Ford, Daniel M.
Summary: Aelis de Lenti, Lone Pine's newly assigned Warden, is in deep trouble. She has just opened the crypts of Mahlgren, releasing an army of the undead into the unprotected backwoods of Ystain. To protect her village, she must unearth a source of immense Necromantic power at the heart of Mahlgren. The journey will wind through waves of undead, untamed wilderness, and curses far older than anything...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor, Tor Publishing Group 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC FORSummary: Distinguished evolutionary biologists among the auditors of the foregoing lectures take on not only Luther Sutherland
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: All other life forms except humans exist to propagate themselves and pass on their genes; humans alone work to other ends. In this lecture, Richard Dawkins distinguishes between the result of eons of natural selection which has resulted in, say, a bird's tail, whose purpose is to enable the bird to fly-purpose with a survival value-and deliberate design, like an airplane's tail. Dawkins shows...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Since Darwin's day, explanations for the causation of evolution have come and gone, Lamarckism, mutationism, and the existence of a built-in mechanism driving to perfection all dismissed for lack of evidence and the proofs of molecular biology. Ernst Mayr examines and evaluates the modifications and adaptations to Darwin's theory of natural selection, to determine whether the resulting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Sir Andrew Huxley-grandson of Darwin's great defender, Thomas Huxley-describes Darwin's motivations, discoveries, and search for a logical theory to explain his observations of both geological and biological evidence in South America, focusing on Darwin's importance as the first to present strong, scientific evidence for descent with modification and to posit a plausible mechanism for its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Luther Sutherland presents what he considers scientific-rather than philosophical or religious-inconsistencies in Darwin's theory which provide, he says, the scientific basis for discrediting the theory of evolution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Darwin's theory of natural selection, to be valid, required explanations for both the origin of variation and for the inheritance of variants. John Maynard Smith explains Lamarck's theory of the inheritance of acquired characteristics (in which Darwin believed), Weismann's theory of separate inheritance lines of germ and soma, Mendel's experiments and explanations, and the discovery of the role...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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McDonald, Kirsten
Summary: "Carlos and Carmen love playing with Lola. Unfortunately, everybody's parents are getting tired of walking them to each other's houses. And, that means the twins and Lola have to wait. And wait. And wait. Until, the three of them come up with the perfect solution"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MCDMcDonald, Kirsten
Summary: Twins Carlos and Carmen want to make Mother's Day special, and the day is going well--until they try to make cupcakes without following the recipe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2017
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Summary: "After a three-day rainstorm, twins Carlos and Carmen go out to play in their wet and muddy backyard--and soon their parents join in the fun" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO 2015
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Summary: "The Garcias are spending the afternoon at the pool in the park. The twins are having fun in the shallow end until Carlos gets water in his eyes. Just when it seems like the fun will be over, Carmen figures out how to let everybody have a splashing good time."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2019
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Summary: Twins Carmen and Carlos meet a new neighbor after Carmen accidentally tosses a toy over the fence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2018
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Summary: "Carlos and Carmen work together to create a treasure hunt to make this year's Father's Day special for Papá." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MCDMcDonald, Kirsten
Summary: As Valentine's Day nears, Carlos and Carmen begin to make all sorts of cards, and although their parents think they have made far too many, the twins have a plan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Holidays - Springtime Holidays, Call number: JBR PURPLE MCDMcDonald, Kirsten
Summary: The twins' father offers to teach them to ride their bikes without the training wheels--and with perseverance, and despite a lot of wobbling, the two soon succeed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2017
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Summary: After discovering that a high-speed personal jetpack has been commissioned by an evil enterprise to be a thieving tool, Carmen Sandiego swoops in to retrieve it, in a book that allows readers to make choices that determine the path of the narrative.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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Summary: "Chancing an improbable stretch of sobriety, unlicensed P.I. Duck Darley has proven himself stronger than the temptations that loom in the seedy underbelly of New York City. But the familiar urge to tear it all apart lingers like garbage in July when Layla Soto, a sharp-tongued Park Avenue teenager with a family as screwed up as his own, presents a twisted missing-persons case he can't refuse....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARMcDonald, Kirsten
Summary: Tio Alex has taken the twins on a camping trip in the woods. Everything is going great until they discover their perfect campsite has been ruined by wildlife. But the twins and their uncle don't let that take any of the sparkle out of the campout.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2019
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Summary: The imaginations of twins Carlos and Carmen soar as they play with the box their new refrigerator came in, even after it seems too flat to be any more fun.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MCDMcDonald, Kirsten
Summary: The Garcia family is spending a summer weekend at the beach, having a wonderful time playing in the water, and discovering the sand dollars and other small creatures that live along the shore.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2017
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Summary: Carmen travels around the world, saving wild animals of all kinds, in a book that allows readers to make choices that determine the path of the narrative.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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Summary: Disgraced competitive swimmer and unlicensed PI Duck Darley must revisit his past when he is tasked with finding the daughter of a former roommate, an investigation that is complicated by the murder of the missing girl's ex-boyfriend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARTan, June CL
Summary: Rui has one goal in mind, honing her magic to avenge her mother's death. Yiran is the black sheep of an illustrious family. The world would be at his feet, had he been born with magic. Nikai is a Reaper, serving the Fourth King of Hell. When his master disappears, the underworld begins to crumble, and the human world will be next if the King is not found. When an accident causes Rui's power to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC TANMcDonald, Kirsten
Summary: For twins Carlos and Carmen, Uncle Alex's big green surprise turns into the best backyard camping experience ever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2016