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Martin Linskey

Toronto Shakedown is an environmental thriller that takes place in the not too distant future along Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. A team of young hackers, electrical engineers, physicists and geologists at Tyger Geosciences discover that their world is about to be shaken apart.The criminals that are shaking up society are led by Stephan Dubenium, a wealthy Canadian who owns Dubenium Nuclear Services (DNS), one of North America's leading nuclear services firms. He also owns a US compa...

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Randall Munroe

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**“How To will make you laugh as you learn…With How To, you can't help but appreciate the glorious complexity of our universe and the amazing breadth of humanity's effort to comprehend it. If you want some lightweight edification, you won't go wrong with How To.” —CNET“[How To] has science and jokes in it, so 10/10 can recommend.” —Simone Giertz...

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Mary Pope Osborne

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Magic Tree House Fact Tracker

The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system!When Jack and Annie got back from their adventure in Magic Tree House #23: Twister on Tuesday, they had lots of questions. How do tornadoes form? What kinds of tools can help predict bad storms? Where did the biggest snowfall on record happen? How fast are hurricane winds?Did you know that there’s a Magic Tree House book for every kid?...

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Stephen Kurczy

In this riveting account of an area of Appalachia known as the Quiet Zone where cell phones and WiFi are banned, journalist Stephen Kurczy explores the pervasive role of technology in our lives and the innate human need for quiet."Captures the complex beauty of a disconnected way of life." — The NationWith a new afterword to the paperback editionDeep in the Appalachian Mountains lies the last truly...

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Jeannie Meekins

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15-Minute Books

How old is Earth?How fast does Earth spin?What is happening to Mount Everest, the highest place on Earth?What is the lowest place on Earth?Learn the answer to these questions and many more fun facts in this 15-Minute Book. Earth is the only planet in the universe that has life. It orbits an ordinary star in the outer edge of The Milky Way Galaxy. It is a small rocky planet, third in line from its sun. Seventy percent of it is covered by water. It is our home. B...

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Sarah Scoles

For anyone who has ever looked up at the night sky and wondered, "Are we alone?" A brilliant examination of the science behind the search for extraterrestrial intelligence and its pioneer, Jill Tarter, the inspiration for the main character in Carl Sagan's Contact.Jill Tarter is a pioneer, an innovator, an adventurer, and a controversial force. At a time when women weren’t encouraged to do much outside the home, Tarter ventured as far out as she could—into...

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Ami Blackwelder

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Water Jug: Anthology of shorts

If we had the chance to do things again differently, would we?Hard to say when the snow began falling. In the 2020s, there were rumors of global warming, of severe weather changes and it was not all rumor. Many of us could feel the changes. Warm and then cold. Rain and then the sunniest of days. Then all went bad, warmer and warmer each day.

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Meghan McCarthy

Gum. It’s been around for centuries—from the ancient Greeks to the American Indians, everyone’s chewed it. But the best kind of gum—bubble gum!—wasn’t invented until 1928, when an enterprising young accountant at Fleer Gum and Candy used his spare time to experiment with different recipes. Bubble-blowing kids everywhere will be delighted with Megan McCarthy’s entertaining pictures and engaging fun facts as they learn the history behind the pink perfection of Dubble Bubble.

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Stephan A. Schwartz

Awakening is the log kept by Arthur Davies, senior analyst for the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. Arthur, initially very skeptical, became convinced an alien really was being held by the government at a secret facility. The log is his story of what he did with that information, and how he was awakened to a part of himself he had never imagined; and how that experience showed him the threat that hangs over civilization and humanity itself.Awakening is...

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Frank Cassidy Jr. DVM

The Log Cabin Mine was once the largest gold-producing mine in California. It was state-of-the-art and could both extract and process the gold from the quartz ore far beneath the surface. Now, all that remains of the once bountiful mine are decaying buildings, equipment ravaged by time and vandals, and memories.Gold Mine in the Sky chronicles the colorful history of the Log Cabin Mine, from its humble beginning in 1890, to its preWorld War II heyday, to the modern efforts ...

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Jeremy Hanson-Finger

I do not know why you do what you do. I tell you that you are fantastic and you tell me you are involved with someone. The input is that you are fantastic and the output is that you are involved with someone else. How that information is processed is a mystery to me.Boy feels like computer, boy meets girl, boy feels less like computer—Goodbye, Base Eight is a true millennial romance that explores how two assembly-line workers, despite their alienation, are able to...

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Top Writers Block

We have all experienced loneliness at some stage in our life. Whether it is sitting alone in a doctor's office or witnessing some poor soul sleeping on a flattened carton, loneliness is there in different degrees. Why not read this collection of eleven short stories and see how loneliness appears to others?