Catalog Search Results
2) Lumi�ere
Author
Series
The illumination paradox volume Book 1
Publisher
Skyscape
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
One determined girl. One resourceful boy. One miracle machine that could destroy everything... After an unexplained flash shatters her world, seventeen-year-old Eyelet Elsworth sets out to find the Illuminator, her father's prized invention. With it, she hopes to cure herself of her debilitating seizures before Professor Smrt--her father's arch nemesis--discovers her secret and locks her away in an asylum. Pursued by Smrt, Eyelet locates the Illuminator...
Author
Publisher
Chartwell Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Nikola Tesla today is largely unknown and overlooked among the great scientists of the modern era. While Thomas Edison, the most famous inventor in American history, gets all the glory for discovering the light bulb. But it was his one-time assistant and life-long arch nemesis, Tesla, who made the breakthrough in alternating current electricity. Edison and Tesla carried on a bitter feud for years, but it was Tesla's AC generators that illuminated...
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Foster children Andi and Bruce have been placed with a flaky couple who care more for their aspiring rock careers than their charges. Their mischievous tendencies repeatedly get them into trouble. After a close call with the local pound, the kids end up searching for Friday, their secretly adopted dog, in an abandoned old hotel where they find several other stray dogs seeking shelter. They, along with three other local kids, begin caring for the strays....
Author
Series
The team volume 1
Publisher
Kane/Miller
Pub. Date
2006, c2003
Language
English
Description
Harvey's team is on a losing streak until Professor Gertie, Harvey's neighbor, introduces them to Mark 1, the Soccer Machine, a robot programmed to win.