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Series
Tom Baker years 1974-1981 volume story no. 92
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
When Fang Rock's electrical engineer is mysteriously killed, the Doctor and Leela become the prime suspects. But the Doctor is sure the real culprit is an alien menace that feeds on electricity--and the alien could be right in their midst! Now, using the primitive materials available, he must find a way to destroy the invader.
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Every night when he was a boy, Jose M. Hernandez would look out the window and stare at the stars. They were different colors: blue, yellow and white. Some were larger and brighter than others, and some twinkled as if they were alive. Later, when he saw man land on the moon on TV, he knew he wanted to be an astronaut. But Jose struggled in school because his family moved constantly and he didn't speak English. His parents were migrant workers from...
5) Ghostly game
Author
Series
Publisher
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Pub. Date
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Language
English
Description
"Sometimes things just go south and there isnt a damn thing you can do about it. Gideon Eagle Carpenter eased his body back slowly until he was entirely prone, linked his fingers behind his head and stared up at the stars. This was San Francisco. Viewing stars wasnt always easy because fog liked to creep in at night, at least where he was located. He was on the roof of the four-story, wedged shaped original warehouse made of red bricks that rose like...
6) Starfire
Author
Publisher
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Pub. Date
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Language
English
Description
While leading a team of young engineers designing Starfire, the world's first orbiting solar power plant, James McLanahan Bradley is caught in the middle of a battle that threatens to become an all-out global war for control of space after the U.S. President ignites an arms race.
"With the death of his heroic father, bomber and space warfare veteran Patrick McLanahan, Bradley McLanahan must now fly solo, leading a team of young engineers designing...
7) Sight unseen
Author
Series
Kendra Michaels volume 2
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"She was safe in a world of darkness. Now danger threatens in the cold light of day...Before the experimental surgery that gave her sight, Kendra Michaels developed her other senses to an amazing capacity. Now she can identify a Nissan by the sound of its engine, a Norelco electric razor by the pattern of stubble it leaves behind, or an obscure colorless fire accelerant by its sweet smell. Law enforcement agencies clamor for her rare powers of perception...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Brought together by a mutual fascination with pigeons, Louisa, a young chambermaid at the Hotel New Yorker, forms an unlikely friendship with the hotel's most famous resident, eccentric and pioneering inventor Nikola Tesla, during his final days.
11) Gridlock
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Two Iranian agents hand over one million dollars to a Russian engineer for a thumbdrive. The drive contains a deadly computer virus that could shut down all electrical power in the United States at a keystroke. In rural North Dakota, a lineman is electrocuted, and the local cop sent to investigate is shot to death. As rolling electrical blackouts begin to shut down major US cities, the war for energy domination begins. Two nations are behind this...
13) Watershed
Author
Publisher
Hub City Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Amidst construction of a federal dam in rural Tennessee, Nathan, an engineer hiding from his past, meets Claire, a small-town housewife struggling to find her footing in the newly-electrified, job-hungry, post-Depression South. As Nathan wrestles with the burdens of a secret guilt and tangled love, Claire struggles to balance motherhood and a newfound freedom that awakens ambitions and a sexuality she hadn't known she possessed. The arrival of electricity...
14) Lights out!
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
At the age of fifty-three, married Canadian engineer Carlton Smythe meets a mysterious woman in a Buenos Aires bar, and falls head over heels in love for the first time in his life. Desperate to find the funds to escape his loveless marriage to Cynthia and embark on a new life in Argentina with the beautiful Gina Ellanado, Smythe devises an audacious money-making scheme, brilliant in its simplicity and boldness. But to pull it off, he will need to...
Author
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Arriving in New York in 1914, inventor Toma Pekocevic designs a powerful water turbine that leads to a career within General Electric and a love affair with Harriet Bigelow, the daughter of a New England dynasty that has fallen on hard times.
17) In the quick
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"June is a brilliant but difficult girl with a gift for mechanical invention who leaves home to begin a grueling astronaut training program. Six years later, she has gained a coveted post as an engineer on a space station, but is haunted by the mystery of Inquiry, a revolutionary spacecraft powered by her beloved late uncle's fuel cells. The spacecraft went missing when June was twelve years old, and while the rest of the world has forgotten them,...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A young widow restores a dilapidated mansion with the assistance of a charming, eccentric genius, only to find the house is full of dangerous secrets in this effervescent Gilded Age debut novel It's 1875, and Alva Webster has perfected her stiff upper lip after three years of being pilloried in the presses of two continents over fleeing her abusive husband. Now his sudden death allows her to return to New York to make a fresh start, restoring Liefdehuis,...
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A former IBM executive, Joe MacMillan plans to reverse engineer the flagship product of his former employer and forces his current company, Cardiff Electric, into the personal computer race. MacMillan enlists the help of Gordon Clark, a once great engineer who dreams of creating a revolutionary product while trying to manage his initially unsupportive wife Donna, and Cameron Howe, a volatile prodigy who puts her future in jeopardy to join MacMillan's...
Author
Publisher
Ediciones Obelisco
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
Ni Marconi invento la radio ni Edison la luz electrica. Se las robaron a Nikola Tesla, el mayor inventor de todos los tiempos. Obra suya son la corriente alterna, los motores electricos, las bombillas, los robots, el control remoto, el radar, el microondas, el microscopio electronico, la diatermia, los misiles, el acelerador de particulas, asi hasta setecientas patentes. Pero su proyecto mas ambicioso choco con la codicia humana. Quiso iluminar la...
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