Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"We all know the Sun, the powerhouse of our solar system, but what about Luyten's Flare, the Rosino-Zwicky Object, or Chanal's variable star? For those whose curiosity takes them far beyond Earth's atmosphere, The Secret Life of Stars offers a personal and readily understood introduction to some of the Galaxy's most remarkable stars. Written by award-winning astronomer Lisa Harvey-Smith, each chapter explains various different and unusual stars and...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Welcome to the Universe is a personal guided tour of the cosmos by three of today's leading astrophysicists. Inspired by the enormously popular introductory astronomy course that Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott taught together at Princeton, this book covers it all--from planets, stars, and galaxies to black holes, wormholes, and time travel. Describing the latest discoveries in astrophysics, the informative and entertaining...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A is for Andromeda, our neighbor galaxy. B is for Big Dipper, that's an easy one to see. John Farrell takes kids on a rhyming tour of the night sky, from A to Z, with spectacular full-color photographs and facts about the wonders of space. From distant Andromeda, a galaxy made up of billions of stars, to the constellation of the zodiac, Farrell covers the high points of outer space. How do you find Jupiter or Venus? How does the Moon cause the tides...
Author
Series
Guardians trilogy (Nora Roberts) volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"To celebrate the rise of their new queen, three goddesses of the moon created three stars, one of fire, one of ice, one of water. But then they fell from the sky, putting the fate of all worlds in danger. And now three women and three men join forces topick up the pieces... Sasha Riggs is a reclusive artist, haunted by dreams and nightmares that she turns into extraordinary paintings. Her visions lead her to the Greek island of Corfu, where five...
5) Bay of sighs
Author
Series
Guardians trilogy (Nora Roberts) volume 2
Language
English
Description
With their enemy never far behind, traveler Sawyer King relies on mermaid Annika to lead the guardians in their search for the water star on the island of Capri.
Author
Series
Publisher
Raja Sharma
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen was first published in 1988. It is a historical fiction novel. The story revolves round a Jewish girl, Hannah Stern. She lives in New Rochelle, New York. During a Passover Ceremonial Dinner (Passover Seder), Hannah Stern is sent back in time to 1942 Poland, during the Second World War. Hannah finds herself in a death camp that is thought to be Auschwitz. She begins to live the life of a girl named Chaya in the...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"THE SKY ATLAS assembles some of the most beautiful maps and charts ever created to understand the skies above us. This richly illustrated treasury showcases the finest examples of celestial cartography-a glorious art often overlooked by modern map books-as well as medieval manuscripts, masterpiece paintings, ancient star catalogues, antique instruments, and other curiosities. This is the sky as it has never been presented before: the realm of stars...
Author
Series
Guardians trilogy (Nora Roberts) volume 3
Language
English
Description
"The final Guardians Trilogy novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Bay of Sighs and Stars of Fortune. As the hunt for the Star of Ice leads the six guardians to Ireland, Doyle, the immortal, must face his tragic past. Three centuries ago, he closed off his heart, yet his warrior spirit is still drawn to the wild. And there's no one more familiar with the wild than Riley--and the wolf within her... An archaeologist, Riley is no stranger...
Author
Publisher
Bradbury Press
Pub. Date
c1993
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A Blackfoot Indian legend in which six neglected orphaned brothers decide to go to the Above World where they become the constellation of the "Lost Children," or Pleiades.
11) The stars
Author
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
"Chart the wonders of the cosmos in our own solar system and beyond with The Stars. Packed with 3-D artworks of each constellation and incredible new imagery from the Hubble Space Telescope, ground-based observatories worldwide, and more, this awe-inspiring guide features the most fascinating objects known to astronomy, from glittering star-birth nebulae to supermassive black holes."--Amazon.com.
13) Stars
Series
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
c1988
Physical Desc
144 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
14) Stars desserts
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c1991
Physical Desc
267 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
209 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
To those who can decipher it, the night sky is alive with gods and goddesses, animals and mythical creatures?an endless carnival played out in shining constellations. Amidst this jet-black canvas pricked with white dots, a hunter leaps in pursuit with his dogs at his heels, a sea monster threatens a maiden in distress, and a pair of twins lives forever. In Stories in the Stars, writer and stargazer Susanna Hislop and international artist Hannah Waldron...
20) Stardust
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tristan hopes to win the heart of his beautiful, but shallow love, Victoria. He promises to recover a star that fell somewhere beyond the stony Wall that sets between the mundane England and the fantasy kingdom of Stormhold. So Tristan sets forth on his own journey in Stormhold. Meanwhile in that magical land, the dying king has set his four surviving sons on a quest for the crown. And the witch Lamia is seeking the heart of the star for an entirely...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request