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Pub. Date
[2013], c2008
Language
English
Description
Skin cancer is by far the most common form of cancer, and the rate has been increasing for the past 30 years. This ABC News report examines the possible discovery of a melanoma vaccine. The treatment - taking cells the body has programmed to fight the cancer, growing them in a lab, and then injecting them back into the patient - has seen at least one patient become cancer-free for more than two years.
Pub. Date
[2012], c2008
Language
English
Description
Type 1 diabetes can lead to heart disease, kidney failure, blindness, and ultimately even death. Regular insulin injections can of course keep this disorder in check, but certainly this is no cure. In this video segment, hear from scientists who are optimistic they can change the lives of thousands of people, if only they can perfect a radical transplant procedure aimed at beating this disease for good.
3) The possible
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
What if . . . no one knows the truth about you? It's been thirteen years since Kaylee's biological mother, Crystal, once infamous for her supposed telekinetic ability, got a life sentence for killing Kaylee's little brother in a fit of telekinetic rage. Today, Kaylee's living a normal life with her adoptive parents and almost never thinks of Crystal. Until a woman shows up on Kaylee's doorstep, asking to interview her for a podcast about her mother....
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Series
Tim Possible volume 2
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
For fans of Timmy Failure and Dog Man comes the second wacky adventure in the Tim Possible chapter book series about two best friends and a time-traveling T-Rex-this time facing off against evil bugs! Tim and Tito and the time-traveling T-Rex named Oskar find themselves in the middle of an insect invasion, with bugs wanting to finally turn the tables-and use super-size fly swatters on humans! With their hometown in total chaos, it is up to Tim and...
Author
Series
Tim Possible volume 1
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
For fans of Timmy Failure and My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish comes the wacky adventures of two best friends and the time-traveling T-Rex who forever changes their lives. Tim and Tito are best friends whose world gets upended when a time-traveling T-Rex named Oskar suddenly appears in Tim's backyard. That's right, a time-traveling T-Rex, who knows too much for his or Tim and Tito's good. Sure, Oskar's prehistoric spaceship is awesome. But when Tim mistakenly...
8) Kim Possible
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Teen hero Kim and her best friend Ron Stoppable enter high school and befriend a girl named Athena. She transforms into the newest member of their team with Kim's assistance. When Shego and Drakken reemerge, the team has to stop them.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Kim Possible is ready to save the world. Dr. Drakken has an evil new plot for world domination, but his ultimate success depends upon finding out KP's weakness. Could it have anything to do with a certain new hottie named Eric? Kim is definitely distracted by the prom date drama. Meanwhile, Ron is up to his eyeballs in strange little Diablo Devil toys when his favorite food joint, Buenos Nachos, crosses over to the dark side. Now he's acting like...
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Series
Big Nate comix volume 1
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
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Description
Cartoonist extraordinaire. Accidental mischief maker. Self-described genius. Big Nate knows trouble. He is the king of detention, after all. He may not be Joe Honor Roll, but Nate knows he's meant for big things--"really" big things. The first volume in a new comic compilation series.
Author
Series
Salvagers (Alex White) volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The rag-tag crew of the Capricious is hunting down rogue AI, ancient colony ships, and the biggest treasure the universe has ever seen in the final book of this pulse-pounding space adventure series ... The crew of the Capricious seems to leave a trail of devastation wherever they go. But with powerful enemies in pursuit and family and friends under attack planetside, there's no time to worry about all that. Ensnared by the legend of Origin, humanity's...
Pub. Date
[2012], c2008
Language
English
Description
Time travel has been the subject of many great science fiction novels and movies, but this video segment considers whether or not it is a real possibility. The segment takes a look at what the experts, like Craig Savage from the Department of Physics at the ANU and Stephen Hawkins, have said on the issue. Do the laws of physics actually permit time travel? And more fundamentally, what is time?
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Tim and his best friends Tito and Oskar, the time-traveling T-Rex, battle the evil Weremoles--an army of hungry, sharp-toothed rock-munchers who are out to destroy their fair city of Metrosalis! Will Tim’s worrying superpower help them defeat the underground monsters, or is doomsday just a worry away?"--
Pub. Date
[2013], c2011
Language
English
Description
Scientists have discovered a possible second home for humanity but the commute is brutal: a so-called "Goldilocks" planet with a temperature that is not too hot, not too cold, but maybe just right to support life. NewsHour correspondent Spencer Michels reports.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A charming, life-changing fable that will help you rethink your whole approach to time, priorities, and possibilities. Riley Jenkins is in trouble. An ambitious, hardworking consultant in her late twenties, she's used to a lifetime of nearly perfect evaluations - until she gets a terrible performance review from her boss. How is that possible when Riley does everything her clients want - including answering emails 24/7 - faster than they expect it?...
Author
Series
Amgash novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Here are two sisters: One trades self-respect for a wealthy husband while the other finds in the pages of a book a kindred spirit who changes her life. The janitor at the local school has his faith tested in an encounter with an isolated man he has come to help; a grown daughter longs for mother love even as she comes to accept her mother's happiness in a foreign country; and the adult Lucy Barton (the heroine of My Name Is Lucy Barton, the author's...
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