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The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist. What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson. But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly, with...
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One night after an evening out, Jason Dessen, forty-year-old physics professor living with his wife and son in Chicago, is kidnapped at gunpoint by a masked man, driven to an abandoned industrial site and injected with a powerful drug. As he wakes, a man Jason's never met smiles down at him and says, Welcome back, my friend. But this life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife; his son was never born; and he's not an ordinary college professor,...
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Passages volume 6
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Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Danny, his younger brother Wayne, and their bossy cousin Michelle are transported to a parallel world, where they help the people of Marus overcome their slavery and reclaim their homeland.
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Annie, Edward, and their young daughter, Rose, live in a cramped apartment. One night, without warning, they find a beautiful terrace hidden in their closet. It wasn't there before, and it seems to only appear when their friend Stephanie visits. A city dweller's dream come true! But every extra bit of space has a hidden cost, and the terrace sets off a seismic chain of events, forever changing the shape of their tiny home, and the shape of the world--...
8) Sunstorm
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A time odyssey volume 2
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2005
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English
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Davis Bryan volume 1
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Living Ink Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 20
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English
11) Legend
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After donning an antique wedding dress, celebrated chef Kady Long finds herself transported back in time to nineteenth-century Colorado, where she is tricked into marrying the man she saves from hanging, a man who harbors a painful secret about his p
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From the second-century celestial models of Ptolemy to modern-day research institutes and quantum theory, this classic book offers a breathtaking tour of astronomy and the brilliant, eccentric personalities who have shaped it. From the first time mankind had an inkling of the vast space that surrounds us, those who study the universe have had to struggle against political and religious preconceptions. They have included some of the most charismatic,...
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Beyonders volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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Jason and Rachel's adventures and friendships have made Lyrian more of a home to them than they could have imagined, so now, armed with the prophecy of a dying oracle, they are ready to become Lyrian's heroes whatever the cost to themselves.
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Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 4
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Jack and Annie are joined by Teddy and Kathleen as they travel to the snowy Land-Behind-the-Clouds, where they search for the eye of the Ice Wizard and attempt to help Merlin and Morgan.
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In How to Build a Time Machine, Brian Clegg provides an understanding of what time is and how it can be manipulated. He explores the remarkable possibilities of real time travel that emerge from quantum entanglement, superluminal speeds, neutron star cylinders and wormholes in space. With the fascinating paradoxes of time travel echoing in our minds will we realize that travel into the future might never be possible? Or will we realize there is no...
16) The final storm
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Door within trilogy volume 3
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IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Paragor unites with the Wyrm Lord and the Seven Sleepers to launch an assault on the kingdom of Alleble and its allies, who face the coming onslaught believing that they will be victorious with the help of the Three Witnesses.
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The Indian in the Cupboard series volume 3
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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In this third book about Omri and his magic cupboard, Omri and his friend Patrick must risk grownups' discovering their secret when they find themselves in need of a friend's toy plastic doctors to save wounded people from the dangerous world of the
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In this vibrant, eye-opening tour of milestones in the history of our universe, Chris Impey guides us through space and time, leading us from the familiar sights of the night sky to the dazzlingly strange aftermath of the Big Bang. What if we could look into space and see not only our place in the universe but also how we came to be here? As it happens, we can. Because it takes time for light to travel, we see more and more distant regions of the...
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Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
c2009
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IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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When a spaceship lands in the small town of Vern Hollow in 1956, juvenile delinquent Jack Creedle and prim, studious Isadora Shumway form an unexpected alliance as they try to keep a group of extraterrestrials from stealing eccentric Uncle Bud's spac
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