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TITLE: StarTalk : Everything You Ever Need to Know About Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond
AUTHOR: Neil deGrasse Tyson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 523.1 Tys SUMMARY: Offers facts about a variety of topics in science, including cosmology, outer space, earth science, human beings, science fiction, and more. |
TITLE: Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
AUTHOR: Neil deGrasse Tyson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 523.01 Tys SUMMARY: Offers facts about a variety of topics in science, including cosmology, outer space, earth science, human beings, science fiction, and more. |
TITLE: Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
AUTHOR: Margot Lee Shetterly WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 510.92 She SUMMARY: An account of the previously unheralded but pivotal contributions of NASA's African-American women mathematicians to America's space program describes how they were segregated from their white counterparts by Jim Crow laws in spite of their groundbreaking successes. |
TITLE: Moonbound: Apollo 11 and the Dream of Spaceflight
AUTHOR: Jonathan Fetter-Vorm WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 629.45 Fet - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: On the fiftieth anniversary of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first setting foot on the moon this graphic novel captures the story of the space race, covering the visionaries, stargazers, builders, and adventurers of Apollo 11. |
TITLE: Space Boy Vol. 1
AUTHOR: Stephen McCranie WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F McC - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Amy lives on a colony in deep space, but when her father loses his job the family moves back to Earth, where she has to adapt to heavier gravity, a new school, and a strange boy with no flavor. |
TITLE: The Elegant Universe : Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
AUTHOR: Brian Greene WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 539.7 Gre SUMMARY: An accomplished professor of physics and mathematics unravels the complexities of superstring theory for the average reader in a lucid and entertaining account, using analogies from everyday life to explain the elegant underlying principles of the universe. |
TITLE: Seveneves
AUTHOR: Neal Stephenson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ste - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Five thousand years after a catastrophic event sends a small surviving remnant of humanity into outer space, the progeny of those survivors-seven distinct races now three billion strong-embark on a journey into the unknown to return to Earth. |
TITLE: Glow
AUTHOR: Amy Kathleen Ryan WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Rya - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Part of the first generation to be conceived in deep space, fifteen-year-old Waverly is expected to marry young and have children to populate a new planet, but a violent betrayal by the dogmatic leader of their sister ship could have devastating consequences. |
TITLE: Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
AUTHOR: Mary Roach WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 571.09 Roa SUMMARY: Describes the weirdness of space travel, answers questions about the long-term effects of living in zero gravity on the human body, and explains how space simulations on Earth can provide a preview to life in space. |
TITLE: Out of Orbit: The True Story of How Three Astronauts Found Themselves Hundreds of Miles Above the Earth with No Way Home
AUTHOR: Chris Jones WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 629.45 Jon SUMMARY: Chronicles the rescue efforts to bring U.S. astronauts Donald Pettit and Kenneth Bowersox and Russian flight engineer Nikolai Burdarin back to Earth after their space shuttle "Columbia" disintegrated during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere in 2003. |
TITLE: 2001: A Space Odyssey
AUTHOR: Arthur C. Clarke WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Cla - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Two frightened navigators, three frozen hibernauts, and a talkative computer named Hal ride on the spacecraft Discovery, hoping to unravel the mystery of a crystal monolith left on the moon by alien intelligence. |