Summary: Likening the beauty and complexity of DNA to an epic poem, this program revolves around the idea that we all carry the story of life on Earth in our genes, and that the similarities between species may play a more significant role in that story than previously thought. A visit to Iceland's hot springs reveals heat-, acid-, and salt-resistant organisms called Archaea-primordial versions of which...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Although the impact of genetic research on human life is an ever-changing and often theoretical prospect, our current knowledge of the human genome already has direct, real-world applications. This program looks at several ways in which genetic breakthroughs have improved health care technology and enriched the study of human physiology. Case studies focus on DNA screening and its benefits-for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: The small town of Chester's Mill is suddenly and inexplicably sealed off from the rest of the world by a massive transparent barrier. The epic story of a town in peril unfolds as the residents struggle to maintain control and ultimately figure out the truth about the dome.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV UNDSummary: Based on Stephen King's best-selling novel, is the story of a small town that is suddenly and inexplicably sealed off from the rest of the world by an enormous transparent dome. The town's inhabitants must deal with surviving the post-apocalyptic conditions while searching for answers about the dome, where it came from and if and when it will go away.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV UNDSummary: In Season two of Under the Dome, the people of Chester's Mill struggle to break free of their nightmare, as a mysterious stranger and diminishing food supply threaten their very survival. Big Jim, driven by his lust for power, assumes the role of town sheriff. Meanwhile, someone has discovered a way out of the dome; will the rest escape?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV UNDWeis, Margaret.
Summary: In the final volume of the Death Gate cycle, protagonists Alfred, Hugh, Haplo and Marit join forces to prevent the evil ones from reaching the Death Gate and destroying the world. By the authors of Into the Labyrinth.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1994
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WEI DG #7Pryor, Shawn
Summary: Villain Cynthia Cyber has trapped The Gamer's friends in her dangerous Power Combat video game, so if he can not rescue his friends in just ten minutes, they will be stuck in the electronic world forever as monsters.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2022
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Summary: Cynthia Cyber has trapped two programmers in the video game Space Racers, which she invented but did not get credit for, and sends a monster racer to destroy them if she does not get a ten million dollar ransom--and it is up to thirteen-year-old Tyler Morant in his secret identity as The Gamer to rescue them before they are destroyed.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PRYAllston, Aaron.
Summary: Follows the efforts of Luke and Ben Skywalker to investigate the mysterious Abeloth with unlikely Sith allies while the exiled Grand Master and the Republic clash over the fate of the afflicted Jedi Order during the trial of Tahiri Veila.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALLPryor, Shawn
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Tyler Morant uses the special device given him by the Gaming Masters of the Universe to become The Gamer, and fights evil Cynthia Cyber's latest creation, a monster named Currency, who is robbing banks to get Cynthia the money she needs to build a machine that will give her control over the whole human race.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PRYPryor, Shawn
Summary: When Cynthia Cyber pulls the Terror Beast out of the digital world and sends it out to attack Crescent City with nightmares, it is up to Tyler in his secret identity as The Gamer to overcome his own fears and defeat the monster.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PRYTurtledove, Harry.
Summary: A conclusion to the landmark World War II series explores the lives of everyday soldiers and civilians as well as historic leaders to consider the fallout of Chamberlain's alternate-world decision not to appease Hitler.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TURThomas, Angie.
Summary: Maverick feels strongly about family ties, making choices he feels necessary to help support his mom while his King father serves time, and leave him literally holding his son in a doctor's waiting room after he gets paternity test results back and his babymomma ghosts. Now the child he's raising is impacting the lives of his family and his girlfriend, and the gang life he led to support them...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC THOGrant, Michael
Summary: When new meteorite strikes introduce an alien virus, humans develop unique superpowers that trigger a battle between teen hero defenders and supermonsters.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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Summary: Ender Wiggin, the hero and scapegoat of mass alien destruction in Ender's Game, receives a chance at redemption in this novel. Ender, who proclaimed as a mistake his success in wiping out an alien race, wins the opportunity to cope better with a second race, discovered by Portuguese colonists on the planet Lusitania. Orson Scott Card infuses this long, ambitious tale with intellect by casting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 1991
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Summary: Having discovered his natural talent for comedy at his school's end-of-semester talent show, Jake decides to pursue "his art," but can his comedian-mentor teach Jake humility as well as humor?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ROBRobinson, Craig
Summary: Having faked his way into the Music and Art Academy, a performing arts school for gifted students where his talented older sister rules, sixth-grader Jake, a jokester who can barely play an instrument, will have to think of something quick before the lastlaugh is on him.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ROBFormat: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD GAMCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Ga 7Holland, Simon.
Summary: Explores the world of reptiles, discussing lizards, snakes, tortoises, turtles, alligators, crocodiles, and tuataras.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK 2002
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Summary: If there's one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it's that a real man takes care of his family. As the son of a former gang legend, Mav does that the only way he knows how: dealing for the King Lords. With this money he can help his mom, who works two jobs while his dad's in prison. Life's not perfect, but with a fly girlfriend and a cousin who always has his back, Mav's got...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC THOThomas, Angie
Summary: Maverick feels strongly about family ties, making choices he feels necessary to help support his mom while his King father serves time, and leave him literally holding his son in a doctor's waiting room after he gets paternity test results back and his babymomma ghosts. Now the child he's raising is impacting the lives of his family and his girlfriend, and the gang life he led to support them...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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2 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC THOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC THOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC THOCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Thomas 2021Mack, Lorrie.
Summary: The history, wars, society, and political life of ancient Rome and its vast empire and how it remains with us today.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 937 MACWalker, Sarah.
Summary: Presents an overview of mammals, including their history, various kinds, physical characteristics, behavior, and endangered and extinct species.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Pub. 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599 WALRobinson, Craig
Summary: "Jake loses his cool when he learns he's about to become the middle child, and he's back to his fakester ways when new girl Bailey starts school and he'd do anything to impress her"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2020