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Curiosities and wonders Electronic apparatus and appliances Interplanetary voyages Interstellar travel Interstellar travel Drama Interstellar travel Fiction Interstellar travel Juvenile fiction Science fiction Unidentified flying objects Unidentified flying objects Sightings and encountersLoeb, Abraham
Summary: "Harvard's top astronomer lays out his controversial theory that our solar system was recently visited by advanced alien technology from a distant star"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.8 LOEBurd, Barry
Summary: Featuring plenty of helpful examples and tips, this sixth edition shows beginners how to program in one of the most popular programming languages that is widely used for application development, including Android, desktop and server-side applications.
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons, Inc 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 005.13 JAVA BURSummary: From making miniature furniture to creating art within the eye of a needle, this film investigates the mysterious and profound human urge to create and keep miniatures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: "Take advantage of nature's bounty and craft in time with the seasons! Whether potting up dandelion honey, cooking and crafting with rose petals or preserving autumn leaves and acorns, there are so many wonderful gifts, ornaments and treats that can be made from either a short walk in the woods or a rummage in your cupboard. With an emphasis on foraging and upcycling, Becci explores the ways we...
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Publisher / Publication Date: White Owl 2023
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Summary: "Linty is a ball of lint. He's been living a quiet, solitary life in a pair of hand-me-down jeans, where he has been nestled undisturbed for months, possibly even years. So it's quite a shock for Linty when a boy finally puts on the jeans. Before he knows it, Linty is joined by other pocket things, and his once lonely world is now filled with friends! But just as he's starting to get used to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SHISummary: "NEW STORIES AND ESSAYS FROM TOP AUTHORS AND EXPERT SCIENTISTS. Explorations of how interstellar travel may affect humanity by best-selling authors and scientists. The stars will change us. STELLARIS: PEOPLE OF THE STARS is a collection of original science fiction stories and nonfiction essays speculating about humanity's far-term expansion into the universe beyond the limits of our solar...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2019
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC STEDean, Kim
Summary: "When Agent Meow (also known as Pete the Cat) discovers an empty alien spaceship and accidentally launches into space, what else will he find? Early readers will love blasting off with Agent Meow in this otherworldly adventure!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN DEATodd, Brandon
Summary: After a visiting the library to search for new adventure ideas, Miguel and Clarke go on a trip that is out of this world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JBR PURPLE TODCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE TODMason, Jenny
Summary: From the first time a person looked up at the sky and wondered 'What's out there?" humans have dreamed about exploring the cosmos. Over the years, there have been hundreds of reports of UFO (or unidentified flying object) sightings—which the U.S. government seemed to ignore. But a recently released Pentagon report tells a different story. For five years, a secret government agency was tracking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2022
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Summary: When the parents of Milo and Lina Graf are abducted by agents of the evil Empire, the children must undertake a perilous journey across the unknown reaches of Wild Space to rescue them - and to discover hope for the future. Milo and Lina trace their latest clue to a remote jungle world where a terrifying beast lies in wait.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Lucasfilm Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J SWaws 2Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED HUDLostetter, Marina J.
Summary: 2088. Humankind is at last ready to explore beyond Earth's solar system. Astrophysicist Reggie Straifer has discovered an anomalous star that appears to defy the laws of physics, and proposes the creation of a deep-space mission to find out whether the star is a weird natural phenomenon, or something manufactured. The journey will take eons. In order to maintain the genetic talent of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOSPy-Lieberman, Beth
Summary: "This authoritative guide delivers in-depth reportage on the history of remarkable objects from the Smithsonian's collections"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 069.09753 PY-LCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 069.09753 PY-LHiggins, Nadia
Summary: "Engaging images accompany information about UFOs. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 2 through 7"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2022
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Summary: Presents a guide to the most recent prices and photographs for antiques and collectibles, and includes tips on care and identification, cross-references, and record-setting prices.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.1 KOVPasulka, Diana Walsh
Summary: "More than half of American adults and more than seventy-five percent of young Americans believe in intelligent extraterrestrial life. This level of belief rivals that of belief in God. In American Cosmic, D.W. Pasulka examines the mechanisms that foster a thriving belief in extraterrestrial life. Her work takes her from Silicon Valley to the Vatican Secret Archive and reveals how media has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2019
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Summary: This is the story of Arthur Dent, who, seconds before Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, is plucked off the planet by his friend, Ford Prefect, who has been posing as an out-of-work actor for the last fifteen years but is really a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Together they begin a journey through the galaxy aided by quotes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADABledsoe, Chris.
Summary: "Chris Bledsoe, a deeply religious family man and successful business owner from North Carolina was on the verge of the unthinkable after losing everything in the 2007 financial crisis and suffering from a debilitating chronic disease. Fishing along the banks of the Cape Fear River with three co-workers and his teenage son, he walks away from the group and cries out to God in a desperate prayer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [self-published] 2023
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Summary: "What was that strange light in the sky? No one knows! It's an unidentified flying object, or UFO. Many UFOs turn out to be airplanes or clouds. But some people say aliens visit Earth in UFOs. Could that be true? Researchers use cameras, magnetic field sensors, telescopes, radar, and other gear to find out. Get an inside look at the high-tech tools used to study UFOs"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Don't panic! The British TV adaptation of Douglas Adams's cult science fiction book series follows the misadventures of Arthur Dent, sole survivor of the demolished planet Earth. Join Dent and interplanetary researcher Ford Prefect as they encounter bad alien poetry, a depressed robot, a two-headed spaceship thief, and the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HITSummary: It is 2153. The crew of the starship Enterprise are engaging in the third year of their mission under the command of Captain Jonathan Archer. An alien probe has attacked the Earth, killing over seven million people. The Enterprise is sent to track down and stop the aliens from attacking again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV STASummary: Follow the adventures of our favorite Starfleet support crew in the U.S.S. Cerritos as they deal with changes in group dynamics, chasing promotions, and tons of sci-fi missions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV LOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV STASummary: Collects the original broadcast episodes from the fifth season of Star trek, the next generation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A collection of four stories in which two kids take on the Empire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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Summary: Two years after a tragedy saddles him with viral fame, twelve-year-old Simon O'Keeffe and his family move to Grin And Bear It, Nebraska, where the internet and cell phones are banned so astrophysicists can scan the sky for signs of alien life, and where, with the help of two new friends, a puppy, and a giant radio telescope, Simon plans to restart the narrative of his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2023