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The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker and Switchboard Soldiers illuminates the life of Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace—Lord Byron’s daughter and the world’s first computer programmer.
The only legitimate child of Lord Byron, the most brilliant, revered, and scandalous of the Romantic poets, Ada was destined for fame long before her birth. But her...
The only legitimate child of Lord Byron, the most brilliant, revered, and scandalous of the Romantic poets, Ada was destined for fame long before her birth. But her...
2) Pups alone
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Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Get ready for hilarious canine holiday hijinks! While everyone is away on a company ski trip, a jealous inventor hires two thieves to break into his co-worker's house and steal his top-secret new creation. But they are no match for a mischievous pack of neighborhood pups, who set up tricks and traps to protect the home and save Christmas. This laugh-out-loud comedy stars Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jerry O2Connell, Dolph Lundgren, Danny Trejo and Rob Schneider....
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Coralline is a mermaid who is engaged to the merman of her dreams. But when an oil spill wreaks havoc on her idyllic village life, her little brother falls gravely ill. Desperate to save him, she embarks on aquest to find a legendary elixir made of starlight. Izar, a human man, is on the cusp of an invention that will enable him to mine the depths of the ocean. His discovery will soon make him the richest man on earth.
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York (Laura Ruby) volume 2
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Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Publisher Annotation: National Book Award finalist Laura Ruby returns with the middle chapter in her epic alternate-history adventure?a journey that will test Tess, Theo, and Jaime and change their lives forever.
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National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
c1999
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English
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A biography, with photographs and quotes from Bell himself, which follows this well known inventor from his childhood in Scotland through his life-long efforts to come up with ideas that would improve people's lives.
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English
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Well before Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, Aleck (as his family called him) was a curious boy, interested in how and why he was able to hear the world all around him. His father was a speech therapist who invented the Visible Alphabet and his mother was hearing impaired, which only made Aleck even more fascinated by sound vibration and modes of communication. Naturally inquisitive and inclined to test his knowledge, young Aleck was...
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 32
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English
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"Jack and Annie are whisked back in time by the magic tree house to meet Benjamin Franklin in Old Philadelphia"--
9) Tightrope
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English
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"Former trapeze artist Amalie Vaughn is trying to reinvent herself, so she uses her inheritance to turn a mansion into a bed-and-breakfast. When her first guest, Dr. Norman Pickwell, is murdered, rumors circulate that the villa is cursed. Meanwhile, Matthias Jones is on the trail of a prototype cipher machine. He suspects that Pickwell had the device, but now Pickwell is dead and the machine has vanished. When Matthias's investigation leads him...
10) Dead reckoning
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English
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In 1867 Texas, Jett, a girl passing as a boy while seeking her long-lost twin brother, joins forces with Honoraria Gibbons, an inventor, and White Fox, a young Army scout, to investigate a zombie army that is terrorizing the West.
11) A bug's life
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Disney Enterprises Inc
Pub. Date
[2003]
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English
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Cute and clever, "A Bug's Life" is a relatively straight retelling of Kurosawa's "The Seven Samurai," except of course that the characters are bugs! Idealistic young ant Flik is a sweet-natured dreamer and inventor. But his innovative thinking makes him an outcast when one of his inventions goes awry and destroys the food sacrifice that the colony makes annually to a gang of grasshopper hooligans led by the sinister Hopper. Disgraced, Flik is sent...
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Izzy Gizmo volume 2
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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In this companion to the award-winning Izzy Gizmo, Izzy Gizmo returns (together with Grandpa and Fixer) in a charming and eccentric tale of ambition, perseverance, and finding your inner strength. Izzy Gizmo has been invited to Technoff Isle's annual convention where the inventor of the best machine will win coveted admittance to the Genius Guild. Great inventors produce gadgets that can be put to good use, so Izzy Gizmo decides to build a recycling...
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Anchor Bay Entertainment
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English
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Clyde Shelton is a brilliant planner and inventor. One night two robbers invade his Philadelphia home and brutally kill his wife and daughter, almost killing him. When the killers are caught, Assistant DA Nick Rice is assigned the case. Nick makes a deal with one of the killers to testify against his partner for a 10 year plea bargain prison sentence. Clyde doesn't want Nick to make the deal, but Nick says the deal is done. The other killer gets the...
16) A dastardly plot
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English
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In 1883 New York, while trying to introduce her mother's flying machine to the men-only Inventors' Guild, twelve-year-old Molly uncovers a plot to destroy the World's Fair.
17) The thin man
Series
Complete Thin man collection volume 1
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Nick and Nora Charles, a former detective and his rich, playful wife, investigate a murder case mostly for the fun of it.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"A brilliant portrait of two American giants, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, and America entering the automobile age, told through the fascinating but little-known narrative of the summer road trips taken by Edison and Ford"--
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