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Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
41 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hal Jordan is a daring test pilot until one day a dying alien gives him a ring of power that changes him into a member of the Green Lanterns, defenders of the Galaxy.
Author
Language
English
Description
In The Road Back to You, Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile forge a unique approach - a practical, comprehensive way of accessing Enneagram wisdom and exploring its connections with Christian spirituality for a deeper knowledge of ourselves, compassion for others, and love for God. Witty and filled with stories, this book allows you to peek inside each of the nine Enneagram types, keeping you turning the pages long after you have read the chapter...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"An account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution-from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of "the state," political violence, and social inequality-and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation. For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike--either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
At the ripe age of thirteen, Kendrick had already resolved to "keep the crazy inside my head where it belonged." Now she invites readers inside her brain, recounting the absurdities she's experienced on her way to and from the heart of pop culture. From her double life as a middle-school student who also starred on Broadway to her rise dazzling on the stage and screen, we enter her sharp and sweet, funny and serious (well, not that serious) world....
Author
Publisher
Thames and Hudson
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
320 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Over the past twenty years, the study of dinosaurs has changed from natural history to a true scientific discipline. New technologies have revealed secrets locked in the prehistoric bones in ways that nobody predicted - we can now work out the colour of dinosaurs, their bite forces, top speeds, and even how they cared for their young. Remarkable new fossil finds, such as giant sauropod dinosaur skeletons from Patagonia, dinosaurs with feathers from...
7) Return of the God hypothesis: three scientific discoveries that reveal the mind behind the universe
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HaperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
568 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Intelligent Design scholar Stephen C. Meyer makes an argument for the existence of God based on breakthroughs in physics, cosmology, and biology. -- adapted from publisher info
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
28 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
The whole family joins in a lively small-town celebration of Independence Day, including a parade, a picnic, music, and fireworks. An author's note explains the origin of the celebration of July 4th.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Each of us began life as a single cell. From this humble origin, we embarked on a risky journey fraught with opportunities for disaster. Yet, amazingly, we reached our destination intact, emerging as dazzlingly complex, exquisitely engineered assemblages of trillions of cells. This metamorphosis constitutes one of nature's most spectacular yet commonplace magic tricks--and one of its most coveted secrets. In From One Cell, physician and researcher...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in Harvard University's library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve 'American culture' in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Meet Jane. Newly arrived to Birmingham, Alabama, Jane is a broke dog-walker in Thornfield Estates--a gated community full of McMansions, shiny SUVs, and bored housewives. The kind of place where no one will notice if Jane lifts the discarded tchotchkes and jewelry off the side tables of her well-heeled clients. Where no one will think to ask if Jane is her real name. But her luck changes when she meets Eddie Rochester. Recently widowed, Eddie is...
12) The shadow hero
Publisher
First Second Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
158 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
In the comics boom of the 1940s, a legend was born: the Green Turtle. He solved crimes and fought injustice just like the other comics characters. But this mysterious masked crusader was hiding something more than your run-of-the-mill secret identity: the Green Turtle was the first Asian American super hero. The comic had a short run before lapsing into obscurity, but Gene Luen Yang has revived this character in Shadow Hero, a new graphic novel that...
Author
Series
Wayward children volume 4
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"This fourth entry in the [Wayward Children] series tells the origin story of Lundy, a very serious young girl who would rather study and dream than become a respectable housewife and live up to the expectations of the world around her. As well she should. When she finds a doorway to a world founded on logic and reason, riddles and lies, she thinks she's found her paradise. Alas, everything costs at the goblin market, and when her time there is drawing...
14) Frozen II
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Anna, Elsa, Kristoff, Olaf, and Sven leave Arendelle to travel to an ancient, autumn-bound forest of an enchanted land. They set out to find the origin of Elsa's powers in order to save their kingdom.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 7 hr., 20 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"As the Cold War deepens and the new political threats loom for Project Blue Book, Dr. J. Allen Hynek and Captain Michael Quinn must delve further down the UFO conspiracy rabbit hole in their dangerous quest for the truth. Soon, cover-ups from the past (including at Roswell) collide with new UFO cases in the present (including at Area 51), forcing our duo to not only question the broadening global conspiracy, but the very nature and origin of UFOs...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Imported by the Army for an early morning radio show in Vietnam, disc jockey Adrian Cronauer blasts the formerly staid, sanitized airwaves with a constant barrage of rapid-fire humor and the hottest hits from back home. The G.I.'s love him, but the brass is up in arms.
Publisher
Marvel Studios
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set after the events of Captain America: Civil War, Ant-Man and the Wasp functions as an origin story. Dr. Hank Pym, the original Ant-Man, sends Scott Lang on a mission to run down information about Pym's earliest exploits. Most importantly, Pym wants to know whether his original superhero partner, The Wasp, is still alive. At the same time, Lang, the current Ant-Man, has to make the life balance between being a superhero and a dad work.
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