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When a scientist discovers a possible way to tap an unlimited energy source using machines that cause massive earthquakes, Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and their NUMA teammates race against time to locate the scientist's machines and to prevent catastrophic disasters.
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"Set in 1960s California, this blockbuster debut is the hilarious, idiosyncratic and uplifting story of a female scientist whose career is constantly derailed by the idea that a woman's place is in the home, only to find herself starring as the host of America's most beloved TV cooking show. Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it's the...
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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. Who was the woman? Where did the baby come from? 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...
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Doubleday
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English
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"Set in 1960s California, this blockbuster debut is the hilarious, idiosyncratic and uplifting story of a female scientist whose career is constantly derailed by the idea that a woman's place is in the home, only to find herself starring as the host of America's most beloved TV cooking show. Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it's the...
7) Red flags
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Locard Institute thriller volume 1
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Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
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English
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D.C. crime scene analyst Dr. Ellie Barr and pathologist Dr. Rachael Davies, former adversaries-turned-allies, must work together to find a missing baby, the child of a Washington power couple, in a kidnapping linked to a lobbying effort to loosen regulations on a billion-dollar gaming empire.
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Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
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First edition.
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IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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English
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Cece, a budding and inquisitive scientist, and her equally curious best friend Isaac conduct experiments to see whether Luna's dog Einstein will eat his vegetables.
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Lincoln Rhyme volume 15
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English
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"A woman awakes in the morning to find that someone has picked her apartment's supposedly impregnable door lock and rearranged personal items, even sitting beside her while she slept. The intrusion, the police learn, is a message to the entire city of carnage to come. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are brought in to investigate and soon learn that the sociopathic intruder, who calls himself "the Locksmith," can break through any lock or security system...
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Rizzoli and Isles volume 13
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
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First edition.
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English
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"Rizzoli & Isles is back! From New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen, the most harrowing installment has Jane and Maura investigating a brutal murder with dire implications, and this time, with Jane's intrepid mother, Angela, looking into a mystery of her own. "Suspense doesn't get any smarter than this." -LEE CHILD, on the Rizzoli & Isles series Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles are newly plagued by...
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Investigating a serial killer who is leaving his victims gruesomely displayed in mausoleums and underground tombs, FBI Special Agent Craig Frasier and forensic psychologist Kieran Finnegan become increasingly desperate to track down the murderer, who may be targeting Kieran.
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Scarpetta volume 25
Pub. Date
[2021]
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First edition.
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398 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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"Scarpetta is back! In this twenty-fifth in the electrifying, landmark #1 bestselling thriller series chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta hunts an ingenious killer who has mastered cutting-edge science for the most nefarious ends"--
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An Elena Standish novel volume 4
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
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First U.S. edition.
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English
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"A lethal new weapon endangers all of Europe-unless Elena Standish can rescue an ingenious scientist from Hitler's clutches-in this action-packed mystery by bestselling author Anne Perry. It is summer 1934, and Hitler is teetering on the edge of supreme power. Any small step forward could vault him toward European domination. When Britain's MI6 gets word that a pair of German scientists have made a breakthrough in germ warfare, they send Elena Standish...
14) Undetected
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English
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"Researcher Gina Gray is on the verge of a breakthrough in sonar technology, and what she's told Navy Commander Mark Bishop is only the beginning.."--
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National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2016]
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IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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48 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
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English
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Profiles the life and work of a devout Muslim who was the first to hypothesize that vision occurs when light beams travel through the lens of a human eye.
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Ruth Galloway mystery volume 14
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Mariner Books edition.
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375 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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Pandemic lockdowns have Ruth Galloway feeling isolated from everyone but a new neighbor--until Nelson comes calling, investigating a decades-long string of murder-suicides that's looming ever closer. Three years after her late mother's death, Ruth is finally sorting through her things when she finds a curious relic: a decades-old photograph of Jean's Norfolk cottage with a peculiar inscription. Ruth returns to the cottage to uncover its meaning as...
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Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
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IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 2
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1 online resource.
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English
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"Go behind the scenes and discover how scientists at three US zoos are helping wild and captive orangutans, black-footed ferrets, and black rhinoceroses."--
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
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IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 2
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75 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 x 29 cm.
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English
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"What if tornadoes could be stopped or slowed down? In this addition to the critically-acclaimed Scientist in the Field series, scientist Robin Tanamachi and her team are trying to come up with a way to predict tornadoes with even greater accuracy, and save countless lives across America's heartland."--
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Rosen Pub. Group's PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
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IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
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32 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 24 cm.
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English
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Introduces Leonardo da Vinci, one of the best-known artists and thinkers of the Renaissance, who was one of the first artists in Italy to experiment with oil paint and whose sketches include designs for a robot, a bicycle, and a helicopter.