![]() This is a light novel series that has been turned into both a manga and an anime. So certain times of year coincide with heavier professional workloads, and when that happens, I tend to gravitate towards much lighter reading, things like My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! (volume 5). ![]() ![]() ![]() John, the principal illustrator of Edgar Rice Burroughs's adventure tales and dozens of others. Knight, a pioneer in the depiction of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures Edward Penfield, the king of poster art Frederic Remington, whose works document the Old West J. ![]() Army recruitment posters Charles Dana Gibson, creator of the iconic Gibson Girl Charles R. 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Menges has done a superb job of choosing a fantastic array of artists, providing representative and dazzling examples of their work and presenting them with succinct, erudite commentary that introduces you to each artist and puts them in the context of their time." - Lines and Color The Arthur Rackham Treasury: 86 Full-Color Illustrations (Dover Fine Art, History of Art) by Rackham, Arthur at .uk - ISBN 10: 0486446859 - ISBN 13: 9780486446851 - Dover Publications Inc. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the aftermath of the dinner disaster, Abby is thrilled to learn that a film studio wants to use her shop in an upcoming movie. Needless to say, a tipsy Abby arrives late for dinner and doesn’t make the best impression. If that wasn’t frustrating enough, the night she’s supposed to meet her future mother-in-law, Abby gets stuck in an elevator-with a sexy stranger bearing fine wine. An up-and-coming lawyer, Toby’s been far too busy to shop-let alone muster the energy for romance. 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