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| 2020 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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| 2020 | OverDrive | Random House Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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| 2020 | Random House Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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"A 1980s cultural assessment of the fantastical future of online behavior continues the story that began in the internationally best-selling futuristic novel, Ready Player One, that inspired a blockbuster Steven Spielberg film" --
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| 2016 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Tantor Media, Inc | English | Checked Out
4 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
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| 2013 | OverDrive | Milkweed Editions | English | Available Online
2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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| 2013 | Milkweed Editions | English | Available Online
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"As a leading researcher in the field of biology, Robin Wall Kimmerer understands the delicate state of our world. But as an active member of the Potawatomi nation, she senses and relates to the world through a way of knowing far older than any science. In Braiding Sweetgrass, she intertwines these two modes of awareness--the analytic and the emotional, the scientific and the cultural--to ultimately reveal a path toward healing the rift that grows...
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| OverDrive | Unabridged | Phoenix Books, Inc | English | Available Online
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| 2011 | OverDrive | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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| 2011 | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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"In the ten years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking's classic work has become a landmark volume in scientific writing, with more than nine million copies in forty languages sold worldwide. That edition was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the origins and nature of the universe. But the intervening years have seen extraordinary advances in the technology of observing both the micro- and the macrocosmic worlds. These observations...
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| 2019 | OverDrive | The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc | English | Available Online
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Why do people build with arches? Why do we use stone in some places and wood in others? What's a foundation? How do you plan a road or construct a bridge? The answers to these questions can help gamers in Minecraft and in the real world! Through building their own structures and systems in Minecraft, young readers and gaming fans will learn about the past and present of human engineering, with a vision toward the future.
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| 1970 | Lancer Books | Paperback | English | On Shelf
Grand Canyon Community Library 1 available 823 WELLS |
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| OverDrive | Duke Classics | English | Available Online
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A young scientist, to the amazement and disbelief of his colleagues and other experts, has perfected a machine that lets him live one of mankind's oldest dreams--to live in times other than his own.
6) The prince
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| OverDrive | Duke Classics | English | Available Online
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With a mix of both respectable and immoral advice, The Prince is a frank analysis on political power. Separated into four sections, The Prince is both a guide to obtain power and an explanation on the aspects that affect it. The first section discusses the types of principalities. According to Machiavelli, there are four different types-hereditary, mixed, new and ecclesiastical. While defining each type, Machiavelli also discusses the implications...
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| 2002 | 40th anniversary ed., 1st Mariner Books ed. | Houghton Mifflin | xix, 378 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. | English |
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First published by Houghton Mifflin in 1962, Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. "Silent Spring became a runaway bestseller, with international reverberations . . . [It is] well crafted, fearless and succinct . . . Even if she had not inspired a generation of activists, Carson would prevail as...
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Grand Canyon Community Library - Non-Fiction 1 available
155.24 GLADWELL, MALCOLM
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| [2013] | 1st ed. | Little, Brown and Company | ix, 305 p. ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
Grand Canyon Community Library - Non-Fiction 1 available 155.24 GLADWELL, MALCOLM |
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Malcolm Gladwell, the #1 bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, and What the Dog Saw, offers his most provocative--and dazzling--book yet. Three thousand years ago on a battlefield in ancient Palestine, a shepherd boy felled a mighty warrior with nothing more than a stone and a sling, and ever since then the names of David and Goliath have stood for battles between underdogs and giants. David's victory was improbable and miraculous....
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| 2013 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Tantor Media, Inc | English | Checked Out
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America's funniest science writer (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable tour. The alimentary canal is classic Mary Roach terrain: the questions explored in Gulp are as taboo, in their way, as the cadavers in Stiff and every bit as surreal as the universe of zero gravity explored in Packing for Mars. Why is crunchy food so appealing? Why is it so hard to find words for flavors and smells? Why doesn't the stomach digest itself?...
