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61) Hunting time
Author
Series
Colter Shaw novels volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
The New York Times bestselling master of suspense is back with a riveting thriller, as reward seeker Colter Shaw plunges into the woods and races the clock in a case where nothing is quite what it seems--
THERE ARE TWO FUNDAMENTAL RULES OF SURVIVAL.
#1: NEVER BE WITHOUT A MEANS OF ESCAPE.
Allison Parker is on the run with her teenage daughter, Hannah, and Colter Shaw has been hired by her eccentric boss, entrepreneur Marty Harmon, to find and...
62) Trojan odyssey
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
63) Poseidon's arrow
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Ruthless Austrian entrepreneur Edward Bolcke has managed to steal a crucial component of the U.S. Navy's latest submarine technology--and he has found a way to hijack the world's supply of rare earth minerals. The three Pitts, along with longstanding sidekick Al Giordino, use their usual mix of brains and brawn to see that justice is served.
65) Casey Jones
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Casey Jones is best known for his work as a railroad engineer and for his dramatic death, which occurred when he was trying to stop his train-named Cannonball-in order to save lives. This volume details Casey Jones's life and the tragic railroad accident that catapulted him to fame. Illustrated and narrated through the graphic-novel format, this volume is an excellent tool for getting students interested in history and reading.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Think. Invent. Organize. Share. Don't be evil. And change the world. Larry Page and Sergey Brin started out as two Stanford college students with a wild idea: They were going to organize the world's information. From that one deceptively simple goal, they created one of the most influential and innovative companies in the world. The word "google" has even entered our vocabulary as a verb. Now, find out the true history of Googlefrom its humble beginnings...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The story of the jet age of aviation revolves around remarkable geniuses-including Sir Frank Whittle, the British inventor of the jet engine; Hans von Ohain, a German jet engine designer who comes to work for the U.S.; famed aeronautical engineer Kelly Johnson; the daring test pilot Tex Johnston, and many more-brilliant men who conceived these early extraordinary airplanes and had the courage to fly them to new horizons.
Roaring Thunder blends real...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2017.
Language
English
Description
Despite Hitler's dictates on women's place being in the home, two fiercely defiant female pilots were awarded the Iron Cross during the Second World War. Other than this unique distinction and a passion for flying that bordered on addiction, these women could not have been less alike. One was Aryan Nazi poster-girl Hanna Reitsch, an unsurpassed pilot, who is now best-known for being the last person to fly into Berlin-under-siege in April 1945, in...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A brilliant portrait of two American giants, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, and America entering the automobile age, told through the fascinating but little-known narrative of the summer road trips taken by Edison and Ford"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"From an acclaimed popular historian comes a fresh, meticulous, and entertaining account of Henry Ford and his invention of the Model-T--the machine that defined the dawning age in America. Every century or so, our republic has been changed by a new technology: 170 years ago it was the railroad; today it's the microprocessor. But in the early twentieth century it was the gasoline-combustion engine, built by a young, unknown, industrious man named...
Author
Publisher
Crown Business
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Based on the hugely popular cover story about Steve Jobs in Fast Company in May 2012, this is the behind the scenes account of how Steve Jobs arguably became the most famous and visionary CEO in history. Award-winning journalist Brent Schlender and veteran editor Rick Tetzeli have interviewed friends, industry insiders, and the people who knew Jobs best throughout his evolution as a CEO and leader. In addition Schlender, who knew Jobs personally...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"While getting into his car on the evening of February 16, 1978, the chief of the CIA's Moscow station was handed an envelope by an unknown Russian. Its contents stunned the Americans: details of top-secret Soviet research and development in military technology that was totally unknown to the United States. From 1979 to 1985, Adolf Tolkachev, an engineer at a military research center, cracked open the secret Soviet military research establishment,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"A century apart, Dirk Pitt and Isaac Bell team up to unlock the truth about the most famous maritime disaster of all time. In the present day, Dirk Pitt is must make a daring rescue from inside an antiquated submersible in the waters around New York City. His reward afterwards is a document left behind a century earlier by legendary detective Isaac Bell--a document that re-opens a historical mystery... In 1911 Colorado, Isaac Bell is asked to look...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The story of George Ferris, inventor of the iconic Ferris Wheel"--
"The World's Fair in Chicago, 1893, was to be a spectacular event: architects, musicians, artists, and inventors worked on special exhibits to display the glories of their countries. But the Fair's planners wanted something really special, something on the scale of the Eiffel Tower, which had been constructed for France's fair three years earlier. At last, engineer George Ferris...
Author
Series
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Electricians: A Practical Career Guide includes interviews with professionals in a field that has proven to be a stable, lucrative, and growing profession. If you're looking for a career as an electrician this is the book for you--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This engaging picture book biography explores how Jerry Lawson, a Black engineer, revolutionized the video game industry. Before Xbox and Playstation and Nintendo Switch, there was a tinkerer named Jerry Lawson. As a boy, Jerry loved playing with springs, sprockets, and gadgety things. When he grew up, Jerry became an engineer-a professional tinkerer! In the 1970s, Jerry decided to tinker with video games. Back then, if players wanted a new video...
Author
Publisher
Silhouette Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Loving Jack: Somehow her own fictional brooding hero had turned up in person right under her own roof, and now all romance writer Jackie MacNamara had to do was convince stubborn Nathan Powell that happily-ever-after began at home-- and in her arms.
Best laid plans: She was the sexiest thing in a hard hat that architect Cody Johnson had ever seen, but structural engineer Abra Wilson also had a will as strong as a steel girder - and just about as...
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Long before calculators were invented, little Edith Clarke devoured numbers, conquered calculations, cracked puzzles, and breezed through brainteasers. Edith wanted to be an engineer-to use the numbers she saw all around her to help build America. When she grew up, no one would hire a woman engineer. But that didn't stop Edith from following her passion and putting her lightning-quick mind to the problem of electricity. But the calculations took so...
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