The unseen world / Liz Moore.
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TextPublisher: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2016]Edition: First editionDescription: 451 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780393241686 (hardcover); 0393241688 (hardcover); 9780393354416 (paperback); 0393354415 (paperback)Subject(s): Families -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Fiction | Single parents -- Fiction | Boston (Mass.) -- Fiction | Boston (Mass) -- Fiction | Families | Single parents | Massachusetts -- Boston | Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Fiction | Father-daughter relationship -- Fiction | Gifted people -- Fiction | Secrecy -- Fiction | Shyness -- Fiction | Single fathers -- Fiction | Technology -- Fiction | Boston (Mass.) -- FictionGenre/Form: Domestic fiction. | Mystery fiction. | Domestic fiction. | Detective and mystery fiction. | Fiction. | Mystery fiction. | Domestic fiction. | Detective and mystery fiction.DDC classification: 813/.6 LOC classification: PS3613.O5644 | .U57 2016Summary: "Ada Sibelius is raised by David, her brilliant, eccentric, socially inept single father, who directs a computer science lab in 1980s-era Boston. Home-schooled, Ada accompanies David to work every day; by twelve, she is a painfully shy prodigy. The lab begins to gain acclaim at the same time that David's mysterious history comes into question. When his mind begins to falter, leaving Ada virtually an orphan, she is taken in by one of David's colleagues. Soon after she embarks on a mission to uncover her father's secrets: a process that carries her from childhood to adulthood. What Ada discovers on her journey into a virtual universe will keep the reader riveted until The Unseen World's heart-stopping, fascinating conclusion"--Provided by publisher.
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"Ada Sibelius is raised by David, her brilliant, eccentric, socially inept single father, who directs a computer science lab in 1980s-era Boston. Home-schooled, Ada accompanies David to work every day; by twelve, she is a painfully shy prodigy. The lab begins to gain acclaim at the same time that David's mysterious history comes into question. When his mind begins to falter, leaving Ada virtually an orphan, she is taken in by one of David's colleagues. Soon after she embarks on a mission to uncover her father's secrets: a process that carries her from childhood to adulthood. What Ada discovers on her journey into a virtual universe will keep the reader riveted until The Unseen World's heart-stopping, fascinating conclusion"--Provided by publisher.
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