Kikuta, Michiyo.
Summary: Zero's not just the boy of Nina's dreams--he's also her hero. This super-cute wizard once made a promise to protect Nina from danger. But when a mysterious group of magicians steals Zero's magic, it's Nina's turn to get tough. Now Nina's all set to save Zero ... with the magical power of love!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2008
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC KIK Bk7Kikuta, Michiyo.
Summary: "The Magic Exams have arrived and changes are on the way. Nina will no longer have the cute boys, Zero and Ichi, to look after her. What's a girl to do- perhaps go out for a lollipop? But which flavor should she choose?"--Amazon website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2007
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC KIK Bk4Hall, Shyima.
Summary: Shyima Hall was born in Egypt on September 29, 1989, the seventh child of desperately poor parents. When she was eight, her parents sold her into slavery. An anonymous call from a neighbor brought about the end of Shyima's servitude-but her journey to true freedom was far from over. A volunteer at her local police department, Hall is passionate about helping to rescue others who are in bondage....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 HALL, SHYIMA HalShirato, Ichirō.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 495.68 JAPKikuta, Michiyo.
Summary: "Nina's in love-but who's the lucky boy? After all, what girl could choose between Zero and Ichî? They're both wizards, and they're both supercute! When a matchmaking witch slips Nina a love potion, will the magic spell help Nina choose her soul mate?"--Amazon website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2007
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC KIK Bk3Baldwin, Rahima
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Publisher / Publication Date: Celestial Arts 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.1 DANKaku, Michio
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 629 KAKKakutani, Michiko
Summary: "From "the most powerful book critic in the English-speaking world" (Vanity Fair) comes 100 personal, thought-provoking essays of the life-changing books she wouldn't want you to miss--beautifully illustrated throughout"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter/Publishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 028 KAKKaku, Michio.
Summary: For the first time in history, the secrets of the living brain are being revealed by a battery of high tech brain scans devised by physicists. Now what was once solely the province of science fiction has become a startling reality. Recording memories, telepathy, videotaping our dreams, mind control, avatars, and telekinesis are not only possible; they already exist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 303.48 KAKKaku, Michio.
Contents: Predicting the next 100 years -- Future of the computer : mind over matter -- Future of AI : rise of the machines -- Future of medicine : perfection and beyond -- Nanotechnology : everything from nothing? -- Future of energy : energy from the stars -- Future of space travel : to the stars -- Future of wealth : winners and losers -- Future of humanity : planetary civilization -- A day in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2011
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Summary: "Formerly the domain of fiction, moving human civilization to the stars is increasingly becoming a scientific possibility--and a necessity. Whether in the near future due to climate change and the depletion of finite resources, or in the distant future due to catastrophic cosmological events, we must face the reality that humans will one day need to leave planet Earth to survive as a species....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629 KAKKaku, Michio
Summary: "Michio Kaku, renowned theoretical physicist and author of Hyperspace and The Future of Humanity, tells the story of the greatest quest in science. When Newton discovered the laws of motion and gravity, he unified the rules of heaven and earth. From thenon, physicists have been discovering new forces and incorporating them into ever-greater theories. But the major breakthroughs of the 20th...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2021
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Summary: The author relates how she was sold by poor parents into slavery and forced to endure brutal servitude in California until a neighbor's anonymous call to the police began her journey to freedom and her subsequent efforts to fight for child slaves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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Summary: In collaboration with 300 of the world's top scientists, author Michio Kaku predicts how current science will radically shape the future. Among his predictions are: the Internet will be able to recognize faces and translate languages in real time, people will be able to control computers through tiny brain implants, clothing will be able to monitor vital signs, and space exploration will boom...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 303.48 KAKKaku, Michio.
Summary: The "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Physics of the Impossible" offers a stunning and provocative vision of the future, and explains how science will shape human destiny and everyone's daily life by the year 2100.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 KAKCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 501 KAKChiba, Michiko.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha International 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.73 JAPKakutani, Michiko
Summary: "An urgent examination of how disruptive politics, technology, and art are capsizing old assumptions in a great wave of change breaking over today's world, creating both opportunity and peril--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and author of the New York Times bestseller The Death of Truth. The twenty-first century is experiencing a watershed moment defined by chaos and uncertainty, as one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2024
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Summary: Relates the author's decision, years after her father was taken away by the KGB, to relocate to her uncle's home in America, where she pursued an education and worked as an interpreter before becoming a cultural adviser for the U.S. Army.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WAHAB, SAIMA WAHDesai, Mihir A. (Mihir Arvind)
Summary: The Harvard Business School professor draws upon literature, film, philosophy, and history to argue that, at the core of finance and financial practices, there is a place for principles, ethics, and humanity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332 DESKishimi, Ichirō
Summary: "The Courage to Be Disliked, already an enormous bestseller in Asia with more than 3.5 million copies sold, demonstrates how to unlock the power within yourself to be the person you truly want to be. Using the theories of Alfred Adler, one of the three giants of twentieth century psychology, The Courage to Be Disliked follows an illuminating conversation between a philosopher and a young man....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.744 HOSKaku, Michio.
Summary: Introduces the most cutting-edge field in physics, superstring theory, and explains how scientists have been able to join the theroy of relativity and quantum mechanics to approach a theory of the universe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.1 KAKKaku, Michio.
Summary: Imagine, if you can, the world in the year 2100. In Physics of the Future , Michio Kaku--the New York Times bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible --gives us a stunning, provocative, and exhilarating vision of the coming century based on interviews with over three hundred of the world's top scientists who are already inventing the future in their labs. The result is the most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011
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Shida, Hitomi
Summary: In the Japanese Knitting Stitch Bible knitting guru Hitomi Shida shares some of her favorite needlework patterns. Shida's strikingly original designs and variations on every imaginable classic stitch result in intricate patterns that form the basis for beautiful and unique knitted fashions. This is the perfect book for the experienced knitter who is looking for new stitches that yield...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2017