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Pickover, Clifford A.

Summary: Filled with 200 years of eccentric geniuses, this delightful collection of profiles assembles an eclectic and fascinating sampling of scientists (as well as some artists and writers) with a far-ranging assortment of phobias, compulsions, odd belief systems and extraordinarily weird habits. Chief among the scientists is Nikola Tesla, father of alternating current and countless other electrical...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Plenum Trade 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 509.2 PIC

Summary: "Scientist Zac Hobson awakens to discover that he may be the last man on Earth...But Hobson soon discovers that he may not be alone..." --Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI QUI

Lifton, Robert Jay

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 1986

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5405 LIF

Graham, Heather

Summary: Someone is murdering beautiful young women in the New York area and displaying them in mausoleums and underground tombs. The FBI is handling the case, with Special Agent Craig Frasier as lead. Kieran Finnegan, forensic psychologist and part owner of Finnegan's, her family's pub, is consulting on the case. Craig and Kieran are a couple who've worked together on more than one occasion. On this...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mira Books 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRA

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Graham 2017

Starling, Caitlin

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "The city of San Siroco is sinking. The basement of Dr. Tamsin Rivers, the arrogant, selfish head of the research team assigned to find the source of the subsidence, is sinking faster. As Tamsin grows obsessed with the distorting dimensions of the room at the bottom of the stairs, she finds a door that didn't exist before - and one night, it opens to reveal an exact physical copy of her. This...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STA

2 holds on 9 copies

Summary: The tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter. Under Baxter's protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry for the worldliness she is lacking, Bella runs off with Duncan Wedderburn, a slick and debauched lawyer, on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Studios 2024

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE POO

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

Copies Available at Woodmere

4 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD

Ausubel, Ramona

Summary: "A playful, witty, and resonant novel in which a single mother and her two teen daughters engage in a wild scientific experiment and discover themselves in the process, from the award-winning writer of Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty Jane is a serious scientist on the cutting-edge team of a bold project looking to "de-extinct" the wooly mammoth. She's privileged to have been sent to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2023

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