Preston, Douglas J.
Summary: When New York City construction workers uncover the remains of thirty-six people murdered and dismembered over 130 years ago, archaeologist Nora Kelly and Special Agent Pedergast set out to investigate the killings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRELach, William
Summary: Way back in time, astonishing creatures lived on our planet. But they weren't all dinosaurs! In this book, you'll meet some of these amazing prehistoric creatures, from a very big fish with 7-inch teeth to a flying reptile. Based on specimens in the collections of the American Museum of Natural History, this book uses riddle-like rhymes and bright illustrations to reveal 16 creatures. With an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books, an imprint of Sterling Publishing 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE LACMcClatchy, Lisa.
Summary: Phillip and Nanny are taking Eloise to see the dinosaurs, but will she behave?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2016
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN MCCPhillips, Tom
Summary: After twelve-year-old John Boarhog's mom dies, the last thing he wants is to be schlepped off to the Jersey Home for Boys, where kids are forced to make skinny jeans for hipsters and are fed nothing but kale. Instead, he makes himself a snug home in the ceiling of the New York Museum of Natural History, where he reads anything he get his hands on and explores the artifacts afterhours. But when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pixel+Ink 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PHIThompson, Kay
Summary: Collects six stories featuring Eloise, a little girl who lives in the Plaza hotel in New York City.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Larry Daley is a divorced father who can't seem to keep a job for more than a week. As a last resort, Larry applies for a job as a night shift security guard at the American Museum of Natural History. However, a seemingly easy job turns out to be an adventure when he finds that an ancient curse causes the "inhabitants" of the museum to come to life at night.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NIGJonaitis, Aldona
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Museum 1991
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 704.0397 JONSelznick, Brian.
Summary: Having lost his mother and his hearing in a short time, twelve-year-old Ben leaves his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he never knew in New York City, and meets there Rose, who is also longing for something missing from her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SELKirk, Jay.
Summary: An account of the life of the famed explorer and taxidermist assesses his influence on American views about natural-world conservation, covering his dangerous pursuits of wildlife for his dioramas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 590 KIRRandall, David K.
Summary: From prehistory to present day, from remote Patagonia to the unforgiving badlands of the American West to the penthouses of Manhattan, this riveting narrative follows a fearless paleontologist who, after unearthing the first T-Rex fossils, saved NY's struggling American Museum of Natural History.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 560.92 RANPreston, Douglas J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 069.9508 PRENorell, Mark.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pi Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 567.909 NORTyson, Neil deGrasse.
Summary: A collection of essays on the cosmos, written by an American Museum of Natural History astrophysicist, includes "Holy Wars," "Ends of the World," and "Hollywood Nights."
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.8875 TYSZoehfeld, Kathleen Weidner
Summary: The story of dinosaur hunter Barnum Brown and his discovery of the first Tyrannosaurus rex for the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ZOEFeldman, Thea.
Summary: Examines the unique attributes and behaviors of a variety of snake species. Includes a brief biography of David Kizirian, a herpetologist at the American Museum of Natural History.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Fern, Tracey E.
Summary: Documents the work of an early twentieth-century paleontologist, named after the famous circus icon by his ambitious parents, who grew up to work for the American Museum of Natural History and discovered the first documented skeletons of the Tyrannosaurus Rex and other noteworthy species.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2012
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Summary: "Kids can learn how to help protect bird species, with Counting Birds - the real-life story of bird counting and watching. Frank Chapman loved birds. He created bird exhibits at the American Museum of Natural History, and started a magazine "Bird-Lore." Back then, some sports hunters had a "Christmas Day bird hunt". People shot every bird they could see and counted them at the end of the hunt....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seagrass Press 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: While we celebrate the adventurers who expanded our horizons, their discoveries often came at a price. Such was that in October, 1897, when renowned Arctic explorer Robert Peary returned to New York from his latest Greenland expedition. At an unusual request, he brought with him five polar Eskimos for study at the American Museum of Natural History where they were housed in an overheated...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006