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Pub. Date
[2017]
Formats
Description
Christian Wolff is a math savant who works as a freelance accountant for some of the world's most dangerous criminal organizations. With the Treasury Department's Crime Enforcement Division starting to close in, he takes on a legitimate client, a robotics company where an accounting clerk has discovered a discrepency involving millions of dollars. But as Christian uncooks the books and gets closer to the truth, the body count starts to rise.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"From a riveting new voice in suspense fiction, THE ASCENDANT is an action-packed thrillers following a unlikely hero--a number savant named Garrett Reilly--as he races around the globe to avert total war"--
A numbers wizard and career-climbing bond analyst stumbles upon an enormous covert war operation when he notices that U.S. Treasury bonds are being sold off at an extremely high rate, bringing the U.S. military to his front door.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
343 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
"A journey into one of the most fascinating minds alive today--guided by its owner. Daniel Tammet sees numbers as shapes, colors, and textures, and he can perform extraordinary calculations in his head. He can learn new languages from scratch, in a week. He has savant syndrome, a rare condition that gives him almost unimaginable mental powers. But in one crucial way Daniel is not at all like the Rain Man: he is virtually unique among autistic people...
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Formats
Description
For fourteen-year-old Wallis Ann Stamper and her family, life in the Appalachian Mountains is simple and satisfying, though not for the tenderhearted. While her older sister, Laci--a mute, musically gifted savant--is constantly watched over and protected, Wallis Ann is as practical and sturdy as her name. When the Tuckasegee River bursts its banks, forcing them to flee in the middle of the night, those qualities save her life. But though her family...
6) Being there
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Circumstances propel a feeble-minded gardener, whose entire knowledge of life comes from watching television, into becoming adviser to the president of the United States and a powerful but dying tycoon.
Publisher
Sony Pictures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (861 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The show is about a young surgeon with autism who is recruited to work at a pediatric unit of a hospital. The hospital is prestigious with many of the toughest cases a surgeon could ever see, but with autism comes clarity that most surgeons will never have. The television series focuses on the relationship between the doctor and patient, and how a man who cannot relate to the people who he tries to help.
10) Forrest Gump
Formats
Description
The story follows the life of low I.Q. Forrest Gump and his meeting with the love of his life Jenny. The film chronicles his accidental experiences with some of the most important people and events in America from the late 1950's through the 1970's including a meeting with Elvis Presley, JFK, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, fighting in Vietnam, etc. The problem is, he doesn't realize the significance of his actions. Seemingly by accident Forrest comes...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (773 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Shaun's proposed treatment for a homeless patient puts him and Jared in Andrews' crosshairs. Meanwhile, Claire tries to overcome Melendez' reluctance to do a risky heart operation while Glassman must overcome his personal feelings about his oncologist, Dr. Marina Blaize, and face a difficult decision about his health.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
ix, 243 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
"No one sees the world as Jason Padgett does. Water pours from the faucet in crystalline patterns, numbers call to mind distinct geometric shapes, and intricate fractal patterns emerge from the movement of tree branches, revealing the intrinsic mathematical designs hidden in the objects around us. Yet Padgett wasn't born this way. Twelve years ago, he had never made it past pre-algebra. But a violent mugging forever altered the way his brain works,...
13) Being there
Series
Criterion collection volume 864
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Description
After his employer dies, a feeble-minded gardener whose entire knowledge of life comes from watching television is sent out into the real world.
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