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Author
Publisher
The Collective Book Studio
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Once upon a time, a line was drawn." So begins the journey of Line, a small drawing asking some big questions. Who is he? What should he do? Where does he fit in? On a voyage of self-discovery that takes him from the east to the west, from the mountains to the sea, Line tries on many shapes and sizes, often with hilarious consequences. But can Line find his true purpose without losing hope? With a heartwarming conclusion, Once Upon a Line explores...
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"Examines the life of explorer Vasco da Gama, including his childhood in Portugal, his three expeditions to India, opening up the spice trade and expanding Portugal's empire, and his legacy in world history"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"An inspiring memoir of defying the odds from Kareem Rosser, captain of the first all-black squad to win the National Interscholastic Polo championship. "Crossing the Line will not just leave you with hope, but also ideas on how to make that hope transferable" (New York Times bestselling author Wes Moore). Born and raised in West Philadelphia, Kareem thought he and his siblings would always be stuck in "The Bottom", a community and neighborhood devastated...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
This sweeping biography is the story of early America--its ideals, its promise, its romance, and its destiny. Novelist Morgan transforms a mythic American hero--a legend in his own time--into a flesh-and-blood man, the man who was the largest spirit of his time. Hunter, explorer, settler, visionary, he was a trailblazer and a revolutionary--an American icon for more than two hundred years. Born in 1734, Boone served in the Virginia legislature, participated...
Publisher
Evangelical Lutheran Church of America
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Features four classic episodes plus two lost episodes. The Kite: Davey and friends attempt to fly a kite and run into some problems. The mechanical man: Davey loves playing with his robot but does it love him? The time machine: Davey and friends imagine living in a different time and make a wonderful discovery about God's love. On the line: Davey must prove to his friends that a person can talk to an invisible God. The polka dot tie: Davey and friends...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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Description
Even before the Beatles hit the big time, a myth was created. The Beatles legend smoothed the rough edges and filled in the fault lines, and for more than forty years this manicured version of the Beatles story has sustained as truth--until now. This biography is the product of almost a decade of research, hundreds of unprecedented interviews, and the discovery of scores of never-before-revealed documents.--From publisher description.
Author
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"With such compelling and provocative novels as Red Planet Blues, FlashForward and The WWW Trilogy, Robert J. Sawyer has proven himself to be "a writer of boundless confidence and bold scientific extrapolation" (New York Times). Now, the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author explores the thin line between good and evil that every human being is capable of crossing ... Experimental psychologist Chris Marchuk has developed a flawless technique for identifying...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Scientific methods, tools, and discoveries have shaped modern civilization and created the landscape we've built for ourselves on which to live, work, and play. Tyson shows how an infusion of science and rational thinking renders worldviews deeper and more informed than ever before-and exposes unfounded perspectives and unjustified emotions. With crystalline prose and an abundance of evidence, Starry Messenger walks us through the scientific palette...
11) On the line
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Mateo Castillo is a rising star chef on the Manhattan culinary scene. But just as he's about to reap the rewards of his skill and hard work by being featured on a major TV cooking competition, Mateo collapses in his restaurant's kitchen and regains consciousness in a hospital emergency room. If it weren't for a security guard finding him in time, Mateo would have bled to death. The cause of his sudden illness is as mysterious as it is worrying, and...
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Scientists have been trying to confirm the existence of gravitational waves for fifty years. Then, in September 2015, came a 'very interesting event' (as the cautious subject line in a physicist's email read) that proved to be the first detection of gravitational waves. In Gravity's Kiss, Harry Collins -- who has been watching the science of gravitational wave detection for forty-three of those fifty years and has written three previous books about...
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"From the Pythagorean theorem to DNA's double helix, from the discovery of microscopic life-forms to the theory of relativity--the big ideas of science and technology shape an era's worldview. Open this book, grasp the newest ideas from thought leaders of today, then spring off from them to move back through the past, one big idea at a time. Meet the people who gave birth to these ideas--and those who fought against them. Meet the MIT electrical engineer...
14) Done gone
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Hannah Ives is worried when her friends and long-time neighbours, Peter and Trish Young, are a surprising no-show at her Italian night. The couple seem to have vanished without a trace. Have they made a quick getaway and 'done gone'? As she struggles to make sense of the Youngs' disappearance, Hannah gets a call from Trish. But when she meets up with her heavily disguised friend, their reunion takes a devastating twist. Keen to help Trish, Hannah's...
15) The Bomb
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The Bomb explores how what started as simple scientific curiosity ultimately resulted in a weapon capable of ending civilization. The invention, says historian Richard Rhodes, Was a millennial change in human history: for the first time, we were now capable of our own destruction, as a species. The program recounts the bomb's history, as well as the successes, failures and moral dilemmas of the personalities who created it. We learn how it was developed...
16) The crossing
Author
Series
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Behind enemy lines and displaced in time! Before the Battle of Trenton, George Washington reputedly threw a coin across the river. What if that coin was a bicentennial quarter? When a squad of ROTC cadets training at Fort Dix, New Jersey, in November 2008 find themselves transported to December 1776 in the days before the Battle of Trenton, they find a Continental Army in disarray and General George Washington contemplating the potential of a bleak...
17) Downriver
Series
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Sometimes the path to redemption is paved in sin.. James, 18, has been released from juvenile detention after serving time for his involvement in the suspected drowning of a young boy in a river years earlier. Ravaged with uncertainty, dealing with an estranged family and forced to face the dead boy's mother, James is set upon a journey of self discovery, shocking revelations and danger as questions surrounding the boy s death brim to the surface....
Publisher
New Line Cinema
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
This contemporary drama is about romance between two imperfect, alcoholic, resentful ordinary people, neighbors in the suburbs, adults with enough money to support themselves in the discontent to which they have become accustomed. Terry Wolfmeyer, suburban Detroit mother of four girls, is suddenly abandoned by her husband, and sinks into depression and subsists on a steady diet of vodka tonics. Denny Davies, retired baseball player, is a flabby, lackadaisical...
19) The vanquished
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
Challenging the linear narrative by weaving multiple story lines and exploring a directorial style way ahead of his time, director Michelangelo Antonioni's unique triptych film, features three murders, one taking place in Paris, another in Rome, and another in London. All of the perpetrators are affluent youths, each killing for dubious motives. In the France segment, a group of adolescents kill for money, even though they don't need it; in the London...
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Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"P.J. Tracy "seems to have found her literary sweet spot" (New York Times Book Review) with her dazzling new series, and in Desolation Canyon, fans get a deeper look into the complex characters who call Los Angeles home. LAPD Detective Margaret Nolan is struggling to move forward after the death of her brother in Afghanistan and taking a life in the line of duty. Her stoic parents offer little support - they refuse to address anything difficult, and...
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