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Series
Dirk Pitt adventure volume 25
Language
English
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"Clive Cussler, "The Grand Master of Adventure," sends his intrepid heroes Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino on their wildest, boldest mission into the ancient world, unlocking extraordinary secrets and solving hideous crimes. Another fabulous read from the most beloved series from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. The murders of a team of United Nations scientists in El Salvador. A deadly collision in the waterways off the city of Detroit. An attack...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Formats
Description
NUMA director Dirk Pitt searches for the connections among newly discovered Roman artifacts, the rise of a fundamentalist movement, and the existence of a mysterious long-lost "manifest," which, if discovered again, may change the history of the world.
4) Steve Jobs
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 40
Language
English
Description
Draws on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs, as well as interviews with family members, friends, competitors, and colleagues to offer a look at the co-founder and leading creative force behind the Apple computer company.
5) Elon Musk
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Language
English
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When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh. He was in the hospital for a week. 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...
Author
Series
The Questioneers volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Rosie is unable to invent a contraption to help one of Aunt Rosie's Raucous Riveters friends, she calls on classmates Iggy Peck and Ada Twist to help.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This engaging picture book biography explores how Jerry Lawson, a Black engineer, revolutionized the video game industry. Before Xbox and Playstation and Nintendo Switch, there was a tinkerer named Jerry Lawson. As a boy, Jerry loved playing with springs, sprockets, and gadgety things. When he grew up, Jerry became an engineer-a professional tinkerer! In the 1970s, Jerry decided to tinker with video games. Back then, if players wanted a new video...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The hidden history of one of the world's greatest inventors, a man who disrupted the status quo and then disappeared into thin air on the eve of World War I--this book answers the hundred-year-old mystery of what really became of Rudolf Diesel"--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From the best-selling author of Fatherland and Munich comes a WWII thriller about a German rocket engineer, a former actress turned British spy, and the Nazi rocket program. It's November 1944--Willi Graf, a German rocket engineer, is launching Nazi Germany's V2 rockets at London from Occupied Holland. Kay Connolly, once an actress, now a young English Intelligence officer, ships out for Belgium to locate the launch sites and neutralize the threat....
16) Ferrari
Language
English
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During the summer of 1957, bankruptcy looms over the company that Enzo Ferrari and his wife built 10 years earlier. He decides to roll the dice and wager it all on the iconic Mille Miglia, a treacherous 1,000-mile race across Italy.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Nikola Tesla arrived in the United States in 1884, he didn't have much money, but he did have a letter of introduction to renowned inventor Thomas Edison. The working relationship between the two men was short lived, though, and the two scientist-inventors became harsh competitors. One of the most influential scientists of all time, Nikola Tesla is celebrated for his experiments in electricity, X-rays, remote controls, and wireless communications....
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
105 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Steve Jobs, adopted in infancy by a family in San Francisco, packed a lot of life into fifty-six short years. In this Who Was'? biography, children will learn how his obsession with computers and technology at an early age led him to co-found and run Apple, in addition to turning Pixar into a ground-breaking animation studio. A college dropout, Jobs took unconventional steps in his path to success and inspired the best and the brightest to come with...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 269 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1649, Jan Brunt arrives in Great Britain from the Netherlands to work on draining and developing an expanse of wetlands known as the Great Level. Here he meets Eliza, a local woman whose love overturns his ordered vision. Determined to help her thrive beyond her situation, Jan is heedless of her devotion to her home and way of life. When she uses the education Jan has given her to sabotage his work, Eliza is brutally punished, and Jan flees to...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
505 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the pivotal achievements of the elite female science recruits at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where in the mid-twentieth century they transformed rocket design and enabled the creation of the first American satellites.