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Long Earth volume 3
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English
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The third novel in Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter's Long Earth series, which Io9 calls a brilliant science fiction collaboration.-- 2040-2045. In the years after the cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption there is massive economic dislocation as populations flee Datum Earth to myriad Long Earth worlds. Sally is contacted by her long-vanished father and inventor of the original Stepper device, Willis Linsay. He tells her he is planning a fantastic voyage...
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English
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Nikola Tesla invented the radio, robots, and remote control. His electric induction motors run our appliances and factories, yet he has been largely overlooked by history. In [this book, the author] presents a comprehensive portrait of this farsighted and underappreciated mastermind--Amazon.com.
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English
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"Fenna Vos has learned to focus on her own survival-even now, with the Second World War raging in faraway countries. She works on-stage as the assistant to an unruly escape artist-behind the curtain as the mastermind of their act. After all, her honed ability to control her surroundings and elude entrapments, physical or otherwise, reliably suppresses the trauma and tragedy of her youth. For all her calculations, however, Fenna neglects to foresee...
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Series
Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
ix, 150 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sullivan once headed Detroit's program to infuse African American history into the public school curriculum. Here he profiles 25 black American woman who have made significant contributions to science and technology, explaining that many, many more are utterly unknown because first of legal bans on granting patents to slaves and later because of social constraints on women. His message to black school girls is that just because they have not heard...
9) Edison
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
783 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
10) Scan
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Tate Archer outruns armed government officials as he tries to keep his now dead father's strange invention out of the wrong hands, alien hands--
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Desperate duchesses by the numbers volume 3
Language
English
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Witty and elusive Eugenia Snowe has all society begging for one of her premiere governesses-except the powerful Edward Reeve, who bursts into her office with his arrogant demands.
No question that Eugenia enjoys crossing wits with the brilliant inventor, but Ward wants far more than a governess. He wants Eugenia, and he'll stop at nothing to have her-including kidnapping.
Will Eugenia lose her heart in the most reckless gamble of her
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English
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Gambling everything, including the family farm, Cullen McNamara travels to the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with his most recent invention. But the noise in the Fair's Machinery Palace makes it impossible to communicate with potential buyers. In an act of desperation, he hires Della Wentworth, a teacher of the deaf, to tutor him in the art of lip-reading. The young teacher is reluctant to participate, and Cullen has trouble keeping his mind on his...
14) Elon Musk
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies ... But the physical scars were minor compared to the emotional ones inflicted by his father, an engineer, rogue, and charismatic fantasist. His father's impact on his psyche would linger. He developed into a tough yet vulnerable man-child, prone to abrupt Jekyll-and-Hyde mood swings, with an exceedingly high tolerance for risk, a craving for drama, an epic sense of mission,...
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Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
369 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a true story, describes the life of Ellen Lark, a deaf woman who became a favorite student of Alexander Graham Bell while he raced against Western Union to cast a human voice over wires.
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Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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A visionary story of three generations of artists whose search for meaning and connection transcends the limits of life. How do we relate to--and hold--our family's past? Is it through technology? Through spirit? Art, poetry, music? Or is it through the resonances we look for in ourselves? In Artificial, we meet the Kurzweils, a family of creators who are preserving their history through unusual means. At the center is renowned inventor and futurist...
18) The Brass Queen
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English
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"She knows a liar when she sees one. He knows a fraud when he meets one. In a steam-powered world, Miss Constance Haltwhistle is the last in a line of blue-blooded rogues. Selling firearms under her alias, the "Brass Queen," she has kept her baronial estate's coffers full. But when US spy J. F. Trusdale saves her from assassins, she's pulled into a search for a scientist with an invisibility serum. As royal foes create an invisible army to start a...
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 audio media player : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
This dazzling novel not only retells the moving story from The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, but half of the book expands and explores the world of the Walt Disney Studios film with brand-new, exclusive content. Complete with never-before-seen details that add new depth to the story, this novel will have listeners eager to step into the resplendent world of The Nutcracker and the Four Realms for generations to come.
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