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1) I, robot
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Humanity is threatened in the year 2035, as detective Del Spooner investigates a murder case believed to be independently perpetrated by a robot designed to serve and work alongside humans.
3) Surrogates
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
While humans live in isolation, their lives are carried out by surrogate robots, but a FBI agent is called back to reality to investigate the murder of a teenager connected to the scientist responsible for the creation of the surrogates.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lisa Randall examines the role of science in everyday life, discusses how to determine which scientific questions to pursue, how scientist go about finding answers, and the roles of risk, creativity, and uncertainty in scientific thinking; explains twenty-first- century ideas in physics and cosmology; describes the goals of the Large Hadron Collider--the largest machine built to date--and covers other related topics.
5) The Circle
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Mae is hired to work for the world's largest and most powerful tech and social media company, she sees it as an opportunity. As she rises through the ranks, she is encouraged by the company's founder, Eamon Bailey, to engage in a groundbreaking experiment that pushes the boundaries of privacy, ethics and ultimately her personal freedom. Her participation in the experiment, and every decision she makes begin to affect the lives and future of her...
6) 21
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Aspiring doctor and MIT student Ben Campbell finds his education and life in jeopardy when he joins an underground blackjack club dedicated to counting cards and beating the system.
Author
Series
My weird school volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mr. Docker, a new science teacher, is a crazy inventor who blows things up, uses potatoes for power, and has A.J. and his friends wondering whether science is for nerds or is the coolest subject ever.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"Michael Crichton's Prey is a terrifying page-turner that masterfully combines a heart--pounding thriller with cutting-edge technology. Deep in the Nevada desert, the Xymos Corporation has built a state-of-the-art fabrication plant, surrounded by miles and miles of nothing but cactus and coyotes. Eight people are trapped. A self-replicating swarm of predatory molecules is rapidly evolving outside the plant. Massed together, the molecules form an intelligent...
10) 9
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
In a post-apocalyptic nightmare in which all of humanity is threatened, 9 convinces his fellow humans to stand up against the machines that are roaming the earth on a mission toward human extinction.
11) Crazy Hair Day
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stanley is excited about Crazy Hair Day at his school, until he discovers that he has gotten the date wrong.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
The author of Cod and The Basque History of the World takes an extraordinary look at an ordinary substance - salt, the only rock humans eat - and how it has shaped civilization from the very beginning. Mark Kurlansky has produced a kaleidoscope of history, a multi-layered masterpiece that blends economic, scientific, political, religious, and culinary records into a rich and memorable tale.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Scholastic's bestselling OLD LADY returns in this adventure series with a nonfiction twist that will make you laugh AND learn! In this spin-off, the OLD LADY turns into an OLD ASTRONAUT who travels through space, swallowing a moon... along with a star, a planet, a comet, a meteor, a rocket, and a satellite... Why? Well, it went down just right, that bright satellite!
Two new characters lead the reader through this hilarious adventure while exchanging...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Analyzes four major challenges the United States is facing--globalization, the revolution in information technology, the nation's chronic deficits, and excessive energy consumption--and explains why these problems needed to be corrected now in order to sustain the American dream and protect America's place as a world power in the future.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
There once may have been 250,000 miles of stone walls in America's Northeast, stretching farther than the distance to the moon. And even though most are crumbling today, they contain a magnificent scientific and cultural story.
Stone walls tell nothing less than the story of how New England was formed, and in Robert Thorson's hands they live and breathe. Millions of years ago, New England's stones belonged to ancient mountains thrust up by prehistoric...
17) Snow
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Simple text and illustrations explore the wonders of snow.
Publisher
HBO
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin -- exploring a world in which every human appetite, not matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged. Exploring what it means to be human through the eyes of the lifelike AI "hosts" in the park, the series investigates the boundaries of an exotic world set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past. Meticulously crafted and artfully designed. Westworld...
19) Trains
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Photographs and text provide young readers with information about trains, how they look, the jobs they do, and how they operate.
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