David Baker
Author
Publisher
Rosen Publishing
Publication Date
2018.
Physical Desc
178 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Comprised of modules built by the United States, Russia, and other countries, the International Space Station (ISS) is the culmination of international cooperation in the space race. This guide covers all aspects of this permanently manned Earth-orbiting complex where astronauts carry out scientific research. The text examines how the ISS was built, its logistics modules and freighters, its use as an integrated facility, what life on board is like,...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton and Company
Publication Date
2026.
Physical Desc
80 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A beloved nature poet reflects on environmental change, political transformation, and the ineluctable fact of aging. We are all human and nonhuman on the move. The poems in Transit emerge from just such a walk through the world. In keenly observed verse, David Baker carries us across physical and emotional geographies, moving seamlessly from deep woods, city streets, and creek beds to the contours of his psyche and the larger cultural circumstances...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Publication Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"A sweeping poetic achievement, Swift represents David Baker's evolution as one of American poetry's most significant voices. Gathering poems from eight collections--including the widely acclaimed Changeable Thunder (2001) and his masterful latest, Scavenger Loop (2015)--and adding three suites of new poems, David Baker proves himself once again "the most expansive and moving poet to come out of the American Midwest since James Wright" (Marilyn Hacker)....
Author
Publication Date
2024
Language
English
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"A storyteller "of great humanity and huge heart" (Minneapolis Star Tribune), Leif Enger debuted in the literary world with Peace Like a River which sold over a million copies and captured readers' hearts around the globe. Now comes a new milestone in this boldly imaginative author's accomplished, resonant body of work. Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved and pursued musician embarking under sail on a sentient...
8) Feed
Author
Publication Date
2006
Language
English
Description
In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.
Author
Publication Date
2013
Language
English
Description
How do you make sure a crime that hasn't happened yet, never does? That's the question facing Odd Thomas, the young man with a unique ability to commune with restless spirits and help them find justice and peace. But this time, it's the living who desperately need him. Three helpless innocents will be brutally executed unless Odd can intervene in time. Who and where they are remain a mystery. The only thing Odd knows for sure is who the killer will...
10) Extinction
Author
Publication Date
2024
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Erebus Resort, occupying a valley deep in the Colorado Rockies, offers guests the experience of viewing woolly mammoths, Irish Elk, and giant ground sloths in their native habitat, brought back from extinction through genetic manipulation. When a billionaire's son and his new wife are kidnapped and murdered in the Erebus back country by what is assumed to be a gang of eco-terrorists, Colorado Bureau of Investigation agent Frances Cash partners with...
11) Collected poems
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publication Date
[2025]
Physical Desc
xxxviii, 433 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Collected Poems is a comprehensive volume showcasing the full range of Stanley Plumly's lyrical mastery. Spanning nearly 300 poems--including nine previously unpublished works--it traces his poetic journey in reverse chronology, as he intended. Deeply personal yet culturally resonant, the collection honors Plumly's legacy as a major American poet whose work engaged nature, art, memory, and emotion with precision and depth.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Publication Date
p2011
Physical Desc
13 sound discs (14 hr., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When their long-imprisoned con-artist father reaches the end of his life, Arthur and his twin sister become the owners of an undiscovered play by William Shakespeare that their father wants published, a final request that represents either a great literary gift or their father's last great heist.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Publication Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 audio disc (10 hr.) : digital, MP3 ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Description
In the summer of 2020, public defender Andy Hughes is assigned to a grotesque murder case that brings national media focus to rural Patrick County, Virginia. Alicia Benson, the wife of a wealthy businessman, is murdered in her home. The accused killer, Damian Bullins, is a cunning felon with a long history of violence, and he confesses to the police. He even admits his guilt to Andy. But a simple typographical error and a shocking discovery begin...
14) Brother Odd
Author
Publication Date
2006
Language
English
Description
St. Bartholomew's Abbey sits in majestic solitude amid the wild peaks of California's high Sierra, a haven for children otherwise abandoned, and a sanctuary for those seeking insight. Odd Thomas has come here to learn to live fully again. But trouble has a way of finding Odd Thomas, and it slinks back onto his path.
Author
Publication Date
2005
Language
English
Description
As a science journalist with a regular column in Scientific American, Jeremy Marsh specializes in debunking the supernatural and has a real nose for the strange and unusual. A born skeptic, he travels to the small town of Boone Creek, N.C., determined to find the real cause behind the ghostly apparitions that appear in the town cemetery. What he doesn't plan on, however, is meeting and falling hopelessly in love with Lexie Darnell, granddaughter...
18) Odd Thomas: #1
Author
Publication Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A hero on the border of life and death must avert a looming cataclysm.
20) Odd Thomas
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio
Publication Date
p2003
Physical Desc
9 sound discs (10 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dead people try to communicate with a short-order cook, who serves as a small desert town's reluctant confidant. Odd Thomas thinks of himself as an ordinary guy with a certain measure of talent at the Pico Mundo Grill, and he is rapturously in love with the most beautiful girl in the world, Stormy Llewellyn.









