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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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"Built to explore Mars, Resilience begins to develop human-like feelings as he learns from the NASA scientists who assembled him, and as he blasts off and explores Mars, Resilience must overcome different obstacles as he explores the red planet" -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a trading route to China, and his unexpected landfall in the Americas, is a watershed event in world history. Yet Columbus made three more voyages within the span of only a decade, each designed to demonstrate that he could sail to China within a matter of weeks and convert those he found there to Christianity. These later voyages were even more adventurous, violent, and ambiguous,...
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English
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10 to Try - History's Mysteries
Goodreads Choice Nominees 2024
NY Times 100 Notable Books of 2024
TIME's Must-Read Books of 2024
Goodreads Choice Nominees 2024
NY Times 100 Notable Books of 2024
TIME's Must-Read Books of 2024
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"From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook's death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in his ship the HMS Resolution. Two-and-a-half years later, on a beach...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xvi, 365 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A blend of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester's Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know.
For more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remotest islands in the Pacific Ocean, a vast triangle stretching from Hawaii to New Zealand to Easter Island. Until...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"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 good idea. Space technologies and space business are progressing...
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English
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Taken aboard the submarine Nautilus by Captain Nemo, the narrator and his companions find themselves captives on a spectacular tour of the world's oceans, and witnesses to Nemo's increasingly obsessive hatred of the surface world.
Professor Pierre Aronnax was rescued from drowning by Captain Nemo, who insists that in order to protect the secret of his submarine, Aronnax must stay on board the Nautilus for the rest of his life. They explore the oceans,...
10) The wrong stars
Author
Series
Axiom volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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The crew of the freight and salvage ship White Raven encounter a space explorer that claims to have powerful extraterrestrial knowledge, passed down to her by a different alien race than humanity is currently allied with.
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Series
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
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Elmer, Wilbur, and a brave troop of elephants set out on a quest to find the famous Lost Treasure of the jungle. When they stumble across a beautiful forgotten temple, Elmer's friends rush inside, eager to find the Lost Treasure before them, but Elmer appears to have stopped searching.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
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32 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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"Discusses the planet Mars, including observations by ancient cultures, current knowledge of Mars, and plans for future scientific research and space exploration"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Fargo adventures volume 6
Language
English
Description
"The outstanding new Fargo adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. Baffin Island: Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are on a climate-control expedition in the Arctic, when to their astonishment they discover a Viking ship in the ice, perfectly preserved--and filled with pre-Columbian artifacts from Mexico. How can that be? As they plunge into their research, tantalizing clues about a link between the Vikings and the legendary...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A visually stunning journey to the end of the world with the hardy and devoted people who live there year-round. The research stations scattered throughout the continent host a close-knit international population of scientists, technicians and craftsmen. Isolated from the rest of the world, enduring months of unending darkness followed by periods when the sun never sets, Antarctic residents experience firsthand the beauty and brutality of the most...
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Pub. Date
[2013?]
Physical Desc
viii, 308 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Greatly expanding on his blockbuster 1421, distinguished historian Gavin Menzies uncovers the complete untold history of how mankind came to the Americas-offering new revelations and a radical rethinking of the accepted historical record in Who Discovered America?
The iconoclastic historian's magnum opus, Who Discovered America? calls into question our understanding of how the American continents were settled, shedding new light on the well-known...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of 1491--the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas--a deeply engaging new history that explores the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs. More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed totally different suites of plants and animals. Columbus's voyages brought them back together--and marked the beginning...
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 game (1 rules booklet (15 pages), 1 game board, 200 player markers (5 colors), 200 resource markers (3 colors), 5 player boards, 233 cards, 80 tiles) : cardboard and plastic, color ; in box 30 x 30 x 8 cm
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English
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"The taming of the Red Planet has begun! Corporations are competing to transform Mars into a habitable planet by spending vast resources, and using innovative technology to raise temperature, create a breathable atmosphere, and make oceans of water. As terraforming progresses, more and more people will immigrate from Earth to live on the Red Planet. In Terraforming Mars, you control a corporation with a certain profile. Play project cards, build up...
20) Moon machines
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (4 hr., 25 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The U.S. moon missions would never have gotten off the ground without the pioneering engineers and manufacturers and the amazing machines they created to turn science fiction into history-making headlines.
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