Atkins, Jeannine
Summary: A biographical novel in verse about Lise Meitner, an Austrian Jew and physics professor in Nazi Germany who escaped to Sweden and whose work led to the discovery of nuclear fission. Includes author's note and timeline.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MEIHazelwood, Ali
Summary: Rival physicists collide in a vortex of academic feuds and fake dating shenanigans in this delightfully STEMinist romcom from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis and Love on the Brain. The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. By day, shes an adjunct professor, toiling away at grading labs and teaching thermodynamics in the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HAZKanon, Joseph
Summary: Berlin. 1963. The height of the Cold War. An early morning spy swap, not at the familiar setting for such exchanges, or at Checkpoint Charlie, where international visitors cross into the East, but at a more discreet border crossing, usually reserved for East German VIPs. The Communists are trading two American students caught helping people to escape over the wall and an aging MI6 operative. On...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KANSummary: Regarding the opposite sex, they're on a steep learning curve. In every other sense, they're geniuses. Join physicists Leonard Hofstadter (Johnny Galecki) and Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons) as they ponder black holes, chemical deviations, girls, and other mysteries of the universe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BIGHazelwood, Ali
Summary: "The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. By day, she's an adjunct professor, toiling away at grading labs and teaching thermodynamics in the hopes of landing tenure. By other day, Elsie makes up for her non-existent paycheck by offering her services as a fake girlfriend, tapping into her expertly honed people-pleasing skills to embody whichever...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAZCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HAZPalmer, Dexter Clarence
Summary: The compelling story of a couple living in the wake of a personal tragedy. She is a star employee of an online dating company, while he is a physicist, performing experiments that, if ever successful, may have unintended consequences, altering the nature of their lives and perhaps of reality itself. Rebecca Wright has gotten her life back, finding her way out of grief and depression following a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALSummary: He's baaack! Sheldon is retrieved from his soul-searching cross-country train trip (older but no wiser) and that means the gang's all here to spread another year's cheer as TV's most attended laugh seminar. Enroll in this comic curriculum to explore Leonard's minor surgery becoming a major catastrophe from his roommate, Howard's obsession over his mom's relationship with...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BIGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Big 2015Summary: Despite their on-again, off-again relationship in the past, Leonard and Penny have finally gotten married. Even Sheldon has found a female companion, entering into a 'relationship agreement' with neurobiologist Amy Farrah Fowler, and he recently took their relationship to the next level by marrying her after a long courtship. Will their equation for marital bliss alter the chemistry between...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BIGSummary: Prepare to enter phase nine of television's perpetual laughter experiment as the show successfully fuses the elements of science and sitcom. Our two genius roommates, Leonard and Sheldon, and their friends are back once again (smarter, but no wiser). Last season, Sheldon went soul-searching (on a train, of course) and was prepared to make some substantial revisions on his Relationship Agreement...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BIGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Big 2016Summary: Physicists Leonard and Sheldon understand everything from the inescapable gravitational pull of a black hole to the intricate structure of the atom. But take those atoms and assemble them into a woman, and their comprehension comes to a grinding halt. This season, Leonard gets a girl. So does Sheldon. (Sheldon?!), Howard drives the Mars Rover into a ditch, Raj woos a terminator, gorgeous...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series BigSummary: This season the Big Bang gang's romantic universe expands. On the rebound from Penny, Leonard falls into the arms of Raj's sister Priya. Sheldon gets a girlfriend, or rather a friend who is a girl: Amy, a dour neurobiologist who declares herself besties with Penny. Howard and Bernadette heat up. And so do Raj and Bernadette (at least in Raj's Bollywood daydream). All in the furtherance of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BIGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Big 2011Summary: The Leonard and Penny went from next-door neighbors to next-door newlyweds with a nuptial excursion to Vegas. This season, they find themselves in a repeating paradigm as they re-create their wedding, this time with family including Penny's mother and brother and Leonard's parents. Meanwhile, the Relationship Agreement between Sheldon and Amy added an entirely new subsection with their annual...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017