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One Tiny Bubble: The Story of Our Last Universal Common Ancestor
By Karen Krossing. 2022
How to Party Like a Snail
By Naseem Hrab. 2022
See It, Dream It, Do It: How 25 people just like you found their dream jobs
By Colleen Nelson, Kathie MacIsaac. 2023
From award-winning author Colleen Nelson, and literacy advocate Kathie MacIsaac, twenty-five profiles present a plethora of jobs, and people, making…
it easier than ever for young people to see their dreams and to live their dreams!The first book of automobiles
By Jeanne Bendick. 1971
Mysteries of the mummies: the story of the unwrapping of a 2,000-year-old mummy by a team of experts
By A. Rosalie David. 1978
An account of how scientists and archaeologists have adopted new methods to further reveal the secrets of the past, as…
in the postmortem examination of a young girl dead for more than 2,000 years. Includes a brief explanation of Egyptian history and burial ritualsGirls & young women inventing: twenty true stories about inventors plus how you can be one yourself
By Frances A Karnes. 1995
Profiles of twenty young female inventors arranged by type of invention. The authors explain the inventing process and how to…
turn an idea into a product. Also included are listings of organizations to contact, motivational quotations, and facts about female inventors in history. For grades 5-8The Neptune file: a story of astronomical rivalry and the pioneers of planet hunting
By Tom Standage. 2000
Chronicles events surrounding the 1840s discovery of the eighth planet from the Sun. Describes how British mathematician John Couch Adams…
deduced Neptune's existence from formulas--in work ignored by Britain's royal astronomer. Then Frenchman Urbain Le Verrier reached a conclusion similar to that of Adams, sparking a race to view the planet.Houdini's box: the art of escape
By Adam Phillips. 2001
British psychotherapist explores the intentions of escape artists and the meaning of escape in a broader sense. Phillips's discussion of…
Houdini's compulsion to perform dangerous feats is interwoven with pertinent extracts from therapeutic case studies and examples from literature and literary history, such as the long seclusion of the poet Emily Dickinson.A continual feast: words of comfort and celebration collected by Father Tim
By Jan Karon. 2005
Words of wisdom, faith, and encouragement, as well as lively ideas, humor, commonsense advice, and more, that fictional Father Tim…
of Mitford has collected over the years from writers, philosophers, and the Bible. Companion to Patches of Godlight (DB 61575). 2005Patches of Godlight: Father Tim's favorite quotes
By Jan Karon. 2001
Collection of favorite quotes and passages that have a special meaning for fictional Father Tim. They are drawn from the…
works of poets, humorists, clerics, philosophers, and others. Companion to A Continual Feast (DB 62403). 2001Mountain of Fire: Into the Heart of Volcanoes (Roberge)
By Julie Roberge, Aless Mc, Charles Simard. 2023
Hello, Dark
By Tamara Campeau, Wai Wong. 2021
The Growing years: a guide to your child's emotional development from birth to adolescence
By Mark Rubinstein. 1987
This book, written by a psychiatrist, offers practical advice on fostering a child's emotional growth from infancy to age twelve.…
Part one includes advice on a wide array of common concerns from weaning to television. Part two deals with special contemporary issues in emotional development, such as working mothers and divorceHow to make your own luck
By Bernard Gittelson. 1981
A top consultant to industry, who is also a public relations representative and creator of a biothythm computer program business,…
focuses on using ingenuity and perseverance to get the breaks as an entrepeneur. Gittelson explains how to tap one's own creative energy and channel it into actionThe revolution in astronomy
By Paul Hodge. 1970
When it's laughter you're after
By Stewart Harral. 1962
Reference guide for speakers, salesmen, professionals, and others who use humor when dealing with people. Discusses the techniques of getting…
laughs, timing, and sources of jokes, and lists more than four thousand humorous stories, ad libs, gags, and puns on a variety of topicsThe laughter prescription: the tools of humor and how to use them
By Laurence Peter. 1982
The author of the bestselling "Peter Principle" teams up with humorist Bill Dana to prescribe laughter as the best medicine.…
Rather than a bitter pill, they recommend humor as preventive medicine for physiological and psychological healthTornado watch [braille
By John Fuller. 1987
Account of the damage twenty-eight tornadoes spawned in a four-and-a-half-hour period on May 31, 1985, in western Pennsylvania and northeastern…
Ohio. With winds up to three hundred miles per hour, seventy-five people were killed and more than a thousand were injured. Entire towns were flattened, creating scenes of horror and destructionMorse code: the essential language
By L. Carron. 1986
A brief history of telegraphy from the earliest times to the computer age. Presents the International Morse Code and offers…
instructions and advice on learning, sending, and receiving messages in codeAnger, the misunderstood emotion: The Misunderstood Emotion
By Carol Tavris. 1982
Taking the position that the complex emotion of anger is actually a learned response that should be expressed selectively, Tavris…
disagrees with those who argue that it is beneficial to express anger at will. She aserts that there is a time and place for anger, and that its mere expression does not always produces the release claimed