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Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Company, a division of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
255 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm, unfolded to 24 x 53 cm
Language
English
Description
"For decades, Kip Thorne has been consumed by a desire to better understand our universe's "Warped Side." Using an untold number of computer simulations and mathematical equations, and with a thousand-person fleet of scientists and engineers, Thorne has relentlessly pursued his quest, inventing and constructing, in the process, LIGO, the world's largest gravitational wave observatory, to mediate our first encounters with the Warped Side. Thirteen...
42) Beautyland
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A tender, deeply wise novel of a young woman who doesn't feel at home on this earth, by the author of Parakeet"--
"At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space carrying its famous golden record, a baby of unusual perception is born to a single mother in Philadelphia. Adina Giorno is tiny and jaundiced, but reaches for warmth and light. As a child, she recognizes that she is different; she also possesses knowledge of a faraway planet. The...
Author
Series
Silvers saga (Daniel Price) volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The second book in the genre-bending Silvers series--an io9 "can't miss" sci-fi pick--about six extraordinary people whose fates become intertwined on an Earth far different from our own. The end of the world was just the beginning for Hannah and Amanda Given. Saved from apocalypse by three mysterious beings, the sisters were marked with a silver bracelet and transported to an entirely different Earth--a place where restaurants move through the air...
44) The keeper's six
Author
Publisher
Tordotcom, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
196 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Kate Elliott's action-packed The Keeper's Six features a world-hopping, bad-ass, spell-slinging mother who sets out to rescue her kidnapped son from a dragon lord with everything to lose. There are terrors that dwell in the space between worlds. It's been a year since Esther set foot in the Beyond, the alien landscape stretching between worlds, crossing boundaries of space and time. She and her magical travelling party--her Hex--haven't spoken since...
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 759 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's been nearly 30 years since Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished. Now, a new team, led by physicist Ben Song, has been assembled to restart the project in hope of understanding the mysteries behind the machine and the man who created it. Everything changes, however, when Ben makes an unauthorized leap into the past, leaving the team behind to solve the mystery of why he did it. At Ben's side throughout his leaps...
47) Firebird
Author
Series
Alex Benedict novels volume 6
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Ace mass-market edition.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"Forty-one years ago, the renowned physicist Dr. Christopher Robin vanished. Before his disappearance, his fringe science theories about the existence of endless alternate universes had earned him both admirers and enemies. Now his widow has died and Alex Benedict has been asked to handle the auction of the physicist's artifacts--leading the public to once again speculate on the mystery surrounding Robin's disappearance. Did he finally find the door...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Three Years with the Rat is a mind-warping thriller that will make you question reality as you conceive of it. One of the most assured and haunting debuts I've read in recent memory." --Blake Crouch, author of Dark Matter After several years of drifting between school and go-nowhere jobs, a young man is drawn back into the big city of his youth. The magnet is his beloved older sister, Grace: always smart and charismatic even when she was rebelling,...
49) Summer's edge
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When five estranged friends return to a summer lake house on the anniversary of their friend's death, unexplainable events begin happening, old betrayals rise to the surface, and the group suspects a killer among them is intent on revenge.
50) Defekt
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Derek is LitenVärld's most loyal employee. He lives and breathes the job, from the moment he wakes up in a converted shipping container at the edge of the parking lot to the second he clocks out of work 18 hours later. But after taking his first ever sick day, his manager calls that loyalty into question. To test his commitment to the job, Derek is assigned to a special inventory shift, hunting through the store to find defective products. Toy chests...
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
165 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When he goes to spend the summer with his great-aunt in the family's old house, eleven-year-old Drew is drawn eighty years into the past to trade places with his great-great-uncle who is dying of diptheria.
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
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteeen-year-old Sunni, her stepbrother Dean, and an art-student friend trace the footsteps of a labyrinth built in Blackhope Tower by a mysterious and brilliant sixteenth-century artist, and suddenly find themselves trapped inside his enchanted painting, trying desperately to get out.
54) Phoenix flame
Author
Series
Havenfall volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
246 pages, 16 unnumbered pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Maddie must embark on a dangerous mission to put an end to the black-market trading of magical objects and open the Inn's doors to Solaria, the once feared land of shapeshifters."--
Maddie saved the Inn at Havenfall-- a sanctuary between magical worlds-- from the evil Silver Prince. Her uncle the Innkeeper is recovering from a mysterious spell that left him not quite human. And there are still a few weeks of summer left to spend with her more-than-friend...
55) Revealed
Author
Series
The missing volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
After returning the missing children from history to their original time periods, thirteen-year-old Jonah must save time itself when aviator Charles Lindbergh mysteriously appears and kidnaps Jonah's sister.
Series
Time quintet volume 1
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
245 p. : geneal. table, port. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Meg Murry, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O'Keefe become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government. Includes "An appreciation" by Anna Quindlen and an interview with the author.
58) Redeemed
Author
Series
The missing volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jonah was able to save all of time from collapsing but in doing so gained a twin brother, Jordan, who must learn what has happened and do his own part to save time--and his parents.
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
233 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the lives of Bobby Pendragon's fellow Travelers, including Vo Spader, Gunny Van Dyke, and Kasha, before they joined him in his quest traveling through time and space helping others from alternative dimensions.
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
213 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Gunny Van Dyke races to find a murderer in 1930s Manhattan on First Earth; and Kasha faces challenges on Eelong before Bobby Pendragon arrives.
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