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Miller, Pat Zietlow

Summary: Stella Wells, fledgling scientist, has a new baby brother, Drake, and she is seriously considering the possibility that he is a duck--but further research is required to test that hypothesis.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MIL

Cook, Robin

Summary: Chairing a subcommittee aimed at banning new cloning technology, Senator Ashley Butler clashes with scientist Daniel Lowell, until Butler develops Parkinson's disease and joins with Lowell to prematurely harness the new technology.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COO

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COO

Summary: An alien crashes deep into the oilfields of New Mexico with a mission: he must find the brilliant scientist Justin Falls, the one woman on earth who can help save his species. An unlikely duo, together they discover that in order to save his world, they must first save ours. An inspired continuation of the novel by Walter Tevis and the iconic 1976 film starring David Bowie. This three-disc...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MAN

Dean, Justin

Summary: After moving to a new town, fifth-grader Marty worries about fitting in and must go up against a scientist out for revenge when he discovers a robotic dog in his new house.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DEA

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DEA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC DEA

Clement, Blaize.

Summary: Working for a new client, a pain-wracked scientist who is either insane or a genius, Floridian pet-sitter Dixie Hemingway discovers the dead body of a gate-keeper at her client's mansion; she makes the mistake of leaving the scene of the crime without saying anything to anyone.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M CLE

Preston, Douglas J.

Summary: A moon rock missing for thirty years ... Five buckets of blood-soaked sand found in a New Mexico canyon ... A scientist with ambition enough to kill ... A monk who will redeem the world ... A dark agency with a deadly mission ... The greatest scientific discovery of all time ... What fire bolt from the galactic dark shattered the Earth eons ago, and now hides in that remote cleft in the...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Sound Library/BBC Audiobooks America 2005

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Hannah, Kristin.

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: For research scientist Tess Gregory, a new life begins at her death. In the post-Civil War South, she becomes Amaryllis Rafferty and is propelled into a pioneer world, where she dares to love a man who doesn't dare to love at all.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine 1993

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HAN

Lacey, Catherine

Summary: "In a small unnamed town in the American South, a church congregation arrives to a service and finds a figure asleep on a pew. The person is genderless, racially ambiguous, and refuses to speak. One family takes the strange visitor in and nicknames them Pew. As the town spends the week preparing for a mysterious Forgiveness Festival, Pew is shuttled from one household to the next. The earnest...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAC

Benton, Jim.

Summary: Frannie tries to prevent chaos when her new lab assistant, Igor, a dog of many breeds, accidentally lets loose a giant, fifty-foot, arrow-shooting cupid. Franny's mom says every mad scientist needs a lab assistant. So for Valentine's Day Franny gets just that -- a Lab assistant. Except Igor isn't a pure Lab. He's also part poodle, part Chihuahua, part beagle, part spaniel, part shepherd -- and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Paperbacks 2004

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED Benton

Stine, R. L

Summary: When their scientist father moves them to a new home next to a swamp, Kelli and Shawn hear stories about a terrifying, ancient beast that inhabits the muck and the pair try to convince their father to move them out before it strikes.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC STI

Kirby, Matthew J.

Summary: The Earth is in the grip of a new Ice Age, and when twelve-year-old Eleanor's scientist mother disappears in the Arctic, Eleanor sets off on a dangerous journey to find her--and uncovers a mystery, a crime, and evidence that Earth has been visited by extraterrestrials.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KIR

Summary: Thirteen-year-old Meg Murry, her little brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin are guided by unearthly strangers as they go on a journey through space and time to search for Meg's and Charles' scientist father who disappeared while experimenting with a new form of space travel.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2004

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WRI RATED PG

Smith, Roland

Summary: After the mysterious disappearance of their parents, Marty and Grace go to live with their scientist uncle and accompany him on, what soon becomes, an increasingly dangerous expedition to New Zealand to track a giant squid.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SMI

Smith, Zadie.

Summary: Describes the lives of four northwest Londoners trying to make adult lives outside of Caldwell, the council estate of their childhood.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2012

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMI

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Smith 2012

Davis, Claire

Summary: Remarrying years after the death of her first husband, scientist Nance challenges her personal demons by tracking rattlesnakes in Idaho, unaware of factors from her new husband's past that challenge her relationship with her younger sister.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2005

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAV

Harkness, Deborah E.

Summary: After traveling through time, historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return to the present to face new crises and old enemies. But the real threat to their future has yet to be revealed, and when it is, the search for Ashmole 782 and its missing pages takes on even more urgency.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAR

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAR

Payton, T. Aaron

Summary: The Constantine Affliction, a strange malady that kills some of its victims and physically transforms others into the opposite sex, has spread scandal and upheaval throughout society. Scientific marvels and disasters, such as clockwork courtesans, the alchemical fires of Whitechapel, electric carriages, and acidic monsters lurking in the Thames, have forever altered the face of the city. ...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pgw 0000

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAY

Toro, Guillermo del

Summary: A ragtag network of humans--Eph, a brilliant scientist; Vasiliy Fet, an exterminator; and Gus, a former gangbanger--are determined to disrupt and destroy the vampire new world order.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOR

2 holds on 1 copy

Summary: Inspired by the oldest public hospital in America, this unique medical drama follows the brilliant and charming Dr. Max Goodwin, the institution's newest medical director, who sets out to tear up the bureaucracy and provide exceptional care. How can he help? Not taking 'no' for an answer. Dr. Goodwin must disrupt the status quo and prove he will stop at nothing to breathe new life into this...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NEW

Fortey, Jacqueline.

Summary: Full-color illustrations and photographs introduce readers to the great scientists and their discoveries from ancient history to modern times. Includes clip-art CD-ROM and wall chart.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DK 2007

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 509.22 FOR

Clark, Aubrey.

Summary: An epic battle looms one that will not only determine Elena's own fate, but that of her entire world. Since her true love Stefan was staked through the heart, everything has changed for Elena. Stefan was hunted down by a scientist who has created a new race of genetically-engineered vampires to take over the paranormal world. Intent on eliminating all the natural vampires left on earth, Damon...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hodder Children's Books 2013

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SMI

O'Hara, Mo

Summary: This epic spin-off of Mo O'Hara's New York Times bestselling My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish series features an aspiring evil scientist, paranormal pets, and plenty of hilarious summer camp shenanigans. Welcome to Camp Mwhaaa-haa-ha-a-watha! This summer is going to be epic. Epically evil, that is.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: J CD Fiction O'Hara 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE MY

Summary: Everybody tells a story: who they were, how they lived, and most importantly, how they died. Follow a team of expert pathologists, including Dr. Nikki Alexander and Professor Leo Dalton, as they investigate suspicious deaths. In this series, the irrepressible Jack Hodgson, a talented forensic scientist, joins the team as head of a new forensics department. Jack joins Nikki as she investigates...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SIL

Follett, Ken.

Summary: On a bright September morning in 1939, two days after Britain declares war on Germany, a group of privileged but desperate people gather in Southhampton to board the largest, most luxurious airliner ever built - the Pan American Clipper - bound for New York. The passengers include a fascist English aristocrat fleeing with his family and a fortune in jewels; a German scientist escaping from the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOL

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