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1) Dark moon
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
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STEAMy Novels (Fiction featuring scientists, technology, engineers, artists, and mathematicians)
Sun or Moon in the Title
Sun or Moon in the Title
Author
Language
English
Description
A novel of ambition and obsession centered on the race to discover Pluto in 1930, pitting an untrained Kansas farm boy against the greatest minds of Harvard at the run-down Lowell Observatory in Arizona.
In 1928, the boy who will discover Pluto, Clyde Tombaugh, is on the family farm, grinding a lens for his own telescope under the immense Kansas sky. In Flagstaff, Arizona, the staff of Lowell Observatory is about to resume the late Percival Lowell's...
Author
Language
English
Description
Augustine, a brilliant, aging astronomer, refuses to abandon the research center in the Arctic when he receives news of a catastrophic event. Soon after, he discovers a mysterious child and realizes that the airwaves have gone silent. They are alone. Meanwhile, Mission Specialist Sullivan and her crew, the first astronauts to delve into deep space, discover that Mission Control is no longer on the air. Sullivan's career has cost her her marriage,...
Author
Pub. Date
[?], 1955.
Language
English
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After finding a way to teach the ship's crew members to understand navigation, Nat, a self-taught mathematician and astronomer in eighteenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, writes down his explanations and compiles them into "The American Practical Navigator," also known as the "Sailors' Bible."
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In late-eighteenth-century Ireland, accidental stargazer Caroline Ainsworth learns that her life is not what it seems when her father Arthur throws himself from his rooftop observatory. Caroline had often assisted her father with his observations, in pursuit of an unknown planet; when astronomer William Herschel discovered Uranus, Caroline could only watch helplessly as unremitting jealousy drove Arthur to madness. Now gone blind from staring at...
9) Stargazer
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Series
Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 6
Leaphorn and Chee volume 24
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 6
Leaphorn and Chee volume 24
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 6
Language
English
Description
"What begins as a typical day for Officer Bernadette Manuelito--serving a bench warrant, dealing with a herd of cattle obstructing traffic, and stumbling across a crime scene--takes an unexpected twist when she's called to help find an old friend"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
As the Thirty Year's War continues to ravage Europe, the American town hurled from the 20th to the 17th century by a mysterious force has aroused the implacable hostility of Cardinal Richelieu of France, who has allied with his old enemies to stop this new threat to privilege and power. But the Americans and their Swedish allies are also moving behind the scenes, sending a medical team to Venice to prevent a plague, communicating with the Ottoman...
Author
Series
Theo Cray and Jessica Blackwood volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A signal is detected at the outer edge of the solar system. Computational biologist Dr. Theo Cray and magician-turned-FBI-agent Jessica Blackwood are looking-and listening-a little closer. The man at the center of this cosmic mystery is billionaire Thomas T. Theismann. He's spent a lifetime-and a fortune-trying to find out if we're alone in the universe. Highly skeptical, Theo joins the effort to find the source of the signal, and he quickly enlists...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Fresh Start
STEAMy Novels (Fiction featuring scientists, technology, engineers, artists, and mathematicians)
STEAMy Novels (Fiction featuring scientists, technology, engineers, artists, and mathematicians)
Description
"A magical, intoxicating debut novel, both intimate and epic, that braids the past, present, and future of two lovers bound by the passing of great comets overhead and a coterie of remarkable ancestors. When Róisin and François meet at a remote research base on the frozen ice sheets of Antarctica, they are immediately drawn to each other. At first glance, the pair could not be more different. Older by a few years, Róisin, a daughter of Ireland...
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