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121) Network effect
Author
Series
Murderbot diaries volume 5
Pub. Date
2020.
Formats
Description
It calls itself Murderbot, but only when no one can hear. It worries about the fragile human crew who've grown to trust it, but only where no one can see. It tells itself that they're only a professional obligation, but when they'e captured and an old friend from the past requires urgent assistance, Murderbot must choose between inertia and drastic action. Drastic action it is, then.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
x, 308 pages ; 22 cm
Description
CJ Hauser expands on her viral essay sensation, "The Crane Wife," in a brilliant collection of essays that echo the work of Cheryl Strayed in their revelatory observations of romantic love. CJ Hauser uses her now-beloved title essay as an anchor around which to explore the narratives of romantic love we are taught and which we tell ourselves, and the need to often rewrite those narratives to find an accurate version of ourselves in them. Told with...
Author
Series
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
375 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
Andy and Terry live in a 78-story treehouse. (It used to be a 65-story treehouse, but they just keep building more levels!) It has a drive-thru car wash, a courtroom with a robot judge called Edward Gavelhead, a scribbletorium, a combining machine, an ALL-BALL sports stadium, a high- security potato chip storage facility, and an open-air movie theatre with a super-giant screen ... which is a very useful thing to have now that Terry's going to be a...
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
463 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
"The latest entry in Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger's Sherlock Holmes-inspired mystery series, featuring fifteen talented authors and a multitude of new cases for Arthur Conan Doyle's most acclaimed detective. Sherlock Holmes has not only captivated readers for more than a century and a quarter, he has fascinated writers as well. Almost immediately, the detective's genius, mastery, and heroism became the standard by which other creators measured...
125) WALL-E
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After hundreds of lonely years, a waste management robot finds a new purpose in life. With only a cockroach for a friend, he finds true love in another robot sent on a mission to Earth to see if it is safe for human life.
Author
Series
Scary stories for young foxes volume 2
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
386 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Cozy and her littermates are driven from their suburban den because something is killing the foxes in their area, and so they travel to a strange new world, the City, to confront a new set of dangers, where they meet 0-370, an injured fox who has escapedfrom a fur farm and who gives them a new mission--return to the farm, defeat the humans, and free the caged foxes.
127) Race cars
Author
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
"Learn all about race cars, from how they are designed and built to which exciting new kinds of cars you might see in the future"--
Author
Series
Travis Daventhorpe volume 2
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
282 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
"Travis Daventhorpe is destined to save the multiverse-at least, that's what the prophecy says. But if he's a legendary warrior in the making, shouldn't he be a little better at sword fighting? With his engineering genius, Travis could develop technologyto make himself unstoppable, but the wise sorcerer Bela says he needs to find his power within. Wherever he finds it, he better do it soon! The evil Nol Invictus, the ruler of the mystical realm Solusterra,...
129) Hippie
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Formats
Description
"Drawing on the rich experience of his own life, best-selling author Paulo Coelho takes us back in time to relive the dreams of a generation that longed for peace and dared to challenge the established social order. In Hippie, he tells the story of Paulo, a young, skinny Brazilian man with a goatee and long, flowing hair, who wants to become a writer and sets off on a journey in search of a deeper meaning for his life: first on the famous “Death...
Publisher
DK Publishing / Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
320 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 31 cm
Description
A history of the world is presented through over one hundred different visual timelines, from a chronology of the written word to an ordered listing of the American presidents. Explore an illustrated history of the world through timelines for kids. From dinosaurs and Vikings to the history of robots and espionage, discover incredible world history in this lavish collection of timelines.
131) Ice age
Formats
Description
Twenty thousand years ago, as the Earth was being overrun with glaciers, Manny, Diego, Sid and Scrat become a courageous quartet of migrating misfits braving the frozen terrain and embarking on an incredible journey. Creatures everywhere were fleeing the onslaught of the new Ice age ...
132) Klara y el sol
Author
Series
Panorama de narrativas volume 1046
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Klara es una AA, una Amiga Artificial, especializada en el cuidado de niños. Pasa sus días en una tienda, esperando a que alguien la adquiera y se la lleve a una casa, un hogar. Mientras espera, contempla el exterior desde el escaparate. Observa a los transeúntes, sus actitudes, sus gestos, su modo de caminar, y es testigo de algunos episodios que no acaba de entender, como una extraña pelea entre dos taxistas. Klara es una AA singular, es más...
Publisher
Buena Visa Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (900 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Double agent Sydney Bristow faces the greatest challenge of her life when her mother, an enemy long thought dead, turns herself in to the CIA. As family relationships change and Sydney's friends take on new roles, her life becomes even more tangled and dangerous. Sydney fights to reclaim her life and the action builds to a spectacular climax.
Author
Series
InvestiGators volume 5
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
208 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
The InvestiGators are having a hard time keeping a low profile with their new headquarters being a giant robot towering over the city! How can they be SECRET agents if everyone recognizes them? But with their ears to the ground, Mango and Brash hear mysterious rumblings about BOULDER BUDDIES...are they just the latest fad or part of a mob-run scheme? And could a rocky relationship from the InvestiGators’ past be trembling beneath the surface? Find...
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (ca. 1320 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After a ferocious hand-to-hand fight left Sydney on the floor, unconscious, she awakens to find boyfriend Vaughn waiting for her at a safe house. According to Vaughn, Sydney has been missing for over two years, and he is wearing a wedding ring. Syd must now adjust to a world that seems upside-down. Will is in the witness protection program; Irina is on the run; Jack is being held in a federal detention facility; Dixon is now director of the division;...
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