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It's More Than Just Science!
(K-5th Grade)
Tuesdays; 4:30 p.m. at John and Judy Gay Library (JJGL)
Wednesdays; 4:30 p.m. at Roy and Helen Hall Library (Hall)
See Also:
*STEAM Building (5th-8th Grade)
Fridays; Jan. 19, Feb. 16, Apr. 19, May 17; 4:30 p.m. at JJGL.
*STEAM in Real Life (6th-12th Grade)
Saturdays, Jan. 27, Feb. 3, Feb. 10, Feb. 17, Feb. 24; 11:30 a.m. at JJGL
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Series
Blue Dominion volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The Godfather meets Guardians of the Galaxy in this crazy-ass adventure set on Viridian, a prison planet full of aliens…who want to eat you. Tig, the only human, is thrust into a lose/lose/lose situation when the mob boss he works for asks him to pick up and deliver a package that the Fed—the governing body of the known universe—also wants. To make matters worse, the “package” has curves for days, an attitude to match, and her own agenda...
2) Killswitch
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In the near future, fugitive Chase Sterling evades the transhuman life his creators intended him to lead. He connects with the Underground Church, confident his enhanced strength and intelligence make him the perfect guardian for those forced into a strange and secret existence. What could possibly go wrong? His unimpressed bodyguard is out to get him, his affection for a certain young woman may not be mutual, and a deceitful recruit accompanies Chase...
3) Thrive
Author
Series
Overthrow volume 3
Language
English
Description
The alien invasion of Earth is imminent. But maybe not all the aliens are united. A rebel faction has reached out to Anaya, saying there's a way to stop the larger invastion--a way for humans and hybrids and cryptogens to work together. Can they be trusted? Or is this a trap? It's not even clear if Anaya, Petra, and Seth are united--some of the hybrids think they'd be better off if the aliens won... With everything on the line, these three teens will...
Author
Series
Broken mirror novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Someone killed Granfa Jefferson. Victor is sure of it. But he’s the only one. Diagnosed with mirror resonance syndrome and shunned by Semiautonomous California society, Victor suffers from “blank outs,” hallucinations, and vivid nightmares. He violently overreacts to even minor confrontations. Victor’s grandfather devoted his life to researching and curing mentally ill Broken Mirrors like Victor, but now that he’s gone, Victor must walk...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Humans and intelligent machines bump up against each other in a parallel search for meaning and purpose during the period ensuing the most recent mass extinction. Yet, the world is not without beauty. The desert is majestic, and the historic city a place of artistry.In a beginning that was meant to be the end, Chance-bot is waiting on the street for the recycling truck with the simple instructions to surrender to fate. The bot surrenders to Ziggy....
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In the distant future, there is a separation of the sexes at birth for the good of society. Financial needs, above all else, have led to such drastic measures. The Separation is the story of the life of a male named Finn. The book traces his life at birth and continues past his "education" as well as beyond the time when he ultimately learns of the opposite sex. What will result from the revelation of a female society? Finn may wish he never found...
7) South
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Luis Ojeda owes his life to the Pacifico Norte cartel. Literally. Now it’s time to pay.Luis led escaping American Muslims out of the U.S. during the ten years following a 2019 terrorist attack on Chicago. He retired after nearly being killed by a border guard. But now in 2032, the Nortes give Luis a choice: pay back the fortune they spent saving his life, or take on a special job.The job: Nora Khaled – FBI agent, wife, mother of two, and Muslim....
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
How far would you go to save the ones you love? Naomi isn't allowed to feel too happy. Or sad. Or angry. She isn't allowed to love, or hate. Those are the rules. She's seen what happens when those rules are broken. Naomi doesn't care. Her friend's lives are in danger. Naomi is about to break all the rules. Almost 700 years ago, a fleet of colony ships was sent out from Earth. As their journey progressed, they grew apart, isolating themselves from...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In a forgotten village on the windswept tundra of a small planetary colony, a young man called Jem is the only Sanndai. He knows nothing of his own people but the stories told by the Torvik villagers: stories of how the Sanndai came from the sky, bringing weapons that made people disappear, and banished the Torviks to this harsh land. Now that Jem is grown, the elderly midwife who raised him can no longer protect him. Strong-willed and defiant, Jem...
