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"Arctic historian Ken McGoogan approaches the legacy of nineteenth-century explorer Sir John Franklin from a contemporary perspective and offers a surprising new explanation of an enduring Northern mystery. Two of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin's expeditions were monumental failures-the last one leading to more than a hundred deaths, including his own. Yet many still see the Royal Navy man as a heroic figure who sacrificed himself to discover the...
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Sunken archive ; 1
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Orbit
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"A beautiful discovery outside the window of her underwater home prompts the reclusive E. to begin a correspondence with renowned scholar Henerey Clel. The letters they share are filled with passion, at first for their mutual interests, and then, inevitably, for each other. Together, they uncover a mystery from the unknown depths, destined to transform the underwater world they both equally fear and love. But by no mere coincidence, a seaquake destroys...
3) Colossus
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Parliament House Press
Pub. Date
2024
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English
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"...a spine-tingling sf novel certain to wow readers who want to explore sentient AI, parallel universes, paranoia, and sustaining human consciousness for generations to come." - Booklist
For fans of psychological SF novels like THE GONE WORLD and SIX WAKES
Economics professor Clay West has always explained the world through the lens of his profession. But after his girlfriend Karla takes Dying Wish—a drug that supposedly...
For fans of psychological SF novels like THE GONE WORLD and SIX WAKES
Economics professor Clay West has always explained the world through the lens of his profession. But after his girlfriend Karla takes Dying Wish—a drug that supposedly...
4) Contretemps
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Faute De Frappe
Pub. Date
2024
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Français
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Vous assistez à l'enterrement de Boris Legrand, tué par balle cinq jours plus tôt. L'enquête piétine, et sera bientôt classée sans suite faute de preuves. C'est là qu'entre en scène le commandant Otto Rivers, qui possède la curieuse faculté de vivre sa vie à l'envers...
Grâce à lui, et malgré son cynisme débordant, vous essayez de remonter jusqu'à l'heure du crime et ainsi éviter le drame. Vous sentez-vous prêt à vivre cette aventure...
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Cristina Rebiere
Pub. Date
2024
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Français
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Le Collier de Coquillages
Le clan de l'île oubliée 1
Lowinné, jeune femme aborigène, se réjouit de bientôt s'unir à Tughanah maintenant qu'il est devenu un homme. Mais les deux amoureux doivent encore faire preuve de patience. Depuis d'innombrables générations, leurs deux clans se rejoignent sur l'immense boucle qu'ils parcourent chaque année vers Trowenna, la
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"A fascinating new history of America, told through the stories of a diverse cast of ten extraordinary-and often overlooked-adventurers, from Sacagawea to Sally Ride, who pushed the boundaries of discovery and determined our national destiny"--
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Cavendish Square
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Americans' large-scale movement west during the 1800s stemmed from several events. The discovery of gold in California, the Mormon migration west, the transcontinental railroad, and the search for farmland propelled many people in the East across the continent. This valuable volume highlights the major causes and effects of the push westward, highlighting important topics such as Native American displacement and the construction of the Erie Canal....
8) Mars rovers
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Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Space-loving readers who wonder what Mars rovers are, what their findings are, and why they are important are in for a treat with this book all about the fascinating Mars exploration vehicles"--
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Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Conditions on Mars make landing there very challenging. Readers get a close-up look at these challenges, plus information on how scientists have successfully landed rovers on Mars and how they might land humans there someday"--
10) Travel to Mars
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Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Readers who've wondered how long it would take to get to Mars and how humans would survive such a trip will love delving into this book all about Mars travel!"--
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Union Square Kids
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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“We made it!” I cried. “We're here. The North Pole! We're on top of the world! The first men ever to stand here in all of history.” When eleven-year-old Matthew Henson ran away from his cruel stepmother to find a new life in the big city, no one could have predicted that he would become the first man to reach the North Pole. With a little luck and a lot of hard work, Matthew found a life of adventure on the high seas and in the Arctic....
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Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"DIVE! is a fascinating introduction to the comprehensive, world history of diving by award-winning artist Chris Gall. How do you breathe underwater? What tools can we use to go deeper and deeper into the oceans? And...what's down there? Two-thirds of our Earth is covered in ocean, yet only 5% of it has been explored. DIVE deep into our long history of sea exploration to learn why, how, and when humans have dived, and uncover our biggest questions...
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"As early as 1530, reports of El Dorado, a city of gold in the South American interior, beckoned to European explorers. Whether there was any truth to the stories remained to be seen, but the allure of unimaginable riches was enough to ensnare dozens of would-be heroes and glory hounds in the desperate hunt. Among them was Sir Walter Raleigh: ambitious courtier, confidant to Queen Elizabeth, and, before long, El Dorado fanatic. Entering the Elizabethan...
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Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"A riveting journey down Theodore Roosevelt's "river of doubt" with a diverse crew of adventurers, scientists, and Indigenous leaders who shine light on the past, present, and future of a natural wonder. Sam Moses took part in the adventure of a lifetime when he, along with seventeen men and two women, embarked on the Rio Roosevelt Expedition. They would follow the former president's wake down five-hundred miles of extreme whitewater into the dark...
18) WALL-E
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Tokyopop
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"WALL-E is a trash compactor robot -- the last one of his kind! -- and every day for hundreds of years he's faithfully cleaned and organized the millions of tons of trash left behind on Earth by humans. But his routine is flipped upside down when he finds a tiny green plant, the first new sign of life for centuries!"--
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MITeen Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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The theory of evolution takes hold-transforming ideas about survival, extinction, and life itself. Can species change? Or go extinct? In the eighteenth century, most people answer no to both questions. But in the century that follows, that certainty gets challenged as some people in Europe question the common belief that all creatures are the same as they've been since life's creation.
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