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Cohn was born in Silver Spring, Maryland, grew up near District of Columbia, and attended Barnard College in Manhattan at the age of 17.
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Beta
( Elysia is created in a laboratory, born as a sixteen-ye...)
Elysia is created in a laboratory, born as a sixteen-year-old girl, an empty vessel with no life experience to draw from. She is a Beta, an experimental model of a teenage clone. She was replicated from another teenage girl, who had to die in order for Elysia to exist. Elysia's purpose is to serve the inhabitants of Demesne, an island paradise for the wealthiest people on earth. Everything about Demesne is bioengineered for perfection. Even the air induces a strange, euphoric high, which only the island's workers-soulless clones like Elysia-are immune to. At first, Elysia's life is idyllic and pampered. But she soon sees that Demesne's human residents, who should want for nothing, yearn. But for what, exactly? She also comes to realize that beneath the island's flawless exterior, there is an undercurrent of discontent among Demesne's worker clones. She knows she is soulless and cannot feel and should not care-so why are overpowering sensations clouding Elysia's mind? If anyone discovers that Elysia isn't the unfeeling clone she must pretend to be, she will suffer a fate too terrible to imagine. When her one chance at happiness is ripped away with breathtaking cruelty, emotions she's always had but never understood are unleashed. As rage, terror, and desire threaten to overwhelm her, Elysia must find the will to survive. The first in a dazzlingly original science fiction series from best-selling author Rachel Cohn, Beta is a haunting, unforgettable story of courage and love in a corrupted world.
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Pop Princess by Rachel Cohn (2015-11-03)
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Gingerbread
(In this “funny and irreverent” (School Library Journal, s...)
In this “funny and irreverent” (School Library Journal, starred review) debut novel, Rachel Cohn, coauthor of Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, tells the story of a spirited, rebellious, and teen in New York City for the first time. After getting tossed from her posh boarding school, wild, willful, and coffee addicted Cyd Charisse returns to San Francisco to live with her parents. But there’s no way Cyd can survive in her parents’ pristine house. Lucky for Cyd she’s got Gingerbread, her childhood rag doll and confidante, and her new surfer boyfriend. When Cyd’s rebelliousness gets out of hand, her parents ship her off to New York City to spend the summer with “Frank real-dad,” her biological father. Trading in her parents for New York City grunge and getting to know her bio-dad and step-sibs is what Cyd has been waiting for her whole life. But summer in the city is not what Cyd expects—and she’s far from the daughter or sister that anyone could have imagined.
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Rachel Cohn
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She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in political science, thinking she wanted to be a journalist.
Career
Her first book, Gingerbread, was published in 2002. Instead of becoming a journalist, Cohn moved to San Francisco - where Gingerbread was set - to work at a law firm and began writing. After moving back to New York City, Gingerbread was published followed by a number of other books, often about a strong, witty female protagonist.
Rachel Cohn is now a full-time author living in New York City with her two cats, named Bunk and Mcnulty.
Nick & Norah"s Infinite Playlist was made into a 2008 film of the same name, directed by Peter Sollett and starred Michael Cera and Kat Dennings as Nick and Norah. Rachel and David can be seen in the background in the scene at Veselka restaurant.
Rachel had the idea for Nick & Norah while walking around Central Park, and contacted David because she needed "a guy writer" About the book being made into a film, Cohn has said: "Just having a movie made of the book was unbelievable in itself. Then to see the cameras in New York City in all those streets we"d written about, it makes you feel very powerful."
Publishers Weekly announced a four-book deal between Disney-Hyperion and Rachel Cohn.
The first book, "Beta" was released in late 2012.
The focus of the series will be more plot-driven than her previous books, as it is sci-fi/fantasy based. ISFDB catalogs it as "young-adult sf".
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Gingerbread
(In this “funny and irreverent” (School Library Journal, s...)
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Beta
( Elysia is created in a laboratory, born as a sixteen-ye...)
- Pop Princess by Rachel Cohn (2015-11-03)
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Gingerbread
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