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Pub. Date
c2018.
Description
Jefferson Pierce is a man wrestling with a secret. As the father of two daughters and principal of a charter high school that also serves as a safe haven for young people in a neighborhood overrun by gang violence, he is a hero to his community. Nine years ago, Pierce was a hero of a different sort. Gifted with the superhuman power to harness and control electricity, he used those powers to keep his hometown streets safe as the masked vigilante Black...
Author
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
Award-winning author Philip Dray delves into the lesser-known side of an American icon in Stealing God's Thunder. Benjamin Franklin, more often viewed as a statesman and founding father than as a man of science, challenged religion, science, and reason with his inventions. But in a time when everything was blamed on sin, it was the lightning rod- Franklin's attempt to control the heavens-that caused the greatest controversy.
66) CARS
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Lightning McQueen is in a race and It ends in tie finish and road a crash. McQueen is hauled to court. He was not happy. He tried to practice but he kept losing control. Why?
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Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Explains thunderstorms, thunder, lightning, how they are formed, and how thunderstorms can end with the formation of a rainbow. Emphasizes the importance of seeking shelter during thunderstorms because lightning injures many people each year who don't take safety steps to protect themselves from storms. Includes projects that demonstrate how raindrops form through condensation and how clouds produce rain.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Walter De Maria's "Lightning Field" is 400 stainless steel poles, positioned 220 feet apart, in the desert of central New Mexico. Over the course of several visits, it becomes, for Raicovich, a site for confounding and revealing perceptions of time, space, duration, and light; how changeable they are, while staying the same. From At the Lightning Field: Chaos and coincidences of history: Edward Lorenz was a meteorologist at MIT in the early 1960s....
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Jefferson Pierce, respected educator and father of two, is also Black Lightning, superpowered protector of Freeland. And he doesn’t fight alone. He is joined by his superpowered daughters, Anissa, aka Thunder, and Jennifer, aka Lightning, as well as his ex-wife, metahuman expert Lynn. Together, the Pierce family combats the ills eroding their city, including a menacing gang that calls itself The 100 and infamous gangster Tobias Whale.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"In this book, David Mayhew takes you on an unforgettable journey across tornado alley in the United States to witness the power and beauty of tornadoes, lightning storms, and stunning storm and fair-weather cloud formations and into Iceland to experience the majestic northern lights."--Back cover.
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Series
Struck volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Description
After a major earthquake devastates Los Angeles, seventeen-year-old Mia wants only to take care of her younger brother and traumatized mother, but two fanatical doomsday cults vie for her powers, drawn from the multiple lightning strikes she has experienced.
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
GhostWalker Rubin Campo’s rough upbringing made him into the man he is today: strong, steadfast and wary of outsiders. When he and his brother return to their family’s homestead in the Appalachian Mountains, he can immediately sense that a stranger has taken up residence in their cabin—a woman who just happens to be a GhostWalker too.
Jonquille looks deceptively delicate but is clearly a fighter. She also doesn’t seem to care that Rubin could...
76) Struck
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Description
After a major earthquake devastates Los Angeles, seventeen-year-old Mia wants only to take care of her younger brother and traumatized mother, but two fanatical doomsday cults vie for her powers, drawn from the multiple lightning strikes she has experienced.
Author
Pub. Date
c2017
Description
Within this book you will find Crusade, a fantastic new novella from Andy Clark…
Sons of the primarch Roboute Guilliman, the Primaris Ultramarines are peerless warriors whose sworn duty is to protect mankind from the predations of the xenos and the foul traitors of the Heretic Astartes. In a galaxy riven by eternal war, they and the other armies of the Imperium are all that stand between mankind and damnation. Their ship damaged by warp storms,...
Pub. Date
2000
Description
Parts three and four of a propaganda series of seven information films shown to the American G.I. in the 1940's. Originally produced by the United States government for the Morale Services Division which documents the causes and events leading up to World War II and exhorts Americans to support the war effort. Divide and conquer: Recounts the successive defeats of Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium, and France by the seemingly invincible German army,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Description
#1 The Lightning Thief: Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school...again.Suddenly, mythical creatures seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy's Greek mythology textbook and into his life.
#2 Sea of Monsters:Percy must retrieve the Golden Fleece from the Island of the Cyclopes by the end of the summer or Camp Half Blood will be destroyed. But first, Percy will learn a stunning new secret about his family...
Pub. Date
2006
Description
World Ware II was an epic conflict in which victory was achieved not only by the brilliant battles strategies of the Allied commanders, but also by the tactical errors and fatal miscalculations of the Axis powers.
The German blunder at Dunkirk -- Hitler's declaration of war on the U.S. -- The pilot who bombed London -- Hitler's flying blunders.