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Trying to maintain her inner light in an increasingly dark world, young Hong Kong-based scientist Lily Barnes, as the human race dwindles due to a "depression plague," comes across something that could lead to happiness and journeys through time and space to find out
A few years from now, in a world similar to ours, there exists a sort of "depression plague" that people refer to simply as "The Grey." No one can predict whom it will afflict, or how,...
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Hedy Kiesler is lucky. Her beauty leads to a starring role in a controversial film and marriage to a powerful Austrian arms dealer, allowing her to evade Nazi persecution despite her Jewish heritage. But Hedy is also intelligent. At lavish Vienna dinner parties, she overhears the Third Reich's plans. One night in 1937, desperate to escape her controlling husband and the rise of the Nazis, she disguises herself and flees her husband's castle. She lands...
3) Migrations
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2020.
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"Franny Stone has always been a wanderer. By following the ocean's tides and the birds that soar above, she can forget the losses that have haunted her life. But when the wild she so loves begins to disappear, Franny can no longer wander without a destination. She arrives in remote Greenland with one purpose: to find the world's last flock of Arctic terns and follow them on their final migration. She convinces Ennis Malone, captain of the Saghani,...
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She used to work for the United States government, but very few people ever knew that. An expert in her field, she was one of the darkest secrets of an agency so clandestine it doesn't even have a name. And when they decided she was a liability, they came for her without warning. Now, she rarely stays in the same place or uses the same name for long. They've killed the only person she trusted, but something she knows still poses a threat. When her...
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California, 1984. Detective Tony Mendez, fresh from a law enforcement course at FBI headquarters, is charged with discovering the identity of a brutal, calculating psychopath. His search pushes him ever deeper into the lives of three children, and closer to the young teacher whose interest in recent events becomes as intense as his own.
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2020.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
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Las muñecas no son para ella, y prefiere los tratados de astronomía y anatomía a los cuentos de príncipes y princesas. Todos la llaman la Pequeña Einstein porque no puede mantenerse alejada de cualquier cosa que suene a ciencia, o tal vez porque, como el gran científico, ¡ella también es un poco despistada! La Pequeña Einstein tiene un gran sueño: ¡ganar el Premio Nobel! Cualquier ocasión es buena para hacer nuevos experimentos,...
9) Invader
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"When an alien creature menaces two scientists marooned on a desert island, Rose, who has lost her memory, must rely on Thomas, though his behavior is suspicious. In California, Kailey is pressed into a life of crime by her corrosive lover, following a psychologically abusive past. As each woman faces invaders of different sorts, the questions mount. What is their underlying connection? What is Thomas trying to hide? And when will the beast strike...
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2018.
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115 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
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Recounts the lives and accomplishments of women scientist from the ancient physician Agnodice to Fields Medal winner Maryam Mirzakhani, including astronomers, biologists, inventors, and leaders in computer science, health, and other fields.
11) Annihilation
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[2018]
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1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Biologist and former soldier Lena is shocked when her missing husband comes home near death from a top-secret mission into The Shimmer, a mysterious quarantine zone from which no one has ever returned. Now, Lena and her elite team must enter a beautiful, deadly world of mutated landscapes and creatures, to discover how to stop the growing phenomenon that threatens all life on Earth.
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[2021]
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1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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Women make up less than a quarter of STEM professionals in the United States, and numbers are even lower for women of color. But a growing group of researchers is exposing longstanding discrimination and making science more inclusive.
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2019.
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
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"Eight hours of sleep usually means a full night's rest--but now Lunella and Devil face a fight to stay out of the Dream Dimension, a place at the edge of our subconscious where all manner of monsters dwell! What fearsome fiends lay within the unconscious mind of a 65-million-year-old thunder lizard? Or worse yet, a 9-year-old super-genius? As Moon Girl and Devil transverse the Dreamscape, all is revealed about their host, Bad Dream--and he isn't...
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2019.
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
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"The War of the Realms comes to the Lower East Side! Lunella and Devil meet the original kid hero, Spider-Man! And if that isn't amazing enough, wait until the War of the Realms breaks out! With Manhattan frozen solid and Frost Giants prowling the streets, Devil must keep the peace - while Moon Girl encounters Thor! Then, it's a real family crisis! With time and space fractured, Lunella and Devil will have to team up with younger versions of her parents...
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