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101) Dallas buyers club
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof's free-wheeling life was overturned in 1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive. Shunned and ostracized by many old friends and bereft of government-approved medicines, he decided to take matters in his own hands, tracking down alternative treatments from all over the world by means both legal and illegal. Bypassing the establishment, he joined forces with an unlikely band of renegades and outcasts and established a hugely...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Just what is a jackalope? Purported to be part jackrabbit and part antelope, the jackalope began as a local joke concocted by two young brothers in a small Wyoming town during the Great Depression. Their creation quickly spread around the U.S., where it now regularly appears as innumerable forms of kitsch--wall mounts, postcards, keychains, coffee mugs, shot glasses, and so on. A vast body of folk narratives has carried the jackalope's fame around...
104) The great germ hunt
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Magnificent makers volume 4
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Violet, Pablo, and their classmate Aria love to use fun science equipment. When they're transported to the Maker Maze for another adventure, they tinker with new tools to learn all about germs! In the magical makerspace, they will find: Cool lab gear! Rapid robots as fast as cars! Easy ways to stop spreading germs! And new discoveries about one another?
In the Maker Maze, third graders Violet and Pablo, along with their classmate Aria, learn about...
105) Maggie
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A post-apocalyptic thriller set against the backdrop of a deadly epidemic. As the nation reels from a virus that turns its victims into zombies, Wade's daughter Maggie has been infected. Now, as Maggie's condition worsens, Wade will stop at nothing to protect her from the authorities seeking to kill her to eradicate the virus.
106) Mississippi roll
Series
Wild cards volume 24
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
After the suspicious death of a crew member on the historical steamboat Natchez, retired NY police detective Leo Storgman seeks to discover the ship's secrets, including the truth behind ghostly sightings of its first captain.
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The world has completely fallen to the Metal Virus. Sonic the Hedgehog and his friends find themselves on Angel Island, the last safe place, launching a desperate plan with their old foe, Dr. Eggman, to defeat the Deadly Six and reclaim the Chaos Emeralds in a last-ditch effort to save the world."--Provided by publisher
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Series
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
This nonfiction reader compares and contrasts two unlikely animals: a blue whale and a mosquito! Readers will learn about each animal's anatomy, behavior, and more. Then compare and contrast the battling pair before finally discovering the winner!
Pub. Date
12 FEB 2010
Language
English
Description
Division C of P.L. 109-148 (2005), 42 U.S.C. 247d-6d, 247d-6e, also known as the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act), limits liability with respect to pandemic flu and other public health countermeasures. Specifically, upon a declaration by the Secretary of Health and Human Services of a public health emergency or the credible risk of such emergency, Division C would, with respect to a "covered countermeasure," eliminate liability,...
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Marie Curious Girl Genius volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Young inventor Marie can't believe her luck - she's spending her summer holidays in California, at the high-tech headquarters of Vance Corps! She and the other super-clever campers get to build robots, do super-cool science experiments and test out awesome gadgets. But not everyone is a happy camper . . .
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A cybersecurity expert and former FBI "ghost" tells the thrilling story of how he helped take down notorious FBI mole Robert Hanssen, the first Russian cyber spy. Eric O'Neill was only twenty-six when he was tapped for the case of a lifetime: a one-on-one undercover investigation of the FBI's top target, a man suspected of spying for the Russians for nearly two decades, giving up nuclear secrets, compromising intelligence, and betraying US assets....
113) Transmission
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Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Introduces a daydreaming Indian computer geek whose luxurious fantasies about life in America are shaken when he accepts a Califorinia job offer.
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In the epic final season, Daryl and Maggie embark on a risky mission with Negan to root out the shadowy Reapers while Eugene and Ezekiel make contact with the sprawling Commonwealth. To secure aid for Alexandria, their goal, they must assimilate, a tough ask for people who have seen no end of deceit, betrayal, and loss. Stunned by the Commonwealth's resources, the group slowly adjusts to their new home, but they cannot ignore what lurks beneath its...
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