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Author
Series
Billie Walker mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Meet Billie Walker--a staunchly feminist, champagne-swilling, fast-driving investigator based in glamorous post-WII Sydney--as she matches wits against Sydney's gangster underworld to find a missing boy before it's too late"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
High school senior computer experts William King and Blake Watt are picked up by the authorities to help them track down a father who has failed to make child-support payments, but as they learn more about the man they are searching for, they discover the true nature of their mission and learn the scary reason why they were chosen.
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English
Description
On May 1, 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were anxious. Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone, and for months, its U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the 'Lusitania' was one of the era's great transatlantic 'Greyhounds' and her captain, William Thomas Turner,...
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 37
Language
English
Formats
Description
Elizabeth Shaw specializes in wills and trusts at the Boston law firm of Shaw and Cartwright, and over the years she's developed a friendship with wives of very wealthy men. However, these rich wives have a mutual secret: they've all had an affair with a man named Gary Eisenhower--and now he's blackmailing them for money. Shaw hires Spenser to make Eisenhower "cease and desist," so to speak, but when women start turning up dead, Spenser's assignment...
Pub. Date
[2013], c2008
Language
English
Description
Before global positioning systems and modern mapmaking, the concept of longitude was just a dream. Without its guidance, navigation in the 1700s was both unpredictable and deadly until one man solved the mystery. Richard Dreyfuss narrates this dramatic re-creation of longitude's difficult birth and the remarkable history-making life of a country carpenter named John Harrison. Go back in time to see history, and longitude, in the making.
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The Shrinkatron is broken and it's sending everyone everywhere but where they want to go! Randy the Planner is concerned because Tinyland seems to be going crazy, building it's own upside down buildings, and even worse, the Shrinkatron has shrunk Conductor Dave's pants! Join Bob, Engineer Emily and Ticket Agent Cee Cee as they sing "Shrinkatron Crazifest!"
7) Kill switch
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"I've done far worse than what I went to prison for. She has no idea how bad this can get." WINTER Sending him to prison was the worst thing I could’ve done. It didn’t matter that he did the crime or that I wished he was dead. Perhaps I thought I’d have time to disappear before he got out or he’d cool off in jail and be anything but the horror he was. But I was wrong. Three years came and went too fast, and now he’s anything but calm. Prison...
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English
Description
This episode of the U.S. Army's The Big Picture television show spotlights the political, economic, and social background that brought about the creation of a military force for the free Bonn Republic of West Germany. The creation of this German Army was an important plank in the founding platform of the NATO nations as the addition of this force unified the stand of these nations against aggression. This video shows the American Army officers training...
9) The Universe
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Language
English
Description
In this program, scientists, astrobiologists, and astronomers combine scientific fact and a little imagination to create five lines of extraterrestrial evolution and explain how creatures on the surface of Earth can offer a helping hand to understanding life on other planets.
10) Learning Games
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Language
English
Description
This awesome game is great for TEACHING latitude and longitude and world geography. In Coordinates, students learn latitude and longitude while learning the locations and names of the world's nations. First, students are prompted to find the latitude coordinate. Once the latitude coordinate is found, the game locks the latitude position and the longitude lines animate into the map. Finally, students are prompted to find a point of longitude. If the...
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