Rogers, Morgan (Morgan A.)

Summary: After completing her Ph.D. in astronomy, a young, straightlaced, Type A personality black woman goes on a girls' weekend to Vegas to celebrate and gets drunkenly married to a woman whose name she doesn't even know.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ROG

Pipkin, John

Summary: 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2016

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Summary: After an astronomer discovers communication emanating from the star Vega, she leads an international team in deciphering it, and travels through space to contact the senders of the message.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Co

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Brown, Carrie

Summary: Brown creates from history a compelling story of familial collaboration and conflict, the sublime beauty of astronomy, and the small but essential place we have within a vast and astonishing cosmos. Through astronomer William Herschel's sister Lina’s trials and successes, we witness the dawning of an early feminist consciousness, of a woman struggling to find her own place among the stars.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRO