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2) The jerk
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A rags-to-riches-to-rags story. Navin Johnson, adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family, has invented some crazy inventions that lead him from rags to riches and right back to rags.
Author
Publisher
Dragon Fruit
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
141 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
Black people beyond the token names everyone knows have been accomplishing remarkable things in every discipline: arts, sciences, politics, religion, sports, and more. Meet an entire alphabet of black inventors and scientists from the person who developed the traffic signal to the woman who helped pioneer modern computing for NASA.
Author
Series
Ben Treven thrillers volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
308 p. ; 25 cm.
Author
Publisher
Nomad Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
v, 122 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Description
"Most people have heard of Thomas Edison, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg, but how about Daniel Hale Williams, Mae Jemison, and Mary Anderson? The world owes a lot to the unsung heroes of innovation, people who used their ideas to make the world a better place through advances in health, technology, food science, and discovery! In Innovators: The Stories Behind the People Who Shaped the World, readers ages 9 to 12 learn about many inventions, products,...
8) Joy
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Formats
Description
A wild story of a family across four generations centered on the girl who becomes the woman who founds a business dynasty and becomes a matriarch in her own right. Betrayal, treachery, the loss of innocence and the scars of love, pave the road in this intense emotional and human comedy about becoming a true boss of family and enterprise facing a world of unforgiving commerce.
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
125 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
Eight fascinating tales of scientists and inventors ahead of their time. Earth revolves around the sun. Washing hands helps stop the spread of disease. Poisons in the environment affect the entire ecosystem. Today these ideas are common knowledge, but at one time they were all rejected. In this thought-provoking book, find out what happened when people weren't ready to listen to innovators who came up with revolutionary ideas. *Alfred Wegener struggled...
Author
Series
Frank Einstein volume 2
Formats
Description
"Frank Einstein (kid-genius scientist and inventor) and his best friend, Watson, along with intelligent robots Klink and Klank once again find themselves in competition with T. Edison, their classmate and archrival--this time in the quest to unlock the power behind the science of energy"--
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Join a brilliant young inventor named Lewis as he sets off on a time-traveling journey to find the family he never knew. In the world of 2037, hip-hoppin' frogs and dogs that wear glasses are as common as talking dinosaurs. In an amazing twist, Lewis discovers that the fate of the future rests in his hands, but he can't save it alone. He meets the wacky Robinson family, who help him learn to keep moving forward and never stop believing in himself....
Author
Series
Frank Einstein volume 6
Formats
Description
"Frank Einstein (kid-genius, scientist, and inventor) and his best friend, Watson, along with Klink (a self-assembled artificial-intelligence entity) and Klank (a mostly self-assembled and artificial almost intelligence entity), once again find themselves in competition with T. Edison, their classmate and archrival, this time studying the science and mysteries of the universe!"--
17) The final gambit
Author
Series
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xiii, 382 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
After returning to New York from their adventures in the South Pole, Molly, Cassandra, and Emmett are threatened by powerful enemies and go into hiding, but when they discover a plot against presidential candidate Thomas Edison, they decide to make a perilous journey to Washington D.C. to save him.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
Description
A love story to the value of variety, this picture-book biography sheds light on an unconventional path to greatness and humanizes a towering figure in American history.
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Series
Publisher
ECW
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Retired and living a perfect life with Francesca, Owen Hardy gets pulled into one last mission, with his grandson, for the Watchmaker that takes them to the frozen lands of Ultima Thule, while Marinda undertakes her own mission compiling the story of theWatchmaker and stopping a new group of anarchists.
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