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Nearly everyone is familiar with holograms-three-dimensional images projected into space with the aid of a laser. Two of the world's most eminent thinkers believe that the universe itself may be a giant hologram, quite literally a kind of image or construct created, at least in part, by the human mind. University of London physicist David Bohm, a protégé of Einstein and one of the world's most respected quantum physicists, and Stanford neurophysiologist...
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Goosebumps. Original series volume 6
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 3
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138 pages ; 20 cm.
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English
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Max finds a magic mirror in his attic that makes him invisible, but each time he becomes invisible it's harder to come back.
24) Insignia
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Insignia trilogy volume 1
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IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Tom, a fourteen-year-old genius at virtual reality games, is recruited by the United States military to begin training at the Pentagon Spire as a combatant in World War III, controlling the mechanized drones that do the actual fighting off-planet.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Elsa's world was written into creation; her mother, a noted scriptologist, constantly alters and expands their reality. When her mother kidnapped, Elsa is forced to cross into the real world and use her own scriptology gifts to find her. In an alternative Victorian Italy, Elsa finds a secret society of young scientists with a gift for mechanics, alchemy, or scriptology-- and meets Leo, a mechanist with a smart mouth and tragic past. When an assassin...
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Junior Ninja Champion volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Five unlikely friends are brought together to compete in the first Junior Ninja competition, a televised contest of athletic ability based on the popular National Ninja Champion show.
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Boxcar children volume 123
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IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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The Boxcar Children have been choosen to compete against another team to look for clues on a game show.
28) Bluescreen
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Mirador volume 1
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
2016
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Unabridged
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IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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"Los Angeles in 2050 is a city of open doors, as long as you have the right connections. That connection is a djinni--a smart device implanted right in a person's head...it's Anja who first gets her hands on Bluescreen--a virtual drug that plugs right into a person's djinni and delivers a massive, nonchemical, completely safe high. But in this city, when something sounds too good to be true, it usually is, and Mari and her friends soon find themselves...
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Jeremy Logan novels volume 6
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English
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"A blockbuster new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lincoln Child, centered on a dominant tech company-Chrysalis-whose groundbreaking virtual reality technology is redefining the way we live . . . and possibly introducing a catastrophic danger to the world. Like millions of people around the world, Jeremy Logan (famed enigmalogist, or investigator of unexplained things) has grown to rely on his incredible new tech device. Made by...
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Hannah is thrilled to be marrying Ross Barton, her college crush. And her excitement only grows when she learns he'll be able to join her on her trip to New York City for the Food Channel's dessert chef contest. She's especially nervous about facing Alain Duquesne, a celebrity chef with a nasty reputation. But before he can tear into Hannah's layer cake, she finds him stabbed to death on the show's kitchen set. Out of the oven, as the saying goes,...
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"When we first meet U., the narrator of SATIN ISLAND, he is sitting in the airport at Turin, caught in a delay caused by a rogue airplane. Like everyone else in the waiting area, he is sifting through airport pages on his laptop, and then through news sites, social pages, corridors of trivia...until he happens to stumble on information about an image on a famous shroud in Turin. The image itself isn't even visible on the shroud; it only emerged when...
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Under suspicion (Mary Higgins Clark) volume 7
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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A high-suspense follow-up to the best-selling "You Don't Own Me" finds the nuptials of television producer Laurie Moran and investigative host Alex Buckley nightmarishly upended by the sudden disappearance of Alex's seven-year-old nephew.
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"Fans of Janet Evanovich or Ali Brandon's Black Cat Bookshop mysteries will enjoy the latest in Levine's hilarious series." —Smitten by Books
Freelance writer Jaine Austen thought working for a knock-off reality show in the tropics would be paradise. But when she and her kitty Prozac find themselves trapped between a dimwitted leading man, catty contestants, and a cold-blooded murderer, the splashy gig becomes...
Freelance writer Jaine Austen thought working for a knock-off reality show in the tropics would be paradise. But when she and her kitty Prozac find themselves trapped between a dimwitted leading man, catty contestants, and a cold-blooded murderer, the splashy gig becomes...
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Sonali Shah scours Hampshire’s property market to find somewhere for a couple who is temporarily relying on the goodwill of family. They have a £600k budget and want a country home close to the coast. Sticking with a maritime theme, Sonali also gets behind the scenes at the Mary Rose Museum with the treasures uncovered when King Henry VIII’s warship was raised after four centuries on the seabed.
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A house hunting duo are a couple from Worcestershire who have Alistair Appleton on hand to help them find the perfect home in Cornwall for their £650k budget. Away from property, Alistair also discovers a pioneering project that prescribes the therapeutic benefits of nature to improve well-being.
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Margherita Taylor is helping a retired couple escape to the tranquility of Norfolk after thirty years in a busy Essex town. Now that their children have flown the nest, the pair are hoping to find a country home that’s full of character for their £350,000 budget. Elsewhere, Margherita discovers Norfolk’s answer to the Great Barrier Reef.
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Jules Hudson is house hunting in Somerset with a couple who have a £675k budget to find a rural home that must have annex potential for their parents. During his time in the county, Jules visits the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm Museum where he gets up close and personal with an ambitious project to rebuild a Second World War aircraft using reclaimed parts.
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Ginny Buckley meets a couple who are looking to lay down roots in Devon after decades serving in the army. They have a £400,000 budget to find their ideal home near the English Riviera. Away from the property hunt, Ginny capitalizes on being in Devon at the same time as the County Show to find out what it takes to win Pig of the Year.
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