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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story. The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
An account of the previously unheralded but pivotal contributions of NASA's African-American women mathematicians to America's space program; describes how they were segregated from their white counterparts by Jim Crow laws in spite of their groundbreaking successes.
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (approximately 5 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
"Houston, we've had a problem here." On the evening of April 13, 1970, the three astronauts aboard Apollo 13 were just hours from the third lunar landing in history. But as they soared through space, two hundred thousand miles from earth, an explosion badly damaged their spacecraft. With compromised engines and failing life-support systems, the crew was in incomparably grave danger. Faced with below-freezing temperatures, a seriously ill crew member,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
The second Death Star is destroyed. The Galactic Empire is in chaos. And while the Rebel Alliance engages the fractured forces of the Empire, a lone Rebel scout uncovers a secret Imperial meeting. "Aftermath" will showcase the state of the galaxy right after Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. Print run 100,000.
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
A riveting history of the epic orbital flight that put America back into the space race. If the United States couldn't catch up to the Soviets in space, how could it compete with them on Earth? That was the question facing John F. Kennedy at the height of the Cold War - a perilous time when the Soviet Union built the wall in Berlin, tested nuclear bombs more destructive than any in history, and beat the United States to every major milestone in space....
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
p2017
Physical Desc
8 sound discs (10 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
You Are the Universe guides the listener into a realm in which each of us has the power to transform our personal existence, while at the same time fashioning a bold hew story about how time, space, matter, and energy came into existence.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist. What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson. But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly,...
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2017
Physical Desc
8 sound discs (ca. 9.5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rhemun, commander of the Cehn-Tahr Holconcom, has worked tirelessly to get where he is, and he's not going to let any human drag him down. Especially not Lt. Commander Edris Mallory, whose very presence aboard the Morcai serves as a too-painful reminder of a past tragedy he can neither forgive nor forget.
11) Darien's rise
Author
Series
Passages volume 1
Publisher
Focus on the Family
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
3 compact discs (ca. 3 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Anna and Kyle, two kids from Odyssey, find themselves transported to a strange new world. They are immediately caught up in a struggle between a power-mad king and his valiant young general.
14) Voyager
Author
Series
Outlander volume 3
Language
English
Description
Time-travelling Claire Randall returns to her own time, pregnant and weary, and resumes her life, but her memories of her eighteenth-century Scottish lover Jamie Fraser will not die, leading her to a desperate decision to return to him