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Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In 2012, a New York auction catalogue boasted an unusual offering: "a superb Tyrannosaurus skeleton." In fact, Lot 49135 consisted of a nearly complete T. bataar, a close cousin to the most famous animal that ever lived. The fossils now on display in a Manhattan event space had been unearthed in Mongolia, more than 6,000 miles away. At eight-feet high and 24 feet long, the specimen was spectacular, and when the gavel sounded the winning bid was over...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Army epidemiologist Frank Slater is offered a job no one else wants -- to travel to a small island off the coast of Alaska and investigate a potentially lethal phenomenon: The permafrost has begun to melt, exposing bodies from a colony that was wiped out by the dreaded Spanish flu of 1918 and was once devoted to the mad Russian monk Rasputin. Frank must determine if the thawed remains still carry the deadly virus in their frozen flesh and, if so,...
Author
Publisher
Dzanc Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In a city far in the future, retired lecturer Wiggins moves from window to window in a museum, intricately describing each scene. Whales gliding above a shipwreck and a lost cup and saucer. An animatronic forest twenty stories tall. A line of mosquitos in uniforms and reglia, honored as heroes of the last great war. Bit by bit, Wiggins unspools the secrets of his world - the conflict that brought it to the brink, and the great thinker, Michaux, who...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Formats
Description
The barren, windwept interior of the Antarctic plateau was lifeless--or so the expedition from Miskatonic University thought. Then they found the strange fossils of unheard-of creatures and the carved stones millions of year old and finally, the mind-blasting terror of the City of the Old Ones
Author
Publisher
The University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A guide for gathering, adjusting, supplementing, and safely preserving family recipes and for interviewing relatives, collecting oral histories, and conducting kitchen visits to document family food traditions from the everyday to special occasions. It blends commonsense tips with sound archival principles, helping you achieve effective results.
Author
Publisher
Muddy Boots
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Carmela LaVigna Coyle's new picture book takes readers on an epic journey through time. Through ice ages, meteor showers, and earthquakes, readers experience the formation of an ancient treasure. Meanwhile, somewhere in the present, a little girl sets out on a hike with her family. The two stories collide when the little girl finds something SPECTACULAR on the side of a trail-a treasure forged over the course of hundreds of MILLIONS of years all...
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Inspector Pieter Van In is begrudgingly finishing up a healthy lunch when he hears the news: While restoring their farmhouse, the Vermasts have found a skeleton in the backyard. Van In, who happens to be married to the deputy public prosecutor, is determined to solve the case in double-quick time and squeeze in one last vacation before the birth of his first child. But this murder is trickier than it looks. The Vermasts{u2019} land belonged to the...
Series
Publisher
Thinkeroo
Pub. Date
[2003?]
Language
English
Description
Rockfinders introduces kids to the fascinating world of rocks, minerals, and fossils. Kids will gain a basic knowledge of the properties of rocks, tips on where to hunt for rocks, and what things they will need to start their own rock collection.
16) Rock star
Author
Series
Jada Jones volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Fourth-grader Jada's best friend moved away but a class project on rocks and minerals, her favorite topic, could mean new friends. For Jada, rocks are easier to find than friends. Or are they?
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Ever since mysterious bones were found in 1822, scientists and artists have tried to figure out what the creature they came from looked like. But it seems that every time they've made up their minds, someone makes a new discovery, and they have to start all over. That's only fair, though--after all, it's how knowledge advances!"-- Publisher's website
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The year is 1876. Among the warring Indian tribes and lawless gold-rush towns of America's western territories, two paleontologists pillage the Wild West. They are hunting for dinosaur fossils, while surveilling, deceiving and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars. Into this treacherous territory plunges the arrogant and entitled Yale student William Johnson. Determined to survive a summer in the west to win...
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Part detective history, part memoir, in this book Jill Hunting tells the story of her journey across the United States and into the realms of prehistory, national history, and family history as she follows her great-grandfather's trail to the fossil bed where he discovered an 83-million-year-old avian dinosaur"--
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