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1) Ship breaker
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English
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In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.
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"Recruited from small Southern towns and posh New England colleges, 10,000 American women served the U.S. Army and Navy as code breakers during World War II. While their brothers and husbands took up arms, these women moved to Washington and, under strict vows of secrecy, learned the meticulous work of breaking German and Japanese military codes. Poring over reams of encrypted messages, the women worked tirelessly in makeshift facilities in Washington,...
3) Water can be
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Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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"This picture book poetically explores the many things water can be--from home maker and ship breaker to cloud fluffer and fire snuffer. Backmatter provides additional explanations."--
4) Valiant dust
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(Lynn Richard).Breaker of empires volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Commonwealth starship CSS Hector. As the ship's new gunnery officer and only Kashmiri, he must constantly prove himself better than his Aquilan crewmates, even if he has to use his fists. When the Hector is called to help with a planetary uprising, he'll have to earn his unit's respect, find who's arming the rebels, and deal with the headstrong daughter of the colonial ruler - all while dodging bullets...
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(Lynn Richard).Breaker of empires volume 3
Publisher
TOR, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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"Now a captain, Sikander Singh North commands the destroyer Decisive, assigned to Zerzura, a haven for piracy and the next playing board in the great game. The Aquilan Commonwealth and the Empire of Dremark vie for the allegiance of the local ruler, a competition with stakes that reach beyond the sector's pirate-infested limits. Sikander must stop the attacks while charting his course between the ambitions of a corrupt planetary ruler, a dubious alliance...
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DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
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Español
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Haga que los niños se aceleren y estén listos para leer. Cars, Trains, Ships & Planes es una enciclopedia visual de cada vehículo para hacer zoom, navegar, elevarse, flotar o volar por tierra, mar y cielo. Exhibiendo más de 1,000 vehículos que incluyen autos clásicos, híbridos, autos de carrera, veleros, cruceros de lujo, BMX y motos de cross, tanques militares, locomotoras de vapor, trenes de montaña, globos aerostáticos, aviones de combate,...
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Greystone Kids
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"For kids 8 to 13, join the largest Arctic expedition ever undertaken--and discover the secrets hidden deep in the ice that reveal how one of the world's crucial ecosystems is changing. The Arctic is changing--fast. The once-frozen landscape is melting before our eyes, and the effects can be felt around the world. But the Arctic is also the region we know the least about. Thick ice, extreme cold, and total darkness have always prevented scientists...
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Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"From bestselling and award-winning author-illustrator Marissa Moss, praised for her accessible blend of narrative nonfiction with graphic novel-style chapter openers in The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner, comes another fascinating story of a groundbreaking woman in STEM. One of the founders of U.S. cryptology who would eventually become one of the world's greatest code breakers, Elizebeth Smith Friedman (1892-1980) was a brilliant...
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