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Anning, Mary 1799-1847 Fiction Brothers and sisters Juvenile fiction Discoveries in science History 19th century Fiction Female friendship Fiction Fossils Collection and preservation Fiction France History Third Republic, 1870-1940 Juvenile fiction Paris (France) History 1870-1940 Juvenile fiction Philpot, Elizabeth 1780-1857 Fiction Science fiction Women paleontologists England FictionChevalier, Tracy.
Summary: Growing up fascinated with the fossils she collected on the beach, Mary Anning blossomed into a skillful amateur archaeologist. When she discovers an intriguing fossilized skeleton, townspeople and religious authorities react viciously. Barred from the scientific community and in love with an unavailable man, Mary turns to Elizabeth Philpot, a London exile, for friendship. Together, they look...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FIC CHEChevalier, Tracy.
Summary: After Mary is struck by lightning, she is gifted with the ability to see hidden fossils. But when she finds a skeleton, she soon faces the trials of a male-dominated scientific society.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CHECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Chevalier 2010Chevalier, Tracy.
Summary: Marked for greatness after being struck by lightning in infancy, Mary Anning discovers a fossilized skeleton near her 19th century home that triggers attacks on her character and upheavals throughout the religious, scientific, and academic communities.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CHECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CHEChevalier, Tracy.
Summary: After Mary is struck by lightning, she is gifted with the ability to see hidden fossils. But when she finds a skeleton, she soon faces the trials of a male-dominated scientific society.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC CHENesbit, TaraShea.
Summary: "Their average age was twenty-five. They came from Berkeley, Cambridge, Paris, London, Chicago--and arrived in New Mexico ready for adventure, or at least resigned to it. But hope quickly turned to hardship as they were forced to adapt to a rugged military town where everything was a secret, including what their husbands were doing at the lab. They lived in barely finished houses with P.O. box...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NESBarrett, Andrea.
Summary: During the summer of 1908, twelve-year-old Constantine Boyd is witness to an explosion of home-spun investigation--from experiments with cave-dwelling fish without eyes to scientifically bred crops to motorized bicycles and the flight of an early aeroplane. In 1920, a popular science writer and young widow tries, immediately after the bloodbath of the First World War, to explain the new theory...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARRobinson, Kim Stanley.
Summary: From the summit of their distant future, a charismatic renegade named Ganymede travels to the past to bring Galileo forward in an attempt to alter history and ensure the ascendancy of science over religion. Yet between his brief and jarring visitations to this future, Galileo must struggle against the ignorance and superstition of his own time.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2009
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1 available in Adult- Science Fiction, Call number: SF Robinson 2009Flint, Eric.
Summary: "When the diplomatic embassy from the United States of Europe was freed from the Tower of London, most of its members returned to the continent. But some remained behind in Britain: Oliver Cromwell, sharpshooter Julie Sims, her Scot husband Alex Mackay, and Cromwell's Irish-American self-appointed watchdog Darryl McCarthy. Soon the hunt is on for the most notorious rebel in English history,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLIKowal, Mary Robinette
Summary: "Ginger Stuyvesant, an American heiress living in London during World War I, is engaged to Captain Benjamin Hartshorne, an intelligence officer. Ginger is a medium for the Spirit Corps, a special Spiritualist force ... Ginger and her fellow mediums contribute a great deal to the war efforts, so long as they pass the information through appropriate channels. While Ben is away at the front,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOWOsborne, Mary Pope.
Summary: Jack and Annie visit the Paris World's Fair of 1889 in an effort to protect four scientific pioneers from an evil sorcerer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006