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Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Did you know that crows never forget a face? Or that jaguars have a favorite cologne? Have you ever wondered how to pet a yeti crab? Or whether dogs can tell if you're smiling? And just what is a burrowing bettong? Meet these weird, wonderful animals and the equally weird and wonderful scientists who study them. From crafting fake poop to slurping up bugs with a straw, there's nothing these amazing humans won't do to help us learn more about the...
Author
Series
Frankenstein series volume 2
Pub. Date
p2005
Description
Not even Victor Helios-- once Frankenstein-- can stop the engineered killers he's set loose on a reign of terror through modern-day New Orleans. Now the only hope rests in a one-time "monster" and his all-too-human partners, Detectives Carson O'Connor and Michael Maddison.
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
"The Monsters tells the story of the real-life characters surrounding the creation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Drawing on private diaries, personal letters, and contemporary accounts, Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler have crafted a spectacular narrative of artistic creation and personal destruction. They reveal not just the true origins of two of the most famous monsters in popular culture, but also the monstrous and tragic nature of the young people...
1225) Among the islands
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
A scientist credited with discovering more species than Darwin recounts the first major trips of his career, several expeditions to often remote Pacific islands where he found amazing animals, harsh weather, strange local taboos, and dense jungle.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
A choose-your-own-adventure book in which "a sea monster is terrorizing the ocean, and you have been chosen to stop it. You are Pierre Aronnax, a mild-mannered scientist thrust into an extraordinary situation. Your mission takes a strange twist when the sea monster turns out to be a submarine. You are taken aboard and held captive by Captain Nemo, but is he a friend or a foe? He takes you on fantastical adventures and shows you parts of the world...
Author
Series
New York Confidential volume 3
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"Wrapping up a normal day at the office, criminal psychologist Kieran Finnegan is accosted by a desperate woman who shoves an infant into her arms and then flees, only to be murdered minutes later on a busy Manhattan street ... Kieran can't stop thinking about the child and the victim, so her boyfriend, Craig Frasier, does what any good special agent boyfriend would do--he gets the FBI involved. And asks Kieran to keep out of it ... Kieran wont sit...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"When scientists discovered the first ocean beyond Earth, they had two big questions: 'Is it habitable?' and 'How do we get there?' To answer the first, they had to solve the second, and so began a vivacious team’s twenty-year odyssey to mount a mission to Europa, the ocean moon of Jupiter. Standing in their way: NASA, fanatically consumed with landing robots on Mars; the White House, which never saw a science budget it couldn’t cut; Congress,...
1230) Space heroes
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Illustrated with LEGO figures, this book profiles four women who have been integral to NASA's space program, helping to develop the Hubble Space Telescope, create computer code to send spacecraft to the moon, and work onboard the space shuttle.
Author
Series
Parasitology volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
The SymboGen designed tapeworms were created to relieve humanity of disease and sickness. But the implants in the majority of the world's population began attacking their hosts, turning them into a ravenous horde. Now those who do not appear to be afflicted are being gathered for quarantine as panic spreads, but Sal and her companions must discover how the tapeworms are taking over their hosts, what their eventual goal is, and how they can be stopped....
1232) Final lap
Author
Series
Traces volume 5
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In a futuristic London, sixteen-year-old forensic investigator Luke Harding and his robotic assistant, Malc, investigate the murder of two construction workers who were trying to complete a stadium during a very important sporting event.
1233) Dexter, the third season
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Dexter is back with a new take on taking life. He is ready to put the past behind him until a high-profile case sides him with powerful Assistant DA Miguel Prado, and the pressure might be too great for even Dexter to hack. "Our Father: Dexter has put his life back together but things may fall apart soon. His new victim is also being targeted by Assistant District Attorney Miguel Prado. Deb has to decide how to handle Internal Affairs, as they want...
1234) Frankenstein
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011], ♭2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Recounts the story of the arrogant inventor who creates a monster that is repulsed in its efforts to find companionship and bereft of all human sympathy.
1236) Welcome to Beast Island
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Karla and her little brother Benny accompany their Uncle Bill on a scientific expedition to study unidentified species on the remote island but after a little "bad luck" they soon discover something terrifying and deadly living in the river swamp... With nowhere to run, will Karla, Benny, and Uncle Bill survive the unimaginable and harrowing horrors of the place aptly nicknamed Beast Island?"--Amazon.
1237) Great white shark
Author
Series
Fabien Cousteau expeditions volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Bella, twelve, and Marcus, thirteen, join Fabien Cousteau's research team off the coasts of South Africa and Australia as they try to find and tag an extraordinarily large great white shark. Inserts include facts about sharks and other marine animals, equipment used by researchers studying sharks, and more.
1239) Fallout: a novel
Author
Series
Tom Clancy's Op-Center volume 22
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
As fears of a dangerous nuclear confrontation between China and the US escalate, China targets individual members of the Black Wasp team.
1240) Lost souls
Author
Series
Frankenstein series volume 4
Pub. Date
p2010
Description
Koontz puts a singular twist on Frankenstein, the classic tale of ambition and science gone wrong, and develops a new story of the line that separates humanity from inhumanity. Victor Leben, once Frankenstein, has not only seen the future, he's ready to populate it. Using stem cells, organic silicon circuitry, and nanotechnology, he will engender a race of superhumans. Now, it is up to five individuals to stop him and save humanity.