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Glen and Stan, the Odd Couple of scamdom, are back from their Big Get-Even adventure with another get-rich-quick-or-go-down-in-flames scheme.
As part of their trafficking in counterfeit merch, they are looking to turn a few pallets of Grade Z computer chips into some military hardware sure to interest dictators and despots and drug lords around the globe. Bankrolled by a greedy local crime boss, they hope to promote a half-genius, half-addlepated...
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
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2 videodiscs (446 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Everything you thought you knew about the small town of Eureka is about to change. Sheriff Carter and the resident geniuses are accustomed to the strange occurrences that make their town unlike any other. But when five of them are shunted back in time to Eureka's Founder's Day, their return trip delivers them to a present-day Eureka that's anything but familiar.
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Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm
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"Meet Beulah Louise Henry, a girl with a knack for problem-solving who grew up to be a world-famous inventor, in this captivating picture book biography. When Beulah Louise Henry spotted a problem, she fixated on it until, AHA! She had a hunch. That's what Beulah called the inventions she came up with to solve the problems she saw all around her. Beulah's brain worked differently. She had hyperphantasia, which meant she saw things in extreme detail...
45) Robots
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
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1 DVD videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Un joven inventor se embarca en un viaje para intentar una posici?n en una empresa dirigida por su ?dolo, maestro inventor Gran Soldador; en el camino se encuentra con nuevos y viejos amigos del robot que le ayuden a luchar por mantener su posici?n en la empresa.
A young inventor embarks on a journey to attempt a position in a company run by his idol, master inventor Bigweld; along the way he encounters new and old robot friends who help him battle...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
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304 pages ; cm
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"Joy?s rise from single mother of three to the nation?s most celebrated female inventor is truly what dreams are made of. Full of twists and turns, work and love, obstacles encountered and overcome, Inventing Joy is a binge-worthy book in every aspect. Dive in and be swept along for the ride as she relives her incredible and inspiring journey to joy. Throughout her inspirational rags-to-riches story, Joy points out her very own personal light-bulb...
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Templeton twins volume 2
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
c2013
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262 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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Professor Templeton has been hired by the Thespian Academy of the Performing Arts and Sciences to invent something, anything, important (and profitable) but the thirteen-year-old twins, Abigail and John, are suspicious and determined to investigate.
48) Wonka
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Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
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293 pages ; 22 cm
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This enthralling combination of magic and music, mayhem and emotion, introduces readers to a young Willy Wonka who is determined to change the world one delectable bite at a time and prove that the best things in life begin with a dream.
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Doctor Proctor's fart powder volume 4
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Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2013.
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314 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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"When a Russian billionaire robs the Norwegian Gold Reserve and melts the last remaining gold bar into the Premier Soccer League trophy, it's up to Doctor Proctor, Nilly and Lisa to recapture it"--
50) Robots go wild!
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House of robots volume 2
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"Fifth grader Sammy Hayes-Rodriguez has to find a solution when his robot 'brother' has repeated malfunctions at school and a newer model robot steps in as competition--and his mother's job is in jeopardy as a result"--
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Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
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118 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
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"Flying cars are real! This book for young readers combines history, biography, technology, and humor in a breezy survey of hybrid vehicles and the dream of flight that kept inventors at work despite many failures and the dictates of common sense"--
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Benjamin Franklin is perhaps the most remarkable figure in American history: the greatest statesman of his age, he played a pivotal role in the formation of the American republic. He was also a pioneering scientist, a best-selling author, the country's first postmaster general, a printer, a bon vivant, a diplomat, a ladies' man, and a moralist, and the most prominent celebrity of the 18th century. Franklin was, however, a man of vast contradictions,...
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Inventor Flint Lockwood thought he saved the world when he destroyed his machine that turned water into food causing cheeseburger rain and spaghetti tornadoes. But Flint soon learns that his invention survived and is now creating food-animals. Flint and his friends embark on a dangerously delicious mission to battle hungry tacodiles, shrimpanzees, hippotatomuses, cheespiders and other foodimals to save the world again!
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Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018.
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372 pages ; 22 cm.
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In 1883 New York, while trying to introduce her mother's flying machine to the men-only Inventors' Guild, twelve-year-old Molly uncovers a plot to destroy the World's Fair.
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Aladdin
Pub. Date
c2012
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458 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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New adventures await Doctor Proctor, Lisa, and Nilly as they try to protect Oslo, Norway, from invading aliens, enormous snakes in the sewers, seven-legged Peruvian sucking spiders, and sinister waffle irons.
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Mattie Knight loved to make things ranging from a foot warmer for her mother or toys for her older brothers. Or, when she was 12, a metal guard to prevent shuttles from shooting off looms and hurting workers. Later, Mattie invented a machine that could cut and glue the square-bottomed paper bags we still use today. Meet the woman known as "the Lady Edison."
57) The Long Mars
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Long Earth volume 3
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"2040-2045: In the years after the cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption there is massive economic dislocation as populations flee Datum Earth to myriad Long Earth worlds. Sally, Joshua, and Lobsang are all involved in this perilous rescue work when, out of the blue, Sally is contacted by her long-vanished father and inventor of the original Stepper device, Willis Linsay. He tells her he is planning a fantastic voyage across the Long Mars and wants her...
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Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
2010
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207 p. ; 19 cm.
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Unable to convince her family and desirable fiancé that she is going blind, early nineteenth-century Italian contessa Carolina Fantoni turns to her dreams and an eccentric local inventor when she loses her sight, inspiring the inventor's development of the first typewriter.
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Frank Einstein volume 3
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"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 in the quest to unlock the power behind the science of the human body"--
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