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Eerie Elementary volume 10
Publisher
Branches/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Eerie Elementary is planning a big Halloween-type celebration for Eerie Day, including hosting a "haunted house" at the school itself; but the spirit of the evil scientist Orson Eerie sees this as the chance to finally triumph over the intrepid hall moniters, Sam, Lucy, and Antonio--and it is up to them to prevent a catastrophe and perhaps even defeat Orson and banish him from the school forever.
82) Igor
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Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Hunch-backed lab assistant Igor dreams of becoming a mad scientist, so to prove himself he creates a female Franken-monster to enter in the annual evil science fair.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Five dolls for an August moon is Mario Bava's deliriously mod spin on an Agatha Christie-style whodunit. Bava was so closely associated with the horror genre that this twisting mystery was never released theatrically in the U.S., but it is deliciously entertaining all the same. A space age island retreat is visited by a group of friends and business associates, one of whom is a scientist who has invented a revolutionary chemical process, and is fending...
85) The Judas strain
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English
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A worldwide pandemic grows rapidly out of control as Gray Pierce, commander of the covert organization SIGMA, joins with a would-be assassin to discover a cure for the unknown killer disease, the secret to which may lie with Marco Polo.
86) The deluge
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
In 2013 California, environmental scientist Tony Pietrus, after receiving a death threat, is linked to a colorful cast of characters, including a brazen young activist who, in the mountains of Wyoming, begins a project that will alter the course of the decades to come.
88) The maze cutter
Author
Series
Maze cutter volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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"73 years after THE MAZE RUNNER series, the descendants of dystopia have thrived on the island but must leave everything they know behind when a ship comes from the old world with news about how they are needed to save civilization"--
"Sadina, Isaac, and Jackie all learned about the unkind history of the Gladers from The Book of Newt and tall tales from Old Man Frypan, but when a rusty old boat shows up one day with a woman bearing dark news of the...
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Series
Questioneers volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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When pets go missing in Blue River Creek it is up to Ada to follow the scientific method by making a hypothesis, collecting data, and experimenting to find the missing animals.
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Hedy Kiesler is lucky. Her beauty leads to a starring role in a controversial film and marriage to a powerful Austrian arms dealer, allowing her to evade Nazi persecution despite her Jewish heritage. But Hedy is also intelligent. At lavish Vienna dinner parties, she overhears the Third Reich's plans. One night in 1937, desperate to escape her controlling husband and the rise of the Nazis, she disguises herself and flees her husband's castle. She lands...
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English
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While this is not a self-help book, some may find a few of the vignettes within the pages here as helpful if you have an open mind and consider the consequences of ignoring the common-sense rules that guide your personal universe.
In other words, the underlying messages are, meant to mitigate the circumstances of the choices you made or the ones you will make down the road ahead. Basically, it's all about paying attention to details that you may...
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English
Description
The mind is a mysterious thing, even to someone trained in psychology. As forensic psychologist in the town of New Bern, North Carolina, Dr. Trattoria has seen hundreds of patients and interacted with thousands more.
Patients come to Dr. Trattoria for help, but there is no easy solution to a problem related to the human condition. This is especially true when he must formulate an answer to a problem that suits someone else.
This collection of...
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Español
Description
El tercer tomo de Ser adolescente en el Perú se centra en los aspectos vinculados con la cultura escolar, el aprendizaje y las actividades que las y los adolescentes realizan, así como en la relación con sus docentes. Por ello, se analizan los elementos que configuran dicha cultura, además de la valoración y propósito de la escuela y otros aspectos de la vida escolar. Asimismo, acerca del aprendizaje, se exploran factores como la memoria, la...
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English
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Father and daughter provides a unique 'insider perspective' on two key figures in twentieth-century British social science. Ann Oakley, a highly respected sociologist and best-selling writer, draws on her own life and that of her father, Richard Titmuss, a well-known policy analyst and defender of the welfare state, to offer an absorbing view of the connections between private lives and public work. Using an innovative mix of biography, autobiography,...
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English
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An only child of parents with deprived backgrounds, Marion's early years were lived in a frugal world, with a grandmother who was addicted to prescribed morphine. The girl who emerged from that bleak world was far from frugal. She traveled, suffered the loss of her father, retreated into Christian Fundamentalism, developed an investment portfolio, married, had a family, and earned a post-graduate degree in the field of her dreams. But how did it all...
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English
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Newly-independent Uganda seems like the perfect place for a primatologist to conduct ground-breaking fieldwork on wild baboons. But to his wife, trying to mother a young daughter while approaching the birth of her second child in the midst of elephants, wild buffalo and hippos, surely the relative safety of England or the U.S. is preferable. When Uganda erupts into civil war and her child is born in a hospital under siege, Jennifer Jolly must learn...
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English
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Partial Sanity: Stories from the Edge of Mental Health is a memoir about jumping feet-first into adulthood. Armed with a newly earned undergraduate degree in human services, Beth accepts the first full-time position she is offered to work as a psychiatric case manager in a community mental health program. Located in the economically depressed coal region of Pennsylvania in the late 1980's, the town of Houtzdale has an equal number of small bars, dingy...
99) Simply Freud
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English
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Born into a Jewish family in the Moravian town of Freiberg, Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) entered the University of Vienna at the age of 17 and began his medical career in 1882. Following an 1885 fellowship in Paris, during which he learned about the use of hypnosis to treat hysteria, he embarked on the incredible journey of discovery that would lead to the creation of the "talking cure" and, ultimately, a whole new way to think about human consciousness...
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English
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This riveting narrative describes centuries of misunderstanding and ignorance by the world's most highly educated professionals about the human experience of voice-hearing, affecting 300-400 million people worldwide. Describing his own 23-year searing experience, the author, for the first time in human history, reveals the phenomenon can be real predatory victimization rather than delusional hallucination as insistently maintained by science and medicine....
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