Summary: A mining operation in Colombia opened a window into an unknown period of the Earth's history where a world with giant creatures emerged. The biggest of them all was Titanoboa, a 43-foot snake, the largest that ever lived. New discoveries suggest that Titanoboa's rule was challenged by a giant crocodilian. Experiments reveal unmatched hunting prowess. So which one was the apex predator 58...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV GRASummary: Using the latest tools in forensic science, computer modeling, and medical imaging, this doc examines what really caused the great Egyptian Empire to collapse 4,000 years ago and what that might tell researchers about today's world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV EGYSummary: A team of archaeologists excavating the site of an early American colony discovers something surprising: the remains of a young woman, dating back to 1609, buried in the trash layer of a cellar. Now, 400 years later, a cellar excavation has uncovered numerous bone fragments, all belonging to this adolescent female. With the help of forensic anthropologists, the extraordinary and frightening...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JAMSummary: Leonardo da Vinci is well known for his inventions as well as his art. But new evidence shows that many of his ideas were realized long before he sketched them out in his notebooks, some even 1700 years before him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LEOSummary: In 2011, a group of amateur historians made an incredible archaeological find: the bones of King Richard III, hunchbacked, with an arrow through the spine. Now, scientists are testing the bones to find out more about the king and also conducting fascinating experiments to determine whether Richard could have fought so ferociously in battle with such a severe deformity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD E-TV RESCrawford, Alisa
Summary: America’s only authentic operational Dutch windmill, De Zwaan serves as Holland, Michigan’s iconic connection to the community’s roots. Believed to have been built in 1761, then moved to the village of Vinkel in North Brabant, The Netherlands, where it produced flour for eighty years, the windmill was dismantled, shipped to the United States, and reassembled in 1964. For more than a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: In-Depth Editions 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.41 CRARobb, J. D.
Summary: When Paul Rogan sets off a bomb at his office, killing eleven people, no one can understand why. He was a loving husband and father, with everything to live for. Then his wife and daughter are found chained up in the family home, and everything becomes clear. Rogan had been given a horrifying choice-- set off the bomb, or see his loved ones suffer and die. Lieutenant Eve Dallas knows the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2018
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Summary: Introduces some common poisonous plants, including poison ivy, water hemlock, and deadly nightshade, and describes how they look, how dangerous they are, and how to avoid them in the wild.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 581.659 GOUGould, Margee.
Summary: Describes some of the world's largest plants, including such trees as the giant sequoia and the mountain ash and such flowers as the corpse flower and the Rafflesia arnoldii.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Rosen Pub. Group 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 581.41 GOUThomas, Isabel
Summary: Learn all about the water cycle and find out how water shapes our planet. Make a precipitation gauge or grow your own stalactite. Find out how important it is to conserve water and harness its energy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: QEB Publishing 2016
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Summary: This book takes readers on a dive to explore the amazing underwater habitats and landforms of Earths oceans. Readers will take a journey from the deepest part of the oceanthe Mariana Trenchto the Mid-Ocean Ridge. Theyll explore colorful coral reefs, and learn how they form. Photographs and diagrams help illustrate important earth science facts and concepts, and truly transport the reader to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 551.4 AUSForshaw, Nick.
Summary: Unfold the fascinating world of dinosaurs on a six-foot-long timeline.
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Publisher / Publication Date: What on Earth Publishing 2018
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Summary: Examines the meat-eating capabilities of certain plants, describing how they trap their prey and including such examples as the pitcher plant, venus flytrap, bladderwort, and sundew.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 583.75 GOUQuigley, Andrea
Summary: Offers an illustrated introduction to bees that explores what they are, their behavior, what they produce, and their cultural associations, with numerous activities, experiments, and crafts on the subject for readers to try.
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Publisher / Publication Date: QEB 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 595.7 QUIGould, Margee.
Summary: Describes the various ways in which certain plants use prickles, thorns, or needles to protect themselves, including such examples as a rose, cactus, honey locust, and the silk floss tree.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2012
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Summary: "In a world ruled by the dead, we are forced to finally start living"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics 2009
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 KIRKirkman, Robert.
Summary: "How many hours are in a day when you don't spend half of them watching television? When is the last time any of us really worked to get something we wanted? How long has it been since any of us really needed something that we wanted? The world we knew is gone. The world of commerce and frivolous necessity has been replaced by a world of survival and responsibility. An epidemic of apocalyptic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics 2007
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 KIRKirkman, Robert.
Summary: In the last volume we learned that no one is safe. Now, after the staggering losses they've sustained, Rick and Carl are left to pick up the pieces and carry on, knowing that they could join their fallen friends and family at any moment. This volume collects The Walking Dead issues #49-54.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics 2009
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2 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 KIRShea, Therese
Summary: Crypts, tombs, and mausoleums aren’t just the creepy props of a horror movie; they’re the final resting places of the dead. Many are also beautifully designed monuments. This intriguing examination of some of the world’s most prominent tombs includes the elaborate Taj Mahal, the mysterious Newgrange, the mammoth Great Pyramid, and the star-studded Westminster Abbey. Modern tombs and burial...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 393 SHEStarmer, Aaron
Summary: "It's the first day of the fourth grade at Arthimos Elementary and things are already off to a strange start--poisonous cookies, a zipline disaster, a missing iPad, and what are those strange sounds coming from the school custodian's wheelbarrow? Luckily the Prime Detectives--Abby "the Abacus" Feldstein, Cameron "Cam" McGill, and Gabriel "Gabe" Kim--are on the case! Using arithmetic, geometry,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Odd Dot 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED STAKirkman, Robert.
Summary: Police officer Rick Grimes and a few human survivors battle hordes of decomposing zombies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics 2007
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 KIRKirkman, Robert.
Summary: A group of survivors on the outside launch an attack on zombies in a prison where Rick and his group believed they were safe, and the full-scale battle that ensues results in a high body count.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics 2010
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 KIRBright, Michael.
Summary: Introduces the concept of extinction, discussing how extinction occurs, mass extinctions from the Earth's past and possible explanations, extinctions caused by humans, and current efforts to protect the endangered species of the present.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heinemann Library 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 576.84 BRIShea, Therese
Summary: The Bigfoot Trail in northwestern California got its name because of hikers' accounts of glimpsing large, hairy, humanlike creatures living in this area. This book entices readers to come along on this forbidding trail, if they dare. The Bigfoot Trail is long but, because many parts aren't well traveled, hikers and readers get to experience a truly wild side of the United States. They'll learn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2015