Trefil, James
Summary: "It is now known that we live in a galaxy with more planets than stars. The Milky Way alone encompasses 30 trillion potential home planets. Scientists Trefil and Summers bring readers on a marvelous experimental voyage through the possibilities of life--unlike anything we have experienced so far--that could exist on planets outside our own solar system. Life could be out there in many forms: on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2019
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.8 TREHarper, Benjamin
Summary: In this graphic novel loosely based on H.G. Wells's "The War of the Worlds," armed unicorns in a huge spaceship invade the peaceful mermaid planet of Ocea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 FARUnderwood, Deborah
Summary: When Jupiter notices a planet circling a far star, he enlists the other planets in our solar system to send a letter, but soon there is a disagreement on which, exactly, is the exoplanet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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Summary: "An introduction to extrasolar planets, with information about their formation and characteristics. Includes diagrams, fun facts, a glossary, a resource list, and an index"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 523.2 STIWeinersmith, Kelly
Summary: "Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away--no climate change, no war, no Twitter--beckons, and settling the stars finally seems within our grasp. Or is it? Critically acclaimed, bestselling authors Kelly and Zach Weinersmith set out to write the essential guide to a glorious future of space settlements, but after years of research, they aren't so sure it's a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023
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Summary: Whether you have an IRA, Roth IRA, 401(k), Keogh or other retirement plan, this book will help you make sense of the rules for taking your money out. Even more important, it will show you how to avoid the stiff taxes and penalties that lurk in the fine print.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nolo 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 322.024 SLEDahl, Michael
Summary: Zak Nine, his alien friend Erro, and another prisoner have found a small spacecraft and if they can dodge the missiles that the guards are firing after them perhaps they can finally escape from planet Alcatraz; but there is something wrong with the stars in front of them--they are not really stars at all, and now they find themselves confronted by Alcatraz's biggest secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE DAHWinn, Joshua N.
Summary: As recently as 1990, it seemed plausible that the solar system was a unique phenomenon in our galaxy. Thanks to advances in technology and clever new uses of existing data, now we know that planetary systems and possibly even a new Earth can be found throughout galaxies near and far. We are living during a new golden age of planetary discovery, with the prospect of finding many worlds like...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2015
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.24Call number: DVD 523.24 SEA
Slesnick, Twila
Summary: Whether you have an IRA, Roth IRA, 401(k), Keogh or other retirement plan, this book will help you make sense of the rules for taking your money out. Even more important, it will show you how to avoid the stiff taxes and penalties that lurk in the fine print.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nolo 2017
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Summary: Pursued by a killer cyborg tank and surrounded by snakes that spit fire, teenage friends Zak and Erro the furling from the planet Quom, must figure out a way to survive if they are ever to escape from the prison planet called Alcatraz--a situation they are in because they stowed away on a space ship they did not know was headed here.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE DAHSummary: This book, companion to the Discovery Channel/BBC series, is an enduring record of one of the most ambitious natural history projects ever undertaken. Using the latest aerial surveillance, state-of-the-art cameras, and high definition technology, the creators have assembled more than 400 photographs of landscapes from around the globe, including footage of rarely seen creatures. Many of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2006
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 508 PLACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Sci Earth FothergillFrank, Adam
Summary: An astrophysicist discusses what the latest research on the existence and trajectories of alien civilizations may impart about surviving the challenge of civilization-driven climate change.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523 FRAXu, Wendy
Summary: "Clementine Chang moves from Earth to Mars for a new start and is lucky enough to land her dream job with Dr. Marcella Lin, an Artificial Intelligence pioneer. On her first day of work, Clem meets Dr. Lin's assistant, a humanoid AI named Kye. Clem is no stranger to robots--she built herself a cute moth-shaped companion named SENA. Still, there's something about Kye that feels almost too human....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books / HarperAlley, imprints of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 XUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC XUDahl, Michael
Summary: When Zak, a human teenager from Earth Base Zeta, and his teenage Furling friend, Erro, stowed away on a military spacecraft they thought they were going to see a space battle--instead they ended up on the prison planet, Alcatraz, and now they are being pursued by the prison's killer drones through a jungle which may be just as deadly as any drone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2020
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Summary: Captured by the sadistic guards of the prison planet Alcatraz, the two teenage friends, Zak, and the alien Erro, are placed in bottomless cages hovering over a sea of poison acid and if they fall asleep or lose their grip they will fall to their deaths--and Zak will need all of his ingenuity if he is going to figure out a way to save himself and his friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE DAHLewis, Al
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Leo. Feist Inc. 1932
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMFerrie, Chris
Summary: "Yes, the Universe is beautiful. And, despite all our scientific progress, it's still pretty mysterious. But you know what? The Universe is also kind of an asshole. Consider that you are just a group of atoms structured in a specific way that you can try to understand this thing we call existence. Those same atoms could have just as easily been used to make the dog shit you are cleaning off...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 523.1 FERScieszka, Jon
Summary: On their second mission to find another habitable planet, the four mutant animals, LaserShark, AstroWolf, SmartHawk, and StinkBug, splash land on the Water Planet, run by some suspiciously friendly clams, who are very eager to swap planets--and if the AstroNuts can stop arguing among themselves they may find out why before it is too late.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in JT Science Fiction, Call number: JT SF Scieszka 2020Tuchman, Gail
Summary: Provides simple information about the planets of the solar system and beyond.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paw Prints 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 523.4 TUCSasuga, Yu
Summary: "In the late 26th century, overpopulation on Earth is reaching the breaking point, and humanity must find new frontiers. The terraforming of Mars has taken centuries but is now complete. The colonization of Mars by humanity is an epoch-making event, but an unintended side effect of the terraforming process unleashes a horror no one could ever have imagined... The Terraformars have infested...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TERDahl, Michael
Summary: Zak has been captured and sent to Planet Alcatraz's "Monster Zoo" where the inmates are forced to fight for the entertainment of the Overseers--but Erro is still free and he is determined to use all his Quom survival skills to rescue is human friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2020
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Summary: Blinded by heavy mist, a misstep causes Erro to plunge into a deep canyon where he is caught by one of the giants who is imprisoned there while Zak is plucked off the cliff ledge by a different giant--but the giants are not friendly, and while they are discussing whether to give the boys to the Alcatraz guards or turn them into lunch, Zak comes up with a way to escape either fate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE DAHMidthun, Joseph
Summary: "A graphic nonfiction volume that introduces the body structures of plants and the scientific classification system"--Provided by publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, a Scott Fetzer Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 571.3 MIDSlesnick, Twila
Summary: Whether you have an IRA, Roth IRA, 401(k), Keogh or other retirement plan, this book will help you make sense of the rules for taking your money out. Even more important, it will show you how to avoid the stiff taxes and penalties that lurk in the fine print.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nolo 2019