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"The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from an island off Vancouver in 1912 to a dark colony of the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and planets. Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at...
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"The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist. What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson. But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly,...
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English
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As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.
7) Space
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Ripley Pub
Publication Date
c2009
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48 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 21 x 30 cm. + 1 fact card and 1 poster.
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English
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Provides information with special Ripley's fascinating facts and amazing "Believe It or Not!" stories.
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Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck
Publication Date
2005
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488 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Sky joins Georgia and the other Stravagante, "who travel between worlds and do what is required," when he leaves London for Giglia, a city similar to Renaissance Florence, and becomes involved in ancient feuds and palace intrigue.
10) Space & time
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Creative Education
Publication Date
2013
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1 online resource (48 p.) : col. ill., col. maps ; 27 cm.
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English
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Explores the concept of time and space in relation to physics.
11) Sir Thursday: #4
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English
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When Arthur is drafted into the Glorious Army of the Architect by Sir Thursday, he must survive basic training, avoid getting posted to the Front, and figure out how to free Part Four of the Will, while Leaf tries to banish Arthur's doppleganger on Earth.
12) Parallel
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Vertical Entertainment
Publication Date
[2020]
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1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A group of friends stumble upon a mirror that serves as a portal to a "multiverse," but soon discover that importing knowledge from the other side in order to better their lives brings increasingly dangerous consequences.
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Publication Date
[2016]
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xi, 377 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
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English
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The Next--the hyper-intelligent post-humans--realize that the missive they received from the center of the galaxy contains instructions for kick-starting the development of an immense artificial intelligence knows as The Machine. But to build this computer the size of an Earth continent, they must obtain help from the more populous and still industrious worlds of mankind.
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British Broadcasting Corporation
Publication Date
[2012]
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4 videodiscs (581 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Monster hit Primeval roars back onto the screens for an extended third series. Still reeling from Stephen's death and with the depth of Helen's betrayal now revealed, Nick Cutter must fight to re-focus his embattled team. Cutter's crew is joined by some new recruits in the form of maverick policeman Danny Quinn, sparky Egyptologist Sarah Page, and the new leader of the ARC's security forces, Captain Becker. Includes the complete fourth and fifth seasons....
16) Abarat: # 1
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Joanna Cotler Books
Publication Date
c2002
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388 p., xxv : ill. ; 25 cm.
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English
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Candy Quackenbush of Chickentown, Minnesota, one day finds herself on the edge of a foreign world that is populated by strange creatures, and her life is forever changed.
17) The awakening
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2020.
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English
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Breen Kelly hates her job and has massive student loan debt and lately she has noticed a silver-haired man following her. While house sitting for her mother, she finds records of a multimillion dollar inheritance in her name. When she flies to Ireland to claim what is rightfully hers, she enters a magical land of faeries, elves, and mermaids. In this new land, she will embrace powers she never knew she had.
18) Terrace story
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Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Publication Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
192 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Annie, Edward, and their young daughter, Rose, live in a cramped apartment. One night, without warning, they find a beautiful terrace hidden in their closet. It wasn't there before, and it seems to only appear when their friend Stephanie visits. A city dweller's dream come true! But every extra bit of space has a hidden cost, and the terrace sets off a seismic chain of events, forever changing the shape of their tiny home, and the shape of the world"--...
19) No proper lady
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Sourcebooks Casablanca
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English
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"[An] inventive plot and tart wit blend together to create a magical romance' featuring a time-traveling demon slayer who falls for her Victorian suitor (The Chicago Tribune).
When a half-naked woman suddenly appears on his country estate, Simon Grenville doesn't have time to be shocked. Demonic beasts are hot on his heels until the beautiful stranger unsheathes several knives strapped to her skin-tight trousers and kills them. As he stares at her...
20) The blood cell
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Broadway Books
Publication Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
252 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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"An asteroid in the furthest reaches of space -- the most secure prison for the most dangerous of criminals. The Governor is responsible for the worst fraudsters and the cruellest murderers. So he's certainly not impressed by the arrival of the man they're calling the most dangerous criminal in the quadrant. Or, as he prefers to be known, the Doctor."--Amazon.com.
The Doctor is the newest inmate at the most secure prison in the universe and immediately...