10) Derelict
Author
Series
Halcyone Space volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When Rosalen Maldonado tinkers with the derelict freighter, she's just hoping to prove she deserves a scholarship to University. She certainly doesn't count on waking the ship's damaged AI or having three stowaways, Micah Rotherwood and brothers Jem and Barre Durbin, along for the ride. They all have their private reasons for hiding aboard, and lives they are seeking to escape, but if the accidental crew can't work together and learn to trust each...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Humanity’s greatest achievement exposes our greatest weakness. Kalea Kerner was an electrical engineer focused on taking over her father’s company, until her uncle sat up from his deathbed and healed her broken foot. The miracle of their healing without the aid of recently developed nanotechnology puzzles doctors, especially when other cases of miracle healings are revealed. When the witnesses to the resurrections demonstrate abilities beyond...
Author
Series
Broken mirror novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Tortured Echoes is Volume Two of the Resonant Earth saga that began in Broken Mirror. When bioinformatics whiz Victor Eastmore at long last gains control over his frightening mirror resonance syndrome, the data egg his grandfather gave him opens, revealing a posthumous message: Victor, I was murdered. Victor’s best hope for finding justice lies in New Venice, a tourist town in the Louisiana Territories where his family’s company is exploring...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Renowned vaccinologist "Hildi" Hildebrandt has set her sights on beating her brother to a Nobel Prize, and the opportunity to conduct experiments on the International Space Station might just provide the means to obtain that goal. Chet Hildebrandt should have had that opportunity. But now he'll teach a lesson to them all: his hot-shot astronaut sister, his philandering hypocritical father, and the CDC for not properly appreciating his work. One vial...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A girl. A gun. Monsters. When her farming community is consumed in the ruthless jaws of a corporate monster, 16-year-old Merit finds herself face to face with a different kind of beast, one possessing a human form but a mind bent on one thing and one thing alone: her destruction. Then a chance encounter with a legend turns her mad dash for survival into an odyssey of revenge as she sets out to hunt down the men who destroyed all that she loves. But...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Humanity has fallen from its once majestic place amongst the stars. Desperate for resources to prop up an aging galactic dynasty, humans seize every planet they find, exterminating their alien inhabitants. Across the empire, a group of dissidents come together through happenstance. As they learn more, however, they sense a strange force directing their lives. Can they discover the truth before the empire destroys them? Dispatched to subdue an uprising,...
17) Fixed
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Nellie Joanne Kinnan is an Advanced Cadet in the Black Core Program at the Detta training center. Weapons and violence are second nature to this 12-year-old, but she is never exactly sure what it is she is being trained for. Nellie is a dedicated and skilled cadet. She knows she wants to serve the Goddess and the Empire. But there is so much that she doesn't understand. When a weapons training session brings her face-to-face with her twin, Nellie's...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Life on Mars isn’t all it’s cracked up to be when you’re Isaak Contreras. Ever since his dad disappeared two years ago, Isaak’s been struggling to keep up in school, and he never seems to be able to live up to his mom’s high expectations. But everything changes when he finds an ancient coin among his missing father's possessions. The coin seems to have a strange connection not only to Isaak's family, but to Mars' ancient past. But how is...
19) Flux
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
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Description
Several years earlier, Nellie and her mother fled the Interior and its hated security police for the Outbacks, a loose-knit resistance of small cities, towns and rural areas. Since then, her mother has disappeared and 12-year-old Nellie is on her own, scrounging a living where she can find it. When loneliness opens her mind to flux, the ability to alter her vibratory state in the molecular field, she learns to travel to other levels of reality. When...
Author
Series
Skyship Academy volume 2
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Following the dramatic showdown in Seattle, brothers Jesse Fisher and Cassius Stevenson find their world has been turned inside out. The faculty at Skyship Academy is keeping Jesse prisoner in his own home, fearful of his influence over the Pearls. Meanwhile, Cassius has fled to the Polar Cities of Canada, where the Unified Party he deserted threatens retaliation at every turn. When Jesse smuggles a mysterious red Pearl onboard the Academy, he sets...
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