10) Sports Cars
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| 2019 | OverDrive | Kaleidocope Publishing | English | Available Online
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This series introduces readers to the defining characteristics, history, mechanics, and uses of twelve cool rides. Each title features engaging infographics, informative sidebars, vivid photographs, and a glossary.
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| 2009 | OverDrive | HarperCollins e-books | English | Available Online
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| 2009 | HarperCollins e-books | English | Available Online
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A true story of tenacity and imagination describes how an African teenager built a windmill from scraps to create electricity for his home and his village, improving life for himself and his neighbors.
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| 2017 | OverDrive | William Morrow | English | Available Online
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| 2017 | William Morrow | English | Available Online
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"Boston, present day. A young man from a shadowy government agency shows up at an Ivy League university and offers an eminent professor a lot of money to study a trove of recently discovered old documents. The only condition: the professor must sign an NDA that would preclude him from publishing his findings, should they be significant. The professor refuses and tells the young man to get lost. On his way out, he bumps into a young woman--a low-on-the-totem-pole...
13) The God delusion
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Grand Canyon Community Library - Non-Fiction 1 available
211.8 DAWKINS, RICHARD
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| 2006 | Houghton Mifflin Co | x, 406 p. ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
Grand Canyon Community Library - Non-Fiction 1 available 211.8 DAWKINS, RICHARD |
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| 2007 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Tantor Media, Inc | English | Available Online
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Argues that belief in God is irrational, and describes examples of religion's negative influences on society throughout the centuries, such as war, bigotry, child abuse, and violence.
14) A tree is nice
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Grand Canyon Community Library - Juvenile Non-Fiction 1 available
JN 582.16 U21T
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| c1956 | Harper & Row | [32] p : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. | English | On Shelf
Grand Canyon Community Library - Juvenile Non-Fiction 1 available JN 582.16 U21T |
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Briefly describes the value of a tree.
15) The jungle
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| 2012. | 2012 edition. | Barnes & Noble : | xix, 338 pages ; 22 cm | English | On Shelf
Grand Canyon Community Library 1 available 813 SINCLAIR |
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| OverDrive | Duke Classics | English | Available Online
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Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the nineteenth century and brought into sharp moral focus the apalling odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled for their share of the American dream. Denounced by the conservative press as an un-American libel on the meatpacking industry, the book was championed by more progressive thinkers, including then...
16) Rascal
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| 2002 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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The author recalls his carefree life in a small midwestern town at the close of World War I, and his adventures with his pet raccoon.
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Grand Canyon Community Library - Non-Fiction 1 available
363.7 GESSNER, DAVID
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| [2015] | First edition. | W.W. Norton & Company | 354 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm | English | On Shelf
Grand Canyon Community Library - Non-Fiction 1 available 363.7 GESSNER, DAVID |
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"Archetypal wild man Edward Abbey and proper, dedicated Wallace Stegner left their footprints all over the western landscape. Now, ... nature writer David Gessner follows the ghosts of these two remarkable writer-environmentalists from Stegner's birthplace in Saskatchewan to the site of Abbey's pilgrimages to Arches National Park in Utah, braiding their stories and asking how they speak to the lives of all those who care about the West"--Dust jacket...
18) UFOs and Aliens
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| 2020 | OverDrive | The Child's World, Inc | English | Available Online
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Offers readers a captivating look into UFOs and questions whether aliens exist, complete with vivid photographs and exciting diagrams. Back matter includes an in-depth 'Out of This World' feature that highlights a related topic, a phonetic glossary, resources for further study, and an index. Outer space is full of wonder and mystery. Is there life beyond Earth? What is a comet made of? Young readers will enjoy blasting into space with this exciting,...
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| 2011 | OverDrive | HarperCollins | English | Available Online
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| 2011 | HarperCollins | English | Available Online
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When the power goes out in the school, everyone panics in the dark, and only nerdy Mr. Harrison, who can fix and build anything, can save the day.
20) Feed
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| 2010 | OverDrive | Candlewick Press | English | Available Online
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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.
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