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Special topics in calamity physics : a novel

The North Carolina police think it was suicide. Her former friends - the Bluebloods - blame her for being there. And her father tells her to leave it alone. But Blue van Meer is a students of books and can't let mystery go. Because all her life puzzles, both complicated and intricate, have littered her path - her mother's death in a car crash ; a chillhood spent roaming from town to town; her dad's serial affairs.

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  • "Special topics in calamity physics"@it

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  • "A darkly funny 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 cinéaste to boot. In her final year of high school at the élite (and unusual) St. Gallway School in Stockton, North Carolina, Blue falls in with a charismatic group of friends and their captivating teacher, Hannah Schneider. But when the drowning of one of Hannah's friends and the shocking death of Hannah herself lead to a confluence of mysteries, Blue is left to make sense of it all with only her gimlet-eyed instincts and cultural references to guide--or misguide--her.--From publisher description."
  • "The North Carolina police think it was suicide. Her former friends - the Bluebloods - blame her for being there. And her father tells her to leave it alone. But Blue van Meer is a students of books and can't let mystery go. Because all her life puzzles, both complicated and intricate, have littered her path - her mother's death in a car crash ; a chillhood spent roaming from town to town; her dad's serial affairs."@en
  • "Depuis la mort de sa mère alors qu'elle avait 5 ans, Blue Van Leer accompagne son père Gareth sur les routes américaines. Celui-ci, intellectuel exubérant et excentrique, brillant et radical, enseigne l'histoire dans les petites universités qui parsèment le territoire, passant trois mois ici, puis six là. C'est la dernière année de lycée de Blue, à Stockton, en attendant Harvard..."
  • "Een eenzame Amerikaanse tiener die heel veel leest, ontdekt schokkende feiten over haarzelf en haar vader nadat ze het dode lichaam van een lerares heeft gevonden."
  • "A darkly funny 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 cinéaste to boot. In her final year of high school at the élite (and unusual) St. Gallway School in Stockton, North Carolina, Blue falls in with a charismatic group of friends and their captivating teacher, Hannah Schneider. But when the drowning of one of Hannah's friends and the shocking death of Hannah herself lead to a confluence of mysteries, Blue is left to make sense of it all with only her gimlet-eyed instincts and cultural references to guide, or misguide, her."
  • "Blue muss mit ihrem Vater, einem Uniprofessor, jedes Semester umziehen. Zum Glück hat sie ihre engsten Vertrauten, die Bücher. Als wandelndes Lexikon stürzt sie sich ins pralle Leben und besticht durch Charme und Witz und lässt keine Wodka-Flasche an sich vorüber ziehen."
  • "Blue hat den Blues. Ihr Vater, der Universitätsprofessor, zieht schon wieder um. Nie länger als ein Semester bleiben Tochter und Vater an einem Ort. Bald kennt Blue jedes College. Zum Glück hat sie die Bücher - ihre engsten Vertrauten. Und so hungrig wie sie Geschichten auf Papier verschlingt, so lustvoll stürzt sie sich ins pralle Leben: Charmant und witzig besticht sie als wandelndes Lexikon und läßt zugleich keine Wodkaflasche an sich vorbeiziehen. Jeder weiß, Blue ist besonders. Man liegt ihr zu Füßen. Und dann passiert ein mysteriöser Mord und ihr Leben gerät aus den Fugen."
  • "A darkly funny 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 cinéaste to boot. In her final year of high school at the élite (and unusual) St. Gallway School in Stockton, North Carolina, Blue falls in with a charismatic group of friends and their captivating teacher, Hannah Schneider. But when the drowning of one of Hannah's friends and the shocking death of Hannah herself lead to a confluence of mysteries, Blue is left to make sense of it all with only her gimlet-eyed instincts and cultural references to guide--or misguide--her."
  • "A darkly funny 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 to boot. In her final year of high school at the elite (and unusual) St. Gallway School in Stockton, North Carolina, Blue falls in with a charismatic group of friends and their captivating teacher, Hannah Schneider. But when the drowning of one of Hannah's friends and the shocking death of Hannah herself lead to a confluence of mysteries, Blue is left to make sense of it all with only her gimlet-eyed instincts and cultural references to guide--or misguide--her.--From publisher description."@en
  • "In a plot modeled after the syllabus of a college literature course, teen narrator Blue Van Meer and her father Gareth end ten years of wandering by settling in Stockton, N.C. There, Blue befriends, sort of, a group of eccentric geniuses (referred to by their classmates as the Bluebloods) and their ringleader, film studies teacher Hannah Schneider. As Blue becomes enmeshed with Hannah and the Bluebloods, the novel becomes a murder mystery when a friend of Hannah's dies at a party the kids have crashed."
  • "In a plot modeled after the syllabus of a college literature course, teen narrator Blue Van Meer and her father Gareth end ten years of wandering by settling in Stockton, N.C. There, Blue befriends, sort of, a group of eccentric geniuses (referred to by their classmates as the Bluebloods) and their ringleader, film studies teacher Hannah Schneider. As Blue becomes enmeshed with Hannah and the Bluebloods, the novel becomes a murder mystery when a friend of Hannah's dies at a party the kids have crashed."@en
  • "A darkly funny 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 cinéaste to boot. In her final year of high school at the élite (and unusual) St. Gallway School in Stockton, North Carolina, Blue falls in with a charismatic group of friends and their captivating teacher, Hannah Schneider. But when the drowning of one of Hannah's friends and the shocking death of Hannah herself lead to a confluence of mysteries, Blue is left to make sense of it all with only her gimlet-eyed instincts and cultural references to guide--or misguide--her.--Résumé de l'éditeur."
  • "Special Topics in Calamity Physics is a mesmerizing debut. As teenager Blue van Meer tells her story we are hurled into a dizzying world of murder and butterflies, womanizing and wandering, American McCulture, The Western Canon, political radicalism and juvenile crushisms. Structured around a syllabus for a Great Works of Literature class (with hand-drawn Visual Aids), Blue's wickedly funny yet poignant tale reveals how the imagination finds meaning in the most bewildering times, the ways people of all ages strive for connection, and how the darkest of secrets can set us free."

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  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "Suspense fiction"@en
  • "Detective and mystery stories"
  • "Detective and mystery stories"@en
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Bestseller 2007 (Deutsch)"
  • "Americké romány"
  • "American fiction"
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"

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  • "Wybrane zagadnienia z fizyki"
  • "Vybrané okruhy z mechaniky pohrom"
  • "Wybrane zagadnienia z fizyki katastrof"@pl
  • "Wybrane zagadnienia z fizyki katastrof"
  • "Die alltägliche Physik des Unglücks : Roman"
  • "Teoria e pratica di ogni cosa"
  • "Teoria e pratica di ogni cosa"@it
  • "Fördjupade studier i katastroffysik"@sv
  • "Special topics in calamity physics : a novel"@en
  • "災难物理学奇事"
  • "Særlige emner inden for ulykkesteori : roman"@da
  • "La physique des catastrophes"
  • "Special topics in calamity physics"@en
  • "Special topics in calamity physics"
  • "Zai nan wu li xue qi shi"
  • "Calamiteitenleer voor gevorderden"
  • "Die alltägliche Physik des Unglücks Roman"
  • "La physique des catastrophes : roman"

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