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How did America become g2sone nation, indivisibleg3s? What unified a growing number of disparate states into the modern country we recognize today? To answer these questions, Winchester follows in the footsteps of America{u2019}s most essential explorers, thinkers, and innovators, such as Lewis and Clark and the leaders of the Great Surveys; the builders of the first transcontinental telegraph and the powerful civil engineer behind the Interstate...
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An iridescent jewel of a novel that proves love is the mother of invention
In the early 1800s, a young Italian contessa, Carolina Fantoni, realizes she is going blind shortly before she marries the town's most sought-after bachelor. Her parents don't believe her, nor does her fiancé. The only one who understands is the eccentric local inventor and her longtime companion, Turri. When her eyesight dims forever, Carolina can no longer...
In the early 1800s, a young Italian contessa, Carolina Fantoni, realizes she is going blind shortly before she marries the town's most sought-after bachelor. Her parents don't believe her, nor does her fiancé. The only one who understands is the eccentric local inventor and her longtime companion, Turri. When her eyesight dims forever, Carolina can no longer...
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Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"There's trouble in Swallow Falls, and once again it's Flint Lockwood to the rescue! The island has been taken over by life food animals like shrimpanzees and cheespiders! Flint and his friends need to cook up a plan to save Swallow Falls--and fast!"--P. [4] of cover.
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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While twins Ella and Herbie help the handyman Mr. Mital work on their new home, he tells them about such inventors as Granville Woods, Dr. Henry T. Sampson, and James West, giving them a new view of their heritage as African-Americans.
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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Inventor Flint Lockwood thought he saved the world when he destroyed his machine that turned water into food causing cheeseburger rain and spaghetti tornadoes. But Flint soon learns that his invention survived and is now creating food-animals. Flint and his friends embark on a dangerously delicious mission to battle hungry tacodiles, shrimpanzees, hippotatomuses, cheespiders and other foodimals to save the world again!
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Barnes & Noble
Pub. Date
[1982]
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English
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Tesla's autobiographical legacy, essential reading for anyone seeking to penetrate the inventor's complex personality and mysterious life. He retells the story of his Faustian quest for the electric motor the experts said could never be built, which nearly cost him his sanity.
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Joys rise from single mother of three to the nations most celebrated female inventor is truly what dreams are made of. Full of twists and turns, work and love, obstacles encountered and overcome, Inventing Joy is a binge-worthy book in every aspect. Dive in and be swept along for the ride as she relives her incredible and inspiring journey to joy. But theres more. Throughout her inspirational rags-to-riches story, Joy points out her very own personal...
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Long Earth volume 3
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English
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"2040-2045: In the years after the cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption there is massive economic dislocation as populations flee Datum Earth to myriad Long Earth worlds. Sally, Joshua, and Lobsang are all involved in this perilous rescue work when, out of the blue, Sally is contacted by her long-vanished father and inventor of the original Stepper device, Willis Linsay. He tells her he is planning a fantastic voyage across the Long Mars and wants her...
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
c2013
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English
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Showing how tinkering has been the guiding force behind both major corporate-sponsored innovations and smaller scale inventions with great potential, Foege argues that America still cultivates visionary innovators who do not allow cultural obsessions with efficiency and conformity to interfere with their passion and creativity.
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Frank Einstein volume 1
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
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Un día, mientras Frank hacía un experimento un poco rarito, un rayo cayó sobre su laboratorio y dio vida a su último invento: ¡los robots Klink y Klank! Aunque no son para nada lo que Frank imaginaba, con la ayuda de estos robots estará chupado crear un Motor Antimateria y ganar con él el Premio de Ciencias de Midville. O al menos eso parece, hasta que entra en juego su archienemigo T. Edison..
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Frank Einstein volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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In his Grandpa Al's garage workshop, child genius Frank Einstein tries to invent a robot that can learn on its own, and after an accident brings wisecracking Klink and overly expressive Klank to life, they set about helping Frank perfect his Antimatter Motor until his archnemesis, T. Edison, steals the robots for his doomsday plan.
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Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Humans have always wanted to fly. As soon as there were planes and cars, many people saw a combination as the next step for personal transportation, and visionary engineers and inventors did their best to make the flying car (or the roadable plane) a reality. This book is a breezy account of hybrid vehicles and their creators, and of the intense drive that kept bringing inventors back to the drawing board despite repeated failures and the dictates...
20) The Texan duke
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Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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New York Times bestselling author Karen Ranney's third book in her Duke series spins the tale of a reluctant duke who must choose between his life in America and the Scottish woman he's destined to love. As the ward to the late Duke of Lothian, Elsbeth Carew resides at the ancestral estate of Bealadair. Fiercely attached to the manor, she loves it more than anyone else. When Connor McCraight, the new Duke of Lothian arrives, Elsbeth does not quite...
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