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81) Side life
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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"Vin, a down-on-his-luck young tech entrepreneur forced out of the software company he started, takes a job house-sitting a beautiful Seattle mansion. There he discovers that the owner--who has been missing for a year--has built a secret basement lab. In the lab there are computers, wired caskets, and a thick, dog-eared notebook filled with codes, odd symbols and strange drawings. The notebook referred to the entire system--computers and caskets--as...
Author
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"Then: It's one of the galaxy's most dangerous secrets--a mysterious transmitter with unknown power and a reward for its discovery that most could only dream of claiming. But those who fly the Millennium Falcon throughout its infamous history aren't your average scoundrels ... Now: It's been ten years since the rebel hero Han Solo last encountered Fyzen Gor. After mounting a successful rebellion against the Empire and starting a family with an Alderaanian...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
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El pequeño (y algo chiflado) Frank Einstein, su mejor amigo Watson, junto con sus inteligentes robots Klink y Klank, están trabajando en el Electrodedo, un aparato que proporcionará energía gratis a toda la ciudad. Pero esto choca con los planes de su archienemigo T. Edison que pretende controlar el poder de la energía y así hacerse rico, muy rico. El tiempo se acaba y solo Frank, Watson, Klink y Klank pueden detenerle. ¿Lo conseguirán?
Author
Series
Frank Einstein volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
Un día, mientras Frank hacía un experimento un poco rarito, un rayo cayó sobre su laboratorio y dio vida a su último invento: ¡los robots Klink y Klank! Aunque no son para nada lo que Frank imaginaba, con la ayuda de estos robots estará chupado crear un Motor Antimateria y ganar con él el Premio de Ciencias de Midville. O al menos eso parece, hasta que entra en juego su archienemigo T. Edison...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Ellen Lark is on the verge of marriage when she and her fiancé receive an unexpected visit from Alexander Graham Bell. Ellen is deaf and for a time she was Bell's student learning visible speech. During their lessons, Bell also confided in her about his dream of producing a device that would transmit the human voice along a wire: the telephone. Now, on the cusp of wealth and renown, Bell wants Ellen to speak up in support of his claim to the patent...
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"From the editor-in-chief of io9.com, a stunning novel about the end of the world--and the beginning of our futureChildhood friends Patricia Delfine and Laurence Armstead didn't expect to see each other again, after parting ways under mysterious circumstances during middle school. After all, the development of magical powers and the invention of a two-second time machine could hardly fail to alarm one's peers and families. But now they're both adults,...
87) Fiendish schemes
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Series
George Dower novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In 1986 K. W. Jeter coined the term "steampunk," applying it to his first Victorian-era science fiction alternate-history adventure. At last he has returned, with a tale of George Dower, son of the inventor of Infernal Devices, who has been in new self-imposed exile...accumulating debts. The world Dower left when he went into hiding was significantly simpler than the new, steam-powered Victorian London, a mad whirl of civilization filled with gadgets...
88) The final gambit
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English
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"It is 1884, and Molly and Cassandra Pepper, Emmett Lee, and Emmett's long-lost father are sailing back to New York following their death-defying adventure in Antarctica. Having discovered a subterranean world at the South Pole while saving the world from certain doom once again, surely their accomplishments will finally earn them the recognition they deserve. Unless, of course . . . well, you know by now. And so do the Peppers and Lees. They're...
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Baby Brains volume 3
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Baby Brains invents RoboMom to do all the household chores and give his tired parents a rest.
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English
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Eleven-year-old inventor Sol must recover his self-confidence if he and his eight-year-old sister, Connie, are to escape the clutches of Hansel and Gretel's witch, to whom they have been led by their new stepmother and the man they believe to be their father.
91) Six
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Parker's father--on the cusp of a technological breakthrough--is kidnapped, Parker's determined to find him, and his search soon uncovers a sinister project that threatens far more than Parker's family.
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Series
Doctor Proctor's fart powder volume 1
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
New friends Nilly and Lisa help eccentric professor Doctor Proctor develop his latest invention, a powder that makes one fart, making them very popular at school, but someone is planning to steal the industrial-strength formula for evil purposes.
93) Flying feet
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Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Charlie often thinks of inventions that seldom work, but his latest idea just might be able to help Jake the Sweeper get rid of a big pile of trash and save "Come as a Character" day, too.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Vincent, more than anyone, knows what it means to keep a secret. With his troupe of talented craftsmen--the only family he has--he designs hidden compartments for priceless treasures and passageways for undetectable escape routes. The rich and powerful who hire him pay handsomely for his work, and for his discretion--they know only his first name, and his business is strictly word-of-mouth. As Paris celebrates the 1889 World's Fair, the city fills...
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Doctor Proctor's fart powder volume 2
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A mysterious postcard leads Lisa and Nilly from Oslo to Paris in search of Doctor Proctor but, once there, all they find of their missing friend is a time-traveling bathtub powered by a special soap and several sinister individuals determined to do all they can to locate the eccentric inventor.
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Series
Doctor Proctor's fart powder volume 5
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Proctor, Nilly, and Lisa set out to find Santa and save Christmas after the king of Norway sells the rights to the holiday to money-hungry Mr. Thrane.
Author
Series
Doctor Proctor's fart powder volume 4
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"When a Russian billionaire robs the Norwegian Gold Reserve and melts the last remaining gold bar into the Premier Soccer League trophy, it's up to Doctor Proctor, Nilly and Lisa to recapture it"--
100) Sky high
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Charlie has lots of ideas. Need something to go sky high? Ah-ha! The zinger-winger! Need to launch a cheese popper into soup? The amazing popper-upper! But the zinger-winger zings more than wings and the popper-upper plops. Charlie isn't allowed to invent for a week. Meanwhile, the afterschool invention fair is coming up. He needs time to make something special. Good thing he has his friends and Mr. Redfern, another inventor, to help him out"--
